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Smoky Quartz & Spessartine

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Smoky Quartz & Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Wushan Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujian Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 5.1 × 2.5 cm
Description

This fine and contrastful specimen presents threegemmy crystals of Smoky Quartz, accompanied by small reddish-brown and multifaced Spessartine scattered over the Feldspar matrix. Both species are excellent developed, sharp edges and very good terminated. Though the backside of the major Smoky has a distinctive imperfection, this is anyway an attractive and showy specimen.

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
Wendel Minerals

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