Mountain Wood
A variety of Asbestos
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About Mountain Wood
A variety of Asbestos
A relatively hard, low density filling in fractures, veins, or slickensides. Generally harder than Mountain Cork and frequently composed of amphibole fibers. Additional species more or less found in mountain wood, mountain cork, mountain leather, mountain paper, etc. include actinolite, chrysotile, palygorskite, sepiolite, tremolite, or zeolite
A relatively hard, low density filling in fractures, veins, or slickensides. Generally harder than Mountain Cork and frequently composed of amphibole fibers. Additional species more or less found in mountain wood, mountain cork, mountain leather, mountain paper, etc. include actinolite, chrysotile, palygorskite, sepiolite, tremolite, or zeolite
Unique Identifiers
Mindat ID:
9024 (as Mountain Wood)
383 (as Asbestos)
383 (as Asbestos)
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:1:9024:3 (as Mountain Wood)
mindat:1:1:383:6 (as Asbestos)
mindat:1:1:383:6 (as Asbestos)
GUID
(UUID V4):
(UUID V4):
13ec0352-1c4d-42dc-ab24-4b2d635a8bf5 (as Mountain Wood)
8331695d-0e81-4954-bf61-9b3ec46dad1f (as Asbestos)
8331695d-0e81-4954-bf61-9b3ec46dad1f (as Asbestos)
Other Information
Health Risks:
No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care.
Internet Links for Mountain Wood
mindat.org URL:
https://www.mindat.org/min-9024.html
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