ARCTIC Fluorite from Princess Royal Islands: Historic and Possible Economic Significance

• Main Authors: Walter Gibbins, Donald Boucher, Wolfgang Skublak
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1985
• Subjects: FIG. 1. Location of Princess Royal Islands; Arctic; Blue Fiord; Princess Royal Islands; La Petite Ile; Petite Ile; Petite Ile La; Petite Ile, La
• 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

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...