X = olive-green to yellow; Y = grayish blue to blue; Z = colorless to pale greenish yellow
2V angle
Measured: 36° to 89°
Dispersion
r > v; strong
References
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Chloritoid is a silicate mineral of metamorphic origin. It is an iron magnesium manganese alumino-silicate hydroxide with formula (Fe, Mg, Mn) 2Al 4Si 2O 10(OH) 4. It occurs as greenish grey to black platy micaceous crystals and foliated masses. Its Mohs hardness is 6.5, unusually high for a platy mineral, and it has a specific gravity of 3.52 to 3.57. It typically occurs in phyllites, schists and marbles.
Both monoclinic and triclinic polytypes exist and both are pseudohexagonal.[2][3]
It was first described in 1837 from localities in the Ural Mountains region of Russia. It was named for its similarity to the chlorite group of minerals.[3][4]
Chloritoid is a silicate mineral of metamorphic origin. It is an iron magnesium manganese alumino-silicate hydroxide with formula (Fe, Mg, Mn) 2Al 4Si...
Ottrelite is a form of chloritoid. Its empirical formula is (Mn,Fe,Mg)2Al4Si2O10(OH)4. Earth sciences portal List of minerals Ottrelite: mindat.org Ottrelite:...
carbon leaders. Strong regional scale alteration consists of pyrophyllite, chloritoid, muscovite, chlorite, quartz, rutile, and pyrite. The main elements associated...
infiltration during metamorphism of the Witwatersrand goldfields: generation of chloritoid and pyrophyllite, Department of Geology, University of the Witwatersrand...
the Geological Survey of India, pyrophyllite and radiating crystals of chloritoid are located in the ridges to the north of Nambulapulakunta. "List of Sub-Districts"...
graphite containing mica schist, and quartzite. The Calar Alto Unit has chloritoid and graphite containing mica schist, from the Paleozoic, light coloured...
which contains minerals such as muscovite, quartz, zoisite, magnetite and chloritoid. The formation may be the same age as the Roxbury Conglomerate in the...
sediments have since been metamorphosed to slate, phyllite, or fine-grained chloritoid- or garnet-porphyroblastic muscovite-chlorite-quartz schist by the Racklan...
(3). Retrieved 15 April 2020. Holdaway, M.J. (1978). "Significance of chloritoid-bearing and staurolite-bearing rocks in the Picuris Range, New Mexico"...