Note on the occurrence of piedmontite in quartz-muscovite-schist from Shotover valley, western Otago, New Zealand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
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Specimens of quartz-muscovite-schist obtained fro: boulders in the Shotover river, western Otago, New Zealand, ere recently examined by the writer and found to contain abundant piedmontite, a mineral not previously recorded from New Zealand. The specimens had been collected twenty years before and were labelled ' micaceous quartz schist coloured with haematite' in the geological collections of the Otago University. The following description is submitted pending further field investigations.
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- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 142 , September 1933 , pp. 416 - 418
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1933
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page 418 note 1 Specimens from both these localities have been deposited in the rock collection of the British Museum
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