Some garnets contain as much as 20 per cent of lime, which they may have derived from the decomposition of the fossil shells or Producti.
In some districts, garnets in regular twelve-sided crystals form an integrant part of mica-schist.
Both the altered limestone and hardened slate contain garnets in many places, also ores of iron, lead, and copper, with some silver.
The concentrates of gold or garnets which, with a small quantity of heavy sand, have settled in the trough, they wash in a bowl and collect in bags and carry away with them.
To prevent the particles of gold or garnets from running out with the light sand, they close the end with a board similarly rounded, but lower than the sides of the trough.
A conferva grows in the hot water, and the garnets are worn out of the gneiss rock exposed to its action.
Garnets were very frequent in the gneiss near the granite veins.
But he had to make terms, somehow, with the Garnets and Horace, and with the husband, if there happened to be one.
She was out to prove to the world, and more especially to Ohio, that all the Garnets were as like Cressida as two peas.
During those twenty years the Garnets had been comfortable and indolent and vastly self-satisfied; and now they expected Cressida to make them equal sharers in the finer rewards of her struggle.
Her liberality with Poppas was one of the weapons that Horace and the Garnets used against Cressida, and it was a point in the argument by which they justified to themselves their rapacity.
Poppas out of the way, Horace and Brown and the Garnets quarrelled over her personal effects.
I satisfied myself with a sample of the matrix in which diamonds are found, and also with a specimen of the country rock for geological reference, but the garnets are on the heap still.
I fancy an inkling of the truth dawned in that Dutchman's soul at last, for he made no further reference to either garnets or mundic.
Garnets are most common as crystals embedded in metamorphic rocks, especially highly altered strata.
All the six species ofgarnets are silicates, mostly of aluminum usually with either lime, magnesia, or iron.
The fore-clue-garnets were manned, and the foresail was quickly clewed up, and the men flying aloft, it was securely furled.
Many garnets are found on the ant-hills throughout the region, especially in the Navajo country.
Garnets result mainly from contact metamorphism, and commonly occur either in schists and gneisses or in marble.
The Spanish garnets are reported to be obtained by washing the sands of certain streams.
Eagerly he flung the gleaming string of garnets about her slim brown throat.
I believe I'll give the garnets back," he announced.
Now garnets and mica are natural friends, and generally fond of each other; but you see how they quarrel when they are ill brought up.
But here are wicked garnets living with wicked mica.
By the way, I never could understand, if St. Gothard is a real saint, why he can't keep his garnets in better order.
You cannot tell which is which; the garnets look like dull red stains on the crumbling stone.
Anglo-Saxon and Irish jewelry is famous for delicate filigree, fine enamels, and flat garnets used in a very decorative way.
It is decorated by cherubs, roses, thistles, and crosses, relieved withgarnets and pearls.
Around her neck was the chain of garnets worn by every peasant-girl, the dark color of which displayed the brilliant fairness of her tints to great advantage.
The girls took off their strings of garnets with the silver medallions, and drew their silver rings from their fingers, to bury them.
Church found that many garnets when fused yielded a product of lower density than the original mineral.
Illustration] All garnets crystallize in the cubic system, usually in rhombic dodecahedra or in icositetrahedra, or in a combination of the two forms (see fig.
Being cubic the garnets are normally singly refracting, but anomalies frequently occur, leading some authorities to doubt whether the mineral is really cubic.
Garnets vary considerably in chemical composition, but the variation is limited within a certain range.
The colour is typically red, but may be brown, yellow, green or even black, while some garnets are colourless.
The garnets used for industrial purposes are usually found loose in detrital deposits, weathered from the parent rock, though in some important workings the rock is quarried.
Garnets are not only cut as gems, but are used for the bearings of pivots in watches, and are in much request for abrasive purposes.
And the red things imbedded in them are garnets from De Beers's Mine in Kimberley.
It was a cluster of garnetsin gold setting, and at night time, when the light fell upon it, shone brilliantly.
She wore a rich black moire robe which, with the addition of a magnificent display of garnets with setting of gold, made an elaborate costume.
Why, I sent him to the Rue Chalgrin this morning to pick up some garnets which had fallen from my brooch.
The garnets were brought to the jeweler in the Rue de la Paix.
In Stompwyk, a little village between The Hague and Leyden, a peasant family possesses garnets as large as a swallow's egg.
The garnetsare always very large, and this fashion is general ail over the Netherlands.
Fragments of porphyry, quartz, and black slate are abundant in the drift, and mica, iserine, and minutegarnets exist.
The hanging (eastern) wall is highly coloured with iron oxides, and contains many quartz crystals which are through-coloured with the same, and I do not think it at all unlikely that garnets and other gems may be found in it.
The topsail clewlines lead like the clew-garnets of the courses.
Let go the clew-garnets and overhaul them, and haul down on the sheets and tacks.
Hannah thinks that the garnets are unsuitable for you, but that is absurd.
Would you like the garnets reset, or as Mother wore them?
A necklace and gold bracelets inlaid with garnets ornamented her arms and neck, whiter than the driven snow.
Like many other women of her kin, she wore a coral necklace round her neck, bracelets inwrought with garnets and other trinkets of gold and silver fashioned at Autun.
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