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What does pyroxenite mean?

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Noun
  1. (geology) A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.
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Furthermore, many of the clasts within the matrix consisted of metamorphic rocks including green slate, pyroxenite, metaperidotite, metadolerite, and amphibolite.
The report stresses the potential of the pyroxenite contact which should be investigated in more details to for skarn or pegmatite related REE mineralization.
The pyroxenite rock, that hosts the main mineralized zone, is part of the Thetford Mines ophiolitic complex which is well known for its chromium potential.
Subsequent melting of mica pyroxenite may produce potassic magmas as a result of orogenic or extensional, thermal or bark triggers.
The first group consists mostly of melagabbro, perkinite and pyroxenite.
Its lower part displays alternating bands of peridotite, pyroxenite, and dunite, but dunite is dominant throughout most of the unit.

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