AlterationPyroxenite Intrusive Has Been Sheared And Altered To Multiform Chlorite Schist And Subsequently Ankerized And Silicified. Chlorite Schist Sometimes Resembles Serpentine Schist Due To The Lusterous Green; In Places This Rock Has A Pseudomorphic Texture Much Like Serpentinized Peridotite But The Phenocrysts Instead Of Being Bastite Are Chlorite Embedded In A Fine-Grained Chlorite Matrix.
Economic & production
Development statusPast Producer
Identification
Deposit ID10077877
MRDS IDW025943
RegionNA
Data scoreB
Coordinates37.86714, -120.39656
References
KNOPF, A., 1929 , THE MOTHER LODE SYSTEM OF CAL.: U.S.G.S. PROF. PAPER 157 , P. 79TUCKER, W.B., 1914 , TUOLUMNE COUNTY: CMB REPT. 14 , P. 146