Manual of Mineralogy: Including Observations On Mines, Rock, Reduction of Ores, And the ...
Manual of Mineralogy: Including Observations On Mines, Rock, Reduction of Ores, And the ...
James Dwight Dana
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Gr=2'9 — 3. Consists of silica 47* 1, alumina 139, peroxyd of iron 20*1, lime 15*4, oxyd of copper 1*9. Lievriie, (called also yenite and ilvaite.) Occurs in rhombic prisms, often with the sides much striated or fluted ; color black or brownish black. Luster submetallic. Streak black, greenish or brownish. H=> 5 5—6. Gr=3'8 — 4*1. Contains about 50 to 55 per cent, of oxyd of iron with 14 of lime and 29 of silca. Fuses to a black globule. From the island of Elba in large crystallizations ; also ...from Norway, Siberia, Silesia. At Cumberland, Rhode Island, yenite occurs in slender black or brownish -black crystals, in quartz. The following are hydrous species, giving off water when heated in a tube before the blowpipe. Nontronite and pinguite, are earthy almost like clay, of a yellowish or greenish color. Chloropal is a harder species, (H=3 — 4,) of a greenish-yellow or pistachio-green color. Grengesite, thuringite, knebelite, and kirwan- ite, are other allied species. Green ear*h.
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