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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Graphic methods are often of the greatest assistance in bringing out the affinities of closely related minerals and particularly of members of isomorphous series. An illustration of the use of such a method in the case of a series involving three variables, all of them mutually replaceab]e, has already been given by the author in dealing with minerals of the tapiolite-mossite-rutile series. Recently, in studying a mineral of the spinel group, occurring in serpentine country near Namban, in the South-Western Division of Western Australia, it was found convenient to use a graphic method to bring out its relationship to the type minerals spinel, hercynite, and chromite, and to the intermediate minerals previously described under the names of picotite, chrompicotite, magnesiochromite, and magnochromite.
Published by permission of the Government Geologist of Western Australia.
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