Epidote with excellent sprays and bow ties

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Epidote with excellent sprays and bow tiesLocale: Imilchil, Midelt Province, Morocco Approx dimensions: 2. 25 x 1. 25 x . 75" Approx weight: 72g Epidote grows long slender prismatic crystals with saturated olive green color, though it can be more yellow, brown, or even so saturated it appears black. This specimen has multiple colors, with deep olive green and lighter lime olive crystals. If you look closely the gray appearing surface is covered with criss crossing dark green crystals. Radial

Locale: Erongo Mountain

which fluoresce and phosphoresce peachy-red under 365nm UV light

caused by the intergrowth of two varieties of feldspar

Approx weight: 36g

A light tan mineral grows in beady round spots coating the bottom half of the piece and the other side

Diana Maria Mine

It was deposited on the specimen in a later stage of growth

The wulfenite crystals are flat or pseudo-cubic square tablets

and nicer pieces are even framed for display

growth where the tip has grown differently

This piece has relatively weak reaction compared to many

but I suspect it is actually a mixture of several similar-appearing minerals in the iron and manganese oxide families (including goethite