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Spessartine

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Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Ialamitana Pegmatites, Sahanivotry, Manandona, Antsirabe II, Vakinankaratra, Madagascar
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3 × 2.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
15.00gr
Description

A good display miniature of garnet of the almandine-spessartine series, although most specimens from the locality are marked spessartine. Two individual crystals are formed with one partially overlapping on the other. Good lustre and textbook crystal shape, a couple edges display transparency (dark red color) upon strong incident light.

In great conditions!

 

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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

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