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Hessonite With Clinochlore

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Hessonite With Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Ponte delle Capre, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10.3 × 5.3 × 4.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.20cm
Weight: 
340.00gr
Description

Elongated cabinet specimen of hessonite garnets in rodingite matrix. Garnet crystals are dark orange to pale red, with excellent luster and very good transparency, which sometimes makes even hard to photograph them properly. The largest hessonite is predominantly gemmy. Clinochlore packages preserve a textbook shape and a good green color too.

The back of the specimen has been sawn off the excess matrix. With not to much difficulty, the specimen could be trimmed into two pretty miniatures.

Dated back to the early 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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