Spessartine — specimen 0441, photo © NMNHS

Spessartine — specimen 0441

Origin

East Africa

no precise locality

Spessartine — specimen 0441, locality map

Data

Weight: 0.24 ct; size: 3.47 | 3.46 | 2.60 mm; shape: octagon; colour: medium orange; strong; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Eight’ by Glenn & Martha Vargas, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

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More information from ‘Classification’

Spessartine

Common in granite pegmatites, granites, and rhyolites. Formed in some skarns and metasomatic manganese-rich rocks adjacent to igneous intrusions or in regionally metasomatised areas (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).