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Epidote Var Withamite & Epidote

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Epidote Var Withamite & Epidote

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: 
7.5 × 7.3 × 3 cm
Weight: 
178.00gr
Description

Matrix with one face displaying a lovely coverage of pink, microcrystalline withamite. There are also cavities lined with micro withamite crystals and green epidote crystals

Withamite is the manganese rich variety of epidote and is known from just 3 localities worldwide, with the dramatic Glen Coe being the first recorded locality.

The specimen will come boxed and fully labelled.

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

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