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Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 5 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Weight: 
84.00gr
Description

Rich drusy featuring several dozens of textbook red garnets, well-formed and with a good red color. Great lustre and local transparency for the crystals, which contrast with some occasional green clinochlore packages. Collected in 2014, as reported on the label.

Quite representative from this classic locality, now long defunct. From the collection of Stefano Conforti (I), quite renowned collector from Milan.

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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

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