Clinochrysotile

Origin: Callenberg North (no. 2) open cut, Callenberg, Glauchau, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 6 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Asbestiform, fibrous aggregates with chlorite
Origin: Finland
Sample size: 9 x 14 cm
 
Bands of lightgreen chrysotile asbestos in black matrix
Origin: Several 100 meters N. of Km 554, road between Mellid and Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Sample size: 6 x 7.5 cm
 
Grey-brown chrysotile asbestos from a pyroxenitelens
Origin: Western Slope of Laxfjället, Tärna area, Swedish Lapland
Sample size: 3.5 x 11.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Diederik Visser

Diederik Visser Minerals & Petrological Services

 

  
 
Origin: Regal Mine, Salt River, Blue House Mountain quadrangle, Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Sample size: 9 x 4.5 x 2.5 cm (top), 1 x 1.3 x 9 cm (bottom)
 
  
Serpentine pseudomorph after monticellite
Origin: Pesmeda, Monroni, Tyrol, Austria
Ex. Don Belsher collection
Sample size: 8.5 x 3.2 x 4.7 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Dan Weinrich

Dealer in fine mineral specimens

 

  
Origin: Shaboni, Matebeleland, Zimbabwe
Sample size: 5 x 4 x 3 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

  
  
Serpentine pseudomorph after forsterite
Origin: Parker Mine, Labelle Co., Quebec, Canada
Ex. Marty Lewadny collection
Sample size: 4.8 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm
 
  
Origin: Zoblitz, Saxony, Germany
Sample size: 12.5 x 3.3 x 1.4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

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