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Epidote

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Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Tormiq, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Class: 
Single Crystal
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.4 × 1.2 × 0.6 cm
Largest Crystal: 
6.40cm
Description

A brown, lustrous, gemmy, striated, twinned epidote crystal 64 mm tall with no matrix from the Tormiq Valley, Pakistan. A textbook epidote twin with only minor imperfections along the prismatic face on one side, the termination is pristine. 

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...

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