Cuspidine

White crystals in chlorite, garnet, clinopyroxene matrix
Origin: San Vito Quarry, Monte Samma, Vesuvius, Italy
Sample size: micromount
 
Grey inclusions with yellow anorthite on slag
Origin: Schöller mine, Libusin, Kladno, Czech Republic
Sample size: 3 x 6 cm
 
Colourless to olive-green crystals with jasmundite, gehlenite and spinel
Origin: Bellerberg, Eifel, Germany
Sample size:  micromount
 

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