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Diopside on Vesuvianite from Goodall Farm Quarry, Sanford, York County, Maine

 
Diopside on Vesuvianite from Goodall Farm Quarry, Sanford, York County, Maine

Diopside on Vesuvianite from Goodall Farm Quarry, Sanford, York County, Maine

Diopside on Vesuvianite from Goodall Farm Quarry, Sanford, York County, Maine

Diopside on Vesuvianite from Goodall Farm Quarry, Sanford, York County, Maine

DESCRIPTION:No. 65308
Mineral:Diopside on Vesuvianite
Locality:Goodall Farm Quarry, Sanford, York County, Maine
Description:Parallel groups of lustrous brownish-green prismatic vesuvianite crystals to 35 mm lining a convoluted cavity in massive crystallized vesuvianite with two translucent dark-green diopside crystals to 20 mm, one of which is hollow (pseudomorph?). Collected in April 1993
Overall Size:7.5x5x3 cm
Crystals:1-35 mm
Archived: For reference only

 

 

 

 

 

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