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Description: | Mineral specimen of Diopside associated with Garnets. Collected from Brosso Valley, Piedmont, Italy
Diopside is a silicate of calcium and magnesium with iron (from which it derives its colour), and belongs to the pyroxene group of minerals. It varies in colour from pale to bottle green, and specimens like this one from Piedmont in Italy are often accompanied by orange hessonite garnets. Diopside is sometimes used in jewellery, and can be confused with peridot (olivine).
The specimen was found in Italy. | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Diopside | Temporal: | Carboniferous period (362 - 290 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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