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Description: | These garnets (the rounded brown crystals), are from the Blue Quarry at Shap, in East Cumbria. (The quarry gets its name from the dark blue colour of the rock that is quarried there). Garnets are silicate minerals that crystallise in the cubic system. They are usually found in metamorphic (altered) rocks. Garnets are used as abrasive materials for a variety of purposes, and set in jewellery. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | rocks and minerals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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