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Minium from Broken Hill, New South Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Brian J. Skinner  and
E. Maud McBriar
Brian J. Skinner
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University of Adelaide, South Australia
E. Maud McBriar
Affiliation:
Geology Department, University of Adelaide, South Australia
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Summary

Minium occurs at Broken Hill, New South Wales, as pseudomorphs after cerussite, formed during fires in the mine. It is tetragonal with a = 8·824 Å. and c = 6·564 Å.; sp. gr. 8·2 + 0·2. The Broken Hill minium appears identical in physical properties with synthetic Pb3O4 described by other workers.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 31 , Issue 242 , September 1958 , pp. 947 - 950
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1958

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