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Cymrite
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<h2 id="occurrence">Occurrence</h2> <p>Cymrite was discovered in Wales but is found in other areas throughout the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, <a href="/facts/Africa/XkqQUP9s">Africa</a>, <a href="/facts/Greece/lqHw8bTB">Greece</a> and other parts of <a href="/facts/Europe/DTAtrKfh">Europe</a>. It occurs in generally high temperature-pressure areas such as the hydrothermal <a href="/facts/Manganese/j9ELd1TL">manganese</a> silicate <a href="/facts/Ore/kgc9DssX">ore</a> that makes up the Benalt Mine in Wales and in manganese rock that has undergone high-pressure <a href="/facts/Metamorphism/8eWHgy6K">metamorphism</a> found in Greece.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> It is important to geologists because of its limited occurrence, when cymrite is present on a rock it indicates that the rock, at some point, must have experienced high pressure and temperature. </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Mindat.org. Accessed September 27, 2010 <a href="http://www.mindat.org/min-1205.html" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/min-1205.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Webmineral data Accessed September 5, 2010 <a href="http://www.webmineral.com/data/Cymrite.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.webmineral.com/data/Cymrite.shtml</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Mindat.org. Accessed September 27, 2010 <a href="http://www.mindat.org/min-1205.html" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/min-1205.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>[O'Donoghue,M. (1976) The Encyclopedia of Minerals and Gemstones. Orbis Publishing, London]. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Mindat.org. Accessed September 27, 2010 <a href="http://www.mindat.org/min-1205.html" target="_blank">http://www.mindat.org/min-1205.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Handbook of Mineralogy. Accessed October 15, 2010. <a href="http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/cymrite.pdf" target="_blank">http://rruff.geo.arizona.edu/doclib/hom/cymrite.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>