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Nigerite from Lixa, near Felgueiras, Douro Litoral province, Portugal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

R. Van Tassel*
Affiliation:
Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique

Summary

Nigerite occurs in pegmatite as hexagonal crystals enclosed in mica or in association with lithiophilite, apatite and vivianite. Absolute hexagonal parameters are a 5·67 and c 13·88 Å. Powder data are given. Forms and present besides the well-developed {0001}. Density 4·25. Refractive index 1·80, birefringence about 0·005, negative optical character. The chemical composition is studied by means of chemical, X-ray fluorescence and optical spectrography methods.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1965

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