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Clinozoisite & Grossular

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Clinozoisite & Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Kresti Hill, Kato Vrontou, Kato Nevrokopi Basin, Drama, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.7 × 3.5 × 2.8 cm
Description

Unusual combination of dark brown grossular with pink clinozoisite. These specimens were found at a small skarn at Kresti hill area about 20 years ago and no more came out since then.Interesting and a nice addition to a garnet collection due to rarity and locality.Unice occurence for Greece and i guess not easily found elsewhere.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Clinozoisite

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al3}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Hardness: 
7.0
Type Locality: 
Gösleswand (Goslerwand), Prägraten, Virgen Valley, East Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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