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Andradite & Pyrite

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Andradite & Pyrite

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Description
Locality: 
Lloc Nou D'en Fenollet, Barxeta, Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 2.8 × 2.4 cm
Weight: 
31.00gr
Description

Small, but beautiful and very aesthetic specimen of garnet andradite and pyrite with complex crystallizations on a porphyric matrix, this piece comes from a subvolcanic rock exploitation that used the material to make aggregates that were used in construction and was found more than 30 years ago and nowadays it is impossible to find anything there because the quarry is stopped and flooded, now it is a lake. Actually, nowadays this piece is a classic of the Valencian and Spanish mineralogy.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway

Pyrite

Formula: 
FeS2
Strunz: 
2.EB.05a
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5

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