Antigorite — specimen 0144, photo © NMNHS

Antigorite — specimen 0144

Origin

no precise locality [Africa]

Data

Weight: 2.20 ct; size: 10.41 | 8.25 | 4.60 mm; shape: oval; colour: medium light slightly yellowish green; very slightly greyish; clarity: translucent; cut: fair; treatment: none.

Notes

Clean specimen; mixed style cut.

Other specimens

More information from ‘Classification’

Antigorite

Commonly replaces ultramafic rocks; as a replacement of siliceous dolomite rock along contacts with diabase sills (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).