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Spessartine With Diopside & Clinochlore

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Spessartine With Diopside & Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Montjovet, Aosta Valley, Italy
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.5 × 2.5 cm
Description

A fine aesthetic specimen containing lovely deep red -orange spessartine crystals, associated with diopside and clinochlore. Showy material well crystallized and beautifully on matrix. The luster is very good as is the color.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Spessartine

Formula: 
Mn2+3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Sommer quarry, Wendelberg, Haibach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Diopside

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

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Brinton's Quarry, West Chester, Westtown Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA...
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