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Epidote

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Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Hachupa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small miniature (3-4.5 cm)
Size: 
3.2 × 3.5 × 1.3 cm
Description

It has become increasingly more difficult to obtain top specimens from this locality, especially such fine quality specimens like this one.

Epidote is one of the most well known of all the Alpine cleft species in the world, and some of the finest Epidote specimens in the world have been coming out of Pakistan in recent years.

This particular specimen is a superb, multi-terminated, sharp, lustrous, gem/gemmy, dark green color crystal group with distinct pleochroism. It’s a very good quality specimen that displays very well, and would fit nicely into any collection.

No damage.

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...