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Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa (Pecks Mesa), Springer, Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA

A phonolite sill, consisting of alkali feldspar, zeolites and nepheline, which caps a mesa of olivine basalts and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks.

Refs.:
Rocks & Min.: 60:229
Tschernich, R. (1992): Zeolites of the World, 67
DeMark, R. S. (1984): Minerals of Point of Rocks, New Mexico. Mineral. Record 15, 150-156.
http://www.koeln.netsurf.de/~w.steffens/point.htm





Map Reference: 36°25'N , 104°9'W

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Mineral List:
Aegirine
Albite
Analcime
'Ancylite'
Apatite-(CaF)
var: Carbonate-rich Apatite-(CaF)
Aragonite
Baryte
Birnessite ?
Brenkite
Calcite
Cancrinite
Catapleiite ?
'Chabazite'
Cryolite
Eudialyte
Fluorite
Galena
Gonnardite
Hematite
Kenyaite
Kogarkoite
Kupletskite
Lorenzenite
Lovdarite
Magnetite
Manganoneptunite
Microcline
Mosandrite ?
Natrolite
Nepheline
Neptunite
Opal
var: Opal-AN
Paranatrolite
Pectolite
Polylithionite
Pyrochlore
Pyrophanite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rasvumite
Rhodochrosite
Rosenbuschite
Searlesite
Sérandite
Sodalite
Sphalerite
Steenstrupine-(Ce) ?
Tetranatrolite
Thermonatrite
Thorbastnäsite
Thorite
Titanite
Trona
'Tundrite'
Villiaumite
Vishnevite


58 entries listed. 52 valid minerals.

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