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Spessartine & Topaz

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Spessartine & Topaz

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Description
Locality: 
Grants Ridge, Grants District, Cibola County, New Mexico, United States of America
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
1.5 × 1 × 1.5 cm
Description

Lustrous transparent red-brown spessartine crystals with clear topaz crystals on matrix  ( For original close-up photo contact us )

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

Topaz

Formula: 
Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.35
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic - Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
8.0
Streak: 
White