Axinite & Quartz – Armentier, France

Perfect axinite crystal lying on a matrix covered in albite & quartz. The Armentier area is known to produce some of the finest axinites in the world. The luster and color are pretty typical of this locality. A very small quartz crystal is intergrowth with the axinite blade but the specimen is damageless.

• Locality : Le Rocher d’Armentier, La Garde, Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
• Size : 90 × 80 × 35 mm