First discovered in the United States in the Unakas Mountains of North Carolina from which it gets it's name. Unakite is an altered granite composed of pink orthoclase feldspar, green epidote, and generally colorless quartz. It exists in various shades of green and pink and is usually mottled in appearance. A good quality unakite is considered a semiprecious stone. Unakite, also called epidote, derives it's name from the Green epidosis meaning. "growing together". It is a combination of red jasper and green epidote solidly bound together. From this we get the meaning that what comes together belongs together.