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Garnet Var Grossular Diopside & Clinochlore

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Garnet Var Grossular Diopside & Clinochlore

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Description
Locality: 
Nonza, Cap Corse, Haute-Corse, Corsica, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 6 × 5 cm
Weight: 
247.00gr
Description

Gemmy and glossy orange-red grossular garnet rhombic dodecahedrons surrounded by dark green chlorite var. clinochlore sheets and yellow-green diopside.

New find from the alpine rodingites in Corsica. The back of the specimen is sawn.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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

Diopside

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

Clinochlore

Formula: 
(Mg,Fe2+)5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8
Strunz: 
9.EC.55
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2.0 - 2.5
Type Locality: 
Brinton's Quarry, West Chester, Westtown Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA...

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