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Priderite, a new mineral from the leucite-lamproites of the west Kimberley area, Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

K. Norrish
K. Norrish*
Affiliation:
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Adelaide, South Australia
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Abstract

During an analysis by X-ray diffraction techniques of some fine-grained leucite-lamproites from the west Kimberley area of Western Australia the author became interested in the rntile in these rocks. Although rutile had been repeatedly observed under the microscope (1, 2), its presence could not be confirmed using X-ray diffraction methods. At the author's request, Professor R. T. Prider supplied a small amount of the mineral which had been identified as rutile. A study of this mineral showed it to be a new mineral similar to rutile in its optical properties.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 212 , March 1951 , pp. 496 - 501
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1951

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