MINERALS INDEX
Siderite |
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Siderite is known only in massive form associated with the carbonates of the transverse veins at Franklin. A specimen of light-brown color and distinct rhombohedral cleavage had a specific gravity of 3.82 (Canfield) and met other characteristic tests for siderite. No analyses have been made of this mineral.
Some thin veins are lined with drusy crystalline coatings of a light-brown carbonate showing only the unit rhombohedron. This may be siderite, although again no analyses have been made to show its exact composition.
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