Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA

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Antigorite : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅]
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Chromium variety of Antigorite, a member of the Serpentine group of minerals. A classic occurrence from Woods Chrome Mine, Texas, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. These specimens were often reffered to as Kammererite, or Chromium Clinoclore, but this is inaccurate. Specimens from this occurance even fall somewhat short of a true Antigorite identity, ...
© M.Heintzelman	Photo ID: 14898 View Count: 683
Antigorite : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅]
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA A massive but beautifully purple colored piece of Chromian Antigorite from the dumps at Wood's Chrome Mine. This piece is fairly representative of the material found there. It is about 4 inches across at it's largest. It was self-collected and in my personal collection.
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Antigorite : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅]
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Botryoidal coating of genthite on serpentine matrix. S402-349 #1077# 1 cm field of view.
© 2007, JGW	Photo ID: 142527 View Count: 120
Antigorite : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅]
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Grey-purple chromian antigorite masses S402-362 #1099# 10 cm
© 2008, JGW	Photo ID: 143568 View Count: 105
Antigorite : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅]
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA 4.6 x 3.9 x 1.9 cm. Genthite is an old synonym for antigorite. The bright green, lustrous antigorite richly covering this specimen has an unusual knobby/bubbly/drusy form.
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Antigorite : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅]
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA A 7.3 x 5.5 x 4.8 cm matrix, this rich with green coatings of crystalline antigorite. Very nice old-time specimen for the locality! There is an old A.E. Foote label glued to the bottom of the piece.
© Dan & Diana Weinrich Minerals	Photo ID: 267354 View Count: 17
Antigorite (Var: Picrolite) : (Mg,Fe²⁺)₃[(OH)₄\|Si₂O₅], Chromite : FeCr₂O₄
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Antigorite var Picrolite with inter-lain seams of chromite from Woods Chrome Mine, Texas, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Specimen size: 10 x 6.5cm. From the PA Annex of my personal collection, acquired in 2005.
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Aragonite : CaCO₃
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Aragonite crystals to 0.75 cm. S407-53 #489#
© 2007, JGW	Photo ID: 140640 View Count: 106
Brucite : Mg(OH)₂
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA A superb old specimen from this classic locality which has produced some of the world's best specimens for this species (and certainly the best ever found in the US). Because of the widely known association between this classic locality and noted collector William Jefferis who was the major collector of this material in the mid to late 1800's, ...
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Brucite : Mg(OH)₂
	Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA Rich, lusterous crystals of Brucite on matrix, from the world class locality for Brucite, Woods Chrome Mine, Texas, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (Dana locale). A difficult subject to photograph, however beautiful in person and completely damage free. Collection date of 1853, originally from the Terry Szenics collection. Specimen size: 7 x 4.5cm. ...
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