Diopside
Moiry Glacier, Moiry Valley, Grimentz, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
A fragment of a nearly monomineralic boulder of white acicular diopside. The
piece is 19 centimeter long. Found July 2013.
This is an unusual form of diopside: snow white and acicular, but it is the same material as that found and analysed by Stefan Ansermet, and described in the book mentioned in the references (Stefan Ansermet, private ...