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Brucite

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The magnesium hydroxide mineral Brucite forms a plate of well-developed crystals up to about 5 mm from Woods mine at Texas in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Known also as Wood's Chrome mine and Wood Chromite mine it was, as the name implies, a chromium mine and like so many localities now, collecting there was ended in 2012. The Brucite forms pale peppermint to creamy apple green crystals whose translucency and combination of pale colours has the effect of blurring them into a continuous mat of crystals across the creamy-white matrix; either this or I require new glasses. A great small cabinet specimen of what is a relatively seldom seen species.

Product details

SpeciesBrucite
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.5 x 9.7 x 3.0 cm
Added on10/24/2024
LocalityUK, England, Wood Mine
Current owner
Unknown Owner
Acquired
Jul 2026
Price paid
$500.00
Previous owners
DateCollectorAcquisition price
—Crystal ClassicsNot disclosed

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Brucite
Mineral guide
Learn about Brucite
(Mg(OH)2) - vivid lemon-yellow to blue hues; delicate with perfect cleavage, prized for translucent, sculptural forms from Pakistan and Henan.
Brucite
Regional guide
Brucite from Wood Mine
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Locality guide
Wood Mine
Wood Mine, UK - locality famed for vivid malachite and azurite staining in Triassic sandstone, rare secondary minerals, and its Scheduled Monument status.