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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
unknown find from slatey
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 288752" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p><strong>You guys make it hard! All these local names that are not true mineral names that are invented for the same mineral with a different appearance! As I pointed out with agate=chalcedony=jasper= the mineral microquartz. Was working for a few years at Pambula-Nethercote until 5 years ago. Relying on memory but the pyropholite (not a mineral species, a name I have otherwise only heard in Namibia) is not pyrophyllite as occurs nearby (as you say) - from memory it is an altered rhyolite and really consists of fine-grained quartz and white mica or illite finely intergrowth with each other</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 288752, member: 4386"] [b]You guys make it hard! All these local names that are not true mineral names that are invented for the same mineral with a different appearance! As I pointed out with agate=chalcedony=jasper= the mineral microquartz. Was working for a few years at Pambula-Nethercote until 5 years ago. Relying on memory but the pyropholite (not a mineral species, a name I have otherwise only heard in Namibia) is not pyrophyllite as occurs nearby (as you say) - from memory it is an altered rhyolite and really consists of fine-grained quartz and white mica or illite finely intergrowth with each other[/b] [/QUOTE]
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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Gemstones and Minerals
unknown find from slatey
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