clinoamphibole

[¦klī·nō′am·fə‚bōl]

(mineralogy)

A group of amphiboles which crystallize in the monoclinic system.

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Herb Obodda was calling his two gem crystals "clinoamphibole." However, Dudley Blauwet's three crystals were carefully identified as richterite by amphibole expert Frank Hawthorne, a sufficienfly authoritative source to be considered definitive.

Denver Show 2002. (What's New in Minerals)

Associated minerals are: fayalite, magnetite, quartz, annite, laihunite, and clinoamphiboles (only at the Colorado locality).

Protofero-anthophyllite

Occurrence: Associated minerals are: spessartine, rhodochrosite, pyroxmangite and clinoamphiboles.