Prospecting for Garnet in Wyoming

Gem- & industrial-garnets are some treasures dug in Wyoming by rockhounds every year. High-quality garnets mined by ants south of Rock Springs, are set aside by the tiny miners for rock hounds. And the cores of a few mountain ranges, mica schist with garnet porphyroblasts are exciting finds. Large garnets (fist size) were extracted from kimberlite and pegmatite in the State Line district south of Laramie.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Wyoming Garnets

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 Faceted pyrope garnet from raw material collected in anthills at Butcherknife Draw, Wyoming I remember walking into my first miner...
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