ARCTIC Fluorite from Princess Royal Islands: Historic and Possible Economic Significance
ABSTRACT. Armstrong, physician and naturalist assigned to McClure’s Investigator (1949-52), reported garnet, a typically metamorphic mineral, in unmetamorphosed rocks of Princess Royal Islands. During recent visits to these islands a few crystals of purple fluorite were found near the northeast tip...
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1985
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.563.3332 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic39-1-89.pdf |
Summary: | ABSTRACT. Armstrong, physician and naturalist assigned to McClure’s Investigator (1949-52), reported garnet, a typically metamorphic mineral, in unmetamorphosed rocks of Princess Royal Islands. During recent visits to these islands a few crystals of purple fluorite were found near the northeast tip of the smaller, northernmost island. However, no garnet was found on either island. Key words: Princess Royal Islands, Blue Fiord Formation, fluorite RkSUME. Armstrong, medefin et naturaliste B bord de l’lnvestigator de McClure de 1949 a 1952, signala la presence de grenat, un mineral typiquement mttamorphique, dans les roches non mCtamorphosCes des iles Princesse Royale. Au cours de visites ricentes B ces iles, quelques cristaux de fluorine mauves furent trouves B la pointe nord-est de la petite ile la plus au nord. Cependant, aucune trace de grenat ne fut relevee sur ni I’une ni I’autre des iles. |
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