Description
Spessartine crystals with a warm orange-brown colour forming irregular groups across a pale rock matrix with clear to milky quartz. The quartz creates brighter crystalline areas between the denser garnet growth, giving the specimen a varied, compact structure.
Lore
Spessartine belongs to the garnet family, stones long carried as talismans of
protection,
courage
and
safe passage.
Its warm orange and reddish tones lend this symbolism a fiery character, linking the stone with
vitality,
strength
and
inner resolve.
Named in 1832 after the Spessart Mountains in Germany, spessartine remains one of the most distinctive members of a mineral family surrounded by centuries of symbolic tradition.
Specifications
Dimensions
4.5 × 3.4 × 2.5 cm
Weight
36 g
Origin
Skardu, Pakistan
Mineral
Spessartine (Garnet) with Quartz on Matrix
