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Spessartine & Smoky Quartz

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Spessartine & Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Wushan Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.2 × 8.7 × 2.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
110.00gr
Description

A fine specimen with over a hundred lustrous orange spessartine crystals perched on pegmatite matrix. The garnets are nicely spaced, so each of them can be admired as an individual jewel. Their form is unusual; deltoidal icositetrahedron with hoppered cube faces which makes reentrant angles on all deltoidal faces. What is the reason for such growth in not known, but is typical for the Fujian spessartines. The mineral assemblage is completed with small black morions and muscovite covered by olive green clinochlore. A Chinese classic!

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Formula: 
SiO2
Hardness: 
0.0

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