Quartz on Clinizoisite

A highly attractive and well balanced specimen with quartz to 4cm many doubly terminated, each having a soft brick red hue from iron oxides and contrasted beautifully by mounded lusterous clinizoisite crystals (could be epidote, has not been tested).

Locality: Xichang Quartz Mine, Xichang County, Sichuan Province China

Composition: Silicon Dioxide and Calcium Aluminum Silicat