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SULFATES BORATES TUNGSTATES AND MOLYBDATES ARSENATRES ARSENIDES PHOSPHATES AND VANADATES UNNAMED MINERALS


The olivine group

FAYALITE

FORSTERITE

TEPHROITE

GLAUCOCHROITE

 

The humite group

NORBERGITE

CHONDRODITE

HUMITE

CLINOHUMITE

 

The manganese-humite and leucophoenicite groups

ALLEGHANYITE

MANGANHUMITE

SONOLITE

LEUCOPHOENICITE

JERRYGIBBSITE

 

The garnet group

ALMANDINE

ANDRADITE

GROSSULAR

GOLDMANITE

SPESSARTINE

 

Other nesosilicates

BAKERITE

BULTFONTEINITE

CHLORITOID

CLINOHEDRITE

DATOLITE

ESPERITE

GENTHELVITE

GERSTMANNITE

HODGKINSONITE

HOLDENITE

KOLICITE

LARSENITE

SILLIMANITE

THORITE

TITANITE

URANOPHANE

WILLEMITE

YEATMANITE

ZIRCON

 

THORITE

ThSiO4 
Tetragonal

Thorite, a thorium silicate mineral, was first described from Franklin by Kemp (1893a) and subsequently reported from the Cork Hill Gneiss by Frondel (1972). It has not been studied by the writer. It was reported to occur as dark brown 1 cm grains associated with zircon, in pegmatite from the Trotter Mine. It has not been reported from Sterling Hill.

 

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CHAPTER 15. NESOSILICATES