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The AusIMM Proceedings 1985
Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1985
Contributed Discussion to "A New Mineral in the Geocronite-Jordanite Family and Its Implications in Differential Flotation" by Ranen Sen and David J. Spottiswood (Bulletin and Proceedings Vol. 289, November/December, 1984)
The title of this paper implies, and the text explicity states, that Sen and Spottiswood (1984) have found a new mineral species related to geocronite and jorganite. I believe that there is inadequate justification for this claim.The X-ray powder diffraction pattern reported by the authors exhibits a close similarity to that of geocronite, as stated by the authors, which suggests a close structural relationship at the very least. It is therefore reasonable to recalculate the results of the microprobe analysis reported by them to atomic proportions on the basis of the geocronite formula. This calculation, whether based on the formula used by Sen and Spottiswood (1984), or on one derived from a crystal-structure analysis (Birnie and Burnham, 1976), namely Pb18 (Sb, AS)11S46, with a total of 86 atoms, gives the results shown in Table 1.
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