Detailed Description

One of the finest pieces from this find, with dark crystals with top lustre across the top of specimen. A bit of contacting and one missing crystal around the left side of the piece (not distracting as displayed). Otherwise free of damage – an extremely fine, high-calibre specimen. A super, lustrous Morgan 3 epidote cluster.

About this Find
On a trip to Peru I managed to acquire some of the best specimens I have seen from the 2012 find at Concession Morgan 3, Coayllo, Cañete Province, Lima Department. Information about the find is still pretty sketchy. I was told that it was a “small skarn zone” encountered and depleted. The zone was certainly quite tight – most specimens I have seen have unfortunately had some level of contacting, confirming that there was not a lot of open space for free crystal growth. The specimens are beautiful well-developed sharp epidote crystals, with great lustre. Some are very dark, in some ways, a little reminiscent of epidote from Prince of Wales, Alaska, while others have slightly lighter green (and in these, there seems to be some colour variation with some brown as well).