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Gem and mineral site

Soldiers Delight, the chromium barrens

Chromite, serpentine minerals

A serpentine barren northwest of Baltimore that once supplied much of the world’s chromium, mined here from the 1810s. Now a Natural Environment Area of rare grassland and old prospect pits; collecting is restricted on the protected ground, so read the rules, but the geology and the mining history are extraordinary.

Where it is

Chromite, serpentine minerals
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The source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldiers_Delight_Natural_Environment_Area

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