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Banalsite crystals from Wales

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. Campbell Smith
W. Campbell Smith*
Affiliation:
British Museum
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Banalsite, the new orthorhombic barium-felspar, was described from coarsely crystalline but massive material found as thin bands traversing manganese ore at the Benallt mine, Rhiw, Carnarvonshire. Up to the time of the reading of the paper which announced the discovery of the mineral no crystals had been found except two showing indications of faces seen in a thin section of one of the veins. The only other indications of crystal form were lines of black inclusions seen in thin section within the irregular boundaries of crystals forming the vein-material. Now I have been fortunate to find, in a specimen recently collected by Dr. A. W. Groves from no. 5 ore-body in the Benallt mine, a small cavity containing minute crystals of banalsite.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 27 , Issue 188 , March 1945 , pp. 63 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1945

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page 63 note 1 Campbell Smith, W., Bannister, F. A., and Hey, M. H., Min. Mag., 1944, vol. 27, pp. 33–46.CrossRefGoogle Scholar