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Wood's Chrome Mine (Cedar Hill), Lancaster County, PA

Mineral locality Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: chromite, brucite, kammererite, serpentine, magnetite.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: State Line serpentine barrens yielding rare chromium and serpentine minerals

Type/classic locality for several rare minerals, extensively documented on mindat.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Old shafts, unstable ground

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