Epidote

Item Description

It has become increasingly more difficult to obtain top specimens from this locality, especially such fine quality specimens like this one. 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 particular specimen is a razor 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. It's a very good quality specimen that displays very well, and would fit nicely into any collection. This material is highly prized by collectors for its exceptional form, luster and gemminess, as it resembles the classic Alpine Epidote specimens that sell for top dollar around the world. These pieces are highly coveted by Alpine collectors, and good pieces are next to impossible to obtain from the classic European localities.