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Garnet With Diopside

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Garnet With Diopside

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Description
Locality: 
Mitterbachgraben, Gansbach, Dunkelsteinerwald, Mostviertel, Lower Austria, Austria
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.4 × 9.6 × 1.4 cm
Weight: 
330.00gr
Description

Big lovely thick slab with tens of reddish garnet crystals in a green diopside pyroxenite matrix. It is labelled as an “eclogite”, but it is indeed garnet clinopyroxenite (Petrakakis et al., 2018). 

Collected at the end of 1980’s by Dorsan Vanpoel, he also cut and polished this specimen. 

Combine specimens to reduce shipping costs!. 

 

Petrakakis, K., Schuster-Bourgin, N., Habler, G. and Abart, R. (2018): Ca-rich garnets and associated symplectites in mafic peraluminous granulites from the Gföhl Nappe System, Austria. Solid Earth, 9, 797-819.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Diopside

Formula: 
CaMgSi2O6
Group Parent: 
Clinopyroxene Subgroup
Strunz: 
9.DA.15
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
white

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