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Withamite

Type Locality

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Description
Locality: 
Glen Coe, Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
Size Range: 
Small cabinet (7-10 cm)
Size: 
7 × 5 × 4 cm
Description

Withamite is a pink (manganese rich) variety of epidote and The Chancellor, in Glen Coe, Scotland is the type locality. This specimen consists of groups of micro-crystals and crusts on a greyish matrix. A great example of a rarely offered type locality.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

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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