NOUN
- a green or yellow or brown mineral consisting of a hydrated silicate; it occurs as crystals in limestone and is used a gemstone
How To Use vesuvianite In A Sentence
- High-T wollastonite + vesuvianite + grossular-bearing assemblages within neighbouring skarns that developed by reaction with exsolving H 2 O-rich volatiles support this conclusion.
- The locality has been worked exclusively for garnet and vesuvianite specimens by mineral collectors and mineral dealers.
- Vesuvianite forms as a result of contact metamorphism on impure limestones and is usually found with other exotic minerals.
- The theme for the 2003 competition was vesuvianite, and with thirty-eight entries, judging became a serious business.
- The veins are surrounded by a 5-to 10-cm-wide alteration zone that consists of calcite, dolomite, diopside, hedenbergite, vesuvianite, and base-metal sulfides.
- The veins are surrounded by a 5-to 10-cm-wide alteration zone that consists of calcite, dolomite, diopside, hedenbergite, vesuvianite, and base-metal sulfides.
- The Badger Flats area is also well known for clinozoisite, garnet, hematite, scheelite, vesuvianite, wollastonite, and zoisite (variety thulite).
- The new edition also adds the important vesuvianite locality at Asbestos, Quebec, which was absent in the 1960 book.
- The Badger Flats area is also well known for clinozoisite, garnet, hematite, scheelite, vesuvianite, wollastonite, and zoisite (variety thulite).
- These fluids have brought about emplacement of cinnabar and metacinnabar at New dria, altered serpentine to calc-silicate assemblages (these include melanite and topazolite garnet, diopside and vesuvianite), reacted with serpentine to form coalingite and artinite and altered some of the Franciscan blocks.