Minium from Broken Hill, New South Wales
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Summary
Minium occurs at Broken Hill, New South Wales, as pseudomorphs after cerussite, formed during fires in the mine. It is tetragonal with a = 8·824 Å. and c = 6·564 Å.; sp. gr. 8·2 + 0·2. The Broken Hill minium appears identical in physical properties with synthetic Pb3O4 described by other workers.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 31 , Issue 242 , September 1958 , pp. 947 - 950
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1958
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