crocidolite

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A fibrous, blue-green mineral that is an asbestos-like form of riebeckite
A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color
It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; called also blue asbestus
A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers
or blue asbestos Gray-blue to green, highly fibrous (asbestiform) form of the amphibole mineral riebeckite. It has higher tensile strength than chrysotile asbestos. The major commercial source is South Africa, where it occurs in Precambrian banded-iron formations; it is also found in Australia and Bolivia
crocidolite