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Diopside With Grossular

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Diopside With Grossular

Former collection Rui (Italy)
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Description
Locality: 
Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.1 × 3.8 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Description

Beautiful miniature featuring a set of diopside crystals decorated with red hessonite garnets. Diopside has a light green color, with good transparency, local zoning (phantom?) and quite good lustre. The larger individual is repaired and put back into its original place given its exposed position on the specimen. 

Very aesthetic and representative from this legendary area for Italian rodingite, it comes from the Rui collection (Italy).

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

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

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