Welcome @jolyon ๐ Here's some freshly-photographed, gemmy wee Scottish "chrome-diopside" grains, with black chromite in altered lherzolite from Ayrshire. Field of view about 2cm wide. #Mineral#Mantle#Geology
@Thorium@jolyon there are fresh Scottish mantle xenoliths, but none I've seen have quite such nice chrome diopside. There is a non -mantle Cr-diopside locality too, but that's another story... ๐
@FaithfullJohn@jolyon Love to see/hear more about the fresh mantle xenoliths and chrome diopside if you're ever inclined. As a geologist who has only ever worked in IT, the hostname of my workstation has always been "xenolith".