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Hessonite With Diopside

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QRI970638

Hessonite With Diopside

Ex coll. C. Mavris
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.4 × 3 × 2.9 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.90cm
Weight: 
46.00gr
Description

Choice miniature featuring textbook hessonite garnets, perfectly grown on the rodingite matrix, with in the middle an elongated pale green  diopside crystal. A few minor diopside crystals are also present throughout the specimen and contribute to a very aesthetic contrast.

Both garnets and diopside are in excellent conditions - some of the garnets are even partly transparent - and make a truly high quality miniature, uncommon in this quality nowadays.

Collected in the late 90s, among the best garnets I have handled from this classic Italian locale.

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

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

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