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Helvine from a lithium pegmatite near Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

O. von Knorring*
Affiliation:
Research Institute of African Geology, Department of Geology, The University, Leeds

Summary

A new occurrence of helvine, the rare manganese end-member of the helvine group, is described. The mineral is found in a granite pegmatite associated with microcline-perthite, petalite, spodumene, muscovite, and spessartine. A chemical analysis of the mineral is given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1959

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