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Mineral Specimens with Spessartine
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1.9 x 1.8 x 1.8 cm. A fine gem example of a spessartine garnet from a major recent find. The full locality information for this deposit is near the town of Loliondo, close to Serengeti National Park and 7 km from the Kenyan border, W-NW of the north end of Lake Natron. It is closed to heavy traffic and on Maasai tribal lands. Some of these are extremely large, but they typically get less transparent as the size gets larger. The crystals light up a pretty orange-red color, similar to a Chinese scheelite, under good light. This crystal weighs 11 grams.
7.8 x 7.4 x 4.4 cm. Gemmy and lustrous, orange and orange-red spessartine garnets to 5 mm attractively cover the matrix plate of feldspar. The two pristine, crossed, partially enveloped in spessartines, smoky quartz crystals 5.0 cm add to the aesthetics of this piece from recent finds at Tongbei, China. The two colors of spessartines on the same piece are not that common from Tongbei.
1.8 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm (largest). A fine, 2-piece set of gemmy spessartine garnets from a major recent find. The full locality information for this deposit is near the town of Loliondo, close to Serengeti National Park and 7 km from the Kenyan border, W-NW of the north end of Lake Natron. It is closed to heavy traffic and on Maasai tribal lands. The crystals light up a pretty orangey-red color, similar to a Chinese scheelite, under good light. The two crystals weigh 16 grams.
10.5 x 5.8 x 5.5 cm. Gemmy and lustrous orange spessartine garnets cover the undulating surface of the feldspar matrix on this cabinet specimen from recent finds at Tongbei, China. This fine piece is very nicely accented with a couple of smoky quartz crystals, including a prominent, 1.2 cm "spire" and features a much larger than normal spessartine at 1.7 cm.
Fine, textbook crystals to 0.75 cm, isolated on the matrix to really show them off rather than just piled together. 8.9 x 5.6 x 4.8 cm
A relatively large plate of fine, sharp, lustrous smokies surrounded by little gemmy spessartines that are isolated and peppering the specimen with bright orange-red color. 15.3 x 6.8 x 5.1 cm
These are BIG, bright, lustrous spessartines, to a centimeter across, not the wimpy little ones you see more often! They are intermixed with smoky quartz points. 6.9 x 6 x 3.6 cm
4.5 x 4.4 x 4.3 cm. A huge and fine gem example of a garnet from a major recent find. The full locality information for this deposit is near the town of Loliondo, close to Serengeti National Park and 7 km from the Kenyan border, W-NW of the north end of Lake Natron. It is closed to heavy traffic and on Maasai tribal lands. Some of these are even larger than this one, but they typically get less transparent as the size gets larger. The crystals light up a pretty orange-red color, similar to a Chinese scheelite, under good light. This one has a lot of good transparency to it, yet weighs 125 grams. It is also in fine condition, with textbook trapezohedral crystal form.
Juicy, gemmy crystals with wonderful color cover the face of this fine specimen - certainly a cut well above the average stuff coming from Tongbei 7 x 5 x 2.1 cm
7.4 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm. A striking, doubly terminated smoky quartz crystal fully "clothed" on all sides with gemmy and lustrous, burnt orange to tiny yellow spessartines from recent Chinese finds. Only the terminations lack spessartines. The spike termination is frosted and the other end broke, re-healed and grew new, multiple smoky quartz terminations. Complete-all-around and nearly pristine.
3.0 x 2.8 x 2.1 cm. The recent discovery of these highly etched but completely terminated spessartine garnets created quite a stir. The sculptural aesthetics, lustre and clarity are superb, which are complemented by the lovely wine-red color. This is an excellent example of this recent find because it is so gemmy while most are a bit thick to see the color so nicely without holding them on top of a flashlight.
1.9 x 1.9 x 1.7 cm (crystals same size). A fine 2-piece set of gem examples of spessartine garnets from a major recent find. The full locality information for this deposit is near the town of Loliondo, close to Serengeti National Park and 7 km from the Kenyan border, W-NW of the north end of Lake Natron. It is closed to heavy traffic and on Maasai tribal lands. The crystals light up a pretty orangey-red color, similar to a Chinese scheelite, under good light. The crystals weigh 10 grams each or 20 grams total.
Bright, gemmy spessartines to 0.6 cm scattered across the matrix and amongst gemmy smoky crystals. The matrix has rises and recesses that make it quite sculptural and 3-dimensional vs. the usual flat plate. 11 x 8 x 4 cm
A dramatic and aesthetic specimen of a large, sharp, lightly etched, translucent and lustrous smoky quartz crystal jutting vertically off a matrix of spessartine-coated white albite. The gemmy orange to brown spessartines partially grow up the sides of the smoky. Displayed to best advantage, the small bits of damage atop the smoky termination is very much minimalized and it presents like a more expensivce specimen. 7.5 x 7.1 x 5.4 cm
INCREDIBLY gemmy spessartines, like little jewels, are sprinkled and isolated all across this matrix, which itself is really attractive in that it is made up of euhedral crystals of light olive-green feldspar! Little smokies here and there add an attractive accent. The spessartines are not large (measuring to 0.3 cm), but are just so fine and bright. They have formed right on top of the feldspar crystals, including a large, textbook one, and are climbing up the sides of many of the smokies. 11.0 x 8.5 x 4.3 cm
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