Moving mountains for you
Switch currency

Current Live Auctions

Current Live Fixed Price Sales

Quartz With Epidote

Views:
Watches:
AST33767

Quartz With Epidote

Description Tabs

Description
Locality: 
Lefkopetra, Xanthi, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
4.7 × 1 × 0.7 cm
Largest Crystal: 
4.70cm
Description

A slim quartz crystal with epidote crystals at the base.Minor damage to the epidote crystals but still a very good specimen from the location that gives the best epidote crystals in Greece.
Half of the quartz crystal has a light pink color (probably of Fe oxides).

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...