奥地利
Austria
地处阿尔卑斯山腹地的奥地利是欧洲经典的矿物之国——精美阿尔卑斯晶洞矿物与众多历史产地的故乡。
Austria's Alps are a classic region for 'Alpine cleft' minerals — crystals grown in fissures deep in the mountains — and home to the historic Habachtal emerald deposit.
Alpine clefts
Across the Austrian Alps, mineral-rich fluids crystallised in open fissures (clefts) to grow superb quartz, epidote and other species. The Knappenwand locality in the Untersulzbachtal produced what are widely regarded as the world's finest epidote crystals.
Signature minerals
Austria is famous for Alpine-cleft quartz, dark green epidote (Knappenwand), titanite and fluorite, and for the green Habachtal emerald — Europe's classic emerald source. Alpine specimens are treasured for their clarity and form.
