Word: schist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...garnets from Bear Hill will never grace the tiaras of dowagers ?for the stones are cloudy and flawed?but they are excellent for Mr. Ford's purposes. There is a seam of mica schist outcropping on Bear Hill with the garnets set so thickly in it, that in parts they compose 85% of the whole by weight, and the seam is expected to average 60%. Mr. Ford's engineers are still exploring the deposit, drilling holes into the hard garnets which blunt the steel drills used, with astonishing rapidity. In addition the outcropping is being blasted and carried away...