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Serpentine minerals from two areas of the Western Australian nickel belt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

P. G. Moeskops
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Summary

Investigation of serpentine minerals from metaserpentinized ultramafic rocks in two Archaean green-stone belts, east of Kalgoorlie, has indicated that antigorite, exhibiting a very wide range of textures in thin section, is the dominant serpentine species; however, it is locally accompanied by relict lizardite. Chrysotile occurs both in late tectonic veins and as a present-day weathering product of relict olivine. Analytical data and structural formulae on seven serpentines, characterized independently by X-ray diffraction analysis, support the chemical differences between antigorite and chrysotile postulated by earlier workers.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 41 , Issue 319 , September 1977 , pp. 313 - 322
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1977

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