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Vesuvianite, also
known as idocrase, is a green, brown, yellow, or blue
silicate mineral.
Vesuvianite occurs as
tetragonal crystals in
skarn deposits...
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contact with
metamorphic rocks. ****ociated
minerals include garnets,
vesuvianite, diopside, tremolite, epidote,
plagioclase feldspar,
pyroxene and calcite...
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variety of the
mineral vesuvianite a
valid mineral species (see
cyprine (mineral), IMA2015-044) from the
vesuvianite group the
Icelandic cyprine...
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appearance to
vesuvianite, and
there is
confusion in
terminology as
viluite has long been used as a
synonym for wiluite, a
sorosilicate of the
vesuvianite group...
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Ixiolite Varieties that are not
valid species:
Idocrase (synonym of
vesuvianite)
Iolite (a gem-quality
variety of cordierite)
Jacobsite Jadarite Jadeite...
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Tugtupite Turquoise Ulexite Ussingite Vanadinite Variscite Väyrynenite
Vesuvianite (idocrase)
Californite (var.)
Villiaumite Vivianite Vlasovite Wardite...
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include chalcocite, atacamite,
native copper, diopside, grossular, and
vesuvianite. It was
first described in 1981 for an
occurrence in the
Jeffrey quarry...
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considered the same as
vesuvianite. However, that
material was
recently shown to be rich in
boron and thus
different from
vesuvianite. In 1998 that material...
- with high
aluminium and
magnesium content. It
occurs ****ociated with
vesuvianite, chlorite, magnetite, rutile, diaspore, grossular, calcite, diopside...
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Cyprine is a copper-rich
member of the
vesuvianite group with the
formula Ca19Cu2+(Al10Mg2)Si18O68(OH)10. A
similar name is
given to a Cu-bearing variety...
