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Hematite & Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Loanhead Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 3.4 × 2 cm
Weight: 
26.00gr
Description

Matrix with cavities lined with platy, metallic red hematite crystals associated with green/brown grossular crystals. Amphibole and epidote crystals are also present.

The specimen will be supplied boxed and fully labelled.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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