This is a photo of sand taken in a wash in North Tucson.
This is a zoomed in image of the same sand.
It is full of tiny pieces of Garnet which are called Sand Rubies. They occur in the granite rock and as the granite decomposes they are visible in the sand. Typically they can be found near the magnetite that is also coming out of the decomposing granite.
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