Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Publication Date

Fall 12-27-1951

Abstract

Supergene minerals are not common, nor are they rare at Santa Rita, New Mexico. Kerr (1950,307) reports the presence of cuprite, melaconite, native copper, chrysocolla, machite and azurite. There is also smithsonite present.

The physical appearance of the mineral, coupled with preliminary determinations of the indices of refraction, gave a rough correspondence with dihydrite (Larson and Berman, 1934, 135). However, enough discrepancy existed to warrant taking powder and Weissenberg X-Ray pictures. From these it was evident immediately that the specimen was a new mineral species.

Degree Name

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

First Committee Member (Chair)

Carl Wellington Beck

Second Committee Member

Vincent Cooper Kelley

Third Committee Member

J. Paul Fitzsimmons

Language

English

Keywords

Chinoite

Document Type

Thesis

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