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

A chromium mine in chromite ore/Serpentine. Located near Texas, PA, aprox, 6 mi NE of Rising Sun, MD, USA. Note: Texas is rarely designated on most regional maps.

Refs.:
- Dana, E.S. (1892) System of Mineralogy, 6th. Edition, New York: 1069.
- Gordon, Samuel G. (1922), Mineralogy of Pennsylvania: 88.
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 246.
- Lapham & Geyer (1965) Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania.
- Reed, Juliet C. (1976), Annotated Biblio. of Minerals New to the PA List 1965-1974, The Mineralogical Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.: 40.
- Mineralogical Record: 27: 301.





Map Reference: 39°43'54"N , 76°6'24"W

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Mineral List:
Antigorite
var: Picrolite
Aragonite
Brucite
Cacoxenite
Calcite
'Chalcedony'
Chromite
Chrysotile
Clinochlore
var: Chromian Clinochlore
'Deweylite'
Dolomite
Dozyite
Enstatite
Forsterite
Hematite
Hydromagnesite
Ilmenite
Lizardite
Magnesiochromite
Magnesite
Magnetite
'Marmolite'
Millerite
Pimelite
Pyrite
Pyroaurite
'Serpentine Group'
Uvarovite
Vesuvianite
Zaratite


32 entries listed. 24 valid minerals.

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