Thanks sorry for your losses.
Been talking with a guy about some garnet sand from here. He sent me pics of it. So he's propecting a property for garnets, etc. He's separating the garnet out himself to whatever grade I want.
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So far at 15% quartz, hornblende dry
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Wet
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Looks more red than purple too me. Plus it's 25 cents a pound. Tell me what you think.