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Sample comes from flow rocks that are associated with lithic fragment tuffs, pyroxene and chlorite are present as an interstitial material

Mined and marketed under the name "Aplite"

Contains secondary products of alteration including serpentine, talc, chlorite, carbonates, and iron oxides

Sample is not representative of whole body -- there are coarser and finer samples

From olivine layer of a typical chromite repeat sequence

Fine-banded, most of the bands are several inches wide and alternate light-dark

No associated sulfides

Many have large dark mineral clusters

Especially dark (not typical)

Leucocratic

Leucocratic, orthorhombic pryoxenes abundant