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On stichtite from Cunningsburgh, Shetland Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. H. Read  and
B. E. Dixon
H. H. Read
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
B. E. Dixon
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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The rare mineral stichtite, a complex hydroxy-carbonate of magnesium, chromium, and iron, was defined in 1910 by W. F. Petterd on material from the Adelaide silver-lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania. Petterd's description, together with detailed optical and chemical studies by A. S. Wesley, L. K. Ward, L. Hezner, and A. Himmelbauer, were collected by W. H. Twelvetrees and issued by the Tasmanian Department of Mines in 1914. A new analysis of the Tasmanian material is included by W. F. Foshag in his investigation of the hydrotalcite group.

The mineral was next recorded by E. Poitevin and R. P. D. Graham from the Megantic mine, Black Lake area, Quebec; no chemical data of this occurrence are available.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 140 , March 1933 , pp. 309 - 316
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1933

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References

page 309 note 1 W. F. Petterd, Catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania, 1910, pp. 167-169

page 309 note 2 L. Hezner, Centr. Min., 1912, p. 569

page 309 note 3 A. Himmelbauer, Min. Petr. Mitt. (Tschermak), 1913, vol. 32, p. 135

page 309 note 4 W. H. Twelvetrees, Tasmania Dept. Mines, Geol. Surv. Record, 1914, no. 2.

page 309 note 5 5 W. F. Foshag, Proc. U.S. Nat. Museum, 1920, vol. 58, p. 147. [Min. Abstr., vol. 1, p. 175.]

page 309 note 6 6 E. Poitevin and R. P. D. Graham, Canada Dept. Mines, Geol. Surv., Mus. Bull., 1918, no. 27, pp. 27-30. [M.A. 1-9.]

page 309 note 7 E. J. Dunn, Industrial Australian and Mining Standard, 1918, vol. 60, p. 775. [M.A. 1--47.] The mineral had been found by Dunn in 1883, long before the discovery of the Tasmanian stichtite, and in 1885 he presented a specimen to the British Museum collection of minerals, which at the time was doubtfully referred to k~mmererite.

page note s A. L. Hall, Trans. Geol. Soc. S. Africa, 1922, vol. 24 (for 1921), p. 182, [M.A. 1-339.]

page 310 note 1 Suture. Prog. Geol. Surv. Great Britain for 1930, 1931, part 1, p. 73.

page 312 note 1 1 B. E. Dixon, Journ. Chem. Soc., 1931, p. 2311.