Compositional segregation and solid solution in the lead-dominant alunite-type minerals from Broken Hill, N.S.W.

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 779-785

  Rattray, K J ^a   Taylor, M R ^a   Bevan, D J M ^a   Pring, A ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alunite type minerals; Australia; Broken Hill; Hidalgoite; Plumbogummite; Segregation; Solid solution

Indexed keywords

ALUNITE; JAROSITE; LEAD; SEGREGATION; SOLID SOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA, NEW SOUTH WALES, BROKEN HILL;

EID: 0030513069     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1996.060.402.07     Document Type: Article

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