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Description: | [Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony] [Germany] unknown Very nice. Quite radioactive: ca. 1300cps. Known to be a Hunter specimen from a Forster label "Mm 3". Unfortunately, the original label has been replaced with a hand-drawn copy. The Forster bill for 13.2.1776 gives "3. Green mica mixed with a kind of green schorl upon a kind of brown quartz coloured by the Iron ore from Johann Georgen Stadt in Saxony". Also mentioned in the Trustees catalogue under "Earths whose particular species has not yet been ascertained". "No. 1. Crystals of Six sides two opposites are square and broader, transparent of a green colour and suppos'd lately to contain a Metal of a peculiar kind, upon a brown Quartz. From John Georgen Stadt". Uranium was discovered in 1789 by Klaproth - so this information probably post-dates Hunter's death. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PHOSPHATE : RADIOACTIVE : MINERAL : ORIGINAL BEQUEST : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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