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Andradite Hematite & Calcite

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Andradite Hematite & Calcite

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Description
Locality: 
Kato Nevrokopi Basin, Drama, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5 × 3 × 3 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Description

Beautiful combination of very shiny,well formed trapezoedral garnets,gray calcite and of a perfect shaped hematite "iron rose" climbing the calcite "wall".

Fantastic and undamaged specimen. Collected by seller.

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

Hematite

Formula: 
Fe2O3
Strunz: 
4.CB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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