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Allopalladium from British Guiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer
L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum (Natural History)
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At the November (1923) meeting of the Society I gave an account of a new find of euclase of peculiar habit and of native platinum from the gold and diamond washings in British Guiana. The occurrence of platinum being a new record for that country, the announcement was naturally received there with some interest—but also with some scepticism. Mr. J. C. Menzies, by whom the platinum was found, has been accused of ‘salting’ the locality, or, alternatively, doubt has been cast on the correctness of my determination. The euclase aggregates, thought by Mr. Menzies to be fossils, could certainly not have been used by him for ‘salting’; and as the platinum (together with some small, silvery scales of mica) came with these, I have no reason to doubt his bona tides. I am also quite satisfied with the correctness of my determination of the material as platinum, as set out in detail on p. 191 of this volume.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 20 , Issue 105 , June 1924 , pp. 217 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1924

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