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Vesuvianite

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Vesuvianite

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Description
Locality: 
Predazzo, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.6 × 3.9 × 4 cm
Description

Brown and well developed, slightly elongated crystals of vesuvianite on matrix. They are silky lustrous, lucent and mostly well terminated. This is a good specimen from the classic Italian locale.

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
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