Hey Rhea, I just bought this from a pawn store, any idea what it is?Looks like seraphinite. It's a trade name for a particular form of clinochlore, a member of the chlorite group that's mined in a limited area of eastern Siberia in Russia.
They say you can see feathers in the stone due to its chatoyancy. It tends to be dark green to gray in color. Let me scratch on the edge, yup, hardness between 2 and 4 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, slightly harder than talc.
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