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Fluorapatite from
Gypsum Quarry, Arignac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gypsum Quarry, Arignac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1577248
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1577248:4
GUID (UUID V4):05aced41-4668-45b8-b823-d4a532646e1c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...The deposit is located in the Ariège Departement of southwestern France, 6 km northeast of the village...reference to the three peaks that overlook the quarry. Langue d’Oc is a regional language of Latin The...today in southern France, in the region known as Languedoc—the equivalent in northern France is langue d’oïl
Journal (issue)
localities are given in the captions. Figure 5. Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca...photo. Reference: Cassedanne (1986). Figure 12. Fluorapatite with albite and muscovite, 6.1 cm, from the...volume 54, January–February, 2023 Figure 25. Fluorapatite, 5.4 cm, from the Sapo mine, Ferruginha, Conselheiro...Cassedanne and Cassedanne (1978). Figure 76. Fluorapatite with muscovite, 10.8 cm, from the Sapo mine...volume 54, January–February, 2023 Figure 95. Fluorapatite (dark green) with muscovite, 8.5 cm, from the
Journal (issue)
photo. Bottom row, from left: Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine...Scovil photo. Sulfur, 11.1 cm, from the Scofield quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan. Robert Mosley...November–December, 2020 25 Tom & Melissa Campbell Fluorapatite on tantalite-(Fe), 6 cm, from the Shigar Valley...Guaratinga, Bahia, Brazil. Beth Van Allen photo. Fluorapatite on albite with elbaite, 6.9 cm, from the Golconda...November–December, 2020 The Carabas Collection Gypsum, 13 cm, from Salinas de Otuma, Paracas, Pisco,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry: dolomite, barite, strontianite; S. Troy, Bethlehem...microcline (sunstone), magnetite, quartz, fluorite, fluorapatite; C. Lyon Mountain, Chateaugay iron mines (44°43'02"N...73°54'39"W): hastingsite, fluoro-edenite, fluorapatite, biotite, calcite, gypsum, microcline, augite, stilbite,...phlogopite, uvite; C. Hammondsville: carbonate fluorapatite (“eupychroite”), uvite-dravite; F, C. Keene...Minerva Lake: scapolite, vesuvianite, augite, fluorapatite, wollastonite; C. Port Henry: quartz (rose)
Book (volume)
colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway airport at rd...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...US 27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;...W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N: (a) at the Marble Springs Quarrygemmy marble (red and green); (b) E, in Taylor...Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline, Zeolites;  Rock Chapel Quarry, on N side of Arabia Mt.Calcite, Epidote, Fluorite
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Record. Fluorite, 2.8 cm, from Joe Larkin’s quarry, Shannapheasteen, County Galway, Ireland. Christi...and calcite, 13.3 cm, from the Upper New Street quarry, Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey. Ex Peter...district, Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Gard, Occitanie, France. Lavone Archer collection; Jeff Scovil photo...Boyacá Department, Colombia. Jeff Scovil photo. Fluorapatite with albite, 10.1 cm, from the Sapo mine, Ferruginha...Namibia. Ex Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo. Gypsum after calcite pseudomorphs with ktenasite inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nitrocalcite (Barr 1961). 302 ROCKS & MINERALS Taylor quarry, 0.3 mile NE of the junction of Hinds Creek and...Mill: nitrocalcite (Matthews 1971). Shelbyville quarry, SE on U.S. 41A: rectorite (as main clay mineral...pyrite, sulfur (powdery) (Whitlatch 1940). Holladay quarry, 1.3 miles ENE of Holladay: dolomite crystals....streambed on SW side: barite, fluorite, galena. Menefee quarry, NW of Nashville: anhydrite, celestine (Hershey...and Wilcox 1968). Nashville area: carbonate-fluorapatite (cellophane) deposits in Bigby Cannon Limestone
Journal (issue)
Utah, Arizona and Mexico, and also traveled to France, Spain, Greece and Turkey. Once their collection...illustrated in his 1972 article on the Fairfax quarry in the Mineralogical Record, and on page 255 of...favorite collecting spots was the famous Auglaize quarry in Paulding County, Ohio. He kept meticulous records...large quarry hundreds of specimens were found and how their habits varied. His report on the quarry, coauthored...last minute that they needed to go to the Portage quarry on Jay’s birthday in 2001. Jay feared his mother
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
County, but smaller), calcite (yellow crystals), gypsum (crystals) (Campbell. Campbell, and Roberts 1987)...prwn ina4ses), graftmite* (reddish-brown mitsses). gypsum (cry+ tals), heterosite, hureaulite" (microcrystals)...terminated crystals), columbite-tantr?lite. fluorapatite, heterosite, microcline, muscovite (mined),...elbaite (dark green crystals with dark blue rims), fluorapatite (greenish-gray masses), heterosite, hureaulite*...berylzb(pale green, part pcniinj crystals), biotite, fluorapatite, heterosite. hureaulitc. liilliiigitc (nodules)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1: Calcite, longest crystal 2 mm, Ladd quarry, Cartersville, Bartow County. Jennings Gordon specimen...chalcopyrite, cryptomelane, cuprite, goethite, gypsum, halloysite, hematite, hollandite, hyalite, opal...and Cement Company quarry—4 km southwest of Cartersville on the east slope of Quarry Mountain: aragonite...aragonite, calcite, dolomite. Marquette Cement quarry—5.6 km east of Kingston on south side of S.R. 20: calcite...southeast of Kingston: niter (Goff, 1959). Shinall quarry—1.6 km north of White: calcite, dolomite. Stamp
Journal (issue)
V. (1996) The minerals of Cornwall Countybridge quarry, Goonhilly downs, the Lizard 17:25-28 INGRAM, S...from Ardownie quarry 14:17-20 __ TODD, J.G. & ANDERSON, D. (1992) Pyrite from Goat Quarry 11:8-10 IXER...18:15 GRIGG, M. (1996) Wulfenite from Greystones quarry, Cornwall 16:13 HACKER, C.M. (1997) Rutile from...Mine, Nyngan azurite 17:15 copper 17:15 Prospect Quarry prehnite 19:10 NORTHERN TERRITORY Harts Range,...Mine augite 19:28 calcite 19:28 goethite 19:28 gypsum 19:28 quartz 19:28 Mount Glorious Mine, Cloncurry
Journal (issue)
row, from left) Mesolite, 5.1 cm, from the F-Line quarry, Washington; John Cornish collection. Elbaite,...Fluorite, 9 cm, from Valzerques, Aveyron, Occataine, France. 16 Supplement to the Mineralogical Record, September–October...babingtonite), to the dumps at Strickland, to the Gillette quarry (for beryls), to the local Tolland County schist...Record, September–October, 2019 23 Bruce Carter Gypsum (selenite), 16.8 cm, from the Naica mine, Naica...Farges mine, Ussel, Corrèze, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Jeff Scovil photo. Dolomite epimorph after calcite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
it includes some world-class localities, such as gypsum crystals from Ellsworth and flint from Flint Ridge...indicators of salinity conditions (e.g., nodular gypsum forms in waters of high salinity). Some concretions...Silurian, Devonian, and Mississippi limestones gypsum gypsum tafite haritc. pyrite, qu phosphatic c...covered with marcasite crystals, Melvin Stone Co. quarry near Williamsport, Pickaway County. Figure 5....the surfaces of some chert nodules. Gypsum Nodules: Nodules of gypsum occur in shaly dolostones of the Late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aggregates in intermixed calcite, carbonate-fluorapatite, and variable amounts of clay minerals dominated...dominated by smectite (montmorillonite), gypsum, barite, halite and fluorite. The porosity of the host rock...occurs within the crystal structure of carbonate fluorapatite and substitutes for Ca (Khoury 2006; Abed 2012)...rich in fluorellestadite or sulphate-bearing fluorapatite, ye’elimite, and of opaque minerals (brownmillerite...fermentation of the organic matter. Secondary goethite, gypsum and Se-rich minerals were precipitated in later
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Israel 3 Mines Douai, LGCgE-GCE, F-59508 Douai, France 1 Abstract Ye’elimite-larnite rocks in the Hatrurim...ye’elimite, 7–15 vol% ferrites, and 15–20 vol% fluorapatite and/or fluorellestadite. A few grains of hatrurite...with randomly distributed clay, phosphorite, and gypsum may be utilized as cheap naturally homogenized...wastes, low-quality pulverized coal fly ashes, gypsum from flue-gas desulfurization (Zhang et al. 1999...various F- and/or P-bearing compounds notably fluorapatite, fluorellestadite, and cuspidine, etc. (3) The
Book (volume)
crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal Glen Creek NAUVOO...ELIZABETHTOWN, NE 2 mi., at the Meshberger Stone Co. quarry⎯Calcite (fluorescent, UV pink-blue type), Fluorite...CASS COUNTY LOGANSPORT, E 2½ mi., the France Stone Co. quarry⎯Apatite (associated with collophane), Calcite...preserved). DECATUR COUNTY NEW POINT, N 1 mi., a stone quarry⎯Chalcopyrite (as tiny crystals encrusting blackish
Book (volume)
crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch Crystal Glen Creek NAUVOO...ELIZABETHTOWN, NE 2 mi., at the Meshberger Stone Co. quarry⎯Calcite (fluorescent, UV pink-blue type), Fluorite...CASS COUNTY LOGANSPORT, E 2½ mi., the France Stone Co. quarry⎯Apatite (associated with collophane), Calcite...preserved). DECATUR COUNTY NEW POINT, N 1 mi., a stone quarry⎯Chalcopyrite (as tiny crystals encrusting blackish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phosphate mineralogy is comprised of carbonate-fluorapatite, associated with quartz, glauconite, smectite...Upper Cenomanian sequence exposed at the Pecínov quarry (Pecínov Member of the Peruc-Korycany Formation)...in several European countries including Russia, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, and...phosphate-bearing sections: (1) Pecínov quarry, (2) Plaňany quarry, (3) Nová Ves quarry, phosphate-bearing sections:...sections: (1) Pecínov quarry, (2) Plaňany(6)quarry, (3)Podkrkonoší, Nová Ves quarry, (4) Česká (4) Česká Třebová
Report (issue)
quite, like the famous old-timers from Chessy, France. The three thumbnails which Rob picked up and now...Queensland; and amethyst crystals coating a crystal of fluorapatite, from the Mt. Elliott mine in Queensland. Also...little-known locality is an abandoned road-fill quarry where the quartz crystals are found in pockets...from Chibougamau, Québec; a host of big, flaring gypsum specimens from the Red River Floodway in Manitoba;...Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. (The Faylor-Middlecreek is a road-fill quarry in limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The pocket also produced gem-quality diopside, fluorapatite, and tremolite crystals. Adding to their uniqueness...1. Axinite-(Mg) from the pocket of the De2. Fluorapatite* cember 2007 discovery at 3. Chabazite-Ca the...generations) cies (fig. A). The piece is rich 6. Gypsum* 7. Laumontite in diopside, which occurs as 8....species, small pyrite crystals, and well-formed gypsum (variety selenite) crystals (fig. 10). Other species...microcrystals, in these minerals as well as in fluorapatite (Long et al. 2013) and quartz. 158 ROCKS &
Book
.......................... 3 Jeffrey Sandstone Quarry, Pulaski County....... 4 Granite Mountain, Pulaski...Pike County.... 9 Highland Gypsum Mine, Howard County......... . 9A Briar Gypsum Mine, Howard County.......and the Branch................ B. Kimzey Calcite Quarry................................... C. Perovskite...Brookite Deposit........................ J. Diamond Jo Quarry........................................... K. Mo-Ti...Mines, Southeast Polk County.......... Ben Hogan Quarry, Lawrence County................. .80 ,83 86
Other Paper
Introduction…………………………………………………………………... 17 Kimzey Calcite Quarry………………………………………………………. 18 Perovskite Hill………………………………………………………………...Locations………………………………………………………………... 21 Diamond Jo Quarry…………………………………………………………... 21 Eudialyte Syenite...Minerals……………………………………………………………….. 24 Martin Marietta Jones Mill Quarry………………………………………….. 27 Pseudoleucite Crystals and...Cove area…………………………………………………………………….. Diamond Jo Quarry…………………………………………………………………... Lime-silicate Pit...Pits……………………………………………………………………... Kimzey Calcite Quarry………………………………………………………………. Kimzey Magnetite Mine
Book (edition)
FILLOWITE-Hydrous manganese iron sodium phosphate 3 I FLUORAPATITE-Calcium fluophosphate FLUORITE-Calcium fluoride...uranium oxide of doubtful and variable composition GYPSUM-Hydrous calcium sulfate -HHARMOTOME-ln parijhydrous...found in the aegirite-granite at the Flatrock (Quarry in Waterford. Its color is dull black to brownish...University, New Haven, Connecticut. At the Strickland Quarry in Middlesex County, ambly­ gonite occurs as white...can be found as fine specimens at the Strickland1 Quarry in Portland, and on Jail Hill in Haddam. • Geologists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
species list grew to include siderite, rhodochrosite, gypsum, zircon, and cassiterite. It occurred to us that...the Chickering mine is not a mine but rather a quarry. To be consistent with historical references, we...associated with quartz, muscovite, albite, and fluorapatite. It has been confirmed by EDS analysis. Childrenite...(right). A 0.7-mm childrenite crystal group with fluorapatite sphere. secondary phosphates including wardite...such as the Dunton mine in Newry and the Mt. Mica quarry in Paris. Ferrisicklerite is an earthy brown alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed...elpidite, eudialyte, fluorite, franconite, galena, gypsum, hochelagaite, hematite, lavenite, leifite, lorenzenite... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production...documented, if at all. Most of the material from the quarry was evidently used in the construction of an adjacent...smoky quartz; a very pale pink microcrystal of fluorapatite in the form of a short hexagonal prism terminated
 
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