Magnesite

TSNB222
Mineral
Country rocks (feldspathic sandstone)Country rocks (kersantite)Rock-forming (detrital)Rock-forming (igneous)

Mineral Species

Magnesite

Type Locality

No

Composition

MgCO3

Crystal System

Trigonal

Status at Tsumeb

Questionable

Entry Number

Species; TSNB222

General Notes

Pinch and Wilson (1977) list magnesite simply as "a mineral of the country rock". It is also listed by Lombaard et al. (1986) and by Gebhard (1999), both of which consider its occurrence questionable.