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this whats in them
Littleham Cove Nodules - Mineral Composition
Minerals recorded from the vanadiferous nodules include:
native silver;
the copper minerals -
native copper, algodonite, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, covellite, digenite, djurleite and malachite, cuprite, azurite,
the nickel minerals -
maucherite, niccolite, rammelsbergite and skutterudite;
the cobalt minerals -
langisite, modderite and safflorite;
the uranium minerals -
coffinite, uraninite (pitchblende);
the vanadium minerals -
vanadian mica, montroseite, vanadian illite
the arsenic mineral -
freirinite;
the lead minerals -
clausthalite, galena and molybdomenite;
the zinc mineral -
sphalerite
the clay and micaceous minerals -
illite, smectite, chlorite, biotite,
the iron minerals -
pyrite, hematite,
the titanium minerals -
ilmenite, anatase,
the carbonate minerals;
dolomite, calcite,
Other minerals, unclassified here into type include -
algodonite, maucherite, arhbarite, domeykite, krutovite, parammmelsbergite, posnjakite, brochantite, ramelaconite, roscoelite, clausthalite,
The sources of information for the above are: Milodowski et al. (2002) and Edwards and Scrivener (1999). These also incorporate data from Harrison (1975); Durrance and George (1976) and Nancarrow (1985) and others.
mixture of everything it seems
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