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Grossular With Vesuvianite

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Grossular With Vesuvianite

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Somma, Vesuvius, Campania, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 5.4 × 3.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.40cm
Weight: 
112.00gr
Description

Very rich dark grossular specimen in grey-green metasomatic matrix, featuring over two dozen garnet crystals. Crystals are complex, often skeletal and partial rhombododecahedrons, with very lustrous face and brown color. Some crystals display also minor growth patterns. Intermixed, some dark brown, lustrous, flattened vesuvianite crystals.

Quite good for the locality, scarce nowadays!

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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

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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