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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gypsum Quarry, Arignac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:301413
Long-form Identifier:1:3:301413:4
GUID (UUID V4):5838caf7-e0ac-4685-bd9e-4b2f42bbb419
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
differently interpreted by different observers.' In France especially, Michel-Levy, Barrois and Lacroix have...Ax-les-thermes, the great The Tertiary plain of northern France was first traversed. as far as the can reach is...of southern France, through Toulouse and up the wide low walled valley of the Ariege, Foix was reached...number of visitors, chiefly from other parts of France. Here the members of the congress who were to take...Ax-les-thermes, drove to Foix, visiting on the way the gypsum quarries near Tarascon. The gypsum is of Triassic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National G y p s u m C o . quarry (formerly the Huron-Portland Ce­ ment Co. quarry)—Alpena barite, calcite...marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, strontianite (r) Paxton quarry—Paxton calcite, chalcopyrite, dolomite, marcasite...celestite, dolomite, gypsum, halite, polyhalite (r), pyrite, quartz Ottawa Silica C o . quarry (c)—Rockwood calcite...sulfur (r) Sibley quarry (c)—Trenton calcite, celestite, epsomite,./7wor/7e, gypsum var. selenite, sulfur... pyrite, sphalerite (r), vivianite (r) Cheney quarry (outcrops in the vicinity)—Imperial Heights (near
Catalog/List
PAGE l· MICROMOUN'fS ACTINOLITE: Gooderham, Ontario, Canada. crystals ACTINOLITE: St. Hilaire. Qu0bec...and tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety...sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: Mount Bianco, Italy. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE:...French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano, Pisa, Italy. massive, green... Italy. minute crystals AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE:
Catalog/List
unusual feldspar Roe de Courlande, Massif Central, France. £7.50 matrix size varies. SCHORLOMITE one of the...pieces - ACTINOLITE in TALC very nice display ·piece of elongated dark green crystals of Actinolite from...blue crystalline mass 4x2.5 inch from Landsverk Quarry, Evje South Nonvaf;·-- --• An unusual colour for...2x2 I believe this is the mine rather than the quarry itself. £6 CELESTITE dark grey fibrous mass 2xl...brmvn fibrous vein section on the edge. Merehead Quarry, Mendips Somerset 2x2.5 £5 GOLD several small spots
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence...may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R.6E.: potassium...4W.: actinolite, biotite, ferroaugite, grunerite, magnetite, orthopyroxene (Laybourn 1979). Quarry Road...Road quarry. A water-filled quarry and nearby spoils heap are in anorthositic gabbro NW 1/4 sec. 4 T A N...agates) (La Point 1976). Grandview marble quarry. This quarry exposes Proterozoic dolomitic marble cross-cut
Book
called Flos Ferri. : ( Transparency.) Transparent Gypsum is called Selenite. ( Structure.) Fibrous Hornblende...hitherto been discovered in the British Isles : ACTINOLITE . See Hornblende. ADULARIA . See Felspar. Silica... : : Peroxide of Iron Water ALABASTER . See Gypsum . : Silica Alumina Soda ALBITE : 69.20 19.20...acid Water 46:51 32:56 : Lime : { .. : GYPSUM : { 77070 22:30 20.93 .. : Sub -species...INTRODUCTION . HORNBLENDE, Sub -species of - Actinolite. 2 Amianthus. " Amphibole. > Asbestos. 92
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a light brown idocrase at the Gillette feldspar quarry, in Haddam Neck, (Middlesex Co., Conn.). These...fluorite, and plagioclase feldspar, associated with actinolite and schist, in a few masses of contact metamorphic...N . on M. O. Last week I made a trip to a rock quarry north of Osceola (Clarke Co.) Iowa. This is a good...search brought others to view so it was a thrill to quarry these stone icicles and I returned home a? elated...Co., Okla., we have some round, gray selenite (gypsum) nodules—3 of them. One has been sanded and sprayed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry: dolomite, barite, strontianite; S. Troy, Bethlehem...fluoro-edenite, fluorapatite, biotite, calcite, gypsum, microcline, augite, stilbite, titanite, zircon...quartz (rose), graphite; C. Port Henry, Treadway quarry: graphite, uvite, phlogopite, rutile; C. Tahawus...Development (43°07'47"N, 74°58'37"W), and Middleville quarry (43°09'14"N, 74°58' 42"W): quartz, calcite, dolomite...Penfield quarry (43°08'44"N, 77°28'49"W): fluorite, sphalerite, dolomite, calcite, celestine, gypsum, pyrite
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
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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)
collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite, dolomite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...pyromorphite Old Dominion soapstone quarry—Old Dominion actinolite asbestos, apatite, chalcopyrite, chlorite...quality), manganite, quartz crystals State lime quarry—near Bent Creek bornite, calcite, chalcopyrite...pyrite, sphalerite Augusta County Belmont limestone quarry—Staunton calcite crystals (some with pyrite inclusions)
Journal (issue)
collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite, ferroan dolomite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...11; W. F. Giannini specimen). Martin Marietta quarry-near Charlottesville epidote, muscovite crystals...pyrite, quartz Old Dominion soapstone quarry-near Old Dominion actinolite-tremolite, apatite, chalcopyrite...Christian tract mine (copper)-near Sweet Briar actinolite-tremolite, bornite, chalcopyrite, chlorite group
Catalog/List
Mine, Strontian Deep Ecton Mine, Les Malines mine, France Wheal Boys Cornwall FestinioQ, Wales Senahenvdd...£1 £5 £12 £3 75p 75p 50p Colorado, USA Dulcote Quarry, Somerset Pentire, Cornwall A9 A9 A9 50p 75p...Merehead Qy, Somerset Masson Hill, Derbys Heights Quarry, Weardale (Fisher) Asturias, Spain Chile Ball Eye...9C 30 241 1 5B 3C 9B 15J 38A 30S Smithsonite, Gypsum Malachite Araa onite =Rhod ochrosit"' Smithsonite...Laurion, Greece Merehead, Somerset (Baker) Heiahts Quarry, Weardale 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 89 810 810
Book
(ie end-section). Granite; St. Jacut, Brittany, France. (d) Anhedral spessartine garnet; Nisserdal, Telemark...Chlorite Chloritoid Cordierite Muscovite Hornblende Actinolite Lawsonite Plagioclase (albite) K-feldspar Pyrite...in relation to particular optic axes, such as actinolite (Fig. 1.6c), and piemontite (Fig. 1.6d). PPL...indicate the polarisation vibration directions. c) Actinolite crystals in a range of orientations, showing...β = green, γ = dark green/blue-green; Epidote-actinolite hornfels; locality unknown. d) Piemontite, showing
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
Report (issue)
from Johannes Menge who was appointed Mine and Quarry Agent to the South Australian Company in 1836....the exact nature of the mineral is unknown. ACTINOLITE Calcium magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, Ca...Ca,(Mg,Fe2+);Sig0..(OH)2, mon. Actinolite is a ferroan variety of tremolite—the name, however, is firmly...entrenched in geological literature. Eyre Peninsula—actinolite occurs in the iron formations of the Middleback...amphibolitic rocks of the diapiric structures. Actinolite is a major constituent of the lower Adelaidean
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
skeletal faces. Columbia brickyard pit, a former clay quarry, below a coal seam: PYRITE (nodules to 5 cm, incorporating...pyritohedron; pyrite after marcasite), copiapite, GYPSUM, melanterite (Jenni 1963). Cheltenham Formation...in outcrops scattered over northem Boone County: GYPSUM crystals, marcasite, pyrite (Unklesbay 1952). Finger...Columbia on U.S. Highway 63: ARAGONITE, COPIAPITE, GYPSUM, HALOTRICHITE, melanterite, MARCASITE,PYRITE. Loutre...west of Rucker and other area exposures: ALUNOGEN. GYPSUM (Broadhead 1901; Unklesbay 1952). Figure 3. Malachite
Report (issue)
McCloskey Field feldspar occurrence Canada Cement quarry Forsyth Mine Baldwin Mine Headley Mine Cantley...Blanche Mine Blackburn Mine McLelland Mine Cote quarry Dacey Mine Horseshoe Mine Kitty Lynch, Kodak mines...Caverns Lake Girard Mine Wakefield quarry Breckin Mine Templeton quarry Seybold Mine Gemmill Mine Deziel...Mine St-Pierre-de-Wakefield quarry McGlashan Mine Leduc Mine Lachaine quarry Evans-Lou Mine Old Chelsea-Gatineau...Chamberlin quarry Road-cuts along Gatineau Parkway Sweeney Mine O'Neill Mine McConnell Mine Cross quarry Maxwell
Report (issue)
Calcite, Dolomite and other carbonates 27 E. Gypsum and Anydrite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....cutting, southern Whiteshell area 7. Perthite from quarry northwest of West Hawk Lake 8. Amazonstone (Museum).... . . 20 12. Muscovite book from Greer Lake quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... " ............................... . 31 25. Gypsum rock showing bedding, from Gypsumville . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 40. Actinolite (Museum) 43 41. Tremolite (Museum) 43 42
Book (volume)
minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep... E 6 mi., on French Cr., the Scott Rose Quartz QuarryAmblygonite (large yellow crystals), Aquamarine...quarriesCalcite and chalcedony (both fluorescent), Gypsum;  E on US 18 for about 3 mi. to first bridge,... Silver, Tellurium. SPEARFISH:  area quarriesGypsum;  S, in gravels of adjoining Spearfish CanyonAmethysts...quarriesmarble;  NE 2½ mi., a quarryFrench pink marble;  S, a quarrymarble. MARYVILLE, area of Montvale
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soon built near morphic rocks contain garnet, actinolite, diopside the mines and forges produced implements...are pyrite, chalcopyrite, phyrrotite, hematite, actinolite and chlorite. The association of these minerals...Wheatly Mine) and Benjamin Silcolla, graphite, gypsum, talc. liman (mineralogist) extracted not only...in calcite crystals. Minerals also reported: actinolite, albite, antigorite, aragonite. augite. biotite...fluorapatite, fluorite, forsterite, galena, grossular. gypsum, heulandite, hornblende, hypersthenc, ilmenite
Report (issue)
« Serpentine variety picrolite from the Delight quarry, Delight, Maryland. Specimen is about 12 cm by...Maryland. Figure 17. Location of the Marriottsville quarry, Hernwood, Maryland. Figure 18. Marble (white)...Marriottsville quarry, Hernwood, Maryland. lii Figure 19. Location of the Greenspring quarry, Towson, Maryland...as seen from Maryland Route 32. Figure 22. Actinolite crystals in talc shist from the Mineral Hill...Locations of the Farmers Cooperative limestone quarry (1) and the New London mine (2), New London, Maryland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits, such as limestone, clay, diatomaceous earth, gypsum, and bedded zeolites that are of no particular... Figure 6. Hewettite cluster, 1 mm high, Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County. Dan Behnke specimen and photo...County Alum District Various mines and prospects: gypsum, kalinite, sulfur Candelaria (Columbus) District...Copper King mine: conichalcite, faustite* Gold Quarry mine: burangaite, carbonate-cyanotrichite, corderoite...galkhaite, getchellite,* gold, graphite, gukrinite, gypsum, haidingerite, ilsemannite, laffittite, molybdenite
goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6) orthoclase;...regions. Also found associated with limestone and gypsum. In the U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and...cinnabar is Pereta, Italy. Several localities in France produce stibnite, also. Excellent crystals come...Galena, Illinois. Also found in Czechoslovakia; in France; at Dover Cliffs and in Devonshire, England; in...green crystals; yellow mass probably fine-grained Gypsum.) 59 OXIDES AND HYDROXIDES name: Cuprite formula:
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goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6)...regions. Also found associated with limestone and gypsum. In the U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and...cinnabar is Pereta, Italy. Several localities in France produce stibnite, also. Excellent crystals come...Galena, Illinois. Also found in Czechoslovakia; in France; at Dover Cliffs and in Devonshire, England; in...green crystals; yellow mass probably fine-grained Gypsum.) 59 OXIDES AND HYDROXIDES NAME: Cuprite FORMULA:
 
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