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Eclogite outcrops, Marble quarry, Wumiao, Yuexi Co., Anqing Prefecture, Anhui Province, China

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Roadside marble quarry
Diamond-bearing eclogite lenses in impure marbles (calcite, dolomite, tremolite, diopside, phengite) with calc-silicates bands (grossular-almandine, omphacite, phengite, quartz, calcite, oligoclase, jadeitic diopside)
Located 4.6 km southeast of Wumiao




Group 1 - Elements
  		• Diamond1.CB.10a
    C
    Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
  		• Coesite4.DA.35
    SiO
     
    2
  		• Quartz4.DA.05
    SiO
     
    2
  		• Rutile4.DB.05
    TiO
     
    2
    Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates
  		• Dolomite5.AB.10
    CaMg(CO
     
    3
    		)
     
    2
    Group 9 - Silicates
  		• Augite9.DA.15
    (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe
    2+
     
    		,Al,Fe
    3+
     
    		,Ti)[(Si,Al)
     
    2
    		O
     
    6
    		]
      var: Soda-Augite9.DA.15
    (Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe
    2+
     
    		,Al,Fe
    3+
     
    		,Ti)[(Si,Al)
     
    2
    		O
     
    6
    		]
  		• Diopside9.DA.15
    CaMg[Si
     
    2
    		O
     
    6
    		]
  		• Grossular9.AD.25
    Ca
     
    3
    		Al
     
    2
    		[SiO
     
    4
    		]
     
    3
  		• Jadeite9.DA.25
    Na(Al,Fe
    3+
     
    		)[Si
     
    2
    		O
     
    6
    		]
  		• Omphacite9.DA.20
    (Ca,Na)(Mg,Al)[Si
     
    2
    		O
     
    6
    		]
  		• Zoisite9.BG.10
    {Ca
     
    2
    		}{Al
     
    3
    		}[O|OH|SiO
     
    4
    		|Si
     
    2
    		O
     
    7
    		]
    Unclassified Minerals
  		• Phengite-


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