| Mills, S. J., Whitfield, P. S., Wilson, S. A., Woodhouse, J. N., Dipple, G. M., Raudsepp, M., Francis, C. A. (2011) The crystal structure of stichtite, re-examination of barbertonite, and the nature of polytypism in MgCr hydrotalcites. American Mineralogist, 96 (1) 179-187 doi:10.2138/am.2011.3531 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | provide information on stichtite from the Nuasahi chromite deposits, eastern India. Barbertonite, also ideally...probably formed by replacement of magnetite and chromite by alkaline fluids during low-grade regional metamorphism...of stichtite from central cores of the relict chromite from which it formed. This was undertaken using...“barbertonite,” which sits on serpentinite with chromite relics and can be easily sampled without contamination...with stichtite-3R from the Terektinsky Ridge, Altai Mountains, Altai Republic, Russian Federation. Some | | Mills, S. J., Christy, A. G., Génin, J.-M. R., Kameda, T., Colombo, F. (2012) Nomenclature of the hydrotalcite supergroup: natural layered double hydroxides. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (5) 1289-1336 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.5.10 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (1993b) discussed the transformation of Terektinsky ridge stichtite on exposure to light or X-rays from...colour, associated with serpentine minerals and chromite, from Dundas, Tasmania, Australia, by Petterd...polytype was reported from the Terektinsky ridge, Altai Republic, Russia by Tatarinov et al. (1985) and...meteorite (Dronino, Kasimov district, Ryazan Oblast’, Russia). The mineral forms dark green to brown fine-grained...from the Kovdor alkaline massif, Kola peninsula, Russia, was examined by Krivovichev et al. (2010a,b,c) |
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