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; its extraction is often difficult and perilous.
Discoveries are rare.
These axinite crystals come from the Rochers d’Armentier deposit, a cliff located upstream from Bourg d’Oisans in the Isère department.
Here’s a video of the piece:
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