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Pyrope Kelyphite & Chromian Diopside In Forsterite

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Pyrope Kelyphite & Chromian Diopside In Forsterite

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Description
Locality: 
Almklovdalen, Vanylven, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
15.1 × 7.6 × 5 cm
Weight: 
956.00gr
Description

Very big and rich specimen, full of big cherry-red pyrope grains (on all sides and inside) in 'pistaccio-shells' of dark bluish green kelyphite. With intense yellowish green chromian diopside and beige, altered forsterite (olivine). A so-called garnet-peridotite. The locality is not accessible anymore.

Colors on screen might differ a little bit from nature.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Pyrope

Formula: 
Mg3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
7.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Czech Republic

Kelyphite

Mixture Of: 

Albite-Anorthite Series

Chlorite Group

Clinopyroxene Subgroup

Hornblende

Orthopyroxene Subgroup

Phlogopite

Formula: 
KMg3(AlSi3O10)(OH,F)2
Strunz: 
9.EC.20
Hardness: 
2.0 - 3.0

Picotite

Formula: 
(Fe,Mg)(Al,Cr)2O4
Hardness: 
0.0

Chromian Diopside

Variety Of: 

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Formula: 
(Ca,Cr)MgSi2O6
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
Green

Forsterite

Formula: 
Mg2SiO4
Strunz: 
9.AC.05
Crystal System: 
Orthorhombic
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy

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