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Garnet Var Spessartine

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Garnet Var Spessartine

Kotsugumi-Kaizu, Tsukide (Pass?)
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Description
Locality: 
Shiga Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
6 × 9 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Weight: 
214.00gr
Description

Countless pinkish-red garnet var spessartine crystals up to 4 mm in a matrix rock rich in black mica, likely biotite. The crystals show trapezohedral shapes. Accompanied by an unidentified blueish mineral, in my opinion rather corundum than kyanite but I'm not sure.

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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