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Muscovite from
Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1000962
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1000962:0
GUID (UUID V4):09290f4e-f735-4e86-9b39-b34232e0f9b0
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
Las Cuevas Mine, Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Pozo de San Teodoro, Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Las Cuevas Mine, Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
0.5km (0.3 miles) Pozo de San Teodoro, Almadén Mine, Almadén, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
11.7km (7.3 miles) Nueva Concepción Mine, Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
15.9km (9.9 miles) El Entredicho Mine, Almadenejos, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
79.6km (49.5 miles) El Lobo Mine, Quintana de la Serena, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
83.2km (51.7 miles) Sierra de San Cristóbal, Logrosán, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
88.4km (55.0 miles) Los Torilejos area, Hornachuelos, Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
88.6km (55.0 miles) San Nicolás Mine, Valle de la Serena, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic-related hydrothermal activity in the Almadén syncline, Spain: a longlasting Silurian to Devonian process...Higueras, R. Oyarzun, J. Munhá and D. Morata Almadén (central Spain) is the most remarkable mercurymining district...of the Iberian Variscan Chain2,3 (Fig. 1). The Almadén rocks and mineralization pose an intriguing problem...Lower Silurian strata-bound mineralization (e.g. Almadén and El Entredicho) other deposits are found higher...persistent submarine magmatic activity in the Almadén basin may have sustained long-lasting submarine
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JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2019 Articles The Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Spain ...............................COVER: CINNABAR twin, 6.5 mm, on matrix, from Almadén, Spain. Gianfranco Ciccolini collection and photo...District, Ciudad Real, Spain Borja Sainz de Baranda Graf Miami, 3, 4-C 28027 Madrid (Spain) borjateresa@hotmail...Campus Universitario-28805 Alcala de Henares (Spain) The Almadén Mining District exploited the largest mercury...declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The Almadén District has yielded excellent cinnabar specimens
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ʥˑˎˎˇ˅˖ˑ˔ˑˈ˖ˊˇʧ˚˓˗ˋ˕ˋ˖ˇ Spain has historically been a country with little tradition...Naturals de Barcelona Parc de la Ciutadella, s/n 08003 Barcelona, Spain ccurto@bcn.cat collections, such...cm high, from Pedrera AVE, Riudarenes, Girona, Spain; mined 2006. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 4 (top right)...at the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, in Spain, since 1973. =VS\TL5V]LTILY+LJLTILY...wide, from the Azkarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain; mined 2002. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 7 (below)
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competed with the mines in Idrija (Slovenia) and Almadén (Spain) in the 16th century. The production of mercury...mercury production in the mines of Idrija and Almadén at that time. In addition to Venice, the mercury...processes (e.g. the two largest mercury deposits – Almadén in Spain and Idrija in Slovenia; Saupé 1990; Jébrak...replacement of serpentinite bodies (< 5.3 Ma in age; New Almadén and New Idria in California, USA; e.g. Studemeister...the production of the mercury mines in Idrija or Almadén at that time (Klier 1969). In fact, in 1525 to
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Munha The AlmadeÂn mercury mining district, Spain Received: 23 October 1998 / Accepted: 4 January...de AlmadeÂn y Arrayanes S.A., AlmadeÂn (Ciudad Real), Spain M. JeÂbrak Universite du QueÂbec aÁ MontreÂal...MontreÂal, DeÂpartement des Sciences de la Terre, CP 8888, suc. Centre Ville, MontreÂal (QUE) H3C 3P8, Canada... Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Plaza M. Meca 1, 13400 AlmadeÂn, Spain E-mail: phiguera@igem-al.uclm...GeoloÂgicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain D. Morata Departamento de Geologõ a, Facultad de
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Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, Firenze, 50121 b NU Italy Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Université...Université Grenoble Alpes, 1381 rue de la Piscine, 38400 MA Grenoble, France U.S. Geological Survey, MS 973... Italy. Different geological materials, such as mine waste calcine (retorted ore), soil, stream sediment...mining activity ceased in the 1980s, but abandoned mine wastes continue to release Hg into the downstream...giant Hg 3 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT districts at Almadén, Spain, and Idrija, Slovenia, accounts for about 60%
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Morena, Spain F. J. PALERO, Servicio de Geología, Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes S. A., 13400 Almadén, Spain...Ingenieros de Minas, Ríos Rosas 21, 28003 Madrid, Spain A. J. BOYCE, Scottish Universities Environmental...de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas, Spain AND A. MARTIN-IZARD Departamento de Geología,...Oviedo, Jesús Arias de Velasco s/n, 3305 Oviedo, Spain Abstract The Alcudia Valley is intensely mineralized...VALLEY in the eastern Sierra Morena, Ciudad Real Province, Spain (Fig. 1) has been mined since Roman †
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at what was called Wood's copper mine and also at Smith's copper mine about a mile to the northwest. Much...one little mine I obtained a few specimens of pyrite xls. The small xl enclosed is from a mine about 4 miles...following item, dated Aug. 28, 1954. "In the Brooklyn Mine, San Juan Co., Colo., I found a strikingly beautiful...new gypsum mine near Shoals, Martin Co., Ind. The clipping reads as follows: SHOALS GYPSUM MINE WILL BE...SHOALS, Ind. (Spl.) — The U. S. Gypsum Company's mine in Martin County will be the second deepest of its
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of Diamonds is an abandoned diamond mine (the only diamond mine in the U.S.) that has been opened up...visit. I am planning a trip to the Ruggle's Feldspar Mine near Grafton Ctn., New Hampshire." Mrs. Harriette...cervantite, Ambrose nite (quartz) have been found on the mine, Hollister (San Benito C o . ) , Calif. south side...common beach trip to the famous Strictland Mica Mine pebbles they do not occur on Florida in the tov/n...at a strip mine (coal) in Henry Co., 111. The fossil is very abundant at this strip mine which lies between
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deposits from the Anatectic Complex of Toledo, central Spain Iván Martín-Méndez 1 & Ester Boixereu 1 & Carlos...places where it has been concentrated (Guadamur and la Puebla de Montalbán mines). Some samples from these...of studied graphite makes this area of central Spain suitable for graphitic exploration and its potential...Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME), Madrid, Spain 2 Dpto. Petrología y Geoquímica, Facultad Geología...Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (UCM, CSIC), Madrid, Spain viability and its strategic applications in advanced
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Mineralogist Mineralogical Association of Canada, 490 de la Couronne, Québec, QC G1K 9A9 Canada, Email: offi...Pierrette Tremblay, Managing Editor, c/o INRS-ETE, 490 de la Couronne, Québec (QC) G1K 9A9, Canada, Email: pierrette_tremblay@...Greenstone-hosted lode-gold mineralization at Dungash mine, Eastern Desert, Egypt—Basem Zoheir and Pär Weihed...deposits, Cantabria, Spain—Jan Pašava, Fernando Tornos, and Vladislav Chrastný Cassiterite LA-MC-ICP-MS U/Pb...U/Pb and muscovite 40Ar/39Ar dating of tin deposits in the Tengchong-Lianghe tin district, NW Yunnan, 785
Book
Silicates. Traduction française par Louise de Pardieu LA VIE RUSTIQUE 40, Avenue Winston Churchill Bruxelles...Silicates. Traduction française par Louise de Pardieu LA VIE RUSTIQUE 40, Avenue Winston Churchill Bruxelles...mineraux représentes dans ce volume font partie de la Collection Cervello @ Editûms N. Boubée & Cie.,...vingtaine d'éléments chimiques exisl'~tat libre dans la nature. On les classe en: caractfrisés par leur couleur...Principalement en filons hydrothermaux de quartz, m~lé à de la pyrite et autres sulfures. Lorsque ces gisements
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Sciences Universidad Complutense de Madrid Madrid, Spain José Tomás Oliveira LNEG Amadora, Portugal ISSN...recently published Geological Map of Portugal and Spain, 2015, scale 1:1,000,000. v vi Editors and Volume...Simancas teaches at the University of Granada (Spain). His main research interest is in the structural...Geociencias (UCM, CSIC), Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain C. Aguilar Centre for Lithospheric Research, Czech...Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain J. J. Álvaro Instituto de Geociencias IGEO (CSIC-UCM), Madrid, Spain Maider Armendáriz
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Carboneras and Palomares Faults (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain) ISABEL ABAD1,*, JUAN JIMÉNEZ-MILLÁN1, ANJA M. SCHLEICHER2...de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas sn, 23071 Jaén, Spain *Corresponding author, e-mail: miabad@ujaen.es Helmholtz-Zentrum...major clay-rich fault zones (Betic Cordillera, SE Spain) exhumed under arid conditions were studied to establish...from the nearby Cabo de Gata volcanic series (SE Spain). Textural and chemical results point toward that...estudiado dos zonas de falla ricas en minerales de la arcilla (Cordillera Bética, SE España), exhumadas
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Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Barcelona, Spain Basem Zoheir Benha University Benha, Egypt and...Mediterranean and Mid-Eastern regions. Barcelona, Spain Bari, Italy Mexico City, Mexico Benha, Egypt/Kiel...Maurizio Barbieri (AJGS Editor): University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Ozgur Kisi (AJGS Editor): Ilia State...Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain Emanuela Schingaro (AJGS Editor): Università degli...(AJGS Editor): University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain Paul Selden (AJGS Editor): University of Kansas
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famous in California is the so-called 480 "Gem Mine." Here benitoite, BaTiSi 3 0 9 , was discovered...Gem Mine ( 7 ) . It was discovered in 1853 and is second only to ROCKS AND MINERALS New Almadén among...part of the area, for many miles around the Gem Mine, there have been no permanent habitations whatever...of the serpentine about three miles from the Gem Mine ( 8 ) . A few years later (9) an analysis of the...striking of the newly found minerals of the Gem Mine vicinity. Even so no information was available on
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du Québec à Montréal, Département des Sciences de la Terre, C.P. 8888, succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec...of a pluton-hosted lode gold deposit. The Silidor mine contained 2.95 million tons (Mt; mined and estimated...out on the Powell tonalitic sill in the Silidor mine area to reconstruct the deformation before, during...tonalitic plutons (77 t; Carrier, 1994). The Silidor mine was discovered in 1985 by Noranda Exploration, as...Kinojevis Group 48o30' DPFZ Central Noranda Camp Mine Series 48o30' Blake River Group Ke wa ga 48o15'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
here new Ar-Ar dates for adularia, illite, and muscovite from the Twin Creeks Carlin-type deposit. All...avoiding complications caused by detrital illite and muscovite in sedimentary rocks. Interpretation of the illite-age... whereas most illite in the Megapit area and muscovite in alteration zones beneath Chimney Creek formed...events involving formation of illite at 200 Ma and muscovite at about 310 Ma were also observed but were not...date these deposits have focused on fine-grained muscovite and illite on the assumption that they grew during
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México Published online: 19 Mar...Geología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, México Downloaded by [The UC Irvine...XRD patterns) to 2M1 polytype (well-organized, muscovite-like illite in the XRD pattern) occurs in fold-thrust...Jurassic–Early Cretaceous volcaniclastic package (San Juan de la Rosa Formation) and an Early Cretaceous calcareous...fine-grained tuff found at the base of the San Juan de la Rosa Formation. It is sheared in a local detachment
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Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...in Sicily at Girgenti and other areas; also in Spain at Conil. Found frequently around volcanoes in Iceland...elsewhere in Cornwall, England; from Picos de Europa, Spain. Very beautiful crystals, associated with galena...Cornwall, England. Found at La Bufa, Brea Mine, at Wanlockhead Mine Scotland, and also at Wallaroo
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CaribGold Mines, Inc., 1410 Primera Avenida, Playa, La Habana, Cuba ENRIQUE PIÑERO, Empresa Geólogo-Minera...Paleontología, Vía Blanca s/n, San Miguel del Padrón, La Habana, Cuba MIREYA PÉREZ R., Centro de Estudios...Calle 22 entre 1ra. Avenida y Mar, Miramar, Playa, La Habana, Cuba AND JESÚS MOREIRA Instituto de Geología...Paleontología, Vía Blanca s/n, San Miguel del Padrón, La Habana, Cuba Abstract Epithermal precious metal...through Ar/Ar closure temperatures for adularia and muscovite at about 71 Ma and are slightly younger than the
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grey) fills gaps produced by cleavage of foliated muscovite (dark). Right: Kink-banding of layered molybdite...Schafarzikite Ilmenorutile Powellite Davidite(Ce, La, Y) Tapiolite-(Mn) Sphalerite Wurtzite Groutite...Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches suggest otherwise ... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,
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Conglomerate of the Malaguide Complex (Betic Cordilleras, Spain). Implications on Paleotethyan evolution J.J. Esteban...Conglomerate of the Malaguide Complex (Betic Cordilleras, Spain). Implications on Paleotethyan evolution, LITHOS...Conglomerate of the Malaguide Complex (Betic Cordilleras, Spain). Implications on SC RI PT Paleotethyan evolution...País Vasco MA UPV/EHU, Apdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain (* jj.esteban@ehu.es) (2) Departamento de Geología...Geología, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain (3) Geology and Geography Department, Tomsk State
mordenite 119, /2/ morenosite 60 morganite 93 muscovite 104 nadorite 22 nagyagite /4 native elements 4...mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it is found in California...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...Switzerland and at Picos de Europa near Santander in Spain. Very lustrous black crystals of marmatite blende
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mordenite 119, 127 morenosite 60 pyrite 15, 15, 16 muscovite 104 nadorite 22 pyromorphite 68, 68 morganite...mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it is found in California...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...Switzerland and at Picos de Europa near Santander in Spain. Very lustrous black crystals of marmatite
 
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