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dickite

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dickite [′di‚kīt]
(mineralogy)
Al2Si2O5(OH)4A mineral of the kaolin group found crystallized in clay in hydrothermal veins; it is polymorphous with kaolinite and nacrite.


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Okzhetpes) and reported low-temperature phases such as kaolinite and dickite, are used to support such an interpretation.
Analysis revealed that it consisted of kaolinite, dickite (a closely related clay mineral to kaolinite), nontronite, (a smectite, similar to bentonite, where iron replaces alumina in the crystal lattice), the remainder being quartz.
On Clara, previous rock and soil sampling, IP and PIMA results have outlined a large dickite zone which is interpreted to cap a gold-rich silica core.
 
 
 
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