Aggregate of white thin bladed crystals of thomsonite with thin plates of epidote. The garnet is labelled as grossular but is very dark, and could have a significant andradite component. First photo: Width of view...
Lustrous wheatsheaf sprays of green epidote topped with a few colourless quartz crystals. Ex Jo Price Collection. 15mm wide. Stack of 46 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
A cluster of lustrous green epidote crystals 29mm tall. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single larger than usual green epidote crystal, 50mm long. Probably Entia Valley. Ex Arthur Roffey Collection 453. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Twinned(?) green epidote crystals in massive white calcite that fluoresces bright orange-red. Collected in September 1994 by Margaret Brown. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 97 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
Prismatic green epidote on quartz. Ex John and Betty Weir. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 70 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Single very dark crystal 15mm long. It shows just a hint of green with very strong lighting. Stack of 40 images.. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Labelled as Kalumburu Station, but would be the well-known Mitchell Plateau. A sheaf-shaped aggregate of epidote crystals with minor drusy quartz. 18mm tall. Stack of 55 images. Click on the image below for a higher...
A green epidote crystal impaled on pyrite, all on dark brown andradite garnet. Presumably, the epidote interrupted the growth of the pyrite. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 110 images. Click on the image below...
Prismatic green epidote crystals with dark green actinolite and yellowish-green titanite, the latter two not in the photo. Width of view 5.75mm. Stack of 70 images. (First image) Click on the image below for a...
Labelled as Briagolong. Acquired by Joan Lamond from Doug Gaw at the 1999 Waverley Show. Width of View 11.5mm. Stack of 60 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Blocky zoned crystals from the original find of stolzite at Kara. Width of view 11.5mm. Stack of 100 images.
Sharp prismatic green crystals with quartz, dark green chlorite, and unknown pink balls. Height of view 5mm. Stack of 60 images. Locality not specifically in Mindat. Maltatal is a river north of Malta.
Green prismatic epidote with apparent paler tips, white prismatic flattened crystals of laumontite, and green platelets of pumpellyite. Small colourless quartz crystals. Width 9mm, stack of 78 images (epidote). Width 4.5mm, stack of 30 images...
White hexagonal calcite crystals that fluoresce pink, green epidote and orange-brown grossular garnet. Width 4.5mm. Stack of 62 images. Ex Jo Price Collection.
Tiny purple octahedral fluorite crystals with green epidote and colourless albite. Width 5mm.
Pale “fibrous” termination on main crystal. No matrix. Video best viewed full screen.
Labelled as clinozoisite but according to Mindat, all analysed specimens are epidote.
Ole-Thorstein Ljostad
Ferrian diopside, originally labelled as augite, Helmut Braith
Tabular colourless prehnite crystal on epidote. Width of view 3mm. Stack of 50 images. Click on the image below for a higher resolution version.
Epidote and chlorite as inclusions
Photo width about 2.5mm. Tiny andradite crystals around the base of a prehnite group.
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Tiny but well-formed crystals of epidote from the Toombeola Quarry, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland.
