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Epidote

Ex Dr. O. Schmidt, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
Oravita-Ciclova Area, Banat Mountains, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
Class: 
Massive/Crystalline
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
2.5 × 5.5 × 2 cm
Weight: 
45.00gr
Description

An uncommon specimen - green spheres of epidote are in-grown in so-called 'Grünstein' (greenstone).

Comes with beautiful old label and on-glued corresponding number sticker from the former collection of metallurgical plant director Dr. O. Schmidt, Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany.
He deaceased 1923 or 1924, the collection (appr. 1200 specimens) was sold to the city of Bergisch-Gladbach in 1925, used as teaching resources in a secondary school then. In 2016, after several movements, the remainders of the collection were sold to in order to support the city's fossil collection.

The label means: "Pistazit in Grünstein, Oravieza im Banat" (Pistacite in greenstone, Oravieza in Banat).
'Pistazit' is a old german synonym for epidote.
The Banat is a historical region in south-eastern Europe, which is now part of the states Romania, Serbia and Hungary. The term 'Banat' is derived from the domain of a Ban (Serbian / Croatian / Hungarian for count / margrave).

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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