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Mineral Specimens with Epidote
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5.9 x 3.1 x 2.4 cm. An unusual locality specimen of epidote, in bundled crystals, taken from a small seam in Murrieta by Ken and Dana Gochenour. The largest crystal has a wonderful, broad, equant termination. Ex. William Larson Collection.
11.2 x 3.2 x 0.8 cm. A beautiful, fan-like, tapering, cabinet, spray of parallel-growth, dark olive-green epidote crystals from the Capelinha area of Brazil. The highly lustrous, flattened blades have very sharp terminations. The blades shimmer in the light and the little crystal on the front is a fine accent. Complete-all-around and pristine. Ex. Douglas and Diane Ervin Collection.
3.5 x 2.4 x 2.4 cm. Green hydroxylherderite is rare - found only in a few pockets in Pakistan, to date. Topaz and hydroxylherderite combination specimens are very uncommon from anywhere - I cannot think of any offhand, and here we have such a combination from Pakistan. This fine piece features a glassy, translucent, equant, apple-green hydroxylherderite crystal nicely attached to the side of a glassy, very light brown topaz crystal. The multitude of tiny, sparkly, clove-brown blades attached to the sides of the topaz crystal appear to be epidote or clinozoisite. An excellent and rare combination specimen from the Gene Meieran Collection.
5 x 2.2 x 1.4 cm. A fine, doubly-terminated single crystal of Epidote from Rehoboth. The crystal has sharp chisel-point terminations, excellent luster, and classic deep green color. Ex. Charlie Key.
4.2 x 3.6 x 2.9 cm. A superb and very aesthetic epidote on amethyst specimen from the Chinese find of a few years ago. Highly lustrous wreathes and drapes of olive-green epidote blades are beautifully scattered on the cluster of glassy, translucent, amethyst crystals. The one epidote cluster atop the amethyst crystal looks like a green plume on a helmet. The amethyst crystals are included with sparkly hematite microcrystals. An exceptional combination specimen from the Ed David Collection.
5.5 x 4.7 x 0.8 cm. Epidote is one of the most well known of all the Alpine cleft species in the world, and some of the finest Epidote specimens in the world have been coming out of Pakistan in recent years. These specimens are seemingly identical to the classic Alpine specimens from Europe, and in certain instances, have surpassed the European specimens for quality and gemminess. Some of the most well known Epidote specimens from the Alps are the highly sought after "Faden" specimens. This crystal group exhibits the classic "Faden" (German word for string) form that is well known from this locality. It is a superb, sharp, lustrous, gem/gemmy, green color crystal group with a few well defined "Fadens" running perpendicular across the b (010) face of the crystals. Ex. Richard Kosnar Collection.
6.7 x 6.1 x 4 cm. Extremely high lustre, good size, and fine aesthetics make this one of the very best such specimens for the locality, which is near to where the Calaveras axinites were found long ago. Garnet, however, is much rarer and this is thus a significant locality specimen. Ex. Irv Brown Collection.
3.3 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm. These epidote specimens are seemingly identical to the classic Alpine specimens from Europe, and in certain instances, have surpassed the European specimens for quality and gemminess. This particular specimen is a very sharp, highly lustrous, gemmy, coffee-brown to "root beer" to dark olive-green color crystal group with good pleochroism when strongly backlit and textbook "sword"-shaped form.
6.2 x 4.5 x 4.2 cm. This is an aesthetic floater specimen, composed of intergrown quartz and epidote. The epidote is flat-lying, lustrous, dark, pistachio green, in crystals to 3.0 cm in length. The quartz crystals are translucent to transparent, colorless and reach 3.5 cm in length.
6 x 5.8 x 1.9 cm. A very choice cluster of two hemispherical prehnite balls, standing up from a bit of epidote matrix.
5 x 3.2 x 2.8 cm. A very choice miniature, with a complete ball perched on a natural pedestal of epidote.
A DRAMATIC and SHOWY LARGE CABINET specimen of gemmy, transparent and lustrous green titanite crystals to 2.6 cm with dark-green and coated epidote crystals to 3.5 cm on a nicely contrasting albite crystal matrix from an old find at the Capelinha Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is very uncommon to find a titanite specimen of this quality and size available. This fine specimen was photographed with two different lighting systems to highlight the green color of the titanite crystals. Old dealer stock of Dr. Gary Hansen and not shown since the early 1980s! 19.8 x 10.0 x 7.8 cm
A very uncommon, strikingly beautiful specimen featuring two sharp and finely formed chalcopyrite crystals (to 2 cm) coated by bornite, on a contrasting matrix of crystalline epidote. This specimen absolutely leapt out from amongst the offerings of the Cincinnati show dealer from whom I bought it earlier this year. 5.3 x 5.3 x 3.5 cm
3.1 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm. Epidote is one of the most well-known of all the Alpine cleft species in the world and some of the finest epidote specimens in the world have been coming out of Pakistan in recent years. These specimens are seemingly identical to the classic Alpine specimens from Europe, and in certain instances, have surpassed the European specimens for quality and gemminess. This cluster of sharp crystals features water-clear, gem, olive-green crystals in an aesthetic cluster. Complete-all-around and pristine. Very highly representative of the species and locale.
A beautiful spray of deep green epidote crystals, staggered back in a lovely fan, with fine terminations. There are a few missing crystals amongst them but with a specimen of this sort, they are hard to notice. 6.9 x 5.7 x 2.8 cm
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