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Hessonite With Clinochlore

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QRI1007516

Hessonite With Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Lanzo Valleys, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 5 × 1.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
68.00gr
Description

Italian rodingite is world renowned for the quality of minerals they have provided to collectors.
This specimen is a rich small cabinet featuring a number of garnet 'berries' of dark red color and with the classic crystal habitus for the area. The largest crystal aggregate is as big as 5 mm across, quite sizeable for the area. 
The hessonite is dark red/brown, often transparent, very lustrous and quite well on relief on the matrix.

An excellent specimen, it comes with an acrylic plinth labeled in Italian. Dated back to the mid 90s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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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