Spessartine

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

Spessartine with schorl on albite

Origin: Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego Co., California, U.S.A.

Owner: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Sample size: 4 cm across

 

  

 

  

Spessartine garnet on feldspar

Origin: Tongbei Area, Fujian Province, China

Sample size: 5.2 x 5 x 2 cm (top 3), 8.7 x 5.5 x 3 cm (bottom 3)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Spessartine on smoky quartz

Origin: Tongbei, Fujian Province, China

Sample size: 9 x 6 x 4 cm

 

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The Arkenstone

 

  

 

  

Brilliant dark red lustrous crystals of spessartine to 7 mm scattered nicely about white microcline matrix.

Origin: Tongbei area, Fujian Province, China

Sample size: 10 x 6 x 2.5 cm (top), 7.3 x 4.7 x 2.3 cm (bottom)

 

  

Lustrous black sharply formed spessartine crystal measuring 11 mm across set in a vug in rhyolite.

Origin: Garnet Hill, Ely, Robinson District, White Pine Co., Nevada, U.S.A.

Ex. John Barlow collection

Sample size: 2.7 x 4 x 3 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  

Glassy translucent, exceptional crystals of spessartine to 3.5 mm across matrix and associated with light smoky quartz crystals to 1.2 cm.

Origin: Tongbei, Fujian Province, China

Sample size: 7 x 6 x 3 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals