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Demantoid

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Description
Locality: 
Sferlun Mine, Malenco Valley, Lombardy, Italy
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
11.6 × 7.7 × 3.8 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.50cm
Weight: 
304.00gr
Description

Beautiful display cabinet sized demantoid specimen on matrix, with the garnets featuring dark olive green color crystals.
Several gemmy demantoids cover one face of the matrix, textbook shaped, with good lustre, and often with good transparency too. Excellent color contrast with the classic grey metaserpentinite matrix. Excellent contrast with white fibers of asbestos. 

In great conditions, provided a few very minor (truly negligible) peripheral contacts.

An excellent classic Alpine specimen from the 80s. Hard to find in this size and quality nowadays.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Demantoid

Variety Of: 

Andradite

Formula: 
Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3
Strunz: 
9.AD.25
Hardness: 
6.5 - 7.0

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