Polylithionite, 11564


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Description

Thick mass of large dark silvery intergrown plates of mica with no surrounding matrix. Lepidolite (as the historic ID suggests) is typically pink or lavendar, thus this is probably polylithionite (formerly referred to as Zinnwaldite which is no longer a valid mineral species).


Subject

  • Geology
  • Mineralogy


Details

Contributor
Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
People
  • Gibbes, Lewis Reeves, 1810-1894
  • Luhme, J. F.
  • Chemical Depot
Publisher
University of South Carolina. McKissick Museum.
Coverage
Steiermark (Styria), Austria
Relations
Historic Southern Naturalists