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MD-280524
Grossular, Diopside
Belvidere Mountain Quarries (Vermont Asbestos Group mine; VAG mine; Ruberoid Asbestos mine; Eden Mills quarries), Lowell & Eden, Orleans & Lamoille Cos., Vermont, USA
Thumbnail, 1.6 x 0.9 x 0.7 cm
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A nice combination thumbnail from Eden Mills and the Robert Whitmore Collection. A beautiful, gemmy, reddish-orange grossular garnet is aesthetically perched on lustrous, parallel-growth diopside blades. The garnet is a textbook dodecahedron and has striking points of orange fire. Classic combination material from this very well-known locale.

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