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Chloritoid With Spessartine & Quartz

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Description
Locality: 
Darrah I Pech, Chapa Dara District, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
4 × 7 × 5.3 cm
Description

A very rare and unusually displayable specimen featuring sharp, well-formed, doubly terminated chloritoid crystals hosted on a quartz matrix. A bright, lustrous, doubly terminated spessartine crystal is attached to the quartz, with additional spessartine inclusions visible within the quartz. The finest chloritoid crystals are known from Afghanistan, making this a highly desirable and collectible specimen , old specimen from Seller’s personal collection 

 

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chloritoid

Formula: 
(Fe2+,Mg,Mn2+)Al2(SiO4)O(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.AF.85
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Kosoi Brod Village, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Middle Urals, Urals Region, Russia...

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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