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Albite & Epidote

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Albite & Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Krieza Koskina, Euboea Island, Central Greece, Greece
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
8.5 × 6 × 3 cm
Description

Excellent specimen (crystallized both sides) of well shaped sharp albite crystals (many of them water clear and some light green due to byssolite inclusions) with dark green epidote crystals.
From the alpine type veins of the locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Albite

Formula: 
NaAlSi3O8
Strunz: 
9.FA.35
Crystal System: 
Triclinic
Hardness: 
6.0 - 6.5
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Finnbo (Finbo), Falun, Dalarna, Sweden

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
6.0
Streak: 
Colorless
Type Locality: 
Bourg d'Oisans, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France...

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