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Spessartine & Muscovite

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Spessartine & Muscovite

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Locality: 
Ljosland Quarries, Iveland, Agder, Norway
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 5.2 × 0.6 cm
Description

More than a dozen, mostly ca. 0.3 cm sized, gemmy spessartine crystals with beautiful colour are embedded in muscovite. A very esthetic specimen from Ljosland in the pegmatite area of Iveland. I got this specimen in 1986 from Orest Landsverk, Iveland.

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

Muscovite

Formula: 
KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.15
Hardness: 
2.5
Streak: 
White

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