Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Spessartine

Views:
Watches:
GFM1044596

Spessartine

Analysed

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Otratnaya Nunatak, Northern Gruber Mountains, Queen Maud Land, Eastern Antarctica, Antarctica
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.3 × 2 × 0.8 cm
Description

Orange-brown, highly-lustery crystals of 0.5 mm, in a white Albite-Quartz matrix. A Garnet specimen from the Antarctica, are very rare. Collect during a German Expedition in 1999.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Current price

Starting price

10
(reserve not met) (reserve met)

You are the highest bidder

You have been outbid

Proxy bid set
Delayed bid pending at
Delayed Bid is Outbid

Your maximum bid €:

(Enter or more)

Start 03 May 18:00
End
No. of bids view history

Shipping Information

Postage Area Price
Germany
5.50
Europ
8.50
International
$12.50

Bid History

Full bid history