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Quartz & Epidote

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Quartz & Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.1 × 1.9 × 1.2 cm
Description

This is a good piece for the locality, both for the size of the quartz and for the fact the the attached epidote is terminated. Combos like that is extremelly hard to find nowadays in Xanthi and this is an older piece from a pocket that I found in 2010.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Quartz

Formula: 
SiO2
Strunz: 
4.DA.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
7.0
Streak: 
White

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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