Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Spessartine, Feldspar Group

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A fine, large specimen of this now very-well-known combo from Tongbei, but from original early 1990s finds there, so very different in style than more recent specimens. Here, you have a matrix of roughly euhedral feldspar crystals that provide a strikingly contrasting background for the little spessartine "jewels" isolated on them. A lone crystal of smoky quartz juts out of the top of the specimen.