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Bogus inflated seamanite description

Posted by Jeffrey Weissman

Jeffrey Weissman

Bogus inflated seamanite description
May 06, 2008 12:47PM

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In photo [www.mindat.org], it is claimed the specimen is "200 years" old. In the original descriptive article, "Kraus E H, Seaman W A, Slawson C B (1930) Seamanite, a new manganese phosphoborate from Iron County, Michigan, American Mineralogist 15, 220-225", it is stated that Prof. Seaman found the first specimens in 1918. Other claims in the description seem overly inflated to me as well - please have this clarified.

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Uwe Kolitsch

Re: Bogus inflated seamanite description
May 06, 2008 12:56PM

Registered: 2 years ago
Posts: 4,690

Fixed.

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