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Epidote With Magnetite Inclusions

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Epidote With Magnetite Inclusions

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Description
Locality: 
Ras Koh Mountains, Kharan, Baluchistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.5 × 7 × 5 cm
Description

A well terminated cluster of pseudooctahedral epidote with smaller flat crystals of the same attached.

Within the surface there are fragments of magnetite and titanite.

There has been a lot of discussion about the morphology of these specimens, finally the precise locality has been put to these specimens.

Very attractive and showy specimen.

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...

Magnetite

Formula: 
Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Strunz: 
4.BB.05
Crystal System: 
Isometric
Hardness: 
5.5 - 6.5
Streak: 
Black