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Epidote Var Withamite & Tremolite

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Epidote Var Withamite & Tremolite

Collected by John & Robert Lawson
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Description
Locality: 
Glen Coe, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7.9 × 4.7 × 4.5 cm
Weight: 
133.00gr
Description

Bsalt matrix with small, pink coloured crystals of the manganese rich variety of epidote, withamite. Some, more common, green coloured epidote crystals are also present together with white acicular tremolite micro crystals. LC

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...

Withamite

Variety Of: 

Epidote

Formula: 
{Ca2}{Al2Fe3+}(Si2O7)(SiO4)O(OH)
Strunz: 
9.BG.05a
Hardness: 
6.0
Hardness: 
0.0
Colour: 
pink

Tremolite

Formula: 
☐{Ca2}{Mg5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Strunz: 
9.DE.10
Hardness: 
5.0 - 6.0
Streak: 
White
Type Locality: 
Campolungo, Piumogna Valley, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland

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