Serpentine, Serpentenit Green Stone Blocks

Coil-podeločnaâ kind of serpentinites. The name comes from the Latin "serpens-serpent". Hardness 2.5 -4, well polished. As an ornamental stone coil used for over 400 years. Countertops are made of it, vases, candelabra, bathroom appliances, pharmacy vessels, sets are widely used in everyday life. 
Coils or serpentinites — rocks, representing a product of regional metamorphism of magnesium-rich kontaktovogo or Ultrabasic or carbonate rocks. They consist mainly of minerals, serpentine group and may also contain magnetite, carbonate, talc and other minerals.
Coils distributed very widely. Thanks to a little hardness and high decorativeness, for centuries they were used as precious and decorative facing stone, and in rare cases, for a carving in stone and manufacture of cameos.
In Europe, the coils are known as an ornamental stone for more than 400 years and used for countertops, vazoček, pharmaceutical vessels, most probably caused the synonym name coils — aptekarsky stone ".
In Russia, this stone has long been used for interior cladding in palaces, in combination with other kinds of colored stones or metal — for the manufacture of masonry products, as well as the Florentine mosaic. Rare translucent difference, reminiscent of high-quality jade, used to manufacture inserts in jewelry. It is now widely known Ural coils are used for facing of columns and interior decoration of monumental buildings (Metro, Palace of congresses, etc.), and also as an ornamental stone for mass production of souvenir stone-cutting products.
Coils are a dense massive breed with hidden or tonkokristalličeskoj and fibrous structure. The hardness of these species varies from 2,5 to 4 depending on the number of present more soft than the serpentine, talc or more solid minerals such as amphiboles. Fracture is uneven, splintery, sometimes glitter in turn from opaque to fat.

For coils are characterized by unstable composition and heterogeneous structure. In their composition includes: serpentine (chrysotile, antigorit, serpofit)-up to 75%, carbonates (calcite, siderite, brejnerit) — up to 20% magnetite — up to 10%, talc-to 7%, tremolite, chlorite, sphene, iddingsit, chromite, etc. Sometimes there are calcium silicates-coizity (up to 25%) and prenit (up to 5%), associated with the process of partial rodingitizacii coils. Structure breeds blastoporphyric texture, loop, mesh, lattice, psevdomorfnaâ with fine-fibered, kriptokristalličeskoj or Grano-nematoblastovoj structure of the mainstream.

Bulk weight : t / m3 2.7

We offer you delivery of serpentinites blocks 

1-2 Group (3-8 m3)    for 550 $/M3
Group 3 (0.7-3 m3)     for 450 $/M3
        0.3-1 m 3         for $ 250/M3

Little Green coil ( 3-10mm fraction) 40$ / Tons  Packing big-bag

Little Green coil ( 5-20mm fraction) 70$ / Tons