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Spessartine On Smoky Quartz

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Spessartine On Smoky Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 4 × 5.5 cm
Description

A wonderful specimen with bright orange-brown, lustrous, transparent spessartine crystals coating a big smoky quartz crystal with smaller "satellite" crystals. Several quartz tips are not completely covered and show signs of pseudomorphosis. One little satellite crystal has broken off. Otherwise a very fine and beautiful specimen.

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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