Hi guys, hoping someone can help me out to ID these inclusions that I’m viewing in this almandine garnet please.
Thanks.
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Hi Henry,
Those are good images! The top one is a halo and it looks like it has a mineral inclusion in the center.
The bottom one is not easy to distinguish with just one viewing angle. It looks like a cluster of negative crystals with secondary mineral inclusions surrounding them. There also seems to be a healed fracture within that group. Can you take some additional images of that one, please?
Cheers!
Troy has it right. Look in the center of even your partially healed fracture set photo 2. All of these have a disc like appearance radiating out from a nucleus. Common inclusions in garnets are rutile, pyrite, apatite, quartz, phengite, phlogopite. I have also seen small inclusions of Hemitite.
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Hi there everyone.
So my first question to detect better is where do the Gems originate from? That will give us a better understanding of the inclusion types thees are, and we can get a better understanding of what general Minarals are present as inclusions. As ever fined will have a Minaral birthmark from its area of origination. So this one is looking like Mozambique or Tanzanian to me as I get a lot of materials from those arias. But a little more information will help us desired exactly what the inclusions are.
Best regards Jarryed.
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