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Some Mg-rich garnet pyroxenites from the Mir kimberlite, Siberia, have garnets containing oriented arrays of diopside, rutile + diopside or rutile + Mg-rich ilmenite inclusions. Present mineral compositions require storing of the pyroxenites in the mantle lithosphere at relatively low pressures and temperatures (2.5–3.7 GPa, 680–820 °C). However, the arrays of mineral inclusions are attributed to exsolution from an original higher pressure and/or temperature garnet. Garnets containing arrays of diopside or diopside and rutile exsolved at least a small amount ( |