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Article: Occurrence of barian celestine at the Elmwood zinc deposit, Smith County, Tennessee.
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- The Mineralogical Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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Rare specimens of a fibrous white mineral from the Elmwood zinc orebodies previously believed to be anglesite have been shown both by X-ray diffraction and atomic absorption analysis to be barian celestine. Physical evidence strongly suggests that the occurrence of this species results from partial alteration of strontian barite, a mineral which occurs in relative abundance throughout the deposit.
INTRODUCTION
Since opening in 1974, the Elmwood mine in the central Tennessee zinc district has been studied by a number of workers (Kyle, 1976; Kearns and Campbell, 1978; Gaylord and Briskey, 1983). Various aspects of both the geology and mineralogy have been ...