Clinochlore

© S Rust

In coll. H. Schillhammer Nikon D4, Rodenstock 50/2.8 Apo-Rodagon-N, reverse-mounted on bellows. Stacked from 15 images using ZereneStacker (Pmax and DMap).

© Harald Schillhammer

Varicolored clinochlore crystals: gray white, light olive-green to green with drusy pale-olive grossular crystals on quartz matrix. The 2-3cm under-matrix is a tan fine-grained granular mixture of granular grossular, quartz, clinochlore flakes, and a pale orange-tan clayey material with very coarse platy clinochlore. Ex Gunnar Bjareby.

© Vandall King

3,4cm x 2,5cm CLINOCHLORE "WORMS"

© Quebul Fine Minerals

Very dark green but translucent, prismatic clinochlore crystal in very pale green micaceous matrix - muscovite, talc or perhaps leuchtenbergite?

© 2020 Harold Moritz

Image is 9mm wide.

© 2003 Dominik Schläfli. All rights reserved.

Group of transparent clinochlore – Collection Silvano Gallino , photo Jean-Pierre Barral This photo was published in the AFM’s special issue “GRENATS” of “Le Cahier des Micromonteurs” 3-2015 Nr 129, Gallino, S., Barral J.P., (2015): Alpe delle Frasse

© jp barral

Well-shaped almost white tabular crystals of clinochlore on a grey-greenish crust of clay minerals.

© Volker Betz (2020)

Varicolored clinochlore crystals: gray white, light olive-green to green with drusy pale-olive grossular crystals on quartz matrix. The 2-3cm under-matrix is a tan fine-grained granular mixture of granular grossular, quartz, clinochlore flakes, and a pale orange-tan clayey material with very coarse platy clinochlore. Ex Gunnar Bjareby.

© Vandall King

Greenish-black cluster of clinochlore crystals.

© Van King

FOV 2.5 mm Photo and collection : Frédéric Hède

© frédéric Hède

FOV 1.3 mm Bicolor... photo and collection : FRédéric Hède

© frédéric Hède

more detailed picture where you can see the plately structure of Clinochlore. Found by Pascale & Daniel Journet. Collection & Photo © 2020 by Volker Heck, [image width 2,31 mm]

© 2020 photo by Volker Heck

Clinochlore is often a quite undervalued mineral species, that is mostly seen as an accessory mineral where others steal the show. But if you take a proper look it can really form attractive specimens by itself - at least I am quite content with this one. The small colorless crystal up front is a diopside. Collection and photo Henk Smeets.

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Varicolored clinochlore crystals: gray white, light olive-green to green with drusy pale-olive grossular crystals on quartz matrix. The 2-3cm under-matrix is a tan fine-grained granular mixture of granular grossular, quartz, clinochlore flakes, and a pale orange-tan clayey material with very coarse platy clinochlore. Ex Gunnar Bjareby.

© Vandall King

Hexagonal-shaped rosettes of a pale green chlorite group mineral associated with lustrous black octahedrons of magnetite and red translucent platelets of hematite. I had previously called it chamosite based on visual cues, but MinDat experts have convinced me to be more general in its ID. FOV = 10 mm in length. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.

© SMS 2006

image is 8mm wide. Gemmy clinochlore with a dark green heart. The edges look yellowish because of a green / brown dichroism. Other views available: 1

© 2003 Dominik Schläfli. All rights reserved.

Field of view ~ 2 mm

© Scott M. Whittemore 2005 All Rights Reserved

1cm aggregate of Fe-rich clinochlore in a cavity of idiomorphic quartz. Previous research has described the chlorite-group minerals in Munster Basin quartz veins as ripidolite. Collected 20th February, 2012.

© Dr Richard Unitt

Grey green clinochlore in association with white needles of mesolite.

And a little magnetite, as well.

© Tony Peterson

Perimorphose of a chlorite group mineral (most likely Clinochlore) after aragonite. The aggregates are inside empty, visible at upper left. Some chabazite-Na is in the background. Aragonite itself has not been found at the location but is a typical mineral for zeolite assemblages.

© Volker Betz (2014)

Greenish rosettes of clinochlore and minor pale plates of muscovite (area on right). In coll. H. Schillhammer Nikon D4, Rodenstock 50/2.8 Apo-Rodagon-N, reverse-mounted on bellows. Stacked from 12 images using ZereneStacker (Pmax and DMap). This photo was originally published in Löffler, E., Kolitsch, U. (2019): Der Steinbruch Ebersdorf ...

© Harald Schillhammer

Clinochlore Greenish black clinochlore crystals to 18 mm., some forming rosettes. The crystals are emerald green with strong light. Minor brown translucent andradite crystals to 3 mm. in the recesses between the clinochlores. No matrix - a floater. There is some edge wear to these soft, micaceous crystals. Prompted by another Mindater, I ...

© Terry Burtzlaff

A Cluster of rounded black/green "books" of clinochlore growing with some white/tan orthoclase? The specimen is from the Robert Trimingham collection. He got the specimen in 1977 and his label reads: Purchased for $16 (reg. price was $20)from Bentley's Minerals at the Tucson show. Came with Scott J. Williams label and a price of $3.50. The scale ...

© Rock Currier

Clinochlore - variery Ripidolite from abandoned Klenovec quarry

© Juraj Demian

Clinochlore crystals from the Belvidere Mountain Quarries. 2.9 x 2.6 x 1.9 cm. Henry Minot photo & collection.

© Henry Minot

Collection and photograph: Juan Miguel.

© Juanmi

Crystals of chromiferous clinochlore with alexandrite effect. With natural light, dark green crystals. In the photo, clinochlore is illuminated with IKEA table lamps under which the color of the clinochlorine crystals changes by analogy with alexandrite to a rich violet range. FOV in height 6 mm.

peter neschen collection (54-02_027)

© neschen

Greenish aggregates of klinochlore with tiny needles of mesolite and yellow harmotome in left corner, that all on white analcime.

Aggregates of dark green clinochlore on quartz. This specimen is pictured in Januzzi (1994) and was analyzed by XRD to confirm the species as clinochlore.

© 2020 Harold Moritz

Clinochlore crystals from a large alpine cleft in Southbury. This unusual find was made in 2020 and yielded numerous beautiful clinochlores.

photo and collection Joachim Esche modified Wild M420 photomacroscope with apozoom and Canon EOS 550D

© jo-esche 2018

Chris Auer photo and collection, found by a collector from Bruck/Mur, purchased by me in 2019

© AC

Nice crystals of Clinochlore from Rødøy, Nordland, Norway Photo Øivind Thoresen 2019

© ØT

Chlorite minerals are common in Trimouns because of the altered and transformed Sericite slate inside the geological formation. High deposit of Mg and Al ions formed an alumina Clinochlore (without Fe perhaps Sudoite (?)) inside the pegmatite body. The Clinochlore of the Aplite body contains more Silica. The Mg-Al-Clinochlore forms piles of ...

© 2020 photo by Volker Heck

Dark blue-green, translucent clinochlore crystals, with black, striated magnetite crystals. Uncertain what the fine-grained micaceous mineral is, could be brucite or another chlorite mineral. Orange-red mineral in foreground is chondrodite.

© 2020 Harold Moritz

Large blackish-green clinochlore crystal.

© Van King

peter neschen collection (I-0354b) Nikon D7000 + Zeiss Stemi 508 + Helicon Focus Methode B

Dark green aggregates of Fe-rich clinochlore on small quartz crystals and minor feldspar. There is also a bit of brownish titanite (top right area and tabular, slightly iridescent crystal left of centre). This material was described in: Kolitsch, U., Rausch, L., Löffler, E. (2022): 2249) Chabasit-Ca, Dravit, Epidot (z.T. SEE-reich), Fluorit, ...

© Uwe Kolitsch

Typical crystals of clinochlore, associated with epidote. Ait Hani area, epidote veins. Collection and photograph Jean-Pierre Barral.

© jp barral

Tabular blackish-green clinochlore crystal cluster.

© Van King

Spherical aggregate of chlorite with harmotome.

Well-formed clinochlore crystals in yellow-green lizardite.

© 2023 Harold Moritz

Tightly clustered dark-green clinochlore crystals showing warped folia.

© Vandall King

Clinochlore aggregates on harmotome.

© Petr Fuchs

Very close view of very dark-green clinochlore crystal clusters with a few dark red-brown garnets.

© Vandall King

Nice hemisphere of clinochlore.

© Petr Fuchs

Crystals up to 1 mm above and included in quartz. Self collected. Photo and collection Alberto Vaghi.

© Alberto Vaghi

Image is 11,5 mm wide.

© 2004 by Dominik Schläfli. All rights reserved.

1 mm phantom xl of water-clear clinochlore with clear vesuvianite. Photo and collection: Paul Mestrom

© Paul Mestrom

Field of view 7 mm. Collection M. Kampf No 69-038.

Group of Clinochlore crystals, from laminar to tabular, well defined, excellent green color, very bright and on matrix. Color and brilliance are really exceptional.Saranovskii Mine, Sarany, Gorozavod area, Permskaya Oblast', Urals, Russia.Specimen size: 8.7 × 8.1 × 4.6 cmMain crystal size: 1.3 × 1 cm

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Image is 7mm wide.

© 2005 by Dominik Schläfli. All rights reserved.

Field of view ~ 1.6 mm

© Scott M. Whittemore 2005 All Rights Reserved

Image is 6 mm wide. Green clinochlore, brown grossular garnets, needles of diopside.

© 2006 by Dominik Schläfli. All rights reserved.

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Image is 5,5 mm wide.

© 2005 by Dominik Schläfli. All rights reserved.

Yellow Clinochlore crystals on Dolomite. Collection & Photo: Pascale & Daniel Journet.

© Collection & Photo: Pascale & Daniel Journet

Chondrodite and Clinochlore. Specimen is from the Hancock collection at Harvard University (1972). Scale at the bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.

© Rock Currier

Clinochlore rosettes on mustard yellow andradite-grossular garnet with corroded light tan crystals of vesuvianite. Illustrated specimen Rock H. Currier, Demetrius Pohl (2011) Mineral Collecting in Mali. Mineralogical Record 42:231-250 Specimen size:8x6x5cm

Vermiform green clinochlore associated with andradite and an unknown acicular mineral. Photo is about 2.1 mm in length. The specimen label attributes it to the Red Head Lease in San Benito County, California. Photo and specimen: Steve Stuart.

© SMS 2008

Clinochlore on yellow-green vesuvianite. Field of view: 4 mm.

© Meinrad Kempf

Clinochlore and white Grossular garnet. Specimen is from the collection of Francisco Spertini (1974). Scale at the bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.

© Rock Currier

FOV 1.4 mm.

A 13 x 10 x 10 cm mass of botryoidal clinochlore (var. seraphinite) with an iron oxide coating. John Rakovan photo.

© John Rakovan

Clinochlore. Specimen is from the T. Rand collection at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylbania, USA. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.

© Rock Currier

13 mm wide FOV. Green clinochlore crystals on matrix.

© 2009 Michael C. Roarke

Sony Nex7, bellows, Luminar 25mm, stack shot

© Stephan Wolfsried 1/2014

A floater cluster of clinochlore crystals. Bought at an exhibition of sales-purchases-exchange of minerals and fossils.

Partial clinochlore crystal in calcite and lizardite. Milky outer layer, seen on many such crystals, appears to be peeling off.

© 2020 Harold Moritz

clinochlore group

© Petr Fuchs