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Quartz With Schorl & Spessartine

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Quartz With Schorl & Spessartine

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Description
Locality: 
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
12.5 × 16 × 8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
10.00cm
Description

A large showy specimen of well termiated clear quartz incombination with schorl & spessartine. The main large quartz crystal is also included by spessartine garnet over feldspar matrix.

There is no damage in the main large quartz crystals except minor internal flaw .

All of schorl crystals are cut & not complete , some are rehealed.

over all a very  good large specimen from the locality.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

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

Schorl

Formula: 
Na(Fe2+3)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Strunz: 
9.CK.05
Hardness: 
7.0

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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