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English: Almandine
Locality: Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: 3.3 x 2.7 x 1.8 cm.
An aesthetic and historic toenail specimen of sharp, gemmy and lustrous, dark cherry-red almandine garnet crystals jauntily set in muscovite schist matrix from the famous Simplon Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy. When completed in 1905, this 19.8 km railway tunnel, was the longest railway tunnel in the world. A neat piece of history, with an OLD German label. Ex. George Elling Collection.
Deutsch: Almandin
Fundort: Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Simplon pass area, Brigg, Wallis, Schweiz (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 3.3 x 2.7 x 1.8 cm.
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-139300.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
Alternative names
Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus Edit this at Wikidata
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