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Hessonite & Diopside

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Hessonite & Diopside

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Description
Locality: 
Wallhorn Alp, Timmelbach, Prägraten, Virgen Valley, Tyrol, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 6.5 × 4 cm
Description

A very nice specimen of deep redbrown, lustrous hessonite crystals with pale green diopside crystals on matrix.

Ex Wolfgang Schneider collection and label.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white