Minerals

🪨Chain Silicates

Inosilicates

Silicates with silicon-oxygen tetrahedra linked into chains. Single chains form pyroxenes; double chains form amphiboles. Both are major rock-forming minerals.

Source: Wikipedia

💡Jade actually refers to two completely different minerals: jadeite (a pyroxene) and nephrite (an amphibole).

11 minerals

🪨 augite 🪨 diopside 💎 jadeite 🪨 spodumene 🪨 enstatite 🪨 hornblende 🪨 actinolite 🪨 tremolite 💎 nephrite 🪨 wollastonite 🔴 rhodonite

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