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Quartz Epidote & Chlorite

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Quartz Epidote & Chlorite

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Description
Locality: 
La Madeleine Pass, La Lauzière, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
6.7 × 3.7 × 2.6 cm
Weight: 
46.00gr
Description

Glossy clear quartz with chlorite inclusions at the tip, that grew on a yellow-green epidote plate. Some epidote rods dramatically pierce the quartz.

From an old find.

Collected: 
1988-1990
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...

Chlorite

Synonym Of: 

Chlorite Group

Group Parent: 
Chlorite
Crystal System: 
Monoclinic
Hardness: 
2 - 2.5
Colour: 
Green, Grey, Brown
Streak: 
colourless

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