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A notice of the occurrence of native arsenic in Cornwall ; of bismuthinite at Shap, Westmorland ; and of smaltite and niccolite at Coniston, Lancashire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Arthur Russell
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Native arsenic has hitherto ranked as a distinctly doubtful British species. The following notes contain, however, an account of its occurrence at two localities in Cornwall. John Garbyin his ‘Catalogue of Minerals found in Cornwall’ states that native arsenic had been found in Dolcoath mine, Camborne, associated with ores of cobalt. Greg and Lettsom repeat this statement with a doubtful qualification. J. H. Collins also mentions Cooks Kitchen mine, Illogan, as another doubtful locality. The occurrence as an associate of smaltite and native bismuth, minerals that have on several occasions been found in Dolcoath, is by no means unlikely, although, as far as I have been able to ascertain, no specimens of native arsenic from any of these reported localities have been preserved.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 20 , Issue 108 , March 1925 , pp. 299 - 304
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1925

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Page 299 note 1 Garby, J., Trans. R. Geol. Soc. Cornwall, 1848, vol. 7, p. 86 Google Scholar.

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