Rock butter

Rock butter

Rock butter (also known as stone butter) is a soft mineral substance found oozing from alum slates.

It consists of native alum mixed with clay and oxide of iron, usually in soft masses of a yellowish white colour, occurring in cavities and fissures in argillaceous slate.

References

# http://dict.die.net/rock%20butter/ -- has information from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
# [http://www.maden.hacettepe.edu.tr/dmmrt/dmmrt995.html#d20876 Rock Butter] , from the U.S. Bureau of Mines' "Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms" (1996), online at the Hacettepe University Department of Mining Engineering website.


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