Mineral: Grossular (variety hessonite)
Locality: Belvidere Mountain Quarries, Lowell & Eden, Orleans and Lamoille Counties, Vermont, USA
Dimensions: 6 x 5 x 8.5 cm / main crystal: 1.6 cm

Description: Mass: 256 g MIM number:1907 Transparent, sharply formed and well separated dodecahedral crystals of beautiful orange color, on a matrix made of fibrous diopside crystals with a greenish color creating a beautiful contrast with the grossular. Photographer: AINU / Augustin de Valence

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