44-1-010

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Specimen Number44-1-010Alternate Number49-22-4CommentsHeavily altered dunite with abundant cumulate chromite, olivine is altered to kammererite, giving sample purple cast.In Teaching CollectionNoMineral(s)chromitekammereriteRock NameCr oreDistrictNorth CarolinaMineGillisGeo-LocationAshe Branch, near Webster.Sub-LocationNot the Gillis Cu mine, this is referred to as the Gillis prospect in North Carolina.Deposit TypeAlpine peridotiteDonated ByUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Department of GeoscienceReference MaterialACL-191: Hatcher, R.D., and Butler, J.R., eds., 1979, Guidebook for Southern Appalachian Field Trip in the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Northeastern Georgia, September 9-15, 1979; IGCP Proj. 27, 117 p.

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