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Andradite

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Andradite

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Description
Locality: 
Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 4.8 × 3.3 cm
Description

Slightly translucent red-brown andradite crystals, sharp-edged with a dark zoning along their edges. Good contrast to the green hedenbergite matrix. An old found from Serifos, a place where it is forbidden to dig for this mineral since some years and where no new finds are to be expected.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Drammen, Buskerud, Norway