Almandine
At a glance
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Silicate
- Crystal system
- Cubic
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Colour
- Red, Brown
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Gemstone, Industry
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its name goes back to Alabanda, an ancient city in Asia Minor where garnets were once cut.
- Hard almandine grains are crushed into garnet sand, used on sandpaper and in water-jet cutters.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q273663 · All stones · All entries