Basic characteristics of serpentine jade

Serpentine jade is a collection of fine-fibrous serpentine minerals formed during the geological process and reaching the jade level. This definition can be distinguished from serpentine and other jade.

The serpentine jade is in the form of a fine dense block, and a few are fibrous blocks. The change of the color of serpentine jade is closely related to the change of pigment ion species and the content of it, and it is commonly white, yellow, green, yellow green, blue green, brown, maroon, dark green and dark. Green and emerald greens often contain chromium and nickel, their mineral composition often contains chlorite, and darker people are rich in iron, aluminum and titanium. Light color is low in iron, aluminum and titanium, and contains high calcium. Translucent to micro-transparent, waxy luster, fibrous block is silky luster, flat shell-like or flake-like fracture, density 2.44~2.80g/cm3, hardness 2.5~5, hardness with impurities such as tremolite Significantly increased. The serpentine jade texture is a delicate and dense block with a fine texture and a slippery feel by hand. It consists of fine-fibrous, leaf-like and colloidal serpentine crystals in a plaque-like structure. Sometimes densely packed cloud-like white patches appear on evenly distributed substrates. A few fibrous blocks have a cat's eye effect after honing.