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Vesuvianite

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Vesuvianite

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Description
Locality: 
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.6 × 2.6 × 1.9 cm
Description

A superb sample of vesuvianite. The crystals are complete, sharp and higjly lustrous all around, set on a light - nearly white - plate of matrix and with thin white zonings along each end-point. A fanatstic piece and killer tumbnail! Undamaged.

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