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Lizardite — specimen 0656, photo © NMNHS
Lizardite — specimen 0656, photo © NMNHS

Lizarditespecimen 0656

Origin

no locality data
Data

Weight: 0.55 ct; size: 5.54 | 4.67 | 3.44 mm; shape: octagon; colour: medium light yellowish green; slightly greyish; clarity: translucent; cut: excellent; treatment: none.
Notes

Clean specimen; design ‘Octangulum’, excellent cut by Tan Pen.

More information from ‘Classification’


Typically a product of retrograde metamorphism, replacing olivine, orthopyroxene, or other minerals in ultramafic rocks (Anthony et al., 2001—2005).