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Bityite from
Harding Mine, Picuris District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bityite
Formula:CaLiAl2(AlBeSi2O10)(OH)2
Luminescent properties:SW- medium creamy yellow
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Muscovite4 photos of Bityite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Spessartine4 photos of Bityite associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Apatite2 photos of Bityite associated with Apatite at this locality.
Schorl1 photo of Bityite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Biotite1 photo of Bityite associated with Biotite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bityite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harding Mine, Picuris District, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (12 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:233932
Long-form Identifier:1:3:233932:0
GUID (UUID V4):b2a8a774-a568-4286-94c8-5e1394803d74
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Be-bearing mica from the Harding pegmatite (Dixon, Taos County, New Mexico, USA) has been investigated...micas is carried out. K EY WORDS : brittle micas, bityite, neutron diffraction, X-ray diffraction, structure...Introduction LI,BE-BEARING micas are rare in nature. Bityite, with the ideal chemical formula Ca(LiAl2) (AlBeSi2)O10(OH)2...Be-bearing micas with a composition between those of bityite and margarite (a dioctahedral brittle mica, ideally...sample of Li,Be-rich mica from Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico (kindly provided by the ‘‘Museo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
criteria: toba, and the Hardingpegmatitenear Dixon, New Mexico,andpresentsa discussion of the potentialuse 1...only as a metasomatic ium-richpegmatitesis not a new concept.Hornung mineralin the alteredwall rockscloseto...Alteration of mafic wall rocksto holmquistite district,Zimbabwe,and suggested that holmquistite occursduringthe...mosteconomicLi-Be-Sn-Tadeposits,the Harding pegmatite,New Mexico (Jahnsand Ewing, 1977), and the Greenbushespegmatite...Keystonedistrict,SouthDakota contradictedby the new data from the Tanco peg(Page et al., 1953). The mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whole was imperfect. Recently, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical...Libraries] at 09:45 25 December 2014 anandite bityite clintonite ferrokinoshitalite kinoshitalite Figure...Muscovite crystals forming a 10-cm rosette, Jose Pinto mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Table 3. Interlayer-deficient...spectacular recent find of muscovite was at the Jose Pinto mine, where more than a ton of beautifully crystallized...(manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite
Report (issue)
Bityite CaLiAl2 (AlBeSi2 )O10 (OH)2 c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...Connecticut, USA). Distribution: In Madagascar, from Maharitra, on Mt. Bity. In the Namherere mine, Aukole...In the USA, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, and the Harding pegmatite...pegmatite, Dixon, Taos Co., New Mexico. On the Huron claims, 16 km north of Point du Bois, Manitoba, Canada...France; Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 87680. References: (1) Lacroix, A. (1908) Les min¶eraux
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2989–2996 Fluorcalciomicrolite, (Ca,Na,&)2Ta2O6F, a new microlite-group mineral from Volta Grande pegmatite...Arizona, 1040 East 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA Departamento de Mineralogia e Geotectônica, Instituto...ABSTRACT Fluorcalciomicrolite, (Ca,Na,&)2Ta2O6F, is a new microlite-group, pyrochlore supergroup mineral approved...epidote, magnetite, gahnite, zircon, ‘‘tourmaline’’, bityite, hydrokenomicrolite, and other microlite-group...07(11) Å3, Z = 8. K EY WORDS : fluorcalciomicrolite, new mineral, Volta Grande pegmatite, Nazareno, Minas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/02 $22.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Boyd Street, 810 Energy Center, Norman, OK 73019, USA (Received July 18, 2001; accepted in revised form...(0.37 at 750°C). With other data sources, these new partition coefficients were utilized to track, first...Research Company, PO Box 2189, Houston, TX 77252, USA. Powders were formulated by combining mineral components...Feldspar Corp., Spruce Pine, NC, USA; muscovite-A, Spruce Pine, NC, USA; muscovite-B, Minas Gerais, Brazil;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington,D. C. Alsrnacr A new analysis of ephesite from the Postmasburg district, South Africa, shows that...c 19.30r A., B 95'5'. Replacements involved in bityite, the lithium-beryllium member of the group, are...i t e ("soda-margarite") from the Postmasburg district, South Africa. The analyseshe published (Table...the alkalies in ephesite from the Postmasburg district. Professor C' E. Tilley kindly I Publication Survey... analyst 5. Phiilips, analyst 6. R. E. Stevens, new analysis from Postmasburg, sample furnished by C
Report (issue)
epidote, magnetite, gahnite, zircon, “tourmaline,” bityite, hydrokenomicrolite, and other unspecified microlite-group...Minas Gerais, Brazil. Also at the Harding pegmatite, New Mexico, USA. Name: For a member of the microlite...(2013) Fluorcalciomicrolite, (Ca,Na, )2Ta2O6F, a new microlite-group mineral from Volta Grande pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 100, pages 2352–2362, 2015 New Mineral Names*,† Dmitriy I. Belakovskiy1, Fernando...Australia 1 In this issue This New Mineral Names has entries for 18 new minerals, including aluminopyracmonite...Campostrini (2013) Aluminopyracmonite, (NH4)3Al(SO4)3, a new ammonium aluminium sulfate from La Fossa crater,...Aluminopyracmonite (IMA 2012-075), ideally (NH4)3Al(SO4)3, is a new mineral from La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands...M. Housley (2013) Bobmeyerite, a new mineral from Tiger, Arizona, USA, structurally related to cerchiaraite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5790, USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: esgrew@maine.edu 2...Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, IN 46323, USA 3 Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA 4 Department of Geology, Southern Illinois University...IL 62901, USA 5 Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA 6 Geophysical...5251 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA Abstract: The idea that the mineralogical diversity
Catalog/List
your labels or send back for an exchange. f _ New Minerals in this list; • • •• • Olivine,Cetineite...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey botryoidal on New East Wheal Russell
Catalog/List
OF ROCKS MID MINERALS 10 68 issue 2 available. NEW STOCK s Rare minerals Kellyite page 11. Wolfeite...Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5 498 ZEMANNITE
Catalog/List
these ones should be available.---- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from...Tacharanite and Tobermorite from Ireland . Five new rocks. This catalogue cancels No 79 Also available...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall...ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___
Catalog/List
BASIC LI'S? Of EOCKS AHD MINERALS Ho U available. NEW STOCK Devon and Cornwall pages 8 S 3 : ALLOPHANE...Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li and Be Mica white...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B...Oxide pink masses in 5mm matrix (Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) £4.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good yellow crusts
Catalog/List
ones should be available. ----- Give me a ring ! New Minerals in this list Armenite,Axinitefrom Cornwall...~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins £5 2 AEGIRINE £10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl...IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S...bleby small botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland
Book
investigations. As the problem under consideration is both new and complicated, the author has been unable to avoid...1797, the French chemist, Vauquelin, discovered a new “earth,” i.e. the oxide of an unknown chemical element...engineering and the growing demand for materials with new properties, especially during recent years, were...as the usable by-product; 2. by prospecting for new beryllium deposits; 3. by an inspection of all previously...beryllium; 4. by exploring possibilities of utilizing new types of beryllium ore. On the basis of data published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tørdal, Telemark, Norway, suggests the existence of new phases related to bazzite via the substitution (1)...as bertrandite, phenakite, bavenite, milarite, bityite and epididymite, listed in the order of increasing...consists of a laser-ablation system UP 213 (New Wave, USA) and an Agilent 7500 CE ICP–MS spectrometer...al. 2004; Fig. 6a). It suggests the existence of new phases related to bazzite via substitution (1), with...of berylgroup minerals is necessary to create a new classification that is able to integrate such specific
Book
themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species...to explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...physical attribute of minerals. Few descriptions of new mineral discoveries will fail to report fluorescence...terms used in the study of fluorescence. For those new to the minerals that fluoresce and the localities
Book
themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species...explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in ...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...physical attribute of minerals. Few descriptions of new mineral discoveries will fail to report fluoresi...terms used in the study of fluorescence. For those new to the minerals that fluoresce and the localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OK 73019, USA 2 Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 87287, USA Abstract...macusanite versus other similar rock types Macusanite Harding b Tanco ~ H2O 72.32 15.63 0.02 0.52 0.00 0.06...values wt% b Burnham and Jahns (1962), Harding pegmatite, New Mexico; whole-rock analysis of chip composite...performed on a JEOL 8600 electron probe at JEOL USA, Peabody, Massachusetts. Beam conditions were 15...stems from a progressive reduction in the numbers of new crystal nuclei. Decreasing nucleation densities may
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...The current progress in mineralog), with countless new data in books and scientific as well as amateur journals...submitted to, and accepted by, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...pure freibergite is very rare. The decision that a new mineral species is established when one of the cations...eudialyte, and several other groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding
 
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