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Locality Name:
Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA


mindat Locality ID: 4086
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-4086.html

Tectonic Settings: Oceanic Arc (Subduction)

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USA": 0
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 0

Latitude: 39°43'54"N
Longitude: 76°6'24"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 39.731666666667,-76.106666666667
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al As C Ca Cr F Fe H Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: Al As C Ca Cr F Fe H Mg Na Ni O P S Si Ti 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AmorphousAragoniteBruciteCalciteChloriteClayCorrensiteCorundumGarnetHydrotalcite
MilleriteNoneOlivinePyritePyroxeneQuartzSerpentineSpinelVesuvianite

27 IMA Minerals at location:
Antigorite  (*)Aragonite  (*)Brucite  (*)Cacoxenite  (*)Calcite  (*)
Chromite  (*)Chrysotile  (*)Clinochlore  (*)Dolomite  (*)Dozyite  (*)
Enstatite  (*)Forsterite  (*)Hematite  (*)Hydromagnesite  (*)Ilmenite  (*)
Lizardite  (*)Magnesiochromite  (*)Magnesite  (*)Magnetite  (*)Maucherite  (*)
Millerite  (*)Pyrite  (*)Pyroaurite  (*)Quartz  (*)Uvarovite  (*)
Vesuvianite  (*)Zaratite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Antigorite  (*)Serpentine ClayMg3Si2O5(OH)40708
Aragonite  (*)AragoniteCa(CO3)03250
Brucite  (*)BruciteMg(OH)20462
Cacoxenite  (*)NoneFe3+24AlO6(PO4)17(OH)12·75H2O0280
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)027770
Chromite  (*)SpinelFe2+Cr2O403902
Chrysotile  (*)Serpentine ClayMg3Si2O5(OH)40951
Clinochlore  (*)Chlorite ClayMg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)801756
Dolomite  (*)NoneCaMg(CO3)209895
Dozyite  (*)Corrensite ClayMg7Al2(Si4Al2)O15(OH)1203
Enstatite  (*)PyroxeneMg2Si2O60944
Forsterite  (*)OlivineMg2(SiO4)01188
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O3014640
Hydromagnesite  (*)NoneMg5(CO3)4(OH)2·4H2O0341
Ilmenite  (*)CorundumFe2+Ti4+O305433
Lizardite  (*)Serpentine ClayMg3Si2O5(OH)40359
Magnesiochromite  (*)SpinelMgCr2O40311
Magnesite  (*)CalciteMg(CO3)01487
Magnetite  (*)SpinelFe2+Fe3+2O4014899
Maucherite  (*)NoneNi11As80161
Millerite  (*)MilleriteNiS01066
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS2039462
Pyroaurite  (*)HydrotalciteMg6Fe3+2(CO3)(OH)16·4H2O089
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2061156
Uvarovite  (*)GarnetCa3Cr2(SiO4)30212
Vesuvianite  (*)Vesuvianite(Ca,Na)19(Al,Mg,Fe)13(SiO4)10(Si2O7)4(OH,F,O)1001395
Zaratite  (*)AmorphousNi3(CO3)(OH)4·4H2O056


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R070228Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USAhttps://rruff.info/R070228
R100040Wood's Chrome Mine (Wood's Mine), Texas, Little Britain Township, State Line Chromite District, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, USAhttps://rruff.info/R100040

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