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Vesuvianite With Diopside

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QRI1096065

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Description
Locality: 
Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Thumbnail (1-3cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 1.7 × 1.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.70cm
Weight: 
2.00gr
Description

Elegant thumbnail miniature consisting of a rich drusy of diverging olive green vesuvianite crystals. Crystals are flathead and very lustrous and display one of the top qualities available for the area, with excellent lustre and some local gemminess. Associated, a couple of small diopside crystals, also gree,n but with a different hue, therefore making this specimen quite appealing for mineral photography.

Very good quality, provided some contacts, as depicted. 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

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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