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Where do garnets occur naturally?

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Garnet occurs in many different kinds of rocksÑgrossularite, in metamorphosed impure limestones; pyrope, in basic igneous rocks; spessartite, in granite rocks; almandite, in schists and other metamorphic rocks as well as in igneous rocks; andradite, in serpentine; and uvarovite, chiefly in serpentine.

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