Hi guys, hoping someone can help me out to ID these inclusions that I’m viewing in this almandine garnet please.
Thanks.
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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