NO.120
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Old Wykehamist News
Academic
PMJ Cambrook (H, 77-82) is studying for
a PhD in International Relations at
Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Dr AG Christy (Coll, 76-80), a geologist
based in Canberra, has recently received
the honour of having a newly discovered
mineral named after him. Andychristyite is
a tellurate of lead and copper,
PbCu2+Te6+O5H2O and is very rare. So far,
it has been found only as a few tiny
bluish-green crystals in one vug in a
quartz vein, in a single piece of rock. A
secondary electron micrograph of a cluster
that is about 80 × 50 microns in size has
been false-coloured to restore the
greenish-turquoise colour that you would
see in a light microscope.
during the wri