Here's the first #rock I started my #mineral collection with, around 2 years ago.
It's so gorgeous. It's spessartine garnets growing on a smoky quartz cluster. The matrix is microcline, with mica inclusions which contribute a cute sparkle.
Microcline forms during slow cooling of orthoclase and is common in granites and pegmatites.
These minerals formed together out of intrusive granite at the subduction of the Paleo-Pacific Plate underneath the Eastern Block of the North #China Block. They are besties.
This cluster was collected from the Wushan Spessartine Mine in Fujian. #Geology#Crystal
