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Forsterite from
Alta Mine, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alta Mine, Little Cottonwood Mining District, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:186623
Long-form Identifier:1:3:186623:0
GUID (UUID V4):3d3839bf-3054-4825-bf0b-240e197a388e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE COTTONWOOD-AMERICAN FORK AREA, UTAH BY F. C. CALKINS AND B. S. BUTLER...Petrographic details_______________ Granodiorite (Alta stock)________________ General character and occurrence-____...details____ _____________ Quartz monzonite (Little Cottonwood stock)-___-_._____--___-_-___________ General...lime__----_____-------_----_____-__ Diorite of Big Cottonwood Creek_________ Lamprophyric dikes__.._---_----_-_-...---54 General features.______________-_---_--54 Alta thrust zone.__--___________-----__55 Columbus o
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
513-525, 1994 Contact metamorphismsurroundingthe Alta stock Thermal constraintsand evidenceof advectiveheat...Geology and Geophysics,University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 841 12, U.S.A. Ansrnc,cr Metamorphism...dolomites in the contact aureole of the mid-Tertiary Alta stock has produced a series of isograds with increasing...increasing metamorphic grade: talc, tremolite, forsterite, clinohumite, and periclase.Calcite + dolomite...temperature regime in the southern portion of the Alta aureole was affectedsignificantly by advective heat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Evergreen Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507...84408-2507 PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material;...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades
Report (issue)
GUIDEBOOI( OF NORTHERN UTAH Edited by Mead LeRoy Jensen Kennecott's Bingham Canyon mine, the world's largest...of Utah's fore~ost industry - copper production. UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL SURVEY affiliated with...AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 82 • PRICE $4.00 • MAY... Norman C. Williams . • 17 PREHISTORIC MAN IN UTAH by fohn P. Marwitt 21 A SUMMARY, References ...View of the deposits of Danger Cave near Wendover Utah . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Cluster of Basketmaker
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
513–533, 2001 Boron metasomatism of the Alta stock contact aureole, Utah: Evidence from borates, mineral chemistry...77005-1892, U.S.A. ABSTRACT Geochemical study of the Alta stock and adjacent contact aureole rocks provides...skarns, and in marbles up to 500 m from the stock. Forsterite, clinohumite, lizardite, and malachite contain...magmatic fluids emanating from the Alta pluton could supply most B in the Alta aureole. It is estimated that...Heinrich 1998). Recent studies of the Alta stock contact aureole, Utah, have shown that fluid infiltration
Report (issue)
Professional Paper Ill THE ORE ~DEPOSITS OF UTAH BY B. S. BUTLER, G. F. LOUGHLIN, V. C. HEIKES.......................................... ·. .... Lake deposits..........................................81 83 84 84 85 87 87 87 87 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF UTAH. By B. S. BuTLER. PART !._:_GENERAL FEATURES. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. reports are those on the Mercur district, by J. E. Spurr and S. F. Emmons; the Bingham... began district, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and field work on the ore deposits of Utah in the S
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds, etc...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crandall Ave, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Xanthophyllite has been found near the Mountain Lake mine, Big Cottonwood...Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. Xanthophyllite occurs as small, deep green, tabular, pseudohexagonal...contact of dolomite with two intrusive masses—the Alta stock of granodiorire and the Clayton Peak stock...leather, diopside, idocrase, grossular, phlogopite, forsterite, aragonite, epidote, monticellite, szaibelyite...Minerals noted in this rock include periclase, forsterite, brucite, hydromagnesite and rarely, artinite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crandall Ave, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Xanthophyllite has been found near the Mountain Lake mine, Big Cottonwood...Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. Xanthophyllite occurs as small, deep green, tabular, pseudohexagonal...contact of dolomite with two intrusive masses—the Alta stock of granodiorire and the Clayton Peak stock...leather, diopside, idocrase, grossular, phlogopite, forsterite, aragonite, epidote, monticellite, szaibelyite...Minerals noted in this rock include periclase, forsterite, brucite, hydromagnesite and rarely, artinite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
18O/16O-depleted periclase zone marbles in the Alta aureole, Utah: insights from ion microprobe analysis of...layers in the periclase (Per) zone of the Alta Stock aureole, Utah. These data define a steep, coherent gradient...Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA e-mail: bowman@earth.utah.edu J....University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA calculations indicate that conservative time scales...the outer half of the periclase zone of the Alta stock, Utah, contact aureole (Fig. 2). These layers (layers
Report (issue)
27 32 Illustrations Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada...Table 1. Table 2. Table 3. Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.............. Occurrences of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada...for 4 years. This report is a review of the known mining districts within the Reno quadrangle, as well as...starting point for those interested in previous mining and research efforts within the Reno quadrangle
Journal (issue)
stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF UTAH TO 1966 compiled and edited by Barbara S. Childers assisted by Bernice Y. Smith Utah Geological...and Mineral Industries University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Bulletin 86 Price $4.00 October 1970...all graduate theses concerned with the geology of Utah; senior theses are omitted. Several theoretical...pertinence to a particular mineral deposit or locality in Utah. Others which should have been included may have...hoped that the reader will report omissions to the Utah Geological and Mineralogical Survey so that they
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australia. It has been reported from the Algomah Mine in Michigan, but not from the eastern United States...Crandall Ave, Salt Lake City, Utah 84106 Xanthophyllite has been found near the Mountain Lake mine, Big Cottonwood...Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah. Xanthophyllite occurs as small, deep green, tabular, pseudohexagonal...contact of dolomite with two intrusive masses—the Alta stock of granodiorire and the Clayton Peak stock...leather, diopside, idocrase, grossular, phlogopite, forsterite, aragonite, epidote, monticellite, szaibelyite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
or perovskite–monticellite calciphyre)—spinel–forsterite calciphyre—periclase marble—dolomite marble....successively replace magnesian carbonates in spinel–forsterite calciphyres and periclase marbles or dolomite...crystal structure resembles the structure of forsterite and humites. In pristine dolomite marble, kotoite...at deposits in the Dzhugdzhur Range in the Ayan district, Khabarovsk krai, Russia [16]. It was demonstrated...Nevada; and at Mount Grizzly Gulch, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah [7, 8, 16]. Kotoite occurs in marbles
Report (issue)
IRON DEPOSITS OF UTAH by Kenneth c. Bullock Geneva Works, U. S. Steel Corporation, near Provo. Courtesy...Courtesy of U. S. Steel Corporation . UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERALOGICAL -SURVEY affiliated with THE COLLEGE...AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah BULLETIN 88 PRICE $4.50 DECEMBER...the Iron Industry in Utah · .1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 Beaver Lake Mountains deposits... .2 . . . . . . . . . . .2 Black Rock mine . . . Skylark mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
METAMORPHIC MINERALS FROM THE ALTA AUREOLE, CENTRAL WASATCH MOUNTAINS, UTAH. S. L. Hanson1, A. U. Falster2...University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148. The Alta Stock is one of several early- to mid-Tertiary intrusive...intrusive rocks in the central Wasatch Mountains, Utah. The Alta Granodiorite is, in part, intrusive into a...Deseret-Guardison formations. Emplacement and cooling of the Alta Stock metamorphosed these carbonate rocks and formed...toward the contact with the Alta Stock, include the talc, tremolite, forsterite, and periclase zones. These
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE
Journal (issue)
locality); Japan; Norway; South Africa; Sweden; England; USA: Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri...in 1963 I have had an interest in the Terlingua district mercury minerals but because many of them selfdestruct...microscopic crystals. Most of them come from the Mariposa mine which was the original town site for Terlingua....miles eastward to be near the Chisos mine after the Marfa Mariposa mining company shut down in 1910 (Ragsdale...but there is even less remaining at the Mariposa mine except an open pit and some underground workings
Book (edition)
his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and...Copper-Related Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
Book
be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...undergo little or no recycling activity. The rocks they are made of have changed so little gravity...holding them down. Just like meteoroids from very little, if at all, since the beginnings of the solar system
 
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