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3.5" Ruby Red, Spessartine Garnet Encrusted Feldspar - China
Here is a beautiful 3.5" specimen that contains an 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
Spessartine Garnet & Feldspar
LOCATION
Tongbei, Yunxiao County, Fujiang, China
SIZE
3.5" long, 2.6" wide
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#95188