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Grossular With Quartz With Tremolite Inclusions

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Grossular With Quartz With Tremolite Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Costabonne Mines, Prats-de-Mollo-la Preste, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.8 × 3.8 × 3.7 cm
Weight: 
63.00gr
Description

Very lustrous orange grossular garnets in combination with white tremolite included quartz.

From a hard to come by Pyrenean locality.

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

Tremolite

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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