AllMinerals/JohnBetts-FineMinerals > Online Mineral Museum Photographic Archive > Minerals from Taiwan > Uvarovite with Chromite cores plus Diopside, Clinozoisite |
DESCRIPTION: | No. 74913 |
Mineral: | Uvarovite with Chromite cores plus Diopside, Clinozoisite |
Locality: | Fengtien Mine, Conc. S., 5 kilometers west of Fengtien village, Hualien, Taiwan |
Description: | Lustrous vivid-green uvarovite garnet crystals to 0.6 mm, some showing black-metallic chromite cores, with pale green diopside crystals to 0.9 mm and olive-green clinozoisite crystals to 2 mm. 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: | 17x17x16 mm |
Crystals: | micro to 2 mm |
Archived: | For reference only |
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