Gemmology
English | Български
Where am I? > Home > Repository > Clinohumite


Gallery view selector

Colour selector
Simple colour schemeredorangey redreddish orangeorangeorangey yellowyellowgreenish yellowyellowish greenslightly yellowish greengreenvery slightly bluish greenbluish greenvery strongly bluish greengreen-blue or blue-greenvery strongly greenish bluevery slightly greenish bluebluevioletish bluebluish violetvioletbluish purplepurplereddish purplestrongly purplish redslightly purplish redcolourlessgreyblack
Clinohumite — specimen 0045, photo © NMNHS
Clinohumite — specimen 0045, photo © NMNHS

Clinohumitespecimen 0045

Origin

Southeast Asia
Vietnam, Yên Bái, Lục Yên
Clinohumite — specimen 0045, locality map
Data

Weight: 0.16 ct; size: 3.53 | 2.86 | 1.99 mm; shape: octagon; colour: medium orangey red; strong; clarity: eye clean; cut: good; treatment: none.
Notes

Very clean specimen; good step cut style. Source: John Bradshaw, Coast to Coast Rare Stones International.

Other specimens
Clinohumite — specimen 0458

More information from ‘Classification’


In contact metamorphic zones in dolomite rocks and metasomatised limestones adjacent to felsic rocks; in serpentine and talc schists; in carbonatites (Anthony et al., 2001—2005). Faceted specimens are rare.