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Aquamarine & Spessartine On Quartz

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Aquamarine & Spessartine On Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Darrah I Pech, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
9.1 × 4.9 × 3.7 cm
Description

A doubly terminated, 1.8cm blocky aquamarine crysta,l resides on the side of a parallel growing group of pale smoky quartz crystals. There are literally dozens of small colourless goshenite needles on all surfaces of the quartz and just near the aqua, a small group of red spessartine crystals are imbedded in the quartz. The quartz group is terminated and in places the termination has formed around a large now nonexistent mineral.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Aquamarine

Variety Of: 

Beryl

Formula: 
Be3Al2(Si6O18)
Strunz: 
9.CJ.05
Hardness: 
7.5 - 8.0
Formula: 
Be3Al2Si6O18
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Blue
Streak: 
White

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

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
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