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Some new crystal-forms on Krennerite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

G. F. Herbert Smith*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum

Extract

Some interest attaches to crystals of krennerite, since this mineral has apparently the same composition as calaverite, the crystalline development of which presents such peculiar features. After completing the study of crystals of the latter substance, the author naturally turned his attention to krennerite to ascertain whether any similar peculiarities were noticeable, but nothing abnormal could be detected.

Good crystals of krennerite are rare. The Mineral Collection of the British Museum has however a specimen from Nagyág, on which are dotted numerous small crystals possessing a large number of brilliant faces. This specimen was examined by Prof. H. A. Miers rather more than twelve years ago, and the measurements of one good crystal are recorded in this Magazine.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1903

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References

Page 264 note 1 1890, vol. ix, pp. 184-6.

Page 265 note 1 The form (041), denoted by s in the figure, is called σ in the present paper, because the former letter has been assigned to (130) in accordance with the notation adopted in Dana's ‘System of Mineralogy,’ 6th edition.

Page 265 note 2 Zeits. Kryst. Min., 1877, vol. i, pp. 614-17.

Page 265 note 3 Zeits. Kryst. Min., 1878, vol. ii, pp. 235-9.

Page 265 note 4 Loc. cit.