Hematite after Almandine on Topaz
at-auction$ 20
- Locality
- Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Utah, USA
- Minerals
- Hematite, Almandine, Topaz
- Dimensions
- 4.7 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm
- Size class
- Miniature
- SID
- LL360
Small crystals of psuedomorphs of Hematite after Almandine on a single well formed Topaz crystal. The Topaz has beautiful uniform 'textbook' shape with a perfect termination (the very tip has a slight indentation with multiple tiny termination faces). The main Topaz is perfect and undamaged and complete all around, though there is a small side crystal with a flat cleaved surface. These pseudomorphs are not common, a superb specimen from the Chuck Trantham collection.