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Diopside from
Chesney Vale, Rural City of Benalla, Victoria, Australia



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Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Grossular1 photo of Diopside associated with Grossular at this locality.
Wollastonite1 photo of Diopside associated with Wollastonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chesney Vale, Rural City of Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:182293
Long-form Identifier:1:3:182293:9
GUID (UUID V4):b90d6c6e-1091-4c6b-bbbe-65b1589e956a
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROGER GIBSON AND JORG METZ 249 The occurrence of cuspidine, foshagite and hillebrandite in calc-silicate...Buick Department of Earth Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3086, Australia. Roger Gibson,... Department of Geology, University of the Witwatersrand, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa. Thomas...Metz, Department of Earth Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic. 3086, Australia. ABSTRACT The rare...calcsilicate xenoliths from the Rustenburg Layered Suite of the Bushveld Complex. These minerals occur in narrow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LABRADOR, CANADA Brent E. OWENS§ Department of Geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia...occurrence of cuspidine as part of a complex symplectitic intergrowth formed from the breakdown of åkermanite...Canada. The symplectite is dominated by aluminian diopside, cuspidine, and monticellite, but also contains...ideal F-bearing composition. Average proportions of phases in the intergrowth are 33% clinopyroxene,...reconstructed bulk-composition of the intergrowth approximately matches the composition of the adjacent åkermanite
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solid solutions in the metacarbonatites of the Basal Complex of Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) Ramón Casillas...Metamorphosed carbonatites, located in the Basal Complex of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain), contain unusual...disilicates with minor Zr contents cover the whole range of cuspidine–niocalite solid solution. Disilicate crystals...always have Nb, too, and can be described as members of the cuspidine–niocalite–baghdadite ternary solid...compositions between niocalite and baghdadite. All of the analyzed crystals have very high Sr contents
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, Freiestr. 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Faculty of Earth...Sciences, Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Silesia, Be˛dzińska...Bobrzyńskiego 14, 30-348 Cracow, Poland Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography...Editor: Andrew Christy] ABSTRACT The crystal structure of the rare skarn mineral trabzonite, Ca4[Si3O9(OH)]OH...which contains Si3O10 trimers embedded in a framework of CaO6 8 polyhedra, has orthorhombic symmetry, space
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
10.1007/s00410-010-0492-4 ORIGINAL PAPER Growth of bultfonteinite and hydrogarnet in metasomatized basalt...volcaniclastic kimberlite of the B/K9 pipe, Damtshaa, Botswana, constrain conditions of kimberlite alteration...augite-plagioclase assemblage, driven by the serpentinisation of the kimberlite creating strong chemical potential...hydrogarnet are estimated to form at temperatures of ca. 350–250°C, which are similar to those for serpentinisation...efficiency of mass transfer and chemical reactions below the critical point of water and a consequence of volume-increasing
Book
Survey Report 102 Industrial minerals and rocks of Victoria I. W. McHaffie & R. W. Buckley 1995 Geological...Survey Report 102 Industrial minerals and rocks of Victoria I. W. McHaffie & R. W. Buckley 1995 Bibliographic...and rocks of Victoria. Geological Survey of Victoria Report 102.  Crown (State of Victoria) Copyright...Geological Survey of Victoria ISSN 0817 4725 ISBN 0 7306 7474 6 Keywords: Victoria, industrial minerals...Information Victoria, 318 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne Victoria 3000. or Business Centre, Department of Agriculture
 
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