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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Adirondack Highlands-collected on NY Route 8 from a small road cut at the hilltop east of Graphite, NY and approximately 3 miles west of Hague, NY."

Sillimanite-garnet-quartz-feldspar gneiss
This specimen is extremely rich in sillimanite. European geologists refer to such lithologies as "khondolites." This locality is very near some of the old graphite production sites west of Hague.
Thin section shows sillimanite, garnet, k-feldspar.
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