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Epidote

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Description
Locality: 
Kimmeria, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Class: 
Crystal Group/Cluster
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.3 × 4.3 × 2.6 cm
Description

A nice and good epidote specimen from this remote and almost exhausted locality near Xanthi. The piece is a cluster of epidote crystals with the main one being quite large and thick for the locality. Even the base of the piece where the epidotes were touching the host-rocks is rehealed.

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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