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Diopside Var Fassaite

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Diopside Var Fassaite

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Description
Locality: 
Fassa Valley, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.5 × 4 × 3.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Fassaite, a variety of diopside, from the typelocality. Specimen is coverd by crystals all around and accompaigned by a second undeterminated phase. Old find from the 1970s.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

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

Fassaite

Variety Of: 

Augite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe2+,Al,Fe3+,Ti)[(Si,Al)2O6]
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.0
Hardness: 
0.0
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