Elaterite

Elaterite (also known as Aeonite,[1] 'elastic bitumen' , 'mineral caoutchouc' or Wurtzilite) is a brown hydrocarbon varying somewhat in consistency, being sometimes soft, elastic and sticky, like India rubber, and occasionally hard and brittle. It is usually dark brown in color and slightly translucent. A substance of similar physical character is found at sites around the Coorong lagoon in South Australia, and is hence termed coorongite.[2]

Occurrence in nature

Strawberry, Utah, USA: Occurs in the Indian Canyon, Sams Canyon, Dry Fork, and Lake canyon, tributaries of the Strawberry river in Duchesne County. It occurs in vertical veins from one to twenty-two inches wide, twenty to two hundred feet high, and a maximum length of three and one quarter miles" [3] Also flows from the ground in a soft elastic form at various locations along the Strawberry River

Castleton in Derbyshire: Windy Knoll Cave. The lead mines of Odin.

References

  1. ↑ "Aeonite". Retrieved 2012-04-07.
  2. ↑ Chisholm 1911, p. 160.
  3. ↑ The hydrocarbon Field of Western Colorado and Eastern Utah on the Projected Line of the Denver, Northwestern, and Pacific Railroad, page 26
Attribution
  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Elaterite". Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 160.

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