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Vesuvianite Grossular & Wollastonite

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Vesuvianite Grossular & Wollastonite

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Locality: 
The Rosses, County Donegal, Irish Republic (Eire)
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
10 × 8 × 5.5 cm
Description

A rare, but very heavy specimen showing an attractive skarn mineral assemblage of brown radiating crystal sprays of vesuvianite crystals in association with pink/red grossular garnet crystals in a matrix of white wollastonite and light green clinozoisite crystals.

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

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

Wollastonite

Formula: 
CaSiO3
Strunz: 
9.DG.05
Hardness: 
4.5 - 5.0
Streak: 
White

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