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While researching mineral locations I
happened upon an entry for Lawrencite. Lawrencite's type locality is
the Tazwell,Tennessee 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, 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 For the new folks, Lawrencite disease is the bane of meteorite collectors. The chlorine ion facilitates the rusting away of the metal. Tazwell <http://www.mindat.org/loc-27789.html> Lawrencite<http://www.mindat.org/min-2351.html> and <http://webmineral.com/data/Lawrencite.shtml> Elton ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list |
