Diopside

Dog Lake (aka Cranberry Lake, Fiddlers Elbow), Battersea, Ontario
Canada
Dimensions: 4.9x3.3x2.9 cm
Largest crystal size: 29 mm
Price: CA

$45.00

This specimen comes from an old collection and features singular well-defined light gray to greenish-brown diopside crystal, mostly exposed from its calcite host matrix, etched out by acid. The diopside, comes from the well-known Dog Lake (Cranberry Lake, Fiddlers Elbow) occurrence in Ontario. Alongside the diopside crystals, small hexagonal crystals of brown phlogopite mica are present and what looks like a bit of blue tremolite. These crystals are found within a coarse-grained calcitic marble matrix, the diopside crystals are collected on the shore of Fiddlers Elbow, between Dog Lake and Cranberry Lake in wooded exposures on private property (collectors must gain permission before digging).

To learn more about this locality read our blog post here: https://djoyceminerals.com/activities/recent-activities-dog-lake-collecting-diopside/

 

Note: All prices are in Canadian dollars (CAD). International customers are charged in CAD, exchange rate is calculated automatically by your bank/paypal upon checkout.

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