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Vesuvianite & Garnet

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Vesuvianite & Garnet

ex. dealer stock Peter Bosse (Kassel/Germany)

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Description
Locality: 
Pleystein, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.2 × 1.8 × 1.3 cm
Description

Nice vesuvianite and yellow garnet

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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