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Definition of Vesuvianite

Vesuvianite
Vesuvianite Ve*su"vi*an*ite, n. (Min.) A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, and also massive, of a brown to green color, rarely sulphur yellow and blue. It is a silicate of alumina and lime with some iron magnesia, and is common at Vesuvius. Also called idocrase.

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- Vesuvianite, also known as idocrase, is a green, brown, yellow, or blue silicate mineral. Vesuvianite occurs as tetragonal crystals in skarn deposits...
- to: a variety of the mineral vesuvianite a valid mineral species (see cyprine (mineral), IMA2015-044) from the vesuvianite group the Icelandic cyprine...
- appearance to vesuvianite, and there is confusion in terminology as viluite has long been used as a synonym for wiluite, a sorosilicate of the vesuvianite group...
- Ixiolite Varieties that are not valid species: Idocrase (synonym of vesuvianite) Iolite (a gem-quality variety of cordierite) Jacobsite Jadarite Jadeite...
- contact with metamorphic rocks. ****ociated minerals include garnets, vesuvianite, diopside, tremolite, epidote, plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene and calcite...
- Ca)Al2(FeII,FeIII)O(SiO4)(Si2O7)(OH) Dollaseite-(Ce) – CaCeMg2AlSi3O11F(OH) Vesuvianite (idocrase) – Ca10(Mg,Fe)2Al4(SiO4)5(Si2O7)2(OH)4 Cyclosilicates (from...
- facies (subduction zone setting with low temperature and high pressure), vesuvianite, which takes up a significant amount of calcium in its chemical structure...
- Tugtupite Turquoise Ulexite Ussingite Vanadinite Variscite Väyrynenite Vesuvianite (idocrase) Californite (var.) Villiaumite Vivianite Vlasovite Wardite...
- Grossular is found in skarns, contact metamorphosed limestones with vesuvianite, diopside, wollastonite and wernerite. Grossular garnet from Kenya and...
- igneous rocks (typically titaniferous). ****ociated minerals include vesuvianite, chlorite, epidote, spinel, calcite, dolomite and magnetite. It is found...