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Botryoidal nephrite jade from California, USA. (public display, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA)

Nephrite jade (nephritite) is a crystalline-textured to felted-textured metamorphic rock principally composed of one or more amphibole minerals (tremolite to actinolite, Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2 to Ca2(Mg,Fe)5Si8O22(OH)2).

Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed locality in California, USA
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Author James St. John

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