Andrewsite
Andrewsite is a now discredited mineral originally reported at the Wheal Phoenix mine, near Liskeard in Cornwall. It was named for Thomas Andrews FRS, the English chemist.[1]
It has been shown to be a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite.[1]
References
- "Andrewsite: Andrewsite mineral information and data". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
- Maskelyne, N. S. (1871) Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, London: 24: 99.
- Maskelyne, N. S. (1875) 'On Andrewsite and Chalkosiderite' Journal of the Chemical Society, London: 28: 586-591
- Frondel, C. (1949) 'The Dufrenite Problem', American Mineralogist: 34: 513-540.
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 802-803.
- Dunn, Pete J. (1990), 'Andrewsite and laubmannite formally discredited', American Mineralogist 75, 1197-1199(1990)
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