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Hessonite With Clinochlore

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Hessonite With Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Ponte delle Capre, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 3.5 × 1.4 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
28.00gr
Description

Choice miniature of hessonite garnets in rodingite matrix. Garnet crystals are dark red, with excellent luster and locally even some transparency. Associated, some elongated diopside crystals. Clinochlore packages preserve a textbook shape and a good green color too.

Some very minor bruisies and contacts, as shown. Dated back to the early 90s, that's hard to spot material nowadays. 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Brinton's Quarry, West Chester, Westtown Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA...

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