Epidote with Axinite-(Mn) and Quartz

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Very few of the recent, 2024 finds, of acicular Epidote and Axinite-(Mn) at Canta District, Canta Province, Lima, Peru are accompanied by really well-crystallized Quartz, but this smaller cabinet specimen shows that great combinations of this association do occur, albeit rarely. Technically, the olive-green glossy Epidote crystals are bladed rather than acicular, and are aligned mostly parallel to each other but still have the appearance of sprays. The Quartz, the colourless variety Rock Crystal, forms very narrow pyramidally terminated crystals, in the form usually called 'needle' Quartz, as slightly divergent sprays right around the specimen. Pale brown bladed Axinite-(Mn) crystals are intergrown with the Quartz but are not as visible as the striking green Epidote sprays. This occurrence, in a mountainous region, was first noted in 2015, but it is only recently that the quality has stepped up a level.