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Diopside With Grossular

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Diopside With Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Ala Valley, Lanzo Valleys, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.3 × 4.2 × 2.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Weight: 
67.00gr
Description

Beautiful miniature featuring a central group of diopside crystals (the main is perfect) decorated with red hessonite garnets. Diopside has a light green color, quite a good lustre and even a transparent tip. The main individual is in good conditions, the second one is a basal portion of the crystal.  

Very aesthetic and representative from this legendary area for Italian rodingite. Such material is hard to get a hold of nowadays.

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

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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