Spessartine
At a glance
- Type
- Mineral
- Group
- Silicate
- Crystal system
- Cubic
- Hardness
- Hard (5.5 to 7.5)
- Density
- Heavy (3.2 to 5)
- Occurs in
- Igneous rocks, Metamorphic rocks
- Foliation
- Not layered
- Colour
- Red, Orange, Brown
- Lustre
- Glassy
- Use
- Gemstone
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Spessartine is named after the Spessart hills in Bavaria, Germany.
- Mandarin garnet, a bright orange kind of spessartine, was discovered in Namibia in the early 1990s.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q20653385 · All stones · All entries