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Mangerite
Mangerite

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Mangerite is a plutonic intrusive igneous rock, which is essentially a hypersthene-bearing monzonite
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Unknown
From Manger, Norway
Igneous Rocks
Durable Rock, Hard Rock
Plutonic
Coarse Grained Rock, Fine Grained Rock, Medium Grained Rock, Opaque Rock
 
Skarns are formed during regional or contact metamorphism and from a variety of metasomatic processes involving fluids of magmatic, metamorphic, and/or marine origin
USA, Australia
Tornebohm
From an old Swedish mining term originally used to describe a type of silicate gangue or waste rock.
Metamorphic Rocks
Durable Rock, Hard Rock
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Fine Grained Rock, Opaque Rock