Exceptional Specimen Featuring a Large Spessartine Garnet Minerals 12:56 PM A+ A- Print Email Exceptional specimen featuring a large Spessartine Garnet with smaller Spessartines on Albite! From the Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas), Pakistan. Credit: Kevin Ward and The Mineral Gallery, Inc.