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[lithicbeads]

The best piece of Washington actinolite I have ever found, the most saturated color and absolutely wild chatoyancy and a solidness I've never seen before.  This pendant is 53 mm long, 25 mm wide, 2.5 mm hole.

[vitzitziltecpatl]

Congrats on the find.

Kudos on the finished piece!

[Eddie P]

Very nice indeed.  Reminds me of the attached piece in the museum of natural history, Oxford, England.  From Corsica, southern France, it is called smaragdite. It is a mixture of diopside and actinolite-tremolite, coloured a particularly bright and beautiful green by the presence of trace chromium, within a grey-white matrix of plagioclase feldspar.  When I clapped eyes on this six inch wide polished specimen in Oxford I vowed never to rest until I found another piece just as vibrant. 

[lithicbeads]

Mixes similar to that used to be very common here but we no longer get rain events that turn over the gravel of the streams.

[AgateLicker]

Cool mod shield shape!

Very attractive material, as well.

[Ryaly2dogs]

That one came out really nice.  Those mineral blades can get brittle.

[lithicbeads]

Yes they wer brittle but great unusual color.

[hummingbirdstones]

That's a beautiful piece.  Love it! 

[VegasJames]

Beautiful. Never seen actinolite that light green before. All our actinolite around here is very dark green and is in the asbestos form.