Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Spessartine With Hyalite

Views:
Watches:
PDM787501

Spessartine With Hyalite

Fluorescent

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Wushan Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5.8 × 1.7 cm
Description

Orange lustrous trapezohedral {211} crystals of spessartine, with the corners modified by the rhomboidal dodecahedron {110}, on a feldspar matrix. They are partially covered by transparent glassy opal hyalite balls of intense green UV fluorescence, that hold canary yellow inclusions of an unidentified species. Found in 2015.

 

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

Hyalite

Variety Of: 

Opal

Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Strunz: 
4.DA.10
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Formula: 
SiO2·nH2O
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

Seller Information

Payment options: offline, paypal_wpp, paypal_wps