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On the occurrence of Cotunnite, Anglesite, Leadhillite, and Galena on fused lead from the wreck of the fire-ship ‘Firebrand‘ in Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Extract

The specimens which form the subject of the present notes were contained ill a collection of minerals formed by the late Mr. Alfred Fox, of Falmouth, and which was acquired by myself in 1909. According to an old label with them, they are described as 'Murio-carbonate of lead taken up the 4th March, 1846, flora the wreck of the fire-shlp Firebrand, which was burnt in Falmouth Harbour about the year 1780. They were found under the lead pump, most of which appeared to be melted and mixed with charcoal.'

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1920

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References

page 65 note 1 The parameters given are those used by Lacroix and deduced by him from angles measured on artificial crystals by Stöber. Lacroix takes Stöber's p (001) as g 1 (010). Stöber, F., Notice cristallographique sur la cotunnite artificielle. Bull. Acad. Belgique, 1895, vol. 80, pp. 845-364Google Scholar. Lacroix, A., Minéralogie de la France, 1910, vol. 4, p. 889 Google Scholar.

page 67 note 1 Lacroix, A., Compt. Rend. Aead. Sci. Paris, 1910, vol. 151, p. 276 Google Scholar, and Minéralogie de la France, 1910, vol. 4, p. 890.

page 68 note 1 Spencer, L. J., Loadhillite in ancient lead slags from the Mendip Hills. Rep. British Assoc., 1899, sixty-eighth meeting (1898), p. 875 Google Scholar: reprint in Geol. Mag., 1899, pp. 71-72.