[meteorite-list] Meteorite Mineral Trivia: Lawrencite
From: E.J <jonee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:28:35 2004 Message-ID: <3F989F96.5060708_at_epix.net> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font size="-1" face="Geneva">While researching mineral locations I happened upon an entry for Lawrencite. Lawrencite's type locality is the Tazwell,Tennessee </font><font face="Geneva" size="-1">Octahedrite IIICD, Find, 1853. " Type Locality" is the place that a mineral is first identified to science-- which for this mineral occurred in 1877. In addition to the meteorites listed Natan (go figure), Odessa, and Zenda WIsconsin, </font><font face="Geneva" size="-1">it has also been found around volcanoes in Italy and Russia a site in Greenland. While not listed it in virtually 99% of meteorite collections<br> <br> For the new folks, Lawrencite disease is the bane of meteorite collectors. The chlorine ion facilitates the rusting away of the metal.<br> <br> Tazwell <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.mindat.org/loc-27789.html"><http://www.mindat.org/loc-27789.html></a><br> Lawrencite<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.mindat.org/min-2351.html"><http://www.mindat.org/min-2351.html></a> and <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://webmineral.com/data/Lawrencite.shtml"><http://webmineral.com/data/Lawrencite.shtml></a><br> <br> Elton<br> </font> </body> </html> Received on Thu 23 Oct 2003 11:42:14 PM PDT |
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