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Pyrite from
Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France



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Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Comments:Up to five centimeters octahedrons in talc.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dolomite11 photos of Pyrite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Aeschynite-(Y)10 photos of Pyrite associated with Aeschynite-(Y) at this locality.
Calcite5 photos of Pyrite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Xenotime-(Y)3 photos of Pyrite associated with Xenotime-(Y) at this locality.
Iimoriite-(Y)3 photos of Pyrite associated with Iimoriite-(Y) at this locality.
Allanite-(Ce)3 photos of Pyrite associated with Allanite-(Ce) at this locality.
Talc2 photos of Pyrite associated with Talc at this locality.
Bastnäsite-(Ce)1 photo of Pyrite associated with Bastnäsite-(Ce) at this locality.
Titanite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Titanite at this locality.
Chlorite Group1 photo of Pyrite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Photo GalleryView Gallery (10 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:13630
Long-form Identifier:1:3:13630:5
GUID (UUID V4):62d570b1-df31-4d4e-85d5-845fc73572dc
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Trimouns Quarry Luzenac, Ariège, France Freddy Marty Rue de l’Hôpital 11230-Chalabre France In recent...recent decades, the Trimouns quarry has become well known as a source of outstanding crystals of several...contact zone of the Trimouns talc/chlorite deposit, where large-scale mining for talc may now be approaching...approaching its end. INTRODUCTION The Trimouns talc-chlorite deposit is a mineral locality of international...synchisite, parisite, hingganite and iimoriite. Also, Trimouns is the type locality for two recently described
Report (issue)
0.245 [1.34] 0.103 98.780 (1) Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees, H2O calculated...Occurrence: In dolomitic portions of a talc deposit. Association: Pyrite, aeschynite-(Y), dolomite, törnebohmite-(Ce)...dissakisite-(Ce), talc, quartz. Distribution: From the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees... Type Material: Natural History Museum, Paris, France (MNHM 201.228). References: (1) Bonazzi, P., L...Gatelite-(Ce), a new REE-bearing mineral from Trimouns, French Pyrenees: Crystal structure and polysomatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gatelite-(Ce), a new REE-bearing mineral from Trimouns, French Pyrenees: Crystal structure and polysomatic...d’Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France ABSTRACT Gatelite-(Ce), ideally (Ca1REE3)S=4[Al2(Al...newly identified mineral from the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees. The mineral occurs...minerals include pyrite, aeschynite-(Y), dolomite, törnebohmite-(Ce), dissakisite(Ce), talc, and quartz....REE-bearing silicate mineral from the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees, a well-known
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
striated epidotes in matrix, from the Calumet iron mine, Colorado. Epidote was described in 1801 by Haüy...collectors. Within the United States, the Green Monster mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, has yielded superb...quartz (Leavens and Thomssen 1977); the Calumet iron mine, Chaffee County, Colorado, is a notable locale for...quartz and yellow-green titanite, from the Capelinha mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, are relatively inexpensive...Material meeting this definition occurs at Ananai mine, Outoyo (Ohtoyo), Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island
Journal (issue)
Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris , France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ...................... 225...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac, France (see the article beginning on...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
placer deposit), hydrothermal-metasomatic skarns (Trimouns, Bastnäs, Norberg), with an age span of nearly...primary mineral at least in a range from 350 C (Trimouns; Schärer et al., 1999) to 750 C (Ren; Ya’acoby...Association Age Ref. Gatelite-(Ce) Trimouns talc mine, Luzenac, Ariège, France (type locality) aeschynite-(Y)...törnebohmite-(Ce), dissakisite-(Ce), dolomite, talc, quartz, pyrite 100 Ma (a) Västmanlandite-(Ce) Norberg...minerals 1.9–1.8 Ga (g, c, d) Rödbergsgruvan Fe mine, Nora, Örebro, Sweden Biraya REE-Fe ore occurrence
Report (issue)
thalenite (Fusamata, Japan); quartz, albite, siderite, pyrite, °uorite, sphalerite, galena, zircon (Bokan Mountain...Alaska, USA. From the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. Name: For Takeo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clinopyroxenes, amphiboles, phlogopite, chlorite, and talc. Among the accessory minerals in these associations...minerals of these samples are cellular zoned baryte, talc, and clinopyroxene. In Sample 5, piemontite, “ferripiemontite”...almeidaite (4), zincohögbomite (5), and Zn-bearing talc (6) (Sample 7); (c) grains of epidote-supergroup...pfu occur in barite and associate with Zn-bearing talc, zincohögbomite, gahnite, tripuhyite, almeidaite...nosean sanidinite collected in the In den Dellen Mine near the Laacher See (Eifel Mountains, Rheinland-Pfalz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
passive margin setting in the north Pyrenean zone, France B. Corre1 · P. Boulvais1 · M. C. Boiron2 · Y. Lagabrielle1...and the mantle rocks is marked by a metasomatic talc-chlorite layer. This layer formed through the infiltration... Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, F‑35000 Rennes, France 2 GeoRessources, UMR, Université de Lorraine...Aiguillettes, BP 70239, F‑54506 Vandoeuvre‑lès‑Nancy, France 3 Institut des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées...Caledonia, Av. James Cook, BP R4, 98800 Nouméa, France separation. The processes of fluid-rock interactions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MetasomaticTalc and Chlorite Deposits:Trimouns (Pyrenees,France) and Rabenwald(EasternAlps, Austria) BERNARDMOINE...AlldesJulesGuesde,F.31000 Toulouse,France PHILIPPE MOREAU, S. A. Talc de Luzenac, 2 Place Edouard Bouilli3res...Bouilli3res, F.31000 Toulouse,France AND FRANCIS VIGUIER Laboratoirede Mindralogie,U.A. 67 du CentreNationalde...31000 Toulouse,France Abstract The Trimouns(FrenchPyrenees)andRabenwald(AustrianAlps)talc andchloritedeposits...surfaces of tectonicslicing)of late Hercynian(Trimouns)andAlpine(Rabenwald) age.The studyof the mineralassemblages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Can. Mineral., 13, 178by defined only those hann mine near Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany. The mineral...famousChinesepharmacologist(1518-1593).Type maciated with pyrite, sphalerite,kirkiite, galena,tennantite, is at...spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and in vugsin pegmatiteat the Dunton Gem mine, Newry,...pipelike to tubular ag- dolomitic rock in the Trimouns talc deposit, 6 km north gregates gaveSrO 51.4,CaO...CaO 5.5,BaO 2.3,MgO 4.6, MnO of Luzenac, Aridge, France. Trimounsite-(Y) occurs as 0.2, FeO 0.2, P20s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montroc fluorite deposit, southern Massif Central, France Received: 2 September 2004 / Accepted: 27 October...fluorite vein deposit (southern Massif Central, France) defines an age of 111±13 Ma. Initial Nd of 8.6...Isochron age Æ Fluorite Æ Cretaceous Æ Montroc Æ France Introduction The Albigeois region to the north...Sabatier, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France E-mail: mmunoz@lmtg.obs-mip.fr W. R. Premo US Geological...distributed chalcopyrite lenses associated with scarce pyrite, forms the pre-economic stage of mineralization
Journal (issue)
Collector's Newsletter Micromineralogy of the Leiser Ray Mine, San Bernardino County, California Paul M. Adams...Avenue #2 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 The Leiser Ray Mine is located in Sections 15 & 22, Tl IN, R 18E, about...Main and Louisiana-California. Fred Leiser was the mine manager for the Louisiana-California Mining Company...Company (C!oudman, et al, 19 19). The Leiser Ray Mine was the only deposit worked primarily for vanadium...ha~ som_e humongous beryllonites, from the Telinio Mine, Linopolts. Minas Gerais and astonishing large helvites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fluorite, galena and sphalerite, whilst chalcopyrite, pyrite, sulphosalts, haematite, magnetite, carbonates...fluorite with minor quantities of chalcopyrite and pyrite occurring at the calcite selvage. Debon and Zimmermann...which postdates the former minerals as well as rare pyrite, sphalerite, galena and siderite. It should be...mainly consisting of scheelite and pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite, 2) As– Au skarn developed following...at roof-pendants. Ore mineralogy is made up of pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characterized by the mineral assemblage kyanite ? talc (?-quartz or coesite). We demonstrate that whiteschist...feldspar, or omphacite are formed instead of kyanite or talc. Furthermore, the stability field of the whiteschist...the characteristic mineral assemblage kyanite ? talc, which had undergone highpressure metamorphism (i...Petrol protoliths have been suggested for kyanite-talc-bearing rocks, including metapelites, acid volcanics...becomes evident that rocks with the mineral assemblage talc ? kyanite characteristically form at elevated pressures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
event at the basin/basement unconformity in western France: 40Ar/ 39Ar and K–Ar dating, fluid chemistry, and...Sciences, B.P. 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, Université de Rennes1...Cedex, France LHyGeS, UMR 7517 CNRS, EOST/UdS, 1, rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France d LGSM...K–Ar dating Oxfordian to Tithonian times Western France a b s t r a c t The Malm–Lower Cretaceous period...deformations, and of heat and mass transfers in western France, although numerous evidences of such transfers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
found in a small copper mine at Bastnäs, known as S:t Göransgruvan (“St. George’s mine”). This material is...(Geijer 1927). Sulfide mineralization, with mainly pyrite, molybdenite and chalcopyrite, is locally important...6 m thick and less than 10 m long (Geijer 1921). Talc and quartz appear locally. Sulfide minerals, dominantly...magnetite ore with sulfide impregnations (mainly pyrite), associated with diversi- 1075 fied skarn-type...comprising, e.g., tremolite, cummingtonite, almandine, talc, micas and chlorite minerals (Geijer & Magnusson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crescencia mines) or siliciclastic rocks (Solita Mine), whereas the footwall is formed by black shales...small Ni occurrence in Devonian terranes (Crescencia mine; Fanlo et al., 2006). These studies demonstrated...textural relationships among ore minerals in Crescencia mine display signs of re-equilibration processes, which...occurrences hosted by Triassic red beds (Solita mine) and (b) deposits hosted by Palaeozoic metasomatized...the studied deposits 2.2.1. Solita mine It is a small abandoned mine that can be considered as a world-class
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net SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 Articles The Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England............containing a wet and dry cave environment and a mine. He was active in the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society...TRINCHILLO TOURMALINE WITH LEPIDOLITE Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil 16 cm | w w w.FineMineral.com Fine... /crystal.classics.fine.minerals The Dry Gill Mine Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England Peter S. Burr...to green, barrel-shaped crystals at the Dry Gill mine in Cumbria, England. It is among the most attractive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sill and gold mineralization at the Mt Charlotte mine, Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western...(YPO4), which co-exists with gold in alteration pyrite, provided a Pb/Pb isochron age of 2,655 ± 13 Ma...to date hydrothermal mineral deposits, including talc (Schärer et al. 1999), gold (Salier et al. 2004;...40Ar/39Ar dating of mica inclusions in hydrothermal pyrite from Mt Charlotte, which gives an age of 2,594...folded Golden Mile Dolerite in the Mt Charlotte mine (Kent and McDougall 1995). The folds are displaced
Book (volume)
Emberger and the following national chapters: France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Spain by F. Vazquez... Zr, Mn, Al, Mg, REEs Non-metallic commodiries Pyrite, sulphur, phosphates, borates, potash, salt, diamond...graphite, quartz, calcite, mica, feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite, celesrine, gypsum, anhydrite...Romania and Yugoslavia; and Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an...of large sedimentary basins Conclusions 30 31 France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Introduction 37
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Carletonville goldfield) and 095-349 (Western Areas mine, West Rand goldfield). B. Rasmussen, J.R. Muhling...along sedimentation and erosion surfaces, of which pyrite, chromite, zircon, uraninite and gold are the most...grain from a heavy mineral seam containing rounded pyrite (pyr). B: Closeup of monazite in A (inset) showing...grain (within box) amongst other heavy minerals (pyrite [pyr] and chromite [chr]) in a quartz sandstone...drill-hole 095-349, South Deeps 95 level, Western Areas mine, West Rand goldfield, Central Rand Group. B. Rasmussen
Journal (issue)
., No 1. Mimetite, variety Campylite, Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria . _ ... Specimen: 135...8ISHOPTON DIARY OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson...within the altered lava where it is associated with pyrite and occasional chalcopyrite. Rare but close associates...hemacite, and more rarely, greenockite. Rarechlorite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, and galena tend co occur...(Telephone 0872 223227). August 2nd: Visit to Dufron Mine, Dufton, near Appleby. Meet at Dufton Village municipal
Book
IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning of...of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the superb specimens...yttrium silicate-carbonate iimoriite-(Y) occurs at Trimouns as colorless, pink and pale brown, translucent...crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug in 1997...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's
Book (edition)
reviews, the 'fan mail' from places as far apart as France, California, Japan, New Zealand and Spain and the...better description for them since they include pyrite and pyrrhotite, minerals that are discarded in...communities to be plunged into unemployment because a mine or mines have become unprofitable, a need to earn...Mexico', 'nickel rush in Western Australia', but never talc fever or sulphur stampede! The poor old industrial...Magnesite Chromium orcs and concentrates Copper Talc Zinc Bentonite Tonnage (Mt) 10 250 4656 2838 1033
 
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