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Red silver minerals from the Binnenthal, Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. F. Herbert Smith  and
G. T. Prior
G. F. Herbert Smith
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum
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For many years past Mr. R. H. Solly has been accustomed to spend each succeeding summer in the quest of mineral specimens in the neighbourhood of the village of Binn, Switzerland, particularly of those occurring in the white crystalline dolomite of the Lengenbach quarry, and his patient energy has been rewarded by the discovery, not only of material which has thrown fresh light on previously known minerals, but also of specimens which on examination proved to represent species new to science. Especially important was the discovery in 1903 of small, and often minute, blood-red crystals which differed both in colour and in streak from realgar, a common mineral in the quarry.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 14 , Issue 67 , September 1907 , pp. 283 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1907

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References

Page 283 note 1 Min. Mag., 1905, vol. xiv, pp. 72, 74.

Page 284 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 75.

Page 284 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 75.

Page 284 note 3 Min. Mag., 1906, vol. xiv, p. 189.

Page 284 note 4 The discovery was announced by Dr. Prior in a letter to ‘Nature’, April 6, 1905, vol. lxxi, p. 534.

Page 294 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 74.

Page 295 note 1 The form given by him as (2̅12) should be (122̅).

Page 302 note 1 Loc. cit., p. 75.

Page 302 note 2 Loc. cit., p. 189.

Page 303 note 1 Loc. cit, p. 75.

Page 303 note 2 The symmetry was at first incorrectly stated (Nature, 1905, vol. lxxi, p. 574) to be that of quartz on the examination of an incompletely developed crystal, and was so given by Mr. Solly, loc. cit., p. 190.