VIRIDINE ON MATRIX

( Viridine is a manganese bearing variety of Andalusite. Andalusite is common mineral but Viridine is very rare especially in crystal form)

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ORIGIN : TRIKORFO PEAK, THASOS ISLAND, KAVALA PREF., MACEDONIA GREECE

Viridine from Trikorfo is considered the finest worldwide and locality and its minerals (including Viridine) are published and described in the 04/2017 issue of Lapis magazine.

Here we have a wonderful and rare example of rich green crystallized Viridine embedded in and on matrix. Viridine is a manganese rich variety of Andalusite and is found in very few localities worldwide (four or five to the best of my knowledge) and mostly in massive form. This material and specimen was found in the summer of 2014 by Anastasios Tsinidis. The rare crystallized specimens were found only in one spot that is now completely worked out and there is no more to be found again at this remote and exhausted location in Thasos Island that has produced the best known Viridines worldwide. This find produced the largest crystals of Viridine worldwide, so I consider this is really exceptional material and should be highly ranked for rarity and was reported in the 04/2017 issue of Lapis magazine. None of this material is available on the market which makes it even rarer. This is not so much of an aesthetic specimen, but a delightful example of an extremely hard to find very rare material known in Greece only from Thasos island and which I have not seen in any private collections.  Will be an interesetingt addition to any rock or mineral collection. Do not miss this opportunity.

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