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Vesuvianite With Epidote With Diopside

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Vesuvianite With Epidote 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: 
4.5 × 2.4 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Weight: 
21.00gr
Description

Elegant miniature consisting of a rich drusy of olive green epidote crystals decorating an entire face of pale rodingite matrix, associated to flathead vesuvianite and pale hazel diopside and some cream white calcite crystals. Epidote is almost fully gemmy, and the same applies to diopside. Associated, also some acicular byssolite, which is quite intriguing fiven the paragenesis. All minerals have very good quality.

Great esthetics, this specimen comes from a very limited dated back to the late 90s. 

Very good quality. Specimens like these are true oldtimers, as the locale is off-limits to collectors.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vesuvianite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,☐)19(Al,Mg,Fe3+)13(☐,B,Al,Fe3+)5(Si2O7)4(SiO4)10(OH,F,O)10
Strunz: 
9.BG.35
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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...

Diopside

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

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