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Hessonite & Diopside

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Hessonite & Diopside

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Description
Locality: 
Mussa Alp, Balme, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 2.3 × 2.2 cm
Description

A wonderful, eye-catching combination of intense red-orange hessonite crystals attractively set on light greenish, well shaped diopside. In this color and quality really hard to obatin. No significant damges to report on this amazing thumbnail.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Diopside

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