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Demantoid

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Description
Locality: 
Malenco Valley, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.9 × 2.2 cm
Description

Nice and representative classic rounded aggregate of green andradite crystals of the demantoid variety, associated to white metamorphic chrysotile.

It is a floater, attached to an old wood socle, where we can read that it was acquired on Mach/11th/1989. Ex. Paul Van Wassenhove.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Demantoid

Variety Of: 

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0

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