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Two new bismuth minerals from South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Edgar D. Mountain
Edgar D. Mountain*
Affiliation:
Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, South Africa
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A small specimen (McGregor Museum, no. 4465) labelled ' Bismuth ore' was sent to me in 1932 by Miss M. Wilman, Curator of the McGregor Museum, Kimberley, for identification. It had been presented to the Museum by Mr. M. Caplan, a store-keeper of Steinkopf. The majority of bismuth-bearing minerals from Namaqualand come from a number of spots in the neighbourhood of the water-hole known as Jackals Water, which is situated 18 miles NNE. of the village of Steinkopf. Reference has already been made to this locality in a previous paper. The exact locality of this specimen is a pegmatite outcrop in granite-gneiss about a mile and a half south of the Noumaas trigonometrical beacon which is situated some 13 miles north-west of Jackals Water to the west of the Viool's Drift road. The specimen was picked up on the surface, being obviously of eluvial origin.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 24 , Issue 149 , June 1935 , pp. 59 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1935

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References

page 59 note 1 Mountain, E. D., Pegmatites of the Cape Province. Rec. Albany Museum, Grahamstown, 1931, vol. 4, p. 128.Google Scholar [Min. Abstr., 4–475.]

page 60 note 1 Compare value 7.717 for artificial BiOCl (this vol., p. 51).