Anthophyllite is an amphibole mineral: (Mg, Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2, magnesium iron inosilicate hydroxide. Anthophyllite is polymorphic with cummingtonite. The name comes from the Latin word anthophyllum which means clove, the main color of this stone. On the MOH scale it is 5 1/2 to 6. The color range is gray to green, brown, and beige.

Anthophylite is the product of metamorphism of magnesium-rich rocks especially ultrabasic igneous rocks and impure dolomitic shales.As well as a retrograde product rimming relict orthopyroxenes and olivine, and as an accessory mineral in cordierite-bearing gneisses and schists. Anthophyllite is formed by the breakdown of talc in ultramafic rocks in the presence of water and carbon dioxide as a prograde metamorphic reaction. The partial pressure of carbon dioxide (XCO2) in aqueous solution favors production of anthophyllite. Higher partial pressures of CO2 reduces the temperature of the anthophyllite-in isograd.

Ultramafic rocks in purely hydrous, CO2-free envronments will tend to form serpentine-antigorite-brucite-tremolite assemblages (dependent on MgO content) or at amphibolite to granulite metamorphic grade, metamorphic pyroxene or olivine. Thus, metamorphic assemblages of ultramafic rocks containing anthophyllite are indicative of at least greenschist facies metamorphism in the presence of carbon dioxide bearing metamorphic fluids

Known areas where this minerial is found is Pennsylvania, southwestern New Hampshire, central Massachusetts, Franklin, North Carolina, and in the Gravelly Range and Tobacco Root Mountains of southwest Montana;California; Arizona ; Ontario, Canada; Greenland; Kongsburg, Norway and Italy.

This minerial helps those beings who spend time in the astral plane to come back down to Earth gently. Brings light from the lower chakras (starting especially from the pelvic area) to the Upper chakras. and releases such energy flows to the head area. This process helps to clear the aura of a person and to connect him with his heart. Helps with self-esteem and overcoming limitations