Grossular var Hessonite with Chlinochlore

From a collection accumulated in the 1980s-1990s in the Alpine deposits in the Piedmont area near Turin, this phenomenal miniature has a cluster of glistening deeply colored and lustrous hessonites to .6cm piled on a matrix coated with chlinochlore. A smattering of later generation crystals with a higher degree of gemminess. The ever so slightest rub on one corner. Note that crystals over .3cm in size were rare.

Locality: Rocca Sella, Almese, Val Sussa, Piedmont, Italy

Composition: calcium aluminum silicate