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Ankerites and chalybites from the northern Pennine orefield and the north-east coalfield

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

J. A. Smythe  and
K. C. Dunham
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Ankerites from the Northumberland coalfield were first described, with chemical analyses, some ten years ago (Hawkes and Smythe, 1935), when it was found that examples from veins exposed on the coast near Hartley and from sludge from nearby coal-washeries showed a remarkable uniformity in composition. The operations of the collieries concerned cover an area roughly 6 × 6 miles, and range from the Beaumont to the High Main Seam. In order to ascertain whether this uniformity is maintained over a wider area, five additional samples of ankerite from veinlets in rocks of Coal Measure age, and one from partings in the Lower Carboniferous Scremerston coal have been examined. The Coal Measure rocks cut by the veinlets have been proved to contain substantial proportions of ferriferous carbonates, while for comparative purposes two examples of rocks of similar age with carbonate but unaccompanied by ankerite veinlets have been investigated. The range in composition of ankerites in the coalfield has proved to be small.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 197 , June 1947 , pp. 53 - 74
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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