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Chrome-Vesuvianite & Amesite

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Chrome-Vesuvianite & Amesite

Rare Mineral

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Description
Locality: 
Saranovskii Mine, Saranovskaya, Gorozavodskii, Perm Krai, Russian Federation
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.7 × 3.7 × 1.8 cm
Description

Spectacular group of the very rare chrome-vesuvianite crystals of dark green color with amesite and small uvarovite over a chromite matrix.

Other minerals also are present but not analyzed.

 

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Chrome-Vesuvianite

Variety Of: 

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
Hardness: 
0.0

Amesite

Formula: 
Mg2Al(AlSiO5)(OH)4
Strunz: 
9.ED.15
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
2.5 - 3.0
Type Locality: 
Chester Emery Mines, Chester, Hampden Co., Massachusetts, USA

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