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Grossular

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Grossular

ex Bonisoli (I)
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Description
Locality: 
Cassafrera, San Giorio di Susa, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4.1 × 3.9 × 2.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
51.00gr
Description

Textbook blood red hessonite garnet, locally gemmy, perched on rodingite matrix and surrounded by thick clinochlore packages and fibrous diopside.

Contrastful and aesthetic, it comes from the well-renowned collection Bonisoli (I).

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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