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Grossular With Fassaite

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Grossular With Fassaite

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Description
Locality: 
Dosso degli Areti, Braone, Brescia Province, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.1 × 5.2 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Weight: 
98.00gr
Description

A colorful combination of dark orange grossular crystals in a fassaite-lined matrix. The specimen features a number of individual grossular crystals with good luster, associated to very lustrous mm-sized fassaite crystals, especially occurring in the vug.
These specimens are typically exposed through etching. Some calcite is still present on the back of this specimen.

An Alpine classic!

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

Fassaite

Variety Of: 

Augite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe2+,Al,Fe3+,Ti)[(Si,Al)2O6]
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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