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Grossular With Clinochlore

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Grossular With Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.8 × 1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.20cm
Description

Gemmy dark orange grossular crystals elegantly perched on rodingite matrix, surrounded by green clinochlore packages. Main garnet displays a great lustre and transparency, and clinochlore is in excellent conditions, pretty rare for those specimens. Same applies for most minor crystals throughout the specimen (approximately a dozen).
A very fine specimen from this now off-limits classic Alpine locality.
 

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

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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