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Calcite from
Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa (Pecks Mesa), Springer, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Point of Rocks Quarry, Point of Rocks Mesa (Pecks Mesa), Springer, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:87585
Long-form Identifier:1:3:87585:7
GUID (UUID V4):e0d27801-e7ce-4fb1-a103-85686aa4e7d6
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
21.3km (13.3 miles) Laughlin Peak, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) Tres Hermanos Peak, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
84.1km (52.2 miles) Thunder Mine, Cimarroncito Mining District, Cimarron Range, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
93.2km (57.9 miles) Aztec Mine (Aztec vein), Baldy Mountain, Baldy Mining District, Cimarron Range, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
98.9km (61.5 miles) Denver Mine, Elizabethtown Mining District, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA
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Journal of Geosciences, 60 (2015), 171–179 DOI: 10.3190/jgeosci.195 Original paper Kogarkoite, Na3(SO4)F...for F-enrichment of thermal groundwater related to alkaline silicic volcanic rocks Vladimír Žáček1*,...Geologická 4, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic 3 Department of Geological Sciences, Masaryk University in Brno,... 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic 4 Geological Survey of Ethiopia, P.O. Box 2302, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia *...situated between the towns of Hawasa and Shashemene, in the central part of the Main Ethiopian Rift in
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PROKRTY VEBia JH Of HIGH SCHOOL UMAH w- oc Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www...org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them...upon men the increasing attention to the science of Mineralogy, manifested United its States, pursuit...1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A. NORTHROP University of Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH...Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS
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This extraordinary locality has yielded hundreds of superb specimens often featuring large, sharp crystals...Choice column. Serandite was first described as a new species from Rouma Island, Los Archipelago, Guinea...Guinea (Lacroix 1931). It was named in honor of Jules Numa Mugnier Serand (1872– 1933), a lighthouse keeper...keeper who supplied Lacroix with suites of samples from the Los peralkaline complex (Fontan and Martin 2017)...79:1864). The chemical formula of serandite is NaMn2Si3O8(OH). It is an end-member of the serandite-schizolite-pectolite
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This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...phorographed specimens are fivm the collectio11s of both authors as ire!/ as from many other collections...Te~in 14/02/03/0 I All rights reserved•• ·o pan of thh. work may be reproduced by any mechanical. photographic...photographic, or electronic process, or in the fonn of a phonogrciphicrecording. nor may it be ,torcd in...public or private U<,e. without written penni,,ion of the publi,her. ISBN 80-7296-039-3 CONTENTS Preface
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