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Garnet Var Pyroxene Group & Diopside

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Garnet Var Pyroxene Group & Diopside

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Description
Locality: 
Åheim, Vanylven, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6 × 3.3 × 0.2 cm
Description

Unique material from Norway. This cut and polished slice shows beautiful intense green diposide accompanied with deep red pyroxenite crystals inside matrix.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyroxene Group

Group Members: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Orthopyroxene Subgroup

Diopside

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