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Vesuvianite

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Vesuvianite

Collected in 1882 !
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Saas Fee, Valais, Switzerland
Class: 
Combination
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8 × 4.5 × 7.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
1.00cm
Description

This specimen vas collected in 1882 (!) and shows some wonderful, partly transparent vesuvianite crystals up to 1 cm on redbrown garnet crystals with small but fantastic crystallized, clear white diopside crystals and darkgreen chlorite crystals.

Specimen comes with two wonderful old labels.

Rarity !

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Vesuvianite

Formula: 
(Ca,Na,☐)19(Al,Mg,Fe3+)13(☐,B,Al,Fe3+)5(Si2O7)4(SiO4)10(OH,F,O)10
Strunz: 
9.BG.35
Hardness: 
6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy