Clinochrysotile: Mineral information, data and localities.
Chrysotile was reinstated as the species name of the chrysotile polytypes in 2006. A polytype of Chrysotile. Clinochrysotile represents the monoclinic or triclinic polymorphs of chrysotile. Whereas chrysotile (asbestos) has been known since ancient times from many localities, specimens from the Bell mine, one of the oldest mines in the Thetford ...