25174: Andradite - $40 Stanley Butte, Stanley Mining District, Santa Teresa Mountains, Graham County, Arizona Cabinet - 10.1 x 6.7 x 3.4 cm 366 grams Specimen status: Available Send an email with specimen number to order Lustrous and sharply formed, opaque
andradite garnets to about 8 mm, in a shallow concave
cleft on matrix. The light brown material appears to be a
pseudomorph of an unidentified mineral after another
unverified mineral (hedenbergite?). Andradite pseudomorphs
after quartz are known (but uncommon) from this locality,
but the morphology doesn't support such a replacement in
this case. Might also be primary (not pseudomorphed)
hedenbergite, but then the color is unusual (or downright
wrong; hedenbergite is always seen as green to black).
Sits perfectly for display on its sawn base. Excellent
condition.
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