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Smoky Quartz & Spessartine

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Smoky Quartz & Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Wushan Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 3.1 × 2.5 cm
Description

This specimen stands out the crowd that we know from the locality. A group of snowy white feldpat frame a freestanding, water-clear, dark brown-red smoky quartz crystal. This crystals shows razor sharp termination, finest luster and a truely fantastic texture. Scattered all over you can see gemmy, intense orange spessartine crystals - they are all in best quality and their luster is excellent, too. The smoky crystal is so clear that you can see the spessartine crystals at the backside through front display. An absolutely amazing specimen without any compromises, amazingly delicate in each position.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

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