Green Mountain Mine, Day Book, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA

7x7cm specimen consisting of interlocked books of apple green micaceous talc. Obtained from a talc vein crosscutting dunite. Collected and photographed by Keith Wood.

© 2002, Keith Wood. Use by permission only.

Light pink intergrown crystals of zoisite var. thulite in a matrix of white halloysite. Obtained from Tom Johnston.

© Alex Earl 2021

3.2cm chlorite crystal with light green talc. Crystal is 2.1cm thick, and was exposed by physically removing enclosing talc. From a micaceous talc vein crosscutting dunite. Collected and photographed by Keith Wood.

© 2002, Keith Wood. Use by permission only.

Banded antigorite. Dark bands are transparent. Light bands are opaque to translucent. Coin is 2.5cm. Antigorite occurs along fractures between blocks of olivine. Specimen and photo, Keith Wood

© 2002, Keith Wood. Use by permission only.

Clear micaceous talc. Obtained from talc vein crosscutting dunite. Dimensions approximately 3.5x4.5cm. Specimen and photo: Keith Wood

© Keith Wood, use by permission only.

Two views of the same specimen, a 3.3cm chlorite crystal on micaceous talc. The chlorite crystal was exposed by physically removing the enclosing talc. Collected and photographed by Keith Wood.

© 2002, Keith Wood. Use by permission only.

Chromite-magnesiochromite series mineral with Olivine. Photo Mark Harrison Collection.

© 2009 M.Harrison & HCM

This Fragile & Fiberous creamy brown and emerald green Specimen overall size 6" inches x 5" inches

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Chatoyant Blue color with overall size of 3" inches x 2.5" inches x 1.5" inches.

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Dimensions: 2" x 2" x 1.5" Heavy chunk of purple chromian clinochlore (aka kämmererite), black glossy chromite, and bright olivine.

Specimen is 2 & 1/2" inch x 1 & 3/4" inch flexible micaeous on blue/green Antigorite [Picrolite]

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Dimensions: 5.5" x 3.75 x 2.75 Heavy chunk of deep purple chromian clinochlore (aka kammererite) and black, glossy chromite.

A 5.9 by 3.4 cms very light green mass. JSS specimen and photo.

© 2010 John Sobolewski

A single, doubly terminated chlorite crystal (4.5 x 3.5 x 2 cm) with a small chunk of apple green talk attached to one side. The chlorite, which is jet black in color (blue in thin section), was completely embedded in talc and was exposed during collecting. The crystal exhibits well developed prism faces and highly stepped, tapering {001} faces, ...

Garnets in green mica originally from the Clifford J. Awald collection, added thereto in 1953.

© Frank Butler

A 12 x 10 x 7 cm mass of intergrown apple green talc crystals. In some places the crystals are quite transparent with a more intense green color. John Rakovan photo.

Chromite-magnesiochromite series mineral crystal in green Olivine. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Garnets in green mica originally from the Clifford J. Awald collection, added thereto in 1953.

© Frank Butler

Garnets in green mica originally from the Clifford J. Awald collection, added thereto in 1953.

© Frank Butler