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Unakite Crystals

The Crystal and Mineral Vault

Unakite: Plain Grey Granite Until Hot Fluids Had Other Ideas

by Laura Konst
Unakite is not a mineral but a metamorphic rock: granite that was altered by hot hydrothermal fluids which converted its plagioclase feldspar into green Epidote, leaving the original pink Orthoclase and Quartz intact. Named after the Unaka Mountains of North Carolina, it is one of the more geologically instructive collector rocks available, with a visible mineral alteration story in every specimen.