Description

Superb set of large, brilliant, intact wine-colored axinite crystals on alpine-type quartz, with a gangue of finely crystallized amphiboles.

Very nice contrast, very nice size.

Axinite, a mineral emblematic of the Oisans massif, has been discovered in a few rare localities, and is often difficult and dangerous to extract.

Discoveries are rare.

These axinite crystals come from the Rochers d’Armentier deposit, a cliff above Bourg d’Oisans in the Isère department.

Here’s a video of the piece:

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