Mineral: Spessartine on Quartz
Locality: Navegadora claim (Orozimbo claim), Penha do Norte, Conselheiro Pena, Vale do Rio Doce, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Dimensions: 3 × 1.7 × 1.8 cm

Description: Spessartine crystals, one of them dominant, very transparent, notable for their color intensity and brilliance. With very marked stepped faces produced by etching and on a Quartz matrix, which is rare. This specimen comes from the private collection of the well-known Wendy and Frank Melanson, from Canada.

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