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The identity of minervite and palmerite with taranakite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

F. A. Bannister  and
G. E. Hutchinson
F. A. Bannister
Affiliation:
Mineral Department, British Museum
G. E. Hutchinson
Affiliation:
Yale University
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The abundance of the well-known potassium aluminium silicate minerals, orthoclase, microcline, and muscovite, stands in striking contrast with the rarity of the little-known potassium aluminium phosphate minerals. The only one of these which occurs as distinct crystals and which has yielded a satisfactory formula is minyulite, KAl2(PO4)2(OH,F).4H2O. This mineral was first described by E. S. Simpson and LeMesurier from Western Australia in 1933 and an examination of well-crystallized specimens from South Australia by L. J. Spencer et alii was published in 1943. Spencer's paper included X-ray single-crystal and powder data for minyulite. X-ray, optical, and specific gravity data were also determined at that time for a few other hydrous potassium aluminium phosphate minerals from the British Museum collections. These included palmerite from guano deposits in a large cavern, Monte Alburno, near Controne in Salerno, Italy, presented by E. Casoria who described the mineral in 1904, and taranakite from the Sugarloaves, near New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 196 , March 1947 , pp. 31 - 35
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947

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