Andrewsite
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Andrewsite is a now discredited mineral originally reported at the Wheal Phoenix mine, near Liskeard in Cornwall. It was named for Thomas Andrews FRS, the English chemist.[1]
It has been shewn to be a mixture of Hentschelite and Rockbridgeite, with minor Chalcosiderite.[1]
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- Maskelyne (1871) Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, London: 24: 99.
- Maskelyne (1875) Journal of the Chemical Society, London: 28: 586.
- Frondel, C. (1949) American Mineralogist: 34: 534.
- Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 1124 pp.: 802-803.
- Dunn, P.J. (1990), Andrewsite and laubmannite formally discredited, American Mineralogist 75, 1197-1199(1990)