Andradite, a variety of garnet is common at Franklin and Sterling Hill and can still be collected on the mine dumps here. Here are typical dodecahedral crystals worked out of a pocket of calcite in massive andradite. Specimen is 10 cm in maximum dimension. Smithsonian Institution #116738.

Photo courtesy of the Franklin Mineral Museum Inc. Archive.

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Well formed dodecahedral crystals of andradite in "salmon-color" calcite and quartz from the Franklin Mine. Specimen is 5 cm in maximum dimension. Smithsonian Institution #C6778.

 Photo courtesy of the Franklin Mineral Museum Inc. Archive.

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Yellow-brown massive andradite with rhodonite, franklinite, calcite from the Franklin Mine. Specimen is 13 cm in maximum dimension. 

Photo courtesy of the Franklin Mineral Museum Inc. Archive.

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