Dundasite

Dundasite is a rare lead aluminium carbonate mineral. The mineral is named after the type locality, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia.[1] The mineral was first discovered in the Adelaide Proprietary Mine [4]. Dundasite was first described by William Frederick Petterd in 1893.[5]

Dundasite is an uncommon secondary mineral occurring in the oxidized zone of lead ore deposits.[2] It commonly overgrows crocoite. It may also be overgrown by yellow cerussite.[4] It may be associated with cerussite, plattnerite, azurite, malachite, pyromorphite, mimetite, beudantite, duftite, crocoite, gibbsite, allophane and limonite.[2]

References

1. ^ a b http://www.mindat.org/min-1330.html Mindat
2. ^ a b c http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/dundasite.pdf Handbook of Mineralogy
3. ^ http://www.webmineral.com/data/Dundasite.shtml Webmineral data
4. ^ a b Bottrill, Ralph (April 12, 2009). "Dundasite". http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,70,134092,134295. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
5. ^ "Volume 14". The Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society (Great Britain: Mineralogical Society). 1965.

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