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On Datolite from the Lizard district, Cornwall1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. F. P. McLintock
W. F. P. McLintock*
Affiliation:
Museum of Practical Geology, London
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In the course of his official work in the Lizard district, Dr. J. S. Flett collected various samples of minerals which were handed over to me for examination. Two of these specimens proved to be datolite remarkably well crystallized. As this species, now rare in Britain, had not been recorded before from Cornwall, although pseudomorphs of chalcedony after it—the well-known haytorite—are mentioned by Greg and Lettsom from North Roskear mine, Camborne, the facts of its occurrence seemed well worthy of further investigation. Accordingly, in October of last year, Dr. Flett and myself paid a visit to the locality, where we succeeded in obtaining a large amount of the material.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 15 , Issue 72 , September 1910 , pp. 407 - 414
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1910

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Footnotes

1

Communicated by permistdon of the Director of H.M. Geological Survey.

References

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Page 409 note 2 This specimen has since been presented to the Museum by Mr. Reynell.

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