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On the occurrence of Bertrandite at the Cheesewring Quarry, near Liskeard, Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

H. L. Bowman
H. L. Bowman*
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University of Oxford
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In the year 1904, two specimens were sent to me by Mr. F. H. Batler for determination, which showed small, colourless, rhombie or oblong tabular crystals on granite. The crystals proved on examination to be the beryllium silicate bertrandite, which forms a new addition to the list Of British mineral species.

This mineral was first described by E. Bertrand in 1880 from the quarry of Petit Port, near Nantes, and it has since been found at other places in the same neighbourhood as well as in the old tin-workings at La Villeder in Morbihan, and near Alençon and Limoges, though always in very small quantity. Outside France it has been found only in the neighbourhood of Pisek in Bohemia ; and, in tile United States, at Stoneham and elsewhere in Maine, Amelia Court House in Virginia, and on Mt. Antero in Colorado.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 16 , Issue 73 , May 1911 , pp. 47 - 50
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1911

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References

Page 47 note 1 See a paper by Mr. Russell, in this vol., p. 55.

Page 48 note 1 Letters and indices of faces as in Dana's ‘System of Mineralogy’, 6th edit., 1892.

Page 49 note 1 Scharizer, R., Zeit, Kryst. Min., 1888, vol. xiv, pp. 35, 40.Google Scholar