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Faroe Islands (Faeroe Islands; Faeroes; Faroes), Denmark

Føroyar ( Færøerne), Danmark

A home-rule part of Denmark with extensive autonomy.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Allophane
Analcime
'Apophyllite'
Beidellite
Calcite
var: Iceland Spar
Celadonite
'Chabazite'
'var: Phacolite'
Chabazite-Ca
Chabazite-Na
Copper
Cowlesite
Epistilbite ?
'Erionite'
'Gismondine'
Gyrolite
Halloysite-7Å
Harmotome
'Heulandite'
Laumontite
'Lévyne'
Lévyne-Ca (TL)
'Limonite'
Mesolite
Mordenite
Natrolite
Okenite
Opal
Pectolite
'Phillipsite'
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony

var: Smoky Quartz
Scolecite
'Stilbite'
'Thomsonite'
Thomsonite-Ca


44 entries listed. 24 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

Localities in this Region

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References

- Anonymous (?) (1780): Underdanigst Beretning om det Arbeide og de Iagttagelser som blev gjorde under min Nærværelse paa Færøerne i Aarene 1778 og 1779, pp. 1-90

- Widman, O. (1890): Mineralanalytiska meddelanden från Upsala kemiska laboratorium. Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar 12: 20-29[with an anlysis of chabazite from the Faroe islands]

- Currie, James (1906): The mineralogy of the Færöes, arranged topographically, Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society, 9(1), 3-68

- Anonymous (?) (1908): Ausstellung: Minerale von den Färöern, Tschermak’s Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen, 27, 253-264

- Görgey, R. (1910): Ein Beitrag zur topographischen Mineralogie der Färöer. Auf Grund einer mit F. Cornu unternommenen Reise, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, etc., Beilageband, 29, 269-315, pl. VII-IX

- Aminoff, G. (1916): Kalkspattvillingar från Färöarna, Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm Förhandlingar, 38(II.5), 339-348

- Noe-Nygaard, Arne (1940): Færøernes tilblivelse og natur, Ledetraad ved Folkelig Universitetsundervisning, nr. 92

- A. E. M. Nairn & F. G. Stehli (eds.) (1974): The Ocean Basins and Margins, Vol. 2, The North Atlantic. Plenum Press, New York, London, 1974. Pages 409-414.

- Betz, V. (1981): Famous mineral localities: Zeolites from Iceland and the Faeroes. Mineralogical Record 12 (1), 5-26.

- Noe-Nygaard, Arne (1981): Færøerne, en geologisk trædesten i Nordatlanten, Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse, I. Række, 1980, 19-23

- Burvald, I. (2003): Mineralforekomster på Færøyene. Norsk Bergverksmuseums Skrift 25, 29-34

- Jørgensen, O. (2006) The regional distribution of zeolites in the basalts of the Faroe Islands and the significance of zeolites as palaeo-temperature indicators, GEUS Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 9, 123-156. [http://www.geus.dk/]

- Tranefors, H. (2007): Färöarna juli 2006-en reseskildring. Litiofilen. 24 (1): 15-21

- Schmitter, F. J. (2008): Sammeltouren auf den Färöer-Inseln. Lapis 33 (2), 29-35; 50 (in German).

- Weisenberger, T. B. & Spürgin, S. (2012): Die Färöer - ein geologischer Streifzug. Aufschluss 63, 173-192.

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