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Demantoid

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Demantoid

Ex coll. Kasper (CH)
Classic Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Rimpfischwäng, Zermatt, Zermatt - Saas Fee area, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.6 × 3.4 × 2.3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.30cm
Weight: 
40.00gr
Description

Elegant miniature sized demantoid specimen within asbestos fibers.

Crystals often show faces of the garnet, either 'ghianda' (microcrystal cluster) or idiomorph. Excellent color contrast with the candid white asbestos fibers which remains around the crystals. 

In great conditions provided a few very minor peripheral contacts.

Former Swiss collection Kasper, assembled in the 70s.

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Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Demantoid

Variety Of: 

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0

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Italy (Pacco Celere 3)
10
Europe/Mediterranean Basin (Tracked; Zone 1)
15
Americas, Asia, Africa (Tracked; Zone 2)
20
Australia & Oceania (Tracked; Zone 3)
25

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