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Andradite & Hedenbergite

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Andradite & Hedenbergite

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Description
Locality: 
Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Museum (18cm plus)
Size: 
18.5 × 12.5 × 5.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.70cm
Weight: 
1 480.00gr
Description

Very large specimen with numerous sharp Andradite crystals, brown and lustrous, the larger ones measuring up to 1.70 from edge to edge, mainly in clusters or isolated small clusters, associated with etched and corroded Hedenbergite crystals and small Quartz crystals as well in between

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway

Hedenbergite

Formula: 
CaFe2+Si2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Mormorsgruvan, Tunaberg Cu-Co Ore Field, Tunaberg, Nyköping, Södermanland, Sweden

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