Mineral Specimens with Spessartine

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SPESS-06 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 750
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
thumbnail, 2.4 x 2.4 x 2.2 cm

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One of our more impactful thumbnails for the price, a SUPER SHARP, 2/3 crystal which has even more intense orange color when backlit strongly. It is more gemmy/translucent in person, as well. The piece is contacted where it grew against another crystal on the bottom but is 2.3 complete except for a slight ding in the back of the top termination (hence the low price). Some cutting rough value, I imagine. Weight is 18 grams

SPESS-07 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 4500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
thumbnail, 2.6 x 2.3 x 2.2 cm

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One of our best thumbnails, a SUPER SHARP, fully-terminated, carved-looking "golfball" . This is complete all around, and has intense orange color when backlit strongly. It is more gemmy/translucent in person, as well. Weight is 22 grams. MUCH BETTER IN PERSON!

SPESS-08 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 900
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
thumbnail, 2.6 x 2.6 x 2.5 cm

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One of our best thumbnails, a SUPER SHARP, fully-terminated, carved-looking "golfball" . This is complete all around, and has intense orange color when backlit strongly. It is really as good as other top thumbs here except only a slight black inclusion in the bottom 5% - but you have to mount it somewhere anyhow, so this does not really detract too much visually although the price is reduced accordingly. It is more gemmy/translucent in person, as well. Weight is 19 grams

SPESS-1 - Spessartine Garnet - SOLD
Loliando, Tanzania
miniature, 4 cm across

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A complete floater about the size of a golfball, sharp and undamaged all around, with GLOWING orange color , especially when backlit! When cleaned, this will have even higher lustre and color saturation. It is so gemmy that you are looking through the entire crystal in parts of this photo, its just hard to realize in 2-D!

SPESS-11 - Spessartine Garnet - SOLD
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 4.9 x 4.5 x 4.1 cm

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A fullsized, equant miniature with superb form, as if it was carved. It is complete all around, , and has translucent zones, but is overall rather heavily included. Still , a good reference example with sharp crystallography. 138 grams.

SPESS-12 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 2500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 4.0 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm

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A super miniature, very showy, with unusual elongated crystals in a cluster. These crystals have particularly good gemminess and you can really, in person, look right down into the crystals! As good as the singles are, these few doublet clusters are MUCH MUCH more rare. 66 grams

SPESS-13 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 6000
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 4.4 x 4.2 x 4.1 cm

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123 grams. Large Miniature! A literal "golfball", sharp and equant all around. These faces are SHARP! The crystal is much more gemmy and translucent in person, and glows intense fiery orange when backlit strongly. For the size, this is unusually well preserved with just a few small dings and one small chip on one tip. It is otherwise free of damage and amazingly symmetrical.

SPESS-15 - Spessartine Garnet - SOLD
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 3.2 x 3.0 x 2.9 cm

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44 grams. BEST TRANSLUCENCY AND INTENSE ORANGE COLOR! literal "golfball", sharp and equant all around. These faces are SHARP! The crystal is much more gemmy and translucent in person, and glows intense fiery orange-red when backlit strongly. For the size, this is one of the absolute best in terms of symmetry and freedom from damage, without any dings worth noting.

SPESS-17 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 9500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
small cabinet, 6.3 x 5.6 x 4.0 cm

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A MAJOR specimen with a 5-cm-across crystal, on "matrix" of a smaller crystal and red mica, and weighing 191 grams. This is a REALLY impressive garnet specimen from any locality and for this locale, it jumps out for sheer size and for the nice way the major crystal is perched. Complete, if contacted in back, this makes for one of the most dramatic pieces I have yet seen.

SPESS-18 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 12500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 5.5 x 4.5 x 4.2 cm

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A strangely elongated, compound crystal that weighs 155 grams, this is another major piece from the find. It has intense color, and when backlit just glows orange. The translucency is also fairly good, better than it shows here although not quite as good as some of the best singles. However the orange hue is equal to the top! Clusters of this size, and quality, are more rare though and the size overall makes it very impactful.

SPESS-19 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 9500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 4.1 x 3.9 x 3.6 cm

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100 grams. A golfball-sized, golfball-like, superb gemmy crystal with red-orange color ! It is exceptionally sharp, translucent, and equant. MUCH better in person!

SPESS-20 - Spessartine Garnet - SOLD
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 3.2 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm

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Really a great crystal in nearly every way with top color, lustre, and symmetry. it just has two tiny spots of contact or damage that detract a little on close inspection, but it LOOKS like the 3-4k pieces.

SPESS-21 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 2500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 5.0 x 3.7 x 3.0 cm

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A rare matrix specimen with two crystals, one to 2 cm, perched isolated on matrix and standing up dramatically from it! 98 grams weight. This piece has the two sharp crystals actually floating in muscovite layers that seem to have covered the bottom of a compound crystal formed previously, into which the crystals atop settled and sunk in a bit. Its very appealing, overall, and again is one of the VERY few matrix specimens we have from here at this time.

SPESS-22 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 4500
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 3.3 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm

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One of my favorites, a striking miniature with a mandarin-orange, approximately 1-inch and equant, translucent to transparent crystal, free of internal dark veils, just perched up and popping out from a natural pedestal of a smaller crystal ! Complete all around except for a contact on the bottom where it attached to more matrix. This is one of the VERY FEW clusters of any kind of aesthetic appeal at all! This crystal glows with color when well lit and is one of the best for color, period. For overall 3-dimensionality, this was one of my favorites out of literally hundreds of pieces of the material for all these reasons. 48 grams.

SPESS-23 - Spessartine Garnet - $ 2750
Loliondo, near Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
miniature, 3.5 x 3.2 x 2.6 cm

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Two "frog-eyes" of 1.8 cm each sit perched atop a matrix-included larger garnet, giving us spectacular contrast! Such matrix-like pieces are extremely rare in this find and this one has garnets of high quality anyhow, perched upon it. If sold separately, they would still not be cheap. As this is one of the most aesthetic matrix pieces, it has to command a premium (no question about it), but its the only one like it that I have.

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