Zoisite — specimen 0387, photo © NMNHS

Zoisite — specimen 0387

Origin

South Asia

Afghanistan

Data

Weight: 0.47 ct; size: 4.67 | 4.09 | 3.29 mm; shape: hexagon; colour: medium dark yellowish green; very slightly greyish; clarity: eye clean; cut: excellent; treatment: none.

Notes

Very clean specimen; design ‘Hexamixtum S 42-43’, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

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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).