{"product_id":"epidote-with-quartz-d-natural-turkey","title":"Epidote with quartz (D) — natural, Turkey","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eGreen epidote and clear quartz grown together on one piece, out of eastern Turkey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEpidote is a sign of rock that has been altered rather than rock that formed this way. It appears where hot fluids have moved through existing stone and rebuilt the minerals already in it, so finding it tells a geologist the ground has been worked on, and roughly how hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis came out of the mountains near the Iraqi and Iranian borders, which is some of the most geologically mangled ground anywhere in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMineral:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEpidote (calcium aluminium iron silicate) with quartz (silicon dioxide, SiO₂)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCrystal system:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEpidote monoclinic, quartz trigonal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHakkâri Province, Turkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardness:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e6 to 7 on the Mohs scale; durable overall, though slender epidote crystals snap if knocked\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTreatment: \u003c\/strong\u003eNone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 18 x 7 x 12 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 kg                                                                                                                                          \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou will receive the exact piece photographed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Crystal Showroom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58643093324120,"sku":null,"price":510.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0778\/4880\/5720\/files\/eqt-d-1.jpg?v=1791125895","url":"https:\/\/thecrystalshowroom.com\/products\/epidote-with-quartz-d-natural-turkey","provider":"The Crystal Showroom","version":"1.0","type":"link"}