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Sample n° 3546

Minerals found in the sample

Mineral	Formula	Category	Subcategory	Importance
PYROPE	Mg3Al2(SiO4)3	nesosilicates	garnet	major

Description

Description: red concentrate

Information: Tarte, P. & Deliens, M., 1973. Correlations between the infrared spectrum and the composition of garnets in the pyrope-almandine-spassartine series. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 40, 25-37.

Origin

• Country: Congo (RDC)
• Region: Kasai
• Locality: Mbuji-Mayi

Specification

• Donors: Forminière
  Donation year: 1953
• Sampling year:
  Registration date:
• Quantity: 11 tubes
  Size: 3

• Dimension code 1>2>3: 3
  Quality code 1>2>3: 1
• Holotype: no
  Paratype: no
  Radioactive: no
• Thin section: no
  Chemical analysis: no
  X-Ray spectra: yes

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