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Andradite & Prase

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Andradite & Prase

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Description
Locality: 
Serifos Island, Milos, South Aegean, Greece
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 7.2 × 4 cm
Description

Slightly translucent reddish-brown andradite crystals with sharp edges and dark edge zoning. Well-contrasted with dark green prase quartz crystals and a dark hedenbergite matrix. An old find from Serifos, a location where digging for this mineral has been prohibited for several years, and no new discoveries are 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

Prase

Variety Of: 

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Hardness: 
7.0
Hardness: 
0.0

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Austria
6
EU
18
Rest of Europe
20
USA, Canada, Japan, 1 kg
26
Australia, New Zealand, 1 kg
32

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