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Plumbian tennantite from Sark, Channel Islands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. C. Bishop
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
A. J. Criddle
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
A. M. Clark
Affiliation:
Dept. of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD

Summary

An unusual tennantite, containing 4·64% Pb, has been found on a mineral specimen from Sark's Hope Mine collected in 1843. An electron-probe analysis is given, together with visible spectrum reflectance data, quantitative colour values, VHN, and cell dimensions determined from X-ray powder diffraction photographs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1977

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