Epidote & Quartz, Turkey (“Fairy Forest Quartz”) small cabinet hunan

Epidote & Quartz, Turkey (“Fairy Forest Quartz”) small cabinet hunanNicknamed Fairy Forest Quartz this is an extra small but stunning, good quality piece of this very popular mineral marriage. The epidote has dark green crystals that grew both in, and on, the terminated clear quartz points. Double sided and pretty on both sides. From the Hakkari Province, Turkey. Measures roughly 2 x 1. 5 (5cm x 3. 5cm).

UV-reactive

Scheelite on a terminated Quartz crystal with minor pyrite

Soft lavender purple with small spots or specks that are often called “radiation burns” but are actually impurities such as pyrite or chalcopyrite embedded in the fluorite

& sides) purple fluorite slab with hint of green

The pagoda calcites are covered in a rainbow chalcopyrite micro-druse

sparkling faces that shine as well as a druse of microcrystals

Cave calcite “flowers” from Wenshan

The original card states McKellsville

Also has a secondary mineral that might be baryte- see close up

a variety of gypsum is very soft- only 2 on the Mohs scale

Messures roughly 2

25” tall (2