Spessartine with Quartz and Muscovite on Feldspar (Meieran Coll.)

Item Description

This piece is a whole pocket of pegmatite minerals, formed one intergrown with the other to create a really showy combination piece - Garnet, Feldspar, Quartz and Mica. Look how reflective the garnet is: you can practically shave in it, and it has mesmerizing small surface details. This is from the Gene Meieran collection, and he spent most of the last 60 years specializing in Pakistani and Afghani minerals the way we specialize in Chinese new finds, accumulating a treasure trove of awesome and beautiful specimens like this. He particularly loves combos, and this is a stunning piece for the combination of all 4 minerals, in arrangement that is sculptural rather than jumbly - as are most. The large spessartine garnet is 3.5 cm across and intact. You just do not see matrix garnets like this, very often, and it is undoubtedly from older finds here. Valued ???