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Amianthus

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John Betts

Amianthus
July 26, 2012 09:47PM

Registered: 7 years ago
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The Mindat entry for Amianthus lists it as a synonym of brucite. This is incorrect.

Amianthus is either a serpentine or amphibole with fibrous structure (American Mineralogist, v. 63, pp.1023, 1978, see also Index Alphabetique de Nomenclature Mineralogique by Aballain, 1968).

I believe the Mindat entry was referring to Amianthöide Magnestite which was listed as Fe-rich brucite in Dana's Mineralogy 6th edition.

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Uwe Kolitsch

Re: Amianthus
September 21, 2012 08:10PM

Registered: 7 years ago
Posts: 11,005

Changed, for the time being, to synonym of both brucite and byssolite.

The original ref. [Pierce (1818), American Journal of Science: 1: 54.] probably needs to be checked.

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