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


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Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA
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Description
Comments:Antigorite occurs both with typical leek green coloration and the violet coloration of so named "Chromium" Antigorite. Specimens of Chromium Antigorite were often reffered to as Kammererite, or Chromium Clinoclore, but this is inaccurate. (see www.pennminerals.com/museum.htm for a good image of an actual, and very rare, Kammererite from Woods Chrome). Specimens of Chromium Antigorite from this occurance even fall somewhat short of a true Antigorite identity, but is closest to this family member of the Sepentine group.
Habit:thin lamellar, laminae easily separable into translucent folia
Colour:leek green to violet in "chromium" variety
Quality of samples:not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
References
References:Mineralogy of Pennsylvania - 1922; Samuel S. Gordon Pg.124
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Antigorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA
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