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Vesuvianite

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Vesuvianite

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Somma, Vesuvius, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 6 × 4.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.60cm
Weight: 
250.00gr
Description

Elegant miniature of vesuvianite on the typical green-grey metasomatic matrix.
Vesuvianite displays light brown blocky crystals with exceptionally lustrous faces and good transparency. Vesuvianite predominantly populates the outskirts of a metasomatic vein, and the metasomatic activity can be observed with the zoning. This gives a very esthetic display to the specimen.

Quite rich and good for Vesuvius, very rare to find at shows of this quality nowadays.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vesuvianite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,☐)19(Al,Mg,Fe3+)13(☐,B,Al,Fe3+)5(Si2O7)4(SiO4)10(OH,F,O)10
Strunz: 
9.BG.35
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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