Noonlcanbahite, a potassic batisite from the lamproites of Western Australia

Abstract

The coarse-grained wolgidite variety of lamproite from the Wolgidee Hills of the West Kimberley District of Western Australia has previously yielded three new minerals. Two of these, wadeite and magnophorite (Prider, 1939), were discovered and described by the author when working as a research student under Professor Tilley's supervision and the third, priderite (Norrish, 1951), resulted from an X-ray study of material previously considered by the author to be rutile.