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1.6" Spessartine Garnet Cluster on Feldspar - China
Here is a pristine, 1.6" wide aggregation of spessartine garnets that formed over a feldspar matrix, collected from Fujiang, China.
Feldspars are a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals. They are the most common minerals on Earth, making up nearly 60% of the crust.
Garnets are nesosilicates with the general formula X3Y2(SiO4)3. Garnets come in many species, including pyrope, almandine (the most common species), spessartine, uvarovite, andradite and grossular, varieties of which are hessonite, cinnamon-stone, and tsavorite. Garnets are found in a wide variety of colors including red, orange, yellow, green, purple, brown, blue, black, pink, and colorless, though reddish shades are the most common.
SPECIES
Garnet var. Spessartine & Feldspar
LOCATION
Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujiang, China
SIZE
1.6 x 1.5"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#146682