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Augelite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

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Augelite was one of several aluminium phosphates from the iron mine of Westanå, Skåne, Sweden, described by C. W. Blomstrancl in 1868 (Öfv. Ak. Förh. Stockh. XXV. 1868, p. 199). He states it to be a massive mineral with distinct cleavages in three directions, and names it augelite (avγη lustre) on account of the strong pearly lustre on the cleavage ṡurfaces. He determines its specific gravity as 2.77, and, as the result of his analyses, represents its chemical composition by the formula, 2Al2O3. P2O5. 3H2O. Since this paper of Blomstrand, as far as we are aware, no further reference to augelite has been made, and, since hitherto distinct crystals of the mineral have not bhen found, its position as a definite species seems to have been regarded as somewhat doubtful, for we find that Dana, in the last edition of the System of Mineralogy, includes it in a rather unsatisfactory group of more or less doubtful species appended to evansite.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1895

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page 16 note 1 There seem to be at least three places called Machacamarca in Bolivia, two in Oruro, and one in Potosi.

page 21 note 1 Most probably partly, if not wholly, derived from the reagents or from their action on the glass and porcelain vessels used in the analyses.

page 22 note 1 The letters are those used in Dana's Mineralogy.

page 23 note 1 F. de Castlenau, Expedition dens les parties centrales de l' Amérique du Sud, 1850-1. Vol v. pp. 438-440,