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Photographer: Cosmos Mariner
Taken: July 30, 2014
Caption: The Liberty Pit Exhibit (across parking lot from marker): Pyroxene Skarn
Additional Description: These blocks are rich in green pyroxene and green actinolite, two calcium rich silicate minerals that are common in some skarns. Actinolite is a later-formed mineral, which forms as a replacement of the earlier-formed pyroxene. Often the actinolite has a darker green color and it is very difficult to distinguish the minerals from one another with the naked eye. Veins cutting these blocks also contain white quartz (a silica mineral), black magnetite (an iron oxide mineral), and brassy pyrite (an iron sulfide mineral).
Submitted: December 27, 2018, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p458484
File Size: 5.452 Megabytes

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