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Grossular Var Hessonite

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Grossular Var Hessonite

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Description
Locality: 
Rocca della Biscia, Urbe, Savona Province, Liguria, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
4 × 3.2 × 1.4 cm
Weight: 
24.00gr
Description

Crystals with polycrystalline growths, dominant dodecahedron faces beveled by the trapezohedron, of excellent color, a very intense luster and with small crystals of Clinochlore, on matrix.

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

Hessonite

Variety Of: 

Grossular

Formula: 
Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0
Hardness: 
0.0