Tremolite

Origin: Fowler, St. Lawrence Co., New York, U.S.A.

Owner: Milton Speckels

Sample size: about 4 cm across

 

Photo courtesy of: 

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

  

Nephrite on lazurite

Origin: Sar-E-Sang, Kokcha Valley, Badakhshan, Afghanistan

Sample size: 6.5 x 5.5 x 4 cm

 

  

Tremolite, variety hexagonite

Origin: Fowler, St Lawrence Co., New York, U.S.A.

Sample size: 15 x 12 x 7 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

White mass of small crystals, (LW UV, pink; SW UV, creamy)

Origin: Balmat, St. Lawrence Co., New York, U.S.A.

Sample size: 4 x 5 cm

 

Off-white to greyish green needle-like aggregates of tremolite on matrix

Origin: Sljudjanka, Lake Baikal, Russia

Sample size: 5.5 x 5 x 3.5cm

 

Finegrained tremoliteschist with 2-7 mm thin tremolite crystals in matrix

Origin: Gamlegardshampen, Evenesdal, Saltdal, Norway

Sample size: 5 x 11 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

  

Origin: Balmat, New York, United States

Sample size: 6 x 4 x 2 cm (left), small cabinet (right)

 

Photo courtesy of: 

  

This specimen has many lath shaped crystals of light olive green tremolite with pinkish red coloured calcite. Von Eckermann's label refers to this specimen as grammatite which is an obsolete term for tremolite. Tremolite was confined to the skarns at the mine.

Origin: Långban, Sweden
Harry von Eckermann Collection

Sample size: 6.3 x 4 x 3.4 cm

 

  

  

Origin: Kyber area, Pakistan/Afghanistan border

Sample size: 4.8 x 2 x 1.2 cm

 

Photo courtesy of: 

  

Photo courtesy of: 

Page 2