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Rockbridgeite from
Indian Mountain, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Rockbridgeite
Formula:Fe2+Fe43+(PO4)3(OH)5
Comments:Dark brown to black radially fibous hemispheres found on the dumps are weathered mixtures of rockbridgeite and goethite (Barwood & Hajek 1979)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kidwelliteā“˜11 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with Kidwellite at this locality.
Strengiteā“˜7 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with Strengite at this locality.
Berauniteā“˜7 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with Beraunite at this locality.
DufrĆ©niteā“˜6 photos of Rockbridgeite associated with DufrĆ©nite at this locality.
Hyaliteā“˜1 photo of Rockbridgeite associated with Hyalite at this locality.
Goethiteā“˜1 photo of Rockbridgeite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Cacoxeniteā“˜1 photo of Rockbridgeite associated with Cacoxenite at this locality.
Vivianite1 photo of Rockbridgeite associated with Vivianite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rockbridgeite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Indian Mountain, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (10 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:44804
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44804:2
GUID (UUID V4):224a5580-7856-4ff4-a6ac-ac0160c04f7c
Localities for Rockbridgeite in this Region
Highbluff Limonite Bank, Indian Mountain, Cherokee County, Alabama, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
I I 34Ā° MARIOH 34Ā° I LAMAR , v:I G'l Alabama Q, \'l'I Q, 33Ā° 0 1- I I I (/) ";lO ...Geological Survey of Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85Ā° ā€¢ County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has long been a significant
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THE DIXIE MINE Rockbridge County, Virginia The Dixie mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia, has yielded some...including cacoxenite, dufrenite, kidwelUte, rockbridgeite, and strengite. Figure 1: Dixie iron mine,...E IS L O C A T E D in northeastern RockĀ­ bridge County, Virginia, about 1.5 miles southeast of VesuĀ­ vius...photomicrograph, field of view AVi mm. Figure 6: Fibrous rockbridgeite around goethite. Thinsection photomicrograph...phosphate minerals, including turĀ­ quoise, rockbridgeite, cacoxenite, kidwellite, dufrenite, wavellite
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abundance as a late-stage mineral associated with rockbridgeite, dufrenite, beraunite, and strengite in novaculite...replacement of rockbridgeite and beraunite from the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas; Indian Mountain, Alabama; Irish...subfamily of 5 A fibre-axis structures: dufrenite, rockbridgeite, beraunite, lipscombite, barbosalite, laubmannite...Buckeye Mountain, and Coon Creek mine in Polk County, and Fodderstack Mountain in Montgomery County. Kidwell...kidwellite: as interlayerings with laubmannite and rockbridgeite, as thin, isolated, botryoidal masses, and as
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Phosphosiderite (showing twinning) from Indian Mountain, Alabama. Bar is 20 /im. Figure 2: Group of aluminan...Georgia. Bar is 20 ^m. N e w Minerals FROM INDIAN MOUNTAIN, ALABAMA, AND CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA HENRY L . BARWOOD...amateur mineralogists in the Indian Mountain area, Cherokee County, Alabama, has revealed a substantial...phosphate minerals not previously reported in Alabama (Barwood, 1974; Hajek, 1978). New occurrences of...for the numerous mineral occurrences in the Indian Mountain area, and gives data on an occurrence of alumiĀ­
Report (issue)
= 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fodderstack Mountain, Arkansas, USA. 9.41 (100), 3.413 (55), 3.813 (40), 3...13.29 [100.08] 100.00 (1) Fodderstack Mountain, Arkansas, USA; original total given as 100.07%, corresponds...of earlier phosphate minerals. Association: Rockbridgeite, beraunite, strengite, dufrƩnite, chalcosiderite...In the USA, in Arkansas, from the Coon Creek and York mines, Polk Co; on Fodderstack Mountain, Montgomery...and on Buckeye Mountain, at Three Oak Gap; in Alabama, from Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co.; at Irish Creek
Report (issue)
=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Avant claim, Arkansas, USA. 11.94 (10), 22.0 (8), 3.3452 (5),4.897 (4), 6.921...iron-rich sediments and soils. Dufrenite, rockbridgeite, beraunite, strengite, wavellite, magnetite...Co. Limerick, Ireland. At Kiruna, Sweden. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton...Noble's mine, Lancaster Co. On Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, groups large for the species;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bostwick, 196 Agates, Minnesota, 130 Alabama, Indian Mountain, 152 Alexander, E . C : Jr., Minnesota...the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite, 20; New Minerals from Indian Mountain, Alabama, and Cedartown, Georgia...Denver Museum of Natural History, 58; Clear Creek County, 241 Coming Events: 38, 81, 177, 227, 273 Connecticut...associated minerals, 63 India, ferberite, 29 Indian Mountain, Alabama, 152 In Memoriam: Katherine Howell Jensen...Pegmatite in the Clear Creek District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, 241 Jamesonite, 258 Jameson, R., 258
Report (issue)
dufreĢnite, bermanite, stewartite, cacoxenite, rockbridgeite, vivianite, apatite, leucophosphite, phosphosiderite...Portugal. In the Bomi Hill Caves, Liberia. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North... Virginia; large crystals from Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama; at Three Oak Gap and the Coon
Journal (issue)
Cassedanne A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...Niedermayr Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain a r e a 355 by J. B. Gordon, Jr. & C. L....localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ...................................location in the city of Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, California. The occurrence is in a newly excavated...Map of the Walnut Creek Quadrangle, Contra Costa County, California. U.S. GeoĀ­ logical Survey Open-File
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with other iron phosphates such as dufreĢnite, rockbridgeite, beraunite, chalcosiderite, cacoxenite and strengite...Frondel (1949) from Buckeye Mountain, near Shady, Polk County, Arkansas, USA, where it occurs as thick...discredited as a mixture of hentschelite and rockbridgeite, with minor chalcosiderite (Dunn, 1990). A reinvestigation...ā€˜laubmanniteā€™ was, together with dufreĢnite, rockbridgeite, kidwellite (designated ā€˜Mineral Aā€™ at that...occurrences. It has been reported from Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co., Alabama, USA (Barwood, 1974), the RotlaĢˆufchen
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Cassedanne Iron Phosphate Mineral Locality at Indian Mountain, Alabam a....................................247 WULFENITEā€”from level 4 of the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. The specimen was collected in 1971 by...MelanoĀ­ phlogite from Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California. Am er Mineral., 57, 1494-1504. GRASSELLINI...southĀ­ east of Lancaster in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The mine was opened in 1732 and...confirmed in the ores of the Gap nickel mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A. F. Buddington (1924) first called
Journal (issue)
Korowski and C. W. Notebart Quartz & Pyrite from King County, Washington...................................... Crook, III Notes on Some New Occurrences in Alabama................................. 388 by H. Barwood...Novemberā€” December, 1978 Quartz &Pyrite from King County, Washington by John Medici 7272 Macbeth Drive...GEOLOGY The Spruce Peak deposit occurs in King County, Washington, in the Northern Cascades physiographic...batholith, the area was intensely folded into a mountain range. SubĀ­ sequently the younger batholith was
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evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded...thickness at the Giant-Volney mine at Tinton, Lawrence County; and as masses 20-40 feet long at the Hugo, Ingersoll...Ingersoll, and Peerless mines, Keystone, Pennington County. It also is found in Arizona, New Mexico, California
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have pegmatite pods. North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama house famous mines. I am, like many of you, always...looking for fine minerals from Spruce Pine, Indian Mountain or King's MounĀ­ tain to name a few of our hunting...Micro specimens I pulled out a set of T/N's from Indian Mt. The violet metastrengite or pink balls of strengite...beautiful minĀ­ eral specimens from pegmatite domes or mountain uplifts. As I look over some of the thumbnails...Czchoslovakia; and strunzite needles, laueite and rockbridgeite from Hagendorf, Bavaria. I have recently been
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Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Gibbs) 14:283-298 ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244...phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...first. Alabama (by H. Barwood & B. Hajek) 9:388391 Notable gold occurrences of Georgia and Alabama (by R...Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C. L.
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Der Chemismus dieses (in Virginia und Arkansas in USA) beobachteten Minerals wurde in der allerneuesten...Tiirkis-Kristallen , wie sie von der Lynch Station in Virginia/ USA bekannt wurden. Sehr schƶn ist an den REM-Aufnahmen...wurde und noch von einer Grube in Pennsylvanien/ USA, zusammen mit Wart'llit bekannt ist. Wahrscheinlich...dieser Pa ragenese gemacht wurden, z.B. Indian Mountain in Alabama/ USA (vgl. H . BARWOOD 1974). In Waldgirmes...H.: Iron Phosphate Mineral Locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama. - Miner. Rcc. 5, 214-244, Bowie/ Maryland
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index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...MORETON, S. PEARCE, J. (1996) Lanzarote, Fire mountain to zeolites 16:34-37 PENHALLURICK, R.D. (1997)...12:10-14 SOUTHWOOD, M. & BEVINS, R. (1995) Parys mountain: The type locality for Anglesite 15:11-17 STARKEY
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processes can be observed directly. We can watch mountain streams tumble pebbles as they flow downhill to...field full of rounded pebbles at the base of a mountain, I don't suspect that the site is an ancient volcano...Mogok, Burma (faceted gem, 44.73 CO; San Carlos Indian Reservation, Arizona (necklace and specimen, 7...also occur. When two continents collide, huge mountain ranges are formed, as crustal rocks are either...Spitzkoppe, Namibia (crystal, 4 x 4 cm); Mason County, Texas (gem, 48.35 ct). Topaz is one of many gem
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
r K n irin, China The nameis for the Changbai Mountain where the deposit is located.The type material...abundance as a late-stagemineral associatedwith rockbridgeite, dufrenite, beraunite, and strengite in n o...t h e Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, at Indian Mountain, Alabama, Irish Creek, Virginia, and the Rotliiufchen...cell dimensionsand unit-cellcontentscannotbe Clara County,California,associated with Mn oxides,quartz,calassigned
Journal (issue)
STORY : Fairfieldite from the Foote mine in Kin!!$ Mountain, North Carolina. Now part of the Smithsonian Collection...0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way Lyman, South Carolina...Mineral Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six small...near Bessemer City just a few miles from Kings Mountain offers a second source of for many of the more...chemical anaJyst for the Foote Company in Kings Mountain and to Thomas L. Kesler, formerly Chief Geologist
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in Ramona, California. In his youth he collected Indian artifacts; as his love for prospecting grew, he...returned to Hillsboro to build another grubstake. Indian problems delayed their return to the diggings for...lake (.Republican, 1883a). ā€œ The brutality of the Indian raids through Arizona and New Mexico in these days...36. FOUNTAIN, A. J. (1882) Report o f Doha Ana County: Bureau o f Immigration o f the Territory o f New...(1881) (ca.) Map of Sierra Mines, Daly, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. James D. Hague Papers, Huntington
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universiĀ­ ties in the area, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, California Institute...314-726-2236). amlier linritc on ijolilen csilcite! mcailc county* south ilakotn Extensive mining of six miles of...workings. In the 1870ā€™s the Trigo Mountains, Yuma County, AriĀ­ zona occurrences were discovered. The list...analysis. The vanadinite is from the Apache mine, Gila County, Arizona, and the arsenopyrite is from Zacatecas...base near the eye-pieces. Photo courtesy of JEOL USA Inc. 154 The Mineralogical Record Fig. 6. A transmission
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(1992) Minerals of the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana. Mineralogical Record, 23 (6), 477-483...$7 v.8/#6 California Issue Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $7 Hydroxylherderite (Brazil)...v .16/#4 Kingsgate mines (Australia), Mauldin Mountain Phosphates (AL) $7 v.l6/#5 Tourmaline Issue!...identification cards. Most of the miners are Indian or of Indian extraction and the government has always...I came out of a m inerā€™s house and found an old Indian chap sitting in the back seat. He had really made
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description of localities. A R K A N S A...counties where minerals have been found. Baxter County Michigan Mine, 1 mile east of Buffalo River; fractured...W U L F E N I T E (Stroud et al., 1969). Benton County Rogers Limestone Quarry, near Rogers; calcite veins...Rhodes-ManĀ­ chester and other mines; eastern edge of county around Zinc; mineralized Everton Dolomite and St...E R I T E (Stroud et al., 1969). Boone County Carroll County Harrison Zinc District, includes the North
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
 
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