Spessartine on smoky quartz: Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China

2023年4月14日 · “ This is a striking, terminated smoky quartz crystal cloaked with gemmy and lustrous, cinnamon-orange spessartine garnet crystals from the good finds at the Wushan Spessartine Mine. The sparkling garnets are richly clustered about the quartz crystal, except for the termination, and range in size from 2.0 to 5.0 mm and all are incredibly well ...

Weighing 178.42 ct and measuring 44.00 mm in length, this smoky brown quartz crystal from Ramona, California, hosts a 3.3 mm garnet. Photo by Annie Haynes. With silicon and oxygen as its building blocks, quartz is the single most abundant mineral in the earth’s crust.

A single, equant, lustrous nearly translucent, spessartine crystal, 1.5 cm in length, is aesthetically emplaced on a shimmering matrix of drusy quartz.. The spessartine crystal is colored a deep wine red.

This cabinet-sized piece features a dozen or so medium Smoky Quartz crystals with numerous, bright orange-red Spessartine Garnets attractively scattered around the base of the Quartz crystals. The Quartzes range in size from 1.5 to 7.5 cm, for the tallest one strategically placed in the middle of the specimen.

Spessartine on Quartz. specimen number: 9509909. location: Wushan Mine, Tongbei, Zhangzhou, Fujian, China. description: Very unusual grouping from this prolific locality showing smoky quartz crystals mostly coated by gemmy orange red crystals of …

Spessartine with Quartz. specimen number: 7993176. location: Wushan mine, Tongbei, Fujian, China. description: Lustrous black crystals of smoky quartz to 3.0 cm a night coming off a matrix with many attractive orange crystals of spessartine. Some damage present to a quartz crystal lower front center as seen.

This classic Chinese specimen features bright orange spessartine garnets on well-formed, dark smoky quartz crystals. Very aesthetic example in fantastic condition. Photo by IFM.

Spessartine is physically healing to the reproductive and digestive systems, improving food intolerances, and is used as an antidepressant and to prevent nightmares. Spessartine is used emotionally to activate the analytical processes of the mind, to alleviate fears and provide confidence to change one’s life.

A characteristic specimen of Spessartine on Quartz that offers great contrast and sparkling gem red crystals. The largest Garnet is a little over 2 cm in diameter, sharp and lustrous covering the Quartz matrix. The crystals offer an intensive blood-red color and a very well-developed shape.