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Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Montjovet, Aosta Valley, Italy
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.3 × 2.4 × 1.1 cm
Largest Crystal: 
2.00cm
Weight: 
9.00gr
Description

Good miniature specimen featuring a rodingite surface populated by half a dozen of smooth, well formed garnet crystals of brown-reddish color. The garnets are sizeable for the locality and in mint conditions. Medium lustre for the garnets, and crystallographically in textbook habitus.

Recently acquired from a local collector, it comes from a lucky find a few decades ago.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Type Locality: 
Akhtaragda River mouth (Achtaragda River mouth), Vilyui River Basin (Vilui River Basin; Wilui River Basin), Sakha Republic (Saha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

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