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Lewisite and Zirkelite, Two New Brazilian Minerals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

E. Hussak
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of S. Paulo
G. T. Prior
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum

Extract

This new antimonate was found in the cinnabar mine of Tripuhy, near Ouro Preto, Minas Geracs, Brazil.

The occurrence of cinnabar at this locality has been known since 1810, and a short notice of it is given by Eschwogo in his Pluto Brasilensis, p. 456, which was published in 1883.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1895

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References

Man. Min., II., p.472.