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68.2 Metaharzburgite with tremolite vein. Day Book Mine, North Carolina.  Fine-grained olivine (green) dominates the rock, which contains brown to black orthopyroxenes, silvery-white talc, silvery-white chromium chlorite (kammererite) associated with black chromium spinels, and a vein of brownish-green tremolite (lower left).  Notice the faint grain elongations in an upper right to lower left orientation. [Scale shows cm divisions.]
68.2 Metaharzburgite with tremolite vein. Day Book Mine, North Carolina. Fine-grained olivine (green) dominates the rock, which contains brown to black orthopyroxenes, silvery-white talc, silvery-white chromium chlorite (kammererite) associated with black chromium spinels, and a vein of brownish-green tremolite (lower left). Notice the faint grain elongations in an upper right to lower left orientation. [Scale shows cm divisions.]

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