The lustrous, transparent crystals are floaters, or rest on green diopside or white albitite matrix.
The famous grossular garnets are found in fractures in red syenite and in the albitites and rodingites which are included in the dunite and peridotite.
In contrast, the Pinkneys Point granite was described as a more variable unit, containing topaz granite, greisenized granite,
albitite, and greisen, and associated with mineralization, including cassiterite, wolframite, scheelite, and a variety of similar lithophile-element minerals (Chatterjee et al.
Quantitative study ofthe project area reveals that the rock types ofthe aggregate encountered in the field study are 40.44% sedimentary rocks including limestone, sandstones and dolomitic chert, 25.55% metamorphic rocks including schists, gneisses, marbles, slates and epidosite and 34.01% igneous rocks including peridotite, dolerite, gabbro, granites
albitite.
The constituent rocks majorly include alkali granites, syenites, nepheline syenites, carbonatites and
albitites, all known as the major producers for REE bearing deposits.
Occurrence: In tugtupite-bearing
albitites. Associated minerals are: aegirine, analcime, beryllite, bertrandite, chkalovite, epistolite, galena, manganoan pectolite, microcline, Na-komarovite, neptunite, pyrochlore, sphalerite and tugtupite.