Blue- and green-spotted "K2 gneiss" from the Goldberggruppe, Austria

Description

"K2 gneiss" or "K2 granite" is a grey to white (meta)granite with cm-sized round blue (and sometimes green) spots stained by fine-grained azurite (and sometimes malachite). Due to its attractive appearance it has been carved to various stone artefacts and traded world-wide. Although this rock-type has been known exclusively from the slopes of the K2 in the Himalaya Mountains (hence the name), a second occurrence has been found in the Goldberggruppe in Austria some two years ago.

Period	18 Sept 2023
Event title	MinWien2023
Event type	Conference
Location	Wien, AustriaShow on map