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A new occurrence of vanadium minerals in Leicestershire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

Robert J. King
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The University, Leicester
John A. Dixon
Affiliation:
Geological Survey and Mines Department, Entebbe, Uganda

Summary

Two vanadates, tangeïte and volborthite, new to Britain, their association with vanadiferous nodules, and their geological environment are described. A percentage composition graph for vanadium taken across a vanadiferous nodule, by scanning electron probe, is given.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1971

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