Epidote on Magnetite

Dashkesan Co-Fe deposit, Dask?s?n District, Azerbaijan
Small Cabinet, 7.4 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm
Start Time: 06/02/2016 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/09/2016 6:49:05 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A striking and uncommon combination from this less well-known deposit. Sculptural fans of pistachio-green epidote blades are densely and artistically festooned on the mounded matrix massive magnetite with a few sharp crystals peering on on the right. There are also a few small calcite rhombs along the front edge. Showy and excellent combination material from an East Coast Collection. Specimens such as this date to the late 1990s.

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