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1. In southern British Columbia, Canada dunite rocks form the core of an ultramafic rock complex located near the small community of Tulameen.
2. Hellyerite forms in this environment in nickel rich serpentinites, which are metamorphosed equivalents of ultramafic cumulate rocks such as peridotite and dunite.
3. This is an area of serpentine soil derived from olivine and dunite that prevent forest growth, and is instead naturally barrens and savannas.
4. The fern thrives in thin serpentine soils on sunny, disturbed habitats such as roadcuts and talus slopes, in dunite and other ultramafic rocks.
5. Green sand for aluminum typically uses olivine sand ( a mixture of the minerals forsterite and fayalite, which is made by crushing dunite rock ).
6. "' Heazlewoodite "', Ni 3 S 2, is a rare sulfur-poor nickel sulfide mineral found in serpentinitized dunite.
7. Other geologic features of the area include northeastward trending dikes that consists of massive, dark brown, hornblende-plagioclase diorite which intruded into the dunite bedrock.
8. Primary or orthomagmatic chromites are sporadically distributed in the ultramafics although major economic deposits are generally concentrated in the transition zone between residual harzburgite and cumulate dunite unit.
9. Ultramafic rocks such as peridotite and dunite can be residues left after extraction of magmas, and typically they are more enriched in olivine after extraction of partial melts.
10. The dunite intruded into andesite pillow breccias and flows of the Pe�on Blanco volcanic formation, which crops out near the northeast and southern boundaries of the Management Area.