Clinozoisite (fine quality)

Item Description

Here we have an excellent specimen of Clinozoisite from the famous Alchuri locality in Pakistan. Clinozoisite forms a series with Epidote, and you'll often find both species reported from various Alpine and "Alpine-type" localities around the world. Some of the finest Epidote / Clinozoisite specimens in the world have been coming out of Pakistan since the 1990s years. These specimens are seemingly identical to the classic Alpine specimens from Europe, and in certain instances, have surpassed the European specimens for quality and gemminess. This particular specimen is a superb, sharp, lustrous, GEM/gemmy, greenish-golden color crystal group, free of matrix. It's a very good quality overall specimen, and would fit nicely into any collection. This material is highly prized by collectors for its exceptional form, luster and gemminess, as it resembles (and sometimes surpasses) the classic Alpine Epidote specimens that sell for top dollar around the world. These pieces are highly coveted by Alpine collectors, and good pieces are next to impossible to obtain from the classic European localities. From the collection of Vasco Trancoso, a medical doctor and prominent mineral collector from near Lisbon, Portugal (https://www.mindat.org/user-11954.html). He assembled his mineral collection over the course of 60 years, and built a fine worldwide display collection that we recently purchased. This piece is pictured on mindat.org at https://www.mindat.org/photo-218181.html