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Note on the occurrence of Brookite in the Cleveland ironstone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Extract

The references to the occurrence of the titanium dioxide minerals as rock constituents have been so recently summarized in the ‘Mineralogical Magazine, that it is unnecessary to repeat them, except to refer again to Mr. J. J. H. Teall's record of anatase in the Cleveland ironstone.

Wishing to procure some of these crystals, a pound of ore from the Main Seam at Upleatham mines was treated by the usual processes of solution, washing by decantation, and separation by heavy solution. The residue obtained was equal to 0.16 per cent. of the material taken, and consisted mainly of anatase, mostly in sharply developed pyramidal crystals, with some pyrites in nodular concretions, possibly in replacement of some of the oolitic grains, together with other minerals of derived origin, among which futile and tourmaline were the most prominent.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1905

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References

Page 96 note 1 Scrivenor, J. B., 1903, vol. xiii, p. 348.Google Scholar

Page 96 note 2 ‘British Petrography,’ 1888, plate 44, fig. 6, but not referred to in the text. The occurrence of anatase in the Cleveland ironstone was earlier noted by Mr. Allan B. Dick, and the crystals were measured by Professor W. H. Miller (‘The iron ores of Great Britain,’ Mem. Geol. Survey, 1856, p. 95).

Page 97 note 1 The middle figure on p. 190 of Rosenbusch-Iddings, ‘Microscopical Physiography of the Rock-making Minerals,’ first edition, 1888.