AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Taiwan > Uvarovite with Chromite cores plus Diopside |
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DESCRIPTION: | No. 74908 |
Mineral: | Uvarovite with Chromite cores plus Diopside |
Locality: | Fengtien Mine, Conc. S., 5 kilometers west of Fengtien village, Hualien, Taiwan |
Description: | Lustrous vivid-green uvarovite garnet crystals to 0.6 mm with pale green diopside crystals to 0.5 mm. Some uvarovite garnets are incomplete revealing dark black-metallic cores of chromite. See Mineralogical Magazine, March 1984, Vol. 48, pp. 31-37. Ex. Roger Wai-Son Doo collection ca. 1979 (see Mineralogical Record v.10 #1, p. 41-42) |
Overall Size: | 16x16x12 mm |
Crystals: | 0.1-0.6 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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