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Andradite With Hematite On Hedenbergite

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Andradite With Hematite On Hedenbergite

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Description
Locality: 
Mega Horio, Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 4.5 × 2 cm
Description

Superb piece piece from the classic material! This miniature has it all! Skeletal crystals of andradite, with highest luster and most intensive color for the style! The crystals show sharp phantoms, for which they are so special, with maximum tranlucency and even skeletal growth, with sharp formation and not just etched dentations!The matrix is full of sharp hedenbergite crystals and even iron rose hematite groups!The quality of the matrix is very high as well, with the colors beeing deep and with clean forms!The balance is great with smaller crystals all around and the biggest in the middle!There is only one crystal partially missing near the margin and no damage!A superb piece!

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

Hematite

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

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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