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.infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color:black; background-color: #8BAFDA">Spessartine</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Garnet,_quartz,_feldspar_5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Garnet%2C_quartz%2C_feldspar_5.jpg/220px-Garnet%2C_quartz%2C_feldspar_5.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Garnet%2C_quartz%2C_feldspar_5.jpg/330px-Garnet%2C_quartz%2C_feldspar_5.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Garnet%2C_quartz%2C_feldspar_5.jpg/440px-Garnet%2C_quartz%2C_feldspar_5.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Spessartine crystals</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color:black; background-color: #8BAFDA">General</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Category</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nesosilicate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nesosilicate">Nesosilicate</a> <br />Garnet group</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Chemical_formula" title="Chemical formula">Formula</a><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">(repeating unit)</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mn<sup>2+</sup><sub>3</sub>Al<sub>2</sub>(SiO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_mineral_symbols" title="List of mineral symbols">IMA symbol</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Sps<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93Strunz_classification" title="Nickel–Strunz classification">Strunz classification</a></th><td class="infobox-data">9.AD.25</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Crystal_system" title="Crystal system">Crystal system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cubic_crystal_system" title="Cubic crystal system">Isometric</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Crystal_class" class="mw-redirect" title="Crystal class">Crystal class</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Hexoctahedral (m<span style="text-decoration:overline;">3</span>m) <br /><a href="/wiki/H-M_symbol" class="mw-redirect" title="H-M symbol">H-M symbol</a>: (4/m <span style="text-decoration:overline;">3</span> 2/m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Space_group" title="Space group">Space group</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Ia3d</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Crystal_structure#Unit_cell" title="Crystal structure">Unit cell</a></th><td class="infobox-data">a = 11.63 Å; Z = 8</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color:black; background-color: #8BAFDA">Identification</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Color</th><td class="infobox-data">Yellow through red</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Crystal_habit" title="Crystal habit">Crystal habit</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Massive to crystalline</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Cleavage_(crystal)" title="Cleavage (crystal)">Cleavage</a></th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fracture_(mineralogy)" title="Fracture (mineralogy)">Fracture</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Sub-<a href="/wiki/Conchoidal" class="mw-redirect" title="Conchoidal">conchoidal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Tenacity_(mineralogy)" title="Tenacity (mineralogy)">Tenacity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Brittle</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Mohs_scale_of_mineral_hardness" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohs scale of mineral hardness">Mohs scale</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488" /><span class="nobold">hardness</span></th><td class="infobox-data">6.5 – 7.5</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Lustre_(mineralogy)" title="Lustre (mineralogy)">Luster</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Vitreous</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Streak_(mineralogy)" title="Streak (mineralogy)">Streak</a></th><td class="infobox-data">White</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Transparency_and_translucency" title="Transparency and translucency">Diaphaneity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Transparent to translucent</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Specific_gravity" class="mw-redirect" title="Specific gravity">Specific gravity</a></th><td class="infobox-data">4.19 calculated, 4.12 – 4.32 measured</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Optical properties</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Isotropic" class="mw-redirect" title="Isotropic">Isotropic</a>, often anomalous double refractive</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Refractive_index" title="Refractive index">Refractive index</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1.800</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Birefringence" title="Birefringence">Birefringence</a></th><td class="infobox-data">none</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Dispersion_(optics)" title="Dispersion (optics)">Dispersion</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Weak</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Absorption_spectroscopy" title="Absorption spectroscopy">Absorption spectra</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Bands at 410, 420, 430 nm (or merging to form cutoff below 430 nm; also bands at 460, 480, 520 nm. Possible weak bands at 504 or 573 nm<sup id="cite_ref-GRG_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GRG-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">References</th><td class="infobox-data"><sup id="cite_ref-Wbmin_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wbmin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mindat_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mindat-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HoM_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoM-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Spessartine</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Nesosilicate" class="mw-redirect" title="Nesosilicate">nesosilicate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manganese" title="Manganese">manganese</a> <a href="/wiki/Aluminium" title="Aluminium">aluminium</a> <a href="/wiki/Garnet" title="Garnet">garnet</a> species, Mn<sup>2+</sup><sub>3</sub>Al<sub>2</sub>(SiO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub>.<sup id="cite_ref-GRG_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GRG-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Wbmin_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wbmin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mindat_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mindat-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HoM_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoM-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This mineral is sometimes mistakenly referred to as <i>spessartite</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spessartine's name is a derivative of <a href="/wiki/Spessart" title="Spessart">Spessart</a> in <a href="/wiki/Bavaria" title="Bavaria">Bavaria</a>, Germany, the <a href="/wiki/Type_locality_(geology)" title="Type locality (geology)">type locality</a> of the mineral.<sup id="cite_ref-Wbmin_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wbmin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mindat_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mindat-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It occurs most often in <a href="/wiki/Granite" title="Granite">granite</a> <a href="/wiki/Pegmatite" title="Pegmatite">pegmatite</a><sup id="cite_ref-Wbmin_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wbmin-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mindat_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mindat-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HoM_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoM-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and allied rock types and in certain low-grade <a href="/wiki/Metamorphic_rock" title="Metamorphic rock">metamorphic</a> <a href="/wiki/Phyllite" title="Phyllite">phyllites</a>. Sources include Australia, <a href="/wiki/Myanmar" title="Myanmar">Myanmar</a>, India, Afghanistan, Israel, <a href="/wiki/Madagascar" title="Madagascar">Madagascar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Namibia" title="Namibia">Namibia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria">Nigeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a> and the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-GRG_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GRG-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spessartine of an <a href="/wiki/Orange_(color)" class="mw-redirect" title="Orange (color)">orange</a>-yellow has been called <i>Mandarin garnet</i> and is found in Madagascar. Violet-red spessartines are found in <a href="/wiki/Rhyolite" title="Rhyolite">rhyolites</a> in <a href="/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maine" title="Maine">Maine</a>. In Madagascar, spessartines are exploited either in their bedrock or in alluvium. The orange garnets result from sodium-rich pegmatites. Spessartines are found in bedrock in the highlands in the Sahatany valley. Those in alluvium are generally found in southern Madagascar or in the <a href="/wiki/Maevatanana" title="Maevatanana">Maevatanana</a> region.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spessartine forms a <a href="/wiki/Solid_solution" title="Solid solution">solid solution series</a> with the garnet species <a href="/wiki/Almandine" title="Almandine">almandine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mindat_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mindat-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HoM_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoM-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Well-formed crystals from this series, varying in color from very dark-red to bright yellow-orange, were found in Latinka, <a href="/wiki/Rhodope_Mountains" title="Rhodope Mountains">Rhodope Mountains</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kardzhali_Province" title="Kardzhali Province">Kardzhali Province</a>, Bulgaria.<sup id="cite_ref-LatBG_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LatBG-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spessartine, like the other garnets, always occurs as a blend with other species. Gems with high spessartine content tend toward a light orange hue, while almandine prevalence induces red or brownish hues.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Images">Images</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spessartine&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Images"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 180px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 175px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Spessartine crystal from Pakistan"><img alt="Spessartine crystal from Pakistan" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg/145px-Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="109" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg/218px-Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg/290px-Garnet_-_Spessartine_crystal_detail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4309" data-file-height="3232" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Spessartine crystal from <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 180px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 175px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Spessartine on smoky quartz: Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China"><img alt="Spessartine on smoky quartz: Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, China" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg/115px-Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg" decoding="async" width="115" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg/173px-Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg/230px-Spessartine_sur_quartz_fum%C3%A9.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="3709" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Spessartine on smoky quartz: Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Fujian Province, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 180px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 175px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Reddish-orange spessartine"><img alt="Reddish-orange spessartine" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg/145px-Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="132" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg/218px-Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg/290px-Spessartine-t08-49a.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="728" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Reddish-orange spessartine</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 180px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 175px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Two "frog-eyes" of 1.8 cm each sit perched atop a matrix"><img alt="Two "frog-eyes" of 1.8 cm each sit perched atop a matrix" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg/145px-Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg/217px-Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg/289px-Spessartine-spess-23b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="771" data-file-height="800" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Two "frog-eyes" of 1.8 cm each sit perched atop a matrix</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 180px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 175px; height: 180px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao,_Fujian,_Chiny.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Spessartine garnet on feldspar - Tongbei Yun-xiao, Fujian, China."><img alt="Spessartine garnet on feldspar - Tongbei Yun-xiao, Fujian, China." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao%2C_Fujian%2C_Chiny.jpg/145px-Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao%2C_Fujian%2C_Chiny.jpg" decoding="async" width="145" height="97" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao%2C_Fujian%2C_Chiny.jpg/218px-Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao%2C_Fujian%2C_Chiny.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao%2C_Fujian%2C_Chiny.jpg/290px-Granat_spessartyn_na_skaleniu_-_Tongbei_Yun-xiao%2C_Fujian%2C_Chiny.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4819" data-file-height="3217" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Spessartine garnet on feldspar - Tongbei Yun-xiao, Fujian, China.</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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href="/wiki/Pyrope" title="Pyrope">Pyrope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tsavorite" title="Tsavorite">Tsavorite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uvarovite" title="Uvarovite">Uvarovite</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Spessartine&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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