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TB91: Chromium-rich Diopside
A doubly terminated (although the terminations are not that sharp) powerful Diopside chromium rich. Great color and luster, a floater and complete on all sides.
Haramosh Mountains, Baltistan District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (02/2001)
Specimen size: 6.8 × 2 cm = 2.68” × 0.79”
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RQ59M0: Diopside
Excellent miniature. This Diopside crystal has very sharp faces and edges, also an excellent deep color and brilliance.
The handwritten Folch label indicates that it was self-collected by Mr. Folch in 1980 and we can be sure that it was one of the first Diopside specimens from this locality to come to Europe.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±1980)
Specimen size: 2.9 × 1.3 × 0.8 cm = 1.14” × 0.51” × 0.31”
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TQA46AO0: Diopside
Group of Diopside crystals with an unusual habit, tabular in appearance, but actually formed by very flat dominant prisms. Very transparent, lustrous, and with a color that varies from pale yellow to violet. We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.1 × 1 cm = 1.34” × 0.83” × 0.39”
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AR47M4: Diopside
Very esthetic specimen. Crystals are very well defined, with an excellent brilliance, deep green color and a good transparency. On matrix.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2004)
Specimen size: 9 × 5.2 × 4.5 cm = 3.54” × 2.05” × 1.77”

Main crystal size: 1.5 × 0.7 cm = 0.59” × 0.28”
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TYB47AN5: Diopside
Floater group of Diopside crystals with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, between transparent and translucent, with good luster and a uniform light green color. We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Karo Pit, D-Block Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania
Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.4 × 1.6 cm = 1.22” × 0.94” × 0.63”
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TM81AH6: Diopside
A very sharp Diopside crystal with very well defined faces and edges and a perfect termination, very rich in faces. It is bright, completely transparent, with a very intense and uniform color and has small Graphite inclusions.
We’ll send the sample in its original Perkin’s box from the R.J. Noble collection, also containing the collection label.
Samax Mine, Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania
Specimen size: 2 × 0.7 × 0.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.28” × 0.16”
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MA89E9: Diopside
Doubly-terminated crystals of Diopside are not that common. In this case they occur in a large group of quite long subparallel crystals. The color, transparency and position on the matrix are also striking.
Kunar Province (Konar)  Afghanistan (2004)
Specimen size: 8 × 5.3 × 3.5 cm = 3.15” × 2.09” × 1.38”
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MF46V0: Diopside
Very aerial group of flattened elongated crystals with very well defined faces and edges, transparent, bright and with a slightly bluish green color.
The sample is from the Tiziano Bonisoli collection (number 6383) whose label we’ll send to the buyer.
Alpe delle Frasse, Condove, Susa Valley, Metropolitan City of Turin Province, Piedmont (Piemonte)  Italy (±1990)
Specimen size: 2.8 × 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 1.10” × 0.87” × 0.59”

Main crystal size: 1.6 × 0.6 cm = 0.63” × 0.24”
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RP59V0: Diopside
Very sharp crystal with neat faces and edges, translucent, and with a very deep and uniform green color. Surely one of the first (near 1980) Afghan diopsides to arrive in Europe.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±1980)
Specimen size: 2.4 × 1.5 × 0.9 cm = 0.94” × 0.59” × 0.35”
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RR8P8: Diopside
Probably this is one of the first Diopside crystals from Afghanistan to arrive in Europe, due to the fact that it was obtained at the locality by Alberto Folch in 1980, as the original label says. The single crystal has very well defined faces and edges, a very deep and uniform green color and it is rather transparent.
Nuristan Province  Afghanistan (±1980)
Specimen size: 2.9 × 0.7 × 0.6 cm = 1.14” × 0.28” × 0.24”
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RZ6F9: Diopside
It seems to emerge from an old book of mineralogy, this classic group of prismatic crystals, some of them doubly-terminated, has a rich green color. It is on a green schist matrix.
Scherbadung, Kriegalp Valley, Binn Valley (Binntal), Wallis (Valais)  Switzerland
Specimen size: 4.2 × 3.3 × 2.5 cm = 1.65” × 1.30” × 0.98”
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TL96X7: Diopside with Calcite
Parallel growths, with a very pronounced curvature, of crystals showing very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. The crystals are translucent, very bright and have a very deep green color. They are on matrix, with transparent Calcite and white small Albite . It is really a nice and special miniature.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan
Specimen size: 6.2 × 4.7 × 3.2 cm = 2.44” × 1.85” × 1.26”

Main crystal size: 1.2 × 0.5 cm = 0.47” × 0.20”
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RA16M3: Diopside with Calcite
Group of light green prismatic Diopside crystals on a Calcite matrix and with Mica crystals.
This sample was from Scott J. Williams of Scottsdale (Arizona). The piece is accompanied by the Williams label and card Nr. 5244 from the Folch Collection which we’ll send to the buyer.
Bird's Creek, Bancroft district, Hastings County, Ontario  Canada (±1960)
Specimen size: 5.1 × 4.9 × 3.1 cm = 2.01” × 1.93” × 1.22”
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TBA47AO3: Diopside with Clinozoisite and Titanite
Parallel growth of doubly terminated Diopside crystals with very sharp crystal forms and excellent terminations, very aerial and on a matrix of transparent Clinozoisite crystals and twinned Titanite crystals. We will send the specimen to the buyer in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan
Specimen size: 3.4 × 1.3 × 1.3 cm = 1.34” × 0.51” × 0.51”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 0.5 cm = 0.71” × 0.20”
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MG37H1: Diopside with Diopside
The main crystal is exceptionally aerial adding to its unusual prismatic habit, which is very much shorter than usual. The base is formed of small purple crystals of Vesuvianite and prismatic completely transparent crystals of Diopside.
Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada (07/2005)
Specimen size: 3.1 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 1.22” × 0.83” × 0.71”
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GR27AM2: Diopside with Fluorapatite and Calcite
Elongated Diopside crystals, one of them very aerial and clearly dominant. Lustrous, with very dark tones, on matrix with Calcite crystals and pinkish Fluorapatite crystals.
The specimen comes from the Pedro Goy collection, whose very detailed catalogue entry we will send to the buyer.
Yates Mine, Otter Lake, Pontiac RCM, Outaouais, Québec  Canada
Specimen size: 7 × 6 × 3.6 cm = 2.76” × 2.36” × 1.42”

Main crystal size: 2.2 × 1.5 cm = 0.87” × 0.59”
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EJ89R3: Diopside with Grossular (Hessonite)
Group of Diopside crystals, one of them clearly dominant, of good size and color. The contrast with the matrix, partially coated by nice Grossular crystals, increases its beauty. A great Italian classic.
Laietto, Condove, Susa Valley, Metropolitan City of Turin Province, Piedmont (Piemonte)  Italy
Specimen size: 5.2 × 3.9 × 3.9 cm = 2.05” × 1.54” × 1.54”
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CMB96AO0: Diopside with Grossular (variety hessonite)
Diopside as elongated crystals with sharp crystal forms, transparent, with good luster and an intense color. On matrix, with small crystals of Grossular (hessonite variety). A fine Italian classic.
Becchi delle Curbassere, Val d'Ala, Lanzo Valleys (Valli di Lanzo), Metropolitan City of Turin Province, Piedmont (Piemonte)  Italy
Specimen size: 4.8 × 4.2 × 3 cm = 1.89” × 1.65” × 1.18”

Main crystal size: 1.9 × 0.2 cm = 0.75” × 0.08”
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EA47Y0: Diopside with Prehnite
Aggregate of bright and very well defined crystals with perfect terminations and very well marked phantom growths, with deep shades of color easily visible on terminations, and a clearer color on prismatic faces.
Bazhenovskoe deposit, Asbest, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Ural  Russia
Specimen size: 10.1 × 5.3 × 3.9 cm = 3.98” × 2.09” × 1.54”
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MF69AK9: Diopside with Quartz
Group of sharp Diopside crystals with perfect terminal faces, between translucent and transparent, brilliant, very deep and uniform green color, on matrix, with Quartz.
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2010)
Specimen size: 7.4 × 4.6 × 3.7 cm = 2.91” × 1.81” × 1.46”

Main crystal size: 2 × 1.4 cm = 0.79” × 0.55”
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EY47W7: Diopside with Quartz
Aggregate on matrix of crystals with very well defined faces and edges and perfect terminations. They are translucent, very bright and have a deep and uniform green color.
Apo Ali Gun, Braldu Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan (2010)
Specimen size: 7.9 × 5.3 × 3.7 cm = 3.11” × 2.09” × 1.46”

EQQ87CD2: Diopside with Titanite
Parallel growths of well-defined, shiny, deep green Diopside crystals with associated small Titanite crystals. With numerous intertwined crystals, its appearance is very different from other diopsides.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan
Specimen size: 5.8 × 2.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.28” × 1.02” × 0.87”

Main crystal size: 1.4 × 0.6 cm = 0.55” × 0.24”

EPR28CD2: Diopside with Titanite
Parallel growths of well-defined, shiny, deep green Diopside crystals with associated small Titanite crystals. With numerous intertwined crystals, its appearance is very different from other diopsides.
Alchuri, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas)  Pakistan
Specimen size: 6.6 × 2.1 × 1.8 cm = 2.60” × 0.83” × 0.71”
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TH26S3: Diopside with Titanite and Graphite
A novelty at Tucson 2010. With the exceptional Tanzanite with Prehnite also appeared from Merelani some crystals of Diopside of notable size. This one has an excellent development of the upper terminal faces. It is transparent with an intense color and has an associated curious dark Titanite crystal that we analyzed. It also has small crystals of graphite on the back side.
Merelani Hills, Lelatema Mountains, Simanjiro District, Manyara Region  Tanzania (2010)
Specimen size: 4.4 × 2.5 × 1.7 cm = 1.73” × 0.98” × 0.67”

Main crystal size: 3.2 × 1.6 cm = 1.26” × 0.63”
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MA16H8: Diopside with Vesuvianite
The sample has great quality. It is very esthetic because the Diopside crystals are more aerial and distinguishable than usual at this find. Perfectly defined, transparent and bright, they are placed on a base of prismatic crystals of Vesuvianite sharing yellow and violet colors.
Jeffrey Mine, ↓200 m, Asbestos, Les Sources RCM, Estrie, Québec  Canada (09/2005)
Specimen size: 9.2 × 6.5 × 5.2 cm = 3.62” × 2.56” × 2.05”

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