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Dickite and collophane in the Magnesian Limestone of Durham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

K. C. Dunham ,
G. F. Claringbull  and
F. A. Bannister
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In the course of examining the cores of a boring for water at Hesleden Dene, near Castle Eden, Co. Durham (no. 2 borehole), Mr. A. Fowler noticed a cream-coloured flaky mineral of talcose aspect coating joints in the Magnesian Limestone (Permian), at depths below surface of 246 to 250 feet. The rock at these depths is an impure dolomite mudstone (Geological Survey Slice, no. E. 21304) resembling the Marl Slate, and carrying ostracods, foraminifera, and sponge spicules. Investigation of the coatings in specimens sent in by Mr. Fowler and by Mr. W. Anderson has shown that the flaky mineral is dickite, and that it is associated with fluorite, baryte, galena, zinc-blende, pyrite, and collophane. Dr. J. Phemister had previously concluded on optical evidence that dickite might be present among the minerals of metalliferous affinities discovered in the Magnesium Limestone by Mr. Fowler.

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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 201 , June 1948 , pp. 338 - 342
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1948

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