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Zinc-bearing chromite (donathite?) from Norway: a second look
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2018
Summary
Electron-microprobe analyses of chromites from the Helgeland area, Norway, show that they are all low in zinc. Many chromites show physical properties identical with donathite (anisotropism; polar magnetism) but have cubic lattices. One exception, from Rødøya, shows an unusual deviation from cubic symmetry and that there may exist complex intergrowths of two different tetragonal lattices and a cubic lattice. The similarity between the chromites studied and donathite suggests that the chemistry and crystallography of that mineral may be more complex than is currently accepted.
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1977
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Present address: Dept. of Geology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa.
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