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Diopside from
Kilbourne Hole, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA


Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Forsterite4 photos of Diopside associated with Forsterite at this locality.
Enstatite4 photos of Diopside associated with Enstatite at this locality.
Spinel2 photos of Diopside associated with Spinel at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kilbourne Hole, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:125464
Long-form Identifier:1:3:125464:8
GUID (UUID V4):27c0b100-ffe9-4c69-82e6-55432401b2ae
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
46.0km (28.6 miles) Fusselman Canyon, Franklin Mountains (Franklin Range), El Paso County, Texas, USA
61.8km (38.4 miles) Memphis Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
64.0km (39.8 miles) Ben Nevis Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
64.5km (40.1 miles) Quickstrike Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
64.9km (40.3 miles) Ophelia claim, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
64.9km (40.3 miles) Iron Mask claim, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
65.2km (40.5 miles) Merrimac Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
69.6km (43.2 miles) Spurrite skarn lens, South Peak (South Sisters Peak), Tres Hermanas Mining District, Tres Hermanas Mountains, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
93.6km (58.2 miles) Cinco De Mayo Mine, Orogrande Mining District (Jarilla Mining District), Otero County, New Mexico, USA
93.7km (58.2 miles) Three Bears mine, Orogrande Mining District (Jarilla Mining District), Otero County, New Mexico, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona or New Mexico would be the places to start. One of the best places in New Mexico is a short distance...far from the Mexico border in Dona Ana County. The locality is known as Kilbourne Hole and has been a...label stated that it was from Knippa in Medina County and that it was collected in 1939 by H. Cook, Don’s...knew that Knippa is not in Medina County but in adjacent Uvalde County. Knippa is about 70 miles west of...San Antonio on Interstate 10. Although the Uvalde County bedrock is mostly composed of sedimentary rocks
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xenoliths from the Rio Puerco Volcanic Field, New Mexico, were analyzed for oxygen isotope ratios by laser...throughout the Rio Puerco xenolith suite and at Kilbourne Hole in the southern Rio Grande rift. The discrete...Sciences, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2040, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA E-mail: zsharp@unm.edu...Introduction The Rio Puerco Volcanic Field (RPVF) in New Mexico straddles the boundary between the Colorado Plateau...oxygen isotope data from mantle xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole (this study), in the southern Rio Grande rift
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xenoliths and the nature of the mantle at Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico Dexter Perkins • Elizabeth Y. Anthony...The models, when applied to xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, constrain P and T of equilibration and are...tightly constrained pressure estimates for Kilbourne Hole, placing the xenoliths in the spinel stability...been maintained. Keywords Mantle  Xenolith  Kilbourne Hole  Peridotite  Rio Grande Rift Introduction...Cornell Street Stop 8358, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8358, USA e-mail: dexter.perkins@und.edu E. Y. Anthony Department
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rocks in the Pinacate volcanic field, northwestern Mexico D.J. Lynch a, T.E. Musselman a, J.T. G u t m a...Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA bDepartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences,... Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457, USA (Received February 18, 1992; revised and accepted August...rocks in the Pinacate volcanic field, northwestern Mexico. Lithos, 29: 294-302. Six volcanic rocks, reconnaissance...area of the southwestern USA. We consider the comparison to other southwestern USA magma sources as the more
Report (issue)
assemblages in a suite of xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico . 25 Edward L. Dromgoole and Jill D...related rocks from Westland and Otago, South Island, New Zealand . Barbara A. Barreiro and Alan F. Cooper...A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...Potash Sulfur Springs igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard
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Observatory, Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, USA, 10964 of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds...for 22 peridotite xenoliths from the USA (Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico), Tanzania, and Cameroon. For a subset...to as light as -0.38‰. The δ60/58Ni in the Kilbourne Hole xenoliths correlate negatively with bulk-rock...xenoliths selected for this study came from New Mexico, USA (n=18), Tanzania (n=7), and Cameroon (n=5)...presented in Tables A1 and A2. 2.1 Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA Kilbourne Hole (31°59’N, 106°57’W) is a volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and )213 (±47) kJmol)1 for orthopyroxene from Kilbourne Hole. Long-term hydration experiments did not lead...from spinel lherzolite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, and Hoher Hagen, Germany. Another task...from spinel lherzolite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole (New Mexico) and Hoher Hagen (Germany) were prepared...unsuccessful trials. The prepared crystals from Kilbourne Hole and En7 (synthetic) measured approximately...synthetic enstatite and from orthopyroxene from Kilbourne Hole, and the prepared crystal from Hoher Hagen
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TX 77004, USA 2 Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center, Mail Code XI3, Houston, TX 77058, USA; anne.h.peslier@nasa...University of South Carolina, Columbia SC, 29208, USA 4 Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole (KH) and Rio Puerco (RP) along the Rio Grande Rift (NM, USA) were analyzed...xenoliths come from two localities in New Mexico, Kilbourne Hole (KH) in the southern Rio Grande Rift...the mantle lithosphere beneath the southwestern USA by the Farallon subduction has been inferred west
Report (issue)
the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...Alaska Distribution Section, U.S. Geological Survey, New Federal Building - Box 12 101 Twelfth Ave., Fairbanks...Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center . FAIRBANKS, Alaska-New Federal Bldg., 101 Twelfth Ave. Mafic and Ultramafic...elements ------------------Cr-diopside group -----------------Composite Cr-diopside peridotite and Al-augite...isotopes- ------------------Sr isotopes of the Cr-diopside group --------Sr isotopes of the Al-augite group
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and Edward W. Boehm Kilbourne Hole Peridot John K. Fuhrbach 1V. R. 16 NOTES AND NEW TECHNIQUES 28 Opal...Opal from Querktaro, Mexico: Fluid Inclusion Study 35 43 Ronald J. Spencer, Alfred A. Levinson, and Iohn...dislinctive orange to red ''fie" opols ot Queretoro, Mexico, is believed to be unique. To help solve the lnyslery...opal. The buckle is courtesy of R. Esmerian, Inc., New York. The 80.12-ct rough opol ond the 16.27-ct cabochon...place goes to an article that explained important new theories on diamond formation: "Age, Origin, and
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symmetry) from Kilbourne Hole, NM have been determined. In terms of end-members, diopside (CaMgSi2O6),...Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA, Fax: +1(206)543-0489, e-mail: brown@geophys.washington...clinopyroxenes jadeite (Kandelin and Weidner 1988b), diopside (Levien et al. 1979), and hedenbergite (Kandelin...mantle are based on interpolation between jadeite, diopside, and hedenbergite moduli. Furthermore, in the...natural clinopyroxene (C2/c symmetry) from Kilbourne Hole, N.M. using the ISS method. Hashin-Strickman
Report (issue)
Schwarzman 1 Menlo Park, California 9^025 2 Woods Hole, Massachusetts 025^3 , Columbia South Carolina 29208... 12 Cr-diopside Group............................................... 12 Composite Cr-diopside peridotite-Al-augite............................. 14 Sr isotopes, Cr-diopside group.................................. 14 Sr...pyroxene groups....... 15 Sr, Nd isotopes, Cr-diopside group.............................. 15 Sr, Nd...Nd isotopes, composite xenoliths, Cr-diopside and Al-augite groups....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separated from spinel lherzolites from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA demonstrate that two discrete populations...Zindler and Hart, 1986; Os mass balance in Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths Hofmann, 1997) has been...suite of 28 peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA. We demonstrate that the behaviour...SETTING, PETROLOGY AND PETROGRAPHY OF SAMPLES Kilbourne Hole is one of several late Pleistocene volcanic...through Colorado, New Mexico and Texas in the USA and onwards into Chihuahua, northern Mexico. The petrology
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Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 ABSTRACT New analyses of K, Rb, Sr and Ba contents and the 87Sr/86Sr...Massif Central, France: Queensland; Spring Mountain, New South Wales. The data indicate that kaersutitic amphiboles...for source material of ridge tholeiites. If the diopside and the amphibole in this rock had isotopically...phlogopite and diopside in the spine1 lherzolite inclusion from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, show, surprisingly...phfogopites have low K/Rb ratios. The coexisting diopside shows high K content (778 ppm) and a lower R/Rb
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Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, 80401 USA E-mail: rwendlan@mines.edu Y. Kil (&) Isotope Research...through New Mexico to Presidio, Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico. The three study areas, Kilbourne Hole in the...relationships to the rift axis. With the exception of Kilbourne Hole, xenolith localities selected for study in...Padovani (1977) not been investigated in detail. Kilbourne Hole contains a large variety of crustal and mantle...at 80 (±10) ka (Bussod and Williams 1991). Kilbourne Hole xenoliths have been extensively studied (Padovani
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deposits from the Barrington basalt province in New South Wales, one typical of East Australian sapphire...Figure 1: Distribution province, 250 of of Sydney, New South Wales. Corundum/zircon suites suites are marked...by inclined province, 250kmkmnorth north Sydney, New South Wales. Corundum/zircon are marked by inclin...from central Queensland (Anakie Fields) and New South Wales (New England Fields) and from East Pailin. Pallin...shield volcano in eroded New South South Wales within within the Cainozoic New Figure 3: Working eluvial/alluvial
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Gem & Mineral Show - Spring May 10 - 11 - 12, 2019 NEW LOCATION! HILTON COSTA MESA 3050 Bristol St. Costa...and more! Neptunite Benitoite Gem Mine San Benito County,CA Martin Zinn Collection Photo by Jeff Scovil...grains of while others of the same species do diopside uoresces under a ello s ort a e ra chalcedony...water that is never pure. is Adamite from Mapimi, Mexico. This species is Water, especially the super-hot...activators. Among the zinc deposits in New Jersey. Franklin, New Jersey is, in most prevalent are the uranyl
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between coexisting opx and cpx observed in Kilbourne Hole and San Carlos peridotites. 1. INTRODUTION...δ44Caopx - δ44Cacpx) in mantle peridotites from Kilbourne Hole and San Carlos, 0.75‰ vs. ~ 0.37‰, respectively...in opx (Fig.4). The effect of variable Ca/Mg in diopside (cpx) is not considered because of its limited...that a small change in Ca/Mg from 0.028 in Kilbourne Hole opx to 0.037 in San Carlos opx accompanies...(2010b) reported that the average δ44Ca of opx in Kilbourne Hole and San Carlos mantle peridotites are 1.73±0
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the western Mogollon-Datil volcanic region, New Mexico, USA Michael Bikerman ~, Keith Bell z and Jeffrey... Universityof Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 2 Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University...primary magma, with isotopic ratios of the Kilbourne Hole, N. M., basanire, and the other an upper crust...Mogollon-Datil volcanic field in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1), covers about 40,000 km 2 (Ratt6 et...the ratio of 1:5. Furthermore they estimated the aNa at 1.7 Ga at + 5. Futa and Ratt4 (1989) working on
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University...University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Received 6 July 2006; received in revised form 3 May 2007;...Background The lithospheric mantle beneath El Peñon, Mexico, has been influenced by several subduction regimes...the East Mexico Arc that were emplaced into older basement when this region of central Mexico was part...subduction along this margin may have stalled as a new margin was created with the accretion of the Guerrero
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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
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systematics of peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico Jason Harvey a,⇑, Stephan König b, Ambre...abundances in peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA, potentially provides valuable insights...S-undersaturated melt. Despite these observations, the Kilbourne Hole peridotite xenoliths have HSE systematics that...characterized peridotite xenoliths from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, USA – the first comprehensive study of HSE...phases, or the precipitation of new ones. These two sub-sets of Kilbourne Hole peridotites are evaluated for
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orthopyroxenes, with higher F in xenocrysts from Kilbourne Hole (46 ppm) and South African kimberlites (up...better. Higher accuracy (±1°) is estimated for diopside 62047-70B, which was originally oriented by X‑ray...(1975); Skogby et al. (1990) ZM1cpxHT Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, – 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 This study U.S.A. (dehydrated)...1461(39) 208(19) 173(20) 263(24) Johnson et al. (2002) New York, U.S.A. PMR-53 Premier Mine, S. Africa 3.339(17)...486(48) 423(70)‡ 356(35) Bell et al. (2004) KBH-2 Kilbourne Hole, 3.361(7) 1117(145) 1437(72) 1397(84) 3950(182)
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revision accepted 9 May 1994 Abstract The pargasite/diopside partition coefficients (D) for the rare-earth...coefficients of edenitic-pargasitic hornblende/diopside pairs from East Eifel xenoliths have higher values...peridotites of suite la consist of olivine, Cr-diopside, enstatite, spinel and pargasite, but some samples...(Table 1 ). The clinopyroxenes (Table 2) are of Cr-diopside to endiopside composition and vary in Cr/(Cr+A1)...and kaersutite KHSOA megacrysts from Kilbourne Hole, New Mexico, U.S.A. (Irving and Frey, 1984). As well
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2004 Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/04 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA GEMOC ARC National...Puerco volcanic field; EB, Elephant Butte; KH, Kilbourne Hole; PM, Potrillo maar; SC, San Carlos; GVF, Geronimo...Rio Grande rift (Fig. 1). Potrillo Maar and Kilbourne Hole west of El Paso, Texas both contain an array...locality and one felsic paragneiss xenolith from Kilbourne Hole. Two small spinel lherzolite samples were collected
 
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