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ANDALUSITE var chiastolite    Walmart front rock banking, Rt. 11, Rochester, NH
3.5 cm specimen. Several vertically standing andalusite prisms that are somewhat difficult to make out.
 Species:           ANDALUSITE
Locality:          Walmart front rock banking, Rt. 11, Rochester, NH
Specimen Size: 3.5 cm specimen. Several vertically standing andalusite prisms that are somewhat difficult to make out.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (Sept. 2010)
Catalog No.: 1771
Notes: This actually is a color photograph. There is essentially no contrast between the silver-gray mica schist matrix and the embedded andalusite crystals.
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ANDALUSITE var chiastolite   Locality: Walmart front rock banking, Rt. 11, Rochester, NH
3 cm specimen. A 3 mm thick, backlit, section through a cluster of small andalusite crystals.
 Species:           ANDALUSITE
Locality:          Walmart front rock banking, Rt. 11, Rochester, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen. A 3 mm thick, backlit, section through a cluster of small andalusite crystals.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (Sept. 2010)
Catalog No.: 1770
Notes: The chiastolite variety of andalusite is clearly evident in this thin section.
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ANDALUSITE var chiastolite   Locality: Walmart front rock banking, Rt. 11, Rochester, NH
3 cm specimen. Same specimen as above, mounted to black paper, normal lighting.
 Species:           ANDALUSITE
Locality:          Walmart front rock banking, Rt. 11, Rochester, NH
Specimen Size: 3 cm specimen. Same specimen as above, mounted to black paper, normal lighting.
Field Collected: Tom Mortimer (Sept. 2010)
Catalog No.: 1770
Notes:
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ANDALUSITE var. Chiastolite  Rochester, NH
13 mm cross-section (estimate)
 Species:           ANDALUSITE var. Chiastolite
Locality:         Rochester, NH
Specimen Size: 13 mm cross-section (estimate)
Field Collected: Phillip Foster
Catalog No.: A Woodman Institute specimen, #640038
Notes: Meyers and Stewart, Geology of New Hampshire, Part III Minerals and Mines, lists chiastolite from Rochester (pg. 9). This may be the Salmon Falls occurrence.
Photo is a low effort snapshot.