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Anglesite from Portugal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. H. Solly*
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

Extract

These crystals of anglesite were given to me by Dr. Gadow, the Strickland Curator to the University of Cambridge, who obtained them while on a zoological expedition to Portugal.

They were given to him by the agents at the San Domingos copper mines near the Guadiana river in the province of Algarve, South Portugal, as crystals strange and unknown to them.

The only Portuguese localities recorded at present for anglesite are far north of these mines.

The San Domingos mines are worked in a portion of the great metallic lode or bed which stretches from the S.W. of Portugal, across the southern portion of Spain, in the province of Huelva, in an E.S.E. direction, and appearing again in a similar manner and direction on the other side of the Mediterranean in Algeria. The age of the surrounding strata is a matter of dispute.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1886

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References

page 61 note * Zeitschr. d. d. geol. Geiellsch. 1876, p. 854.