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Epidote

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Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3 × 2.3 cm
Description

A top epidote specimen from the location that gives the best epidote in Greece.Crystals are deep green color,partly semi-transparent close to light,mirror shine and undamaged.There is a crust of an unlnown to me whitish mineral that partly covers the crystal at the back of the specimen.
Specimen is better in person.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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...