Actinolite from
Commercial quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

Description
Comments:	Felted layers on joints in contact rocks. At station 7 it occurred as coarsely fibrous, silky masses of pure material, up to 8 cm long and 5 mm thick. Occurs in a coarse quartz-calcite-epidote vein of pegmatite texture. At station 18 it occurs in blade-like crystals averaging 5 x 30 mm, as aminor constituent of an altered pegmatite cutting quartz diorite (Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941), American Mineralogist).
Colour:	Chlorite green
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 352-381.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Calcite Epidote Quartz
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Commercial quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

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