Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Spessartine Smoky Quartz & Feldspar

Views:
Watches:
VCV159256

Spessartine Smoky Quartz & Feldspar

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Lechang Mine, Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2 × 5 × 3.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Lovely combination of well formed deep red spessartine crystals with terminated dark smoky quartz and white feldspar crystals.

An old specimen from the early 1990's from the early finds at the Lechang Mine.

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

Smoky Quartz

Variety Of: 

Quartz

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

Feldspar

Group Parent: 
Feldspar Group
Vic's Vugh Minerals