Mawsonite
| Mawsonite | ||
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Category | Specific gravity 4.65 (calculated) | |
| Pleochroism | Strong | |
| Common impurities | Zn, Se | |
| Other characteristics | Magnetic | |
| References | [2][3][4] | |
Mawsonite is a brownish orange
Discovery and occurrence
It was first described in 1965 for occurrences in the Royal George mine, Swinton, Tingha, Hardinge County, New South Wales; and the North Lyell mine, Mount Lyell Mine, Queenstown, Tasmania.[5]
It was named after Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer,
volcanic rocks. It also occurs in skarn deposits and as disseminations in altered granites. It occurs in association with bornite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, digenite, idaite, stannite, stannoidite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, tennantite, enargite, luzonite–famatinite, kiddcreekite, mohite, native bismuth, galena and sphalerite.[3]
References
- S2CID 235729616.
- ^ a b c Mawsonite on Mindat.org
- ^ a b Mawsonite in the Handbook of Mineralogy
- ^ Mawsonite data on Webmineral
- S2CID 129794143, retrieved 18 April 2017
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