Description

Detailed Description

This plate hosts a small forest of olive-green clinozoisite crystals. The crystals are sharp with good lustre, and almost all of the crystals are contact twins. In excellent condition, no damage, a couple of incomplete crystals at the periphery where this was attached to the rock. Good proportions, great quality crystals and lots of twins!

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About These Clinozoisite Specimens

These clinozoisite specimens were found in 2017. I understand that the workings where they were found are only operational on a sporadic basis. The specific zone from which these specimens were recovered is apparently now done, and they have encountered a bit of epidote as the work has advanced beyond the clinozoisite zone. Excellent display specimens of clinozoisite are generally uncommon – one thinks of the famous finds at Alchuri in the Shigar Valley in Pakistan, and few other localities come to mind. These clinozoisite specimens are different – they are all clustered groups of crystals.