Epidote (ex Al Kidwell Collection)

Item Description

Please note: This specimen is labeled as coming from "Sierra de Altantin", but I believe it's actually from the El Pozo quarry in the Alta Gracia District of the Córdoba Province. It's a rarely seen Epidote specimen as very few from this locality on the market. The piece hosts prismatic, lustrous, striated olive green crystals measuring up to 2.8 cm long on beige Feldspar matrix. Unfortunately none of the Epidote crystals are fully terminated, so this is truly more of a reference specimen, but a cool piece for any fan of Epidote or minerals from Argentina. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974.