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Garnet & Diopside

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Garnet & Diopside

Collected by John & Robert Lawson

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Description
Locality: 
Arranmore Island, Dunglow, County Donegal, County Donegal, Irish Republic (Eire)
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 2.6 × 1.7 cm
Weight: 
26.00gr
Description

Skarn matrix with a cavity lined with lustrous brown garnet crystals (most likely grossular) associated with small, dark green diopside crystals. From a very rare location which was once visited by the famous English collector, Sir Arthur Russell. E5

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

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