Min. [ad. F. spessartine (Beudant, 1832), f. Spessart a hilly district in north-western Bavaria, where it is found: see -INE5.] A species of manganese garnet.

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1850.  Ansted, Elem. Geol., Min., etc. 190. Spessartine is the name given to a deep red garnet in which protoxide of manganese replaces the lime of the usual formula, so that it becomes silicate of alumina and manganese.

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1888.  Rutley, Rock-Forming Min., 112. Spessartine, or manganese-alumina garnet, occasionally exhibits a red, or yellowish-red colour.

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  So Spessartite [-ITE1 2 b.]

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1887.  in Cassell’s Encycl. Dict.

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1896.  in Chester.

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