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Austria, Tyrol

Zillertal (Garnet)

Crystal locality Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: hornblende, and epidote in the schists of the Zillertal Alps.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Alpine metamorphic

Long-known Tyrolean garnet locality.

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