Zoisite — specimen 0035, photo © NMNHS

Zoisite — specimen 0035

Origin

South Asia

Afghanistan

Data

Weight: 1.11 ct; size: 7.03 | 6.24 | 3.43 mm; shape: cushion; colour: medium dark yellowish green; very slightly greyish; clarity: eye clean; cut: fair; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; mixed style cut.

Other specimens

More information from ‘Classification’

Zoisite

Typically in regionally metamorphosed crystalline schists formed from igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rocks relatively high in calcium; in eclogites (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).