Spessartine Spessartine Spessartine, sometimes mistakenly referred to as spessartite, is a nesosilicate, manganese aluminium garnet species, MnAl(SiO). The mineral spessartine should not be confused with a type of igneous rock (a lamprophyre) called spessartite. Spessartine's name is a derivative of Spessart in Bavaria, Germany, the type locality of the mineral. It occurs most often in granite pegmatite and allied rock types and in certain low-grade metamorphic phyllites. Sources include Australia, Myanmar, India, Afghanistan, Israel, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania and the United States. Spessartine of an orange-yellow has been called "Mandarin garnet" and is found in Madagascar. Violet-red spessartines are found
Gemstone Publishing was a compilation, edited by David Gerstein, of Disney cartoon story pages published from 1934 to 1944 in Good Housekeeping magazine. Gerstein later edited two Gemstone softcover books that were official tie-ins to the Walt Disney Treasures DVD collections: "Disney Comics: 75 Years of Innovation" (2006) and "Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special" (2008). Gemstone has also published reprints of EC Comics. Gemstone's "Comic Book Marketplace"-editor Russ Cochran had previously published (in 1973) a dozen reprints of EC titles including "Crypt of Terror", "Weird Science", "The Haunt of Fear", "The Vault of Horror", etc., before moving to Gladstone Publishing and