Vesuvianite

  
Origin: Val d'' Aosta, Italy
Sample size: 4.7 x 4.3 x 1.7 cm
 
     
 
Origin: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
Sample size: 3.8 x 3.5 x 2.1 cm (top/2nd row), 3.2 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm (bottom)
 
  
 
  
Origin: Alchuri, Baltistan, Pakistan
Sample size: 3.9 x 3.1 x 1.3 cm (top), 8 x 6 x 2 cm (bottom)
 
  
Origin: Coahuila, Mexico
Sample size: 6.6 x 6.0 x 3.2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
This specimen hosts a perfectly terminated vesuvianite crystal of 0.5 cm. There are some other smaller ones around. The peculiarity of this rock is that it is from the 1872 flow, the last one to be productive in minerals.
Origin: Monte Somma, Vesuvio, Napoli, Italy
Ex. Alessandro Genazzani collection
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

John Veevaert, Trinity Mineral Co

Trinityminerals.com

 

  
 
  
Origin: Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, United States
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm (top), 6 x 4 x 5 cm (bottom)
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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