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


The halides

ATACAMITE

FLUORITE


The carbonates


The calcite group

CALCITE

OTAVITE

RHODOCHROSITE

SIDERITE

SMITHSONITE


The dolomite group

DOLOMITE

KUTNAHORITE


Other carbonates

ARAGONITE

AURICHALCITE

AZURITE

CANAVESITE

CERUSSITE 

DYPINGITE

HYDROTALCITE

HYDROZINCITE

LOSEYITE

MALACHITE

MONOHYDROCALCITE

PYROAURITE

ROSASITE

SCLARITE

SJÖGRENITE

STRONTIANITE

ZNUCALITE

STRONTIANITE

SrCO3
Orthorhombic

Strontianite, a strontium carbonate mineral of the aragonite group, was found among museum specimens mislabeled aragonite (Dunn, 1979c) and was verified using X-ray methods. Strontianite occurs as radiating clusters of acicular delicate bright-white crystals. No physical or chemical measurements have been made. It is unknown from Sterling Hill. The extant Franklin specimens consist of the strontianite clusters in vugs in low-grade franklinite-willemite- calcite-serpentine ore.

 

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CHAPTER 23. HALIDES AND CARBONATES