Epidote with quartz, 8.7 cm, from Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Collected by Doug Toland. Ex collections of Wayne Sorensen, Wayne Thompson, Daniel Trinchillo, Salim Eddé (Mim Mineralogical Museum, Beirut). Photo by László Kupi.
vibrant pistachio to bottle-green crystals with prismatic forms, Alpine fissure and skarn varieties, and diverse collecting localities worldwide.
Regional guide
Epidote from Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA
Prince of Wales Island epidote — dark, lustrous monoclinic crystals from Green Monster Mountain; prized by collectors for deep color and rugged skarn habit.
Locality guide
Prince of Wales Island
A collector's guide to Prince of Wales Island, USA: its geology, mining history and notable minerals, illustrated with the 146 specimens documented from this locality on EarthWonders.
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