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Vesuvianite

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Vesuvianite

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Description
Locality: 
Sauesetra, Drammensmarka, Lier, Viken, Norway
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.8 × 3.2 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

Within a cavity of a light grey hornfels several beautiful light yellowish green coloured, translucent and very lustrous crystals of vesuvianite are set up to 1 cm in size. The location is just at the border of the large Drammensgranite intrusion and the hornfels is a product of contact metamorphism.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vesuvianite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,☐)19(Al,Mg,Fe3+)13(☐,B,Al,Fe3+)5(Si2O7)4(SiO4)10(OH,F,O)10
Strunz: 
9.BG.35
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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