Tumbled gray-green stone, likely serpentinite or chlorite-rich metamorphic rock
Serpentinite (predominantly serpentine-group minerals: antigorite, lizardite, or chrysotile); identification is provisional from the photograph
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Browse metamorphic rock (formed from a fibrous crocidolite asbestos) specimens identified by the Rock Identifier community.
Tumbled gray-green stone, likely serpentinite or chlorite-rich metamorphic rock
Serpentinite (predominantly serpentine-group minerals: antigorite, lizardite, or chrysotile); identification is provisional from the photograph
Serpentinized ultramafic rock (serpentinite)
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals, Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄, with possible magnetite, olivine, pyroxene, and brucite
Tumbled serpentine or serpentinite
Serpentine-group minerals, chiefly antigorite, lizardite, or chrysotile; approximate formula Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄
Likely serpentinized ultramafic rock (serpentinite)
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals, Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄, possibly with magnetite, chromite, and brucite
Tiger's Eye
Silicon Dioxide with Crocidolite inclusions (SiO2)
Tumbled tiger’s-eye-rich quartzite
Quartzite, composed mainly of microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂) with fibrous crocidolite pseudomorphs and iron oxides
Serpentinized ultramafic rock (likely serpentinite)
Serpentinite; chiefly lizardite, antigorite, and/or chrysotile, commonly with magnetite, chromite, and residual olivine/pyroxene
Serpentine (likely polished/tumbled)
Serpentinite; chiefly antigorite, lizardite, and/or chrysotile Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄
Tumbled serpentine
Serpentinite; chiefly antigorite, lizardite, and chrysotile Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄
Likely serpentinite
Serpentinite, composed mainly of serpentine-group minerals (chrysotile, lizardite, antigorite), commonly with magnetite and pyroxene remnants
Tiger's Eye
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with fibrous inclusions
Greenstone (likely serpentinite or chlorite-rich metamorphic rock)
Probable serpentinite/chlorite schist; commonly dominated by serpentine-group minerals, chlorite, talc, and magnetite
Serpentinite
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals (lizardite, antigorite, chrysotile), often with magnetite and minor brucite
Actinolite
Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2
Blue Quartz (Dumortierite Quartz)
SiO2 with inclusion of AlAl6BSi3O18
Serpentine-rich metamorphic rock (possibly serpentinite)
Serpentinite; chiefly antigorite, lizardite, or chrysotile with possible magnetite and carbonate minerals
Weathered mafic metamorphic rock, likely serpentinite or altered basalt
Probably serpentinized ultramafic rock; commonly dominated by serpentine-group minerals, with magnetite and altered pyroxene/olivine
Blue Quartz (Blue Aventurine)
Silicon Dioxide with inclusions (SiO2)
Serpentine-rich greenstone (probable serpentinized ultramafic rock)
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals (Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄), commonly with magnetite, chromite, and relict olivine/pyroxene
Serpentine-rich ultramafic rock
Serpentinite (predominantly serpentine-group minerals: lizardite, chrysotile, and/or antigorite)
Serpentine-rich metamorphic rock
Serpentinite, likely with quartz or calcite veining and minor magnetite
Serpentinite (serpentine-rich metamorphic rock)
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals, Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄, with possible magnetite, chlorite, talc, and pyroxene
Tiger’s-eye schist (likely golden amphibole-bearing schist)
Quartz–mica schist with fibrous amphibole, commonly riebeckite/crocidolite-derived material
Serpentine-bearing metamorphic rock (likely chromite/vesuvianite-bearing serpentinite)
Serpentinite, chiefly serpentine-group minerals [(Mg,Fe)₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄], with dark accessory minerals
Tumbled serpentine
Serpentine-group minerals, chiefly antigorite, lizardite, or chrysotile; commonly Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄
Serpentinite with carbonate and iron-oxide alteration
Serpentinite; chiefly antigorite/lizardite Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄, with magnetite, calcite, and chromian minerals
Serpentinite (serpentinized ultramafic rock)
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals (Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄), with magnetite, brucite, and residual olivine/pyroxene
Blue Quartzite (Blue Aventurine / Dumortierite Quartz)
Quartzite with inclusions (SiO2 with AlAl4BSi3O18)
Serpentinite (serpentinized ultramafic rock), possibly with chromite
Serpentine-group minerals, chiefly lizardite and chrysotile; commonly derived from peridotite or pyroxenite, with possible chromite and magnetite
Serpentinite (serpentine-rich rock)
Serpentinite; chiefly serpentine-group minerals, Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄, with possible magnetite, brucite, and talc
Tiger's Eye
Tiger's Eye (Pseudomorph of Quartz after Crocidolite), SiO2
Serpentine / Serpentinite
Serpentine group ((Mg,Fe,Ni,Al,Zn,Mn)3(Si,Al)2O5(OH)4)
Tumbled green stone, likely serpentine
Serpentine-group minerals, chiefly antigorite or lizardite; approximate composition Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄
Serpentinite (serpentinized ultramafic rock)
Serpentinite; chiefly lizardite, chrysotile, and antigorite, commonly with magnetite and minor chromite or carbonate
Chrysotile Asbestos
Chrysotile (Mg3Si2O5(OH)4)
Serpentinite
Serpentinite (Mg, Fe, Ni)3Si2O5(OH)4
Tumbled serpentine
Serpentine-group minerals, commonly antigorite or lizardite; approximate formula Mg₃Si₂O₅(OH)₄
Serpentine (Serpentinite)
Serpentinite (Mg, Fe, Ni, Al, Zn, Mn)2-3(Si, Al, Fe)2O5(OH)4
Blue Quartz
Quartz (Silicon Dioxide) with blue inclusions (SiO2)
Tumbled serpentine
Serpentinite; chiefly antigorite, lizardite, and/or chrysotile serpentine-group minerals
Tiger's Eye
Pseudomorph of quartz after crocidolite (SiO2)
Serpentinite
Serpentinite (a rock composed predominantly of serpentine group minerals)