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Grossular Garnet with Diopside from Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell (commonly called Eden Mills), Orleans County, Vermont

 
Grossular Garnet with Diopside from Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell (commonly called Eden Mills), Orleans County, Vermont

Grossular Garnet with Diopside from Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell (commonly called Eden Mills), Orleans County, Vermont

Grossular Garnet with Diopside from Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell (commonly called Eden Mills), Orleans County, Vermont

DESCRIPTION:No. 70699
Mineral:Grossular Garnet with Diopside
Locality:Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell (commonly called Eden Mills), Orleans County, Vermont
Description:Lustrous transparent orange-brown grossular garnet crystals to 6 mm with translucent green prismatic diopside crystals to 8 mm. The grossular garnet crystals (variety: hessonite) are dodecahedral form with trapezohedral edge faces. Collected ca. 1980
Overall Size:16x13x9 mm
Crystals:2-8 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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