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Vesuvianite & Grossular

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Vesuvianite & Grossular

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Description
Locality: 
Fushan Mine, She County, Handan, Hebei Province, China (Peoples Republic)
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3 × 3.5 × 2 cm
Description

Not so common stuff from a relative recent find: root-beer coloured vesuvianite crystals with glassy lustre with a partly gemmy orange-yellowish grossular garnet crystal (bit too orange in the pictures).

A very nice miniature.

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

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Best regards Roger