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| Name: | After Thomas Andrews (1813-1885), English chemist. | ||
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| A Mixture Of: | Hentschelite, Rockbridgeite | ||
Discredited mineral - a mixture of Hentschelite and Rockbridgeite, with minor Chalcosiderite. Originally reported from Wheal Phoenix (Phoenix United Mine; West Phoenix Mine), Linkinhorne, Caradon & Phoenix Area (South-Eastern Bodmin Moor), Liskeard District, Cornwall, England, UK. | |||
Classification of Andrewsite | ||
| IMA status: | Discredited | |
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| Explanation of status: | Found to be a mixture. | |
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | |
References for Andrewsite | ||
| Reference List: | Maskelyne (1871) Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, London: 24: 99. Maskelyne (1875) Journal of the Chemical Society, London: 28: 586. Frondel, C. (1949) American Mineralogist: 34: 534. Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 802-803. Dunn, P.J. (1990), Andrewsite and laubmannite formally discredited, American Mineralogist 75, 1197-1199(1990) | |
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