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Note on New Locality for Zoisite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

W. Hamilton Bell
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In the Article "Mineralogy,"in the Encyclopædia Britannica, written by Professor Heddle, of St. Andrew's, that gentleman gives the formula of Zoisite :—

4 CaO, 3 Al2O3, 6 SiO2+H2O.

Alumina 29·8; Lime 24·35; Oxide of Iron 2·8; Silica 40·3; and Water 2·1.) Cleavage, brachy-diagonal, perfect : H=6, G—3·2 to 3·4. White, brownish gray, and dark green. Localities, Glen Urquhart , Dalnein (Grantown), and Alt Gonalan, Inverness-shire ; Sterzing in Tyrol, the San-Alp in Carinthia, the Urals, and Connecticut.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 6 , Issue 28 , December 1884 , pp. 109 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1884

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