APPLICATIONS: | Many industrial applications, including brake linings and fireproof fabrics and as an ornamental stone. |
ASSOCIATED MINERALS: | Chromite, olivine, garnets, calcite, biotite and talc. |
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: | Gemini. |
CHEMICAL STRUCTURE: | (Mg,Fe)3Si2O5(OH)4, Magnesium Iron Silicate Hydroxide. |
CLASS: | Silicates. |
CLEAVAGE: | The varieties of crysotile have none, in lizardite and antigorite it is good in one direction. |
COLOR: | Olive green, yellow, golden, brown, or black. |
CRYSTAL HABITS: | Never in large individual crystals, usually compact masses or fibrous. Veins of fiberous serpentine can be found inside of massive serpentine or other rocks. |
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: | Monoclinic, trigonal, hexagonal and orthorhombic, depending on variety. |
FIELD INDICATORS: | Softness, color, silky feel and luster, asbestos if present and its flexibility. |
FRACTURE: | Conchoidal in antigorite and lizardite and splintery in the crysotiles. |
GENERAL INFORMATION: | Serpentine in the rough has a silky feel to the touch and fibers are very flexible. |
GEOGRAPHY: | Val Antigorio, Italy; Russia; Rhodesia Switzerland; North Carolina, California, Rhode Island and Arizona, USA and Quebec, Canada. |
GROUP: | Kalolinite-Serpentine. |
HARDNESS: | 3 - 4.5. |
LUSTER: | Greasy, waxy or silky. |
METAPHYSICAL: | Serpentine is used in the rise of the Kundalini. It helps create an opening so that the Kundalini may travel and lessons the discomfort which is sometimes associated with movement. Placement of the mineral at the crown chakra a drawing force conducive to initiating movement. It can be used to clear the clouded areas of the chakras and to stimulate the crown chakra. It works well in enhancing the meditative state. It has been used in the breast plate of the high priest. |
PHYSICAL: | It can be used for the treatment of diabetes, hypoglycemia, the elimination of parastatic infections within the body and to elevate the absorption of calcium and magnesium. Serpentine can render assistance to disorders in all areas of the body: Emotional, Mental, Conscious Direction and Direct Energies Toward The Problem As Required. |
SPECIFIC GRAVITY: | 2.2 - 2.6. |
STREAK: | White. |
SUBCLASS: | Phyllosilicates. |
TRANSPARENCY: | Translucent and masses are opaque. |
VIBRATES: | To the number 8. |
