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Mindat Short Description

Pyroxene Group - Clinopyroxene Subgroup. Jadeite-Kosmochlor Series.

Rarely found as euhedral crystals, most commonly as the monomineralic metamorphic rock jadeitite which is often used as an ornamental gem and carving material as which it is known ...

Geoscience Ontology Status Notes

Damour A A (1863) Notice et analyse sur le jade vert. Réunion de cette matière minérale à la famille des Wernerites, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences 56, 861-865

IMA Formula (from Mindat)

NaAlSi₂O₆

RRUFF Formula (from Geoscience Ontology)

NaAlSi₂O₆

Additional References

• http://www.handbookofmineralogy.com/pdfs/jadeite.pdf

• http://www.webmineral.com/data/Jadeite.shtml