Mineral - Marija Nabernik

Name and surname:
Marija Nabernik

Country:
Slovenia

Web:
http://www.seyens.com/

Social Media:
http://google.com/+MarijaNabernik

Title:
Mineral

Element:
Andradite garnet

Description:
Andradite garnet in chlorite matrix from contact metamorphic rocks from Kope mountain in Pohorje, Slovenia. The crystals have a characteristic rhombododecahedral shape (right) and are embedded in the rock, leaving negative imprints when separated (left). The largest andradite crystals from these localities measure up to 9 cm in diameter, the one on illustration is 3,5 cm wide. The Kope skarn deposit is rich in magnetite veins that were mined as a high quality iron ore in the late 18th century by Baron Zois.

Category:
Manual

Technique:
tempera on paper

Year:
2016

As the author of illustration I have given permission and consent to be loaded in Wikimedia Commons with Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0.
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