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Garnet Var Achtaragdite

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Description
Locality: 
Vilui River Basin, Sakha Republic, Russian Federation
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2 × 2.5 × 2.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.50cm
Weight: 
9.80gr
Description

Achtaragdite is a variety of Garnet - Grossular-Hibschite series. This is a fine and quite large example from the type locality which shows the typical tris-tetrahedron crystal. These crystals are hydrogrossular-chlorite-carbonate pseudomorphs after very probably wadalite or some other hydrogarnet (not helvite as the label states). The real protomineral for these pseudomorphs is not exactly known up to now (cit. mindat)

Originally described from Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Saha Republic (Sakha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia.

From the collection of Prof. Dr. Kurt Rossmanith, Vienna, Austria which was built up from the late 1950's to modern times.
 

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