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Smoky Quartz With Spessartine

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Smoky Quartz With Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.4 × 5.9 × 4.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
8.00cm
Description

A beautiful and colorful specimen of smoky quartz, associated with gemmy orange spessartines in and on the quarzt. The display side looks undamaged. The crystal at the middle is contacted and there is a ding near the top of the main crystal.

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

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