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Diopside With Garnet

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Diopside With Garnet

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Description
Locality: 
Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources, Estrie, Québec, Canada
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.7 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm
Description

Reflective, sharp, green diopside prisms with what appear to be hundreds of tiny colourless grossular garnet crystals. An attractive little specimen from a classic Canadian locality. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

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