Name PERIDOT
Variety PERIDOT WIT LUDWIGITE
Origin Soppat (Kohistán) Pakistán
Hardness 6,5
Composition Mg2SiO4-Fe2SiO4
Crystaline sys. RHOMBIC
Size   4,4x2x1,3 cm
Weight 14 gr




Description:
Peridot is also known as olivine, due to its olive-green colour, and chrysolite, which in Greek means "golden stone". The name peridot, as it is commonly known, refers to the facets its crystals tend to have. Blessed with a marvelous hue green and rarely yellow color, this specimen has inclusions of needles of ludwigite.


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PERIDOT



VARIETY PERIDOT WIT LUDWIGITE