Spessartine, Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz)

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A fine Tongbei specimen. Here, you have several smoky quartzes crossing one another. They are unusually clear for this locality, and the spessartines are gloriously bright and gemmy. As you can see, the horizontal crystal is doubly-terminated - unusual for these, as they mostly grow up from the matrix. This one grew sideways across the vertical crystal.