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re: Mystery material redux.

Actually, it's more likely UN-altered basaltic grains - specifically the heavy and mafic minerals such as hornblende, augite, tourmaline, olivine etc. The lighter dunes are likely the more altered and andesitic minerals.

Composition would be similar to a Hawaiian black sand beach, though the erosion is rather different.

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