Elbaite with Quartz, Albite, Spessartine
specimen number:
8632099
location:
Little Three mine, San Diego Co., California, USA
description:
Nice combination piece from this famous California locality, very deep green to almost black crystals of elbaite measuring to 3.0 cm in length coming off a feldspar and muscovite crystal matrix with a gemmy smoky quartz crystal. Tiny crystals of orange spessartine are present on the backside of the matrix. Micro-chipping present but minimal as seen, this is quite nice.
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