Where are the garnet mining sites of the following states/countries?

yuma.maria · #1 (**permalink**) 02-23-2008, 11:06 PM

Arizona, Idaho, Arkansas, Utah, New Mexico, Kentucky for states. Australia, India, China, Czech Republic, Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Canada, East Africa, Sri Lanka, and Ukraine for countries.This is a gemstone project on Garnet for school, so please answer with any information you know, Thanks. For the location, if there is a name for the mining sites, that would be helpful, or maybe the town or city it is located in.

idiot_detector · #2 (**permalink**) 02-23-2008, 11:56 PM

There are several details in the website link as to where there are garnet mines (and the type of garnet) in the U.S. (for example, New York and Arizona plus many others in website)..In Australia (Ireland's Garnet Mine, Thackaringa District, Yancowinna Co., New South Wales, Australia) and China (Fujian Province, China)

minerals.usgs.gov