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Garnet With Diopside

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Garnet With Diopside

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Barbeston, Champdepraz, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 3 × 3 cm
Description

A beautiful specimen with numerous, reflective, orange/brown garnets with green diopside crystals up to 1.3 cm in length rise from the surface of the display face providing a striking contrast. A great little display.

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
Peter Crozier Minerals