unakite

Unakite can be found as pebbles and cobbles from glacial drift in the beach rock on the shores of Lake Superior.

Unakite is not limited to the United States, but has also been reported from South Africa, Sierra Leone, Brazil, and China.

In good quality unakite is considered a semiprecious stone, will take a good polish and is often used in jewelry and other lapidary work such as eggs, spheres and other carvings like animals.

First discovered in the United States in the Unakas mountains of North Carolina, unakite is an altered granite composed of pink orthoclase feldspar, green epidote, and generally colorless quartz.