Mineral: | Garnet, Variety: Spessartite (Spessartine)
| Chemical Formula: | Mn2+3Al2[SiO4]3 | Size: | | Weight: | | Transparence: | translucent - transparent | Quantity: | | Origin: | Shengus (Shingus), Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan | I have never seen this association before; here you get blue quartz crystals twinned, providing the matrix for a spessartine crystal. Some quartz crystals trying to climb up the crystal some others are grown in small pits of the garnet crystal. Great and very rare specimen.
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