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Elongated blue-grey rock specimen with wavy pale green streaks and scattered dark red garnet crystals, on a black background with a 5 cm scale bar. — Blue schist from the Isle of Groix Sophie Graul

Rock specimen of dark blue-grey and pale yellow-green streaked layers studded with many rounded red-brown garnet crystals, on a black background with a 1 cm scale bar. — Blue schist from the Isle of Groix Sophie Graul

Close-up of deep red-purple almandine garnet crystals with glittering faces, set in a white granular rock, against a dark blurred background. — Almandine in migmatite paragneiss Sophie Graul

Close-up of a pink and a darker purple-red garnet crystal surrounded by shiny black mica flakes and brassy metallic grains, set in white granular rock. — Almandines in a migmatite paragneiss from West Finland Sophie Graul

Close-up of a translucent brown garnet crystal riddled with fine cracks and glinting reflections, with dark grey and black rock around it. — Precambrian garnet from Kopparnäs coastline, Finland. Sophie Graul

Close-up of a dark biotite gneiss with a rounded purple garnet in the centre, surrounded by glassy grains, black and orange-brown flakes and scattered pale brassy sulphide patches. — Garnet with sulphide inclusions in a Precambrian biotite gneiss from the Alutaguse zone, East Estonia. Sophie Graul

Polished eclogite slab packed with rounded reddish-pink garnets, many with dark rims, set in a speckled pale green and black streaky matrix with thin white veins. — Eclogite from la Compointrie, Les Essarts complex, Vendée, France. Sophie Graul

Close-up of a deformed gneiss with swirling bands of dark grey and pale cream rock, curving into S-shaped loops, with scattered reddish-brown garnet clusters. — Migmatite 'sigmoid' in garnet-paragneiss Sophie Graul

Close-up of a dark grey sparkly gneiss scattered with small purple-red garnet grains and pale brassy patches of sulphide minerals. — Sulphide-bearing gneiss and quartzite from the Estonian Precambrian basement, Alutaguse zone. Sophie Graul

Close-up of a pink garnet crystal criss-crossed by fine white cracks, flanked by dark, blade-like biotite flakes in grey rock. — Estonian Precambrian garnet Sophie Graul

Close-up of two glassy reddish-brown garnet crystals, heavily fractured and sparkling, set against dark rock. — Precambrian garnet from Kopparnäs coastline, Finland Sophie Graul

Close-up of a rounded, translucent orange-pink garnet crystal with flat, cracked faces and dark inclusions, on a black background. — Precambrian garnet from Kopparnäs coastline, Finland Sophie Graul

Close-up of a heart-shaped pink garnet crystal covered in a network of fine white cracks, set in grey rock. — Heartnet, precambrian garnet from Estonia Sophie Graul

Close-up of a large purplish-red garnet crystal crossed by bright white cracks, with dark elongated mineral flakes inside it. — Estonian Precambrian Garnet Sophie Graul

Dark grey garnet amphibolite rock face studded with countless small round reddish garnet bumps, below pale banded rock, with a hand holding a black notebook for scale. — A rock with chicken pox Remi Charton

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