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Diopside With Hessonite & Epidote

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Diopside With Hessonite & Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Monte Barbeston, Champdepraz, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.8 × 3.6 × 1.2 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.50cm
Weight: 
34.00gr
Description

Choice miniature consisting of numerous subparallel colorless diopside crystals, associated to olive green epidote and red hessonite garnet and clinochlore 'packages'. The entire association is the very definition of rodingite paragenesis, and it is nicely grown over a speck of matrix.

In excellent conditions. 

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

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

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

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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