Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-gr6zb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-21T18:46:38.657Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Spencerite, a new Zinc Phosphate from British Columbia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

T. L. Walker
T. L. Walker*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto; Royal Ontario Museum of Mineralogy
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The mineral described in this paper occurs at tile Hudson Bay zinc mine about five miles east of Saline, near Nelson in the West Kootenay district of British Columbia, I regret that I have no data as to the exact character of the ore-body except that it occurs in a region where palaeozoic rocks are intruded by biotite-granite and that it is probably genetically connected with the intrusion of the latter. The zinc occurs ill the form of the silicate and tb a less extent the carbonate. There is also a small amount of oxidized lead-ore, principally cerussite.

Type
Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 18 , Issue 83 , November 1916 , pp. 76 - 81
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1916

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

1

An abstract of this paper appeared in 'Nature', June 29, 1916, vol. xcvii, p. 375, and Geol. Mag., July 1916, vol. iii, p. 886. In the meantime the same mineral, from the same locality and under the name spencerite, has been briefly described by A. H. Phillips, Amer. Journ. Sei., September 1916, ser. 4, vol. xlii, p. 275. The results of his analysis confirm the chemical formula given below.

References

1 An abstract of this paper appeared in 'Nature', June 29, 1916, vol. xcvii, p. 375, and Geol. Mag., July 1916, vol. iii, p. 886. In the meantime the same mineral, from the same locality and under the name spencerite, has been briefly described by A. H. Phillips, Amer. Journ. Sei., September 1916, ser. 4, vol. xlii, p. 275. The results of his analysis confirm the chemical formula given below.