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On the relation between Rathite, Rathite a, and Wiltshireite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Extract

At the Society's Anniversary Meeting of November, 1908, I exhibited and gave an account of an unnamed crystal from the dolomite of the Leugenbach quarry in the Binnenthal, Switzerland. In the notice of this meeting, as given in ‘Nature’ of December 10, 1908 (vol. lxix, p. 142), this mineral, which could not be identified with any of the sulpharsenites of lead previously described, is referred to as follows :— ‘One of these [black minerals with metallic lustre] is oblique with β = 81° 11′, (100),(101)= 40° 7′, (010),(111) = 5° 26′; it has a perfect cleavage (100), and, like liveingite, exhibits no oblique striations on the planes in the zone [100,001].’ Owing to lack of material, the chemical composition and specific gravity of this apparently new mineral could not be determined.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1911

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References

Page 121 note 1 [100,001] is a misprint for [100,010]—the prism-zone.

Page 121 note 2 Lewis, W. J., ‘Wiltshireite: a new mineral,’ Nature, 1910, vol. lxxxiv, p. 208 Google Scholar; Phil. Mag., 1910, ser. 6, vol. xx, pp. 47~-475; Zeits. Kryst. Min., 1910, vol. xlviii, pp. 514-515.

Page 121 note 3 Solly, R. H., Mineralogical Magazine, 1902, vol. xiii, p. 160.Google Scholar