Gold Hill Loop

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Minerals Present

• Actinolite: Light to dark-green fibrous and elongated, prismatic crystals.
• Apatite: Greenish-white, stubby, hexagonal crystals.
• Augite: Greenish-black aggregates and short, stubby crystals.
• Biotite: Black, platy aggregates.
• Epidote: Green fibrous and prismatic crystals.
• Goethite: Brownish-yellow, pseudomorph after pyrite.
• Hematite: Reddish, earthy masses and gray, micaceous crystals.
• Hornblende: Short, black, stubby, prismatic crystals.
• Limonite: Yellowish-brown coatings on quartz and filling pyrite casts.
• Malachite: Green film on copper-containing minerals.
• Microcline: Perthitic, white, large crystals in syenite.
• Pyrite: Dark-yellow, aggregates and striated cubes.
• Quartz: Microcrystalline and hexagonal crystals.
• Titanite: Honey-brown, flat, stubby, wedge-shaped crystals.