Description

Detailed Description

A sharp, doubly-terminated floater with textbook form. Bright glassy lustre, and frosting in minor places. In excellent condition – no damage. (One corner, which is underneath as I would display it, has a 1mm contact.) A couple of small additional epidote crystals along for the ride on this one. The last photo shows the back side. This is an awesome epidote crystal.

About These Epidotes

Even though the finest quality epidotes from Pakot rank among the world’s finest, to date not much has been written about them. The find occurred in 2002 in North Eastern Province, which was known at the time as Northern Frontier District, or NFD. It is noted by Tom Moore in his write-up of the 2003 Tucson show (The Mineralogical Record, May-June, 2003, Vol. 34:3). The deposit, described as a metamorphic skarn, was worked by Wayne Thompson and the late, famous African mineral explorer Campbell Bridges. This is a remote area of Kenya, home to tribal communities and sometimes a conflict region, so mineral specimen collecting is not an easy or frequent matter – this 2002 find was remarkable.