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Diopside With Hessonite

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Diopside With Hessonite

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Description
Locality: 
Laietto, Condove, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 2.2 × 1.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Weight: 
25.00gr
Description

Rich miniature featuring at least one dozen of blood red hessonite garnets associated to pale green acicular diopside. Garnet is deep red, lustrous, with typical rhombododecahedral faces. Associated, thin plades of acicular pale diopside increase the color contrast of the miniature. 

A good miniature from this renowned Alpine locality. Very sought after material. 

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

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

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

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