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Ellenbergerite Pyrope & Rutile

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Ellenbergerite Pyrope & Rutile

Rare mineral
Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Case Parigi, Martiniana Po, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 1.8 × 1.2 cm
Description

Perfect formed, purple crystals (!) up to 1,5 mm of very rare (3 location in Piedmont area only!) Ellenbergerite with red-black Rutile crystals in very pale pink Pyrope (almost end member!) from  ultra high pressure metamorphic rock.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Ellenbergerite

Formula: 
Mg6(Mg,Ti,Zr,◻)2(Al,Mg)6Si8O28(OH)10
Strunz: 
9.AF.80
Hardness: 
6.5
Type Locality: 
Case Parigi (Case Paris), Martiniana Po, Po Valley, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy

Pyrope

Formula: 
Mg3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Czech Republic

Rutile

Formula: 
TiO2
Strunz: 
4.DB.05
Crystal System: 
Tetragonal - Ditetragonal Dipyramidal
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Type Locality: 
Rutile locality, Horcajuelo de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain

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