DVNP: Ubehebe Talc Mine & Hunter Cabin

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However, its relative softness hints that it might instead be fluorite.

However, its relative softness hints that it might instead be fluorite.

UPDATE: Howard Brown, our geologist friend from Omya International, suggests that the green material is "serpentine or perhaps steatite talc as they both are common at talc mines formed from metamorphism of siliceous dolomite." We would put our money on Howard's explanation.