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Rhodesite, a new mineral from the Bultfontein mine, Kimberley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

E. D. Mountain*
Affiliation:
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Summary

A small specimen at first thought to be natrolite has proved to be a new mineral, for which the name rhodesite is proposed; it is fibrous, with α 1·502, β 1·506, γ 1·515, elongation γ, extinction straight, sp. gr. 2·36. The composition is near 4(Ca,Na2,K2)O. 10SiO2. 7H2O, and the water is all zeolitic.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1957

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