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KEYWORDS: tacharanite, amygdale, basalt, Highland the reported churchite preclude a residual origin and so
County, Virginia. far no primary igneous xenotime has been observed.
Furthermore, the associated monazite occurs as friable,
RICHARD S. MITCHELL earthy material and commonly replaces secondary hex-
Clark Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA agonal apatite. Such earthy monazite has been reported
22903, USA from deeply-weathered carbonatites and granite peg-
matites and was interpreted as a mineral of secondary,
WILLIAM F. GIANNINI supergene origin (Rose et al., 1958; Deans, 1966; Mitchell
et al., 1976).
Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Char-
lottesville, VA 22903, USA
Sandvik, P. O., and Erdosh, G. (1977) Can. Inst. Mining BERND G. LOTTERMOSER
MetaIl., Bull. 69, 90 6. Department of Geology, University of Newcastle, New
Willett, G. C., Duncan, R. K., and Rankin, R. A. (1986) 4th South Wales 2308, Australia
Int. Kimb. Conf. Perth, Ext. Abstracts, No. 16, Geol.
Soc. Austral., 97-9.
[Manuscript received 13 October 1986]
KEYWORDS: churchite, laterite, carbonatite, Mt Weld,
Western Australia. ~) Copyright the Mineralogical Society