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Some minerals from the leucite-rich rocks of the West Kimberley area, Western Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Rex T. Prider
Rex T. Prider*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Western Australia
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In the investigation of a suite of leucite-lamproites from the West Kimberley area of Western Australia, carried out in the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge, during the period 1937–38, a number of unusual minerals were noted. Three of these were isolated and analysed and two of them proved to be new species. The present paper deals mainly with the three minerals analysed. They are—

  1. (l) Magnophorite, a new amphibole allied to katophorite.

  2. (2) Wadeite, a new potassium-zirconinm silicate.

  3. (3) Titaniferous phlogopite.

The leueite-bearing rocks occur at a number of isolated volcanic vents, nineteen of which have been examined and mapped by Dr. A. Wade. They have in every instance broken through sedimentary déposits of Permian age. Considerable diversity is to be seen in the rock types developed, but they are all characterized by high potash, magnesia, and titania, with low alumina and soda. Analyses of some types which indicate the general chemical character of these rocks are given in table I.

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Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 25 , Issue 166 , September 1939 , pp. 373 - 387
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1939

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