serpentine brown-black
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serpentine brown-black
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serpentine brown-black

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This homogeneous brown-black serpentine is almost without cracks and easy to chisel; details can also be worked out very well.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Origin: ZimbabweZimbabwe
Mohs hardness2
Appearancebrown-black
structurehomogeneous, almost no cracks
Density2.9 kg/dm³

PROCESSING

Softer serpentine can be worked very well with forged steel chisels such as point chisels, claw chisels, flat chisels and lettering chisels. Rasps and files can also be used.

Sculptures made of serpentine are particularly suitable for indoor installation.

FURTHER INFORMATION

At bildhau, we sell serpentine stones from Zimbabwe. Most serpentine stones are quarried there on the edge of the "Great Dyke", a magmatite body around 550 km long and 4 to 11 kilometres wide, which is rich in minerals and ores. The serpentine sourced from bildhau in Zimbabwe is quarried and traded fairly in cooperation with the local population.

The name serpentine for the stone is not entirely correct; the rock is actually serpentinite. Serpentinites have formed from serpentine minerals (e.g. lizardite, antigorite, chrysotile). Some of them also contain other minerals such as olivine, pyrope-rich garnet, bronzite or diopside-rich pyroxene, from which the serpentine minerals originally formed. A red colour is caused by haematite (iron oxide). Serpentinite often also contains magnetite. Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock that has formed on the (former) seabed due to high pressure and temperatures, among other things.

Stone is a natural product. We endeavour to reproduce the appearance of our sculptured stones as accurately as possible in the illustrations so that the character of the stone can be recognised. Ultimately, each stone is unique and the appearance may differ from the illustration.

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