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Amethyst from
Ardownie Quarry, Monifieth, Angus, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ardownie Quarry, Monifieth, Angus, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:47231
Long-form Identifier:1:3:47231:3
GUID (UUID V4):96dca979-a72b-4328-ac31-d4fb0303d989
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
21.8km (13.5 miles) ⓘLuthrie, Fife, Scotland, UK
23.3km (14.5 miles) ⓘNorman's Law, Cupar, Fife, Scotland, UK
30.3km (18.8 miles) ⓘNewburgh, Fife, Scotland, UK
32.9km (20.4 miles) ⓘScurdie Ness, Montrose, Angus, Scotland, UK
38.2km (23.7 miles) ⓘBinn Hill, Glenfarg, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
49.3km (30.7 miles) ⓘNorth Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
53.0km (33.0 miles) ⓘPettycur, Fife, Scotland, UK
54.9km (34.1 miles) ⓘBurnt-Island, Fife, Scotland, UK
55.6km (34.6 miles) ⓘBarras Quarry (Cotbank Quarry), Bruxie Hill, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
57.8km (35.9 miles) ⓘWilkiehaugh, Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK
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NODULES from BOULBY MINE DI Green· MD Freier 8 The UK Journal of Mines 011d Minerals publishes articles...‱lick Cooper has tirelessly devoted himself to the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals for several years in...Wale , mineral collectors past and present in Scotland; classic minerals and their localities south-west...(1949, 19.5la, 1951b) and by Armstrong et al. 0950 _ UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 14 -4- ii Ill...x 55mm, [MANCH:Nl2075]. Photos: David I. Green. UK Joumul of :\lines & Mincmls ;\lo. 14 -:\- SHAFTSECTION
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INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
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MOXON 55 Common Lane, Auckley, Doncaster DN9 3HX, UK [Received 15 June 2016; Accepted 30 November 2016;...Ma); Las Choyas, Mexico (45 Ma); Isle of Rum, Scotland (60 Ma); Mt. Somers, New Zealand (89 Ma); Rio...of purchased batches from the Soledado mines and a UK mineral dealer. Brazilian agates are readily surface...Somers, New Zealand (VT) Rum, Scotland (RL) Rio Grande do Sul Brazil & UK purchase Bobonong, Semolale,...Queensland, Australia (NC,DA) Eastern Midland Valley, Scotland (BL) Lake Superior, USA (BC, RC) Maddina, W. Australia
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6-8 agate, dark 0.60 2 6-10 quartz 0.60 8 6-11 amethyst 0.70 8 32 37 3 3 3 3 3 6.71 6.52 0.21 0.49 0...agate 0.2 1 53 3 7.85 0.03 1.41 0.10 Ardownie Quarry, Scotland (DeÕonian)e 20-1 andesite 35.5 69 20-2...13190 5.2 2.6 nd 18 13 nd - 16 – Montrose, Scotland (DeÕonian)e 22-1 andesite 24.2 22-2 agate - 0...5 5.1 0.9 5 1 0.3 40.0 0.4 - 0.2 Ardownie Quarry, Scotland (DeÕonian)e 37300 632 7.8 27000 590 20...1 2 2 0.2 2.8 3.1 8.7 - 0.2 - 0.2 Montrose, Scotland (DeÕonian)e 33400 549 17 23000 870 110 2.3 70
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IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. TWENTY YEARS IN MINERAL SCOTLAND David Green ‱ Gordon Todd 28 EDITOR David I...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
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48E and 49 of the 1:50 000 geological map of Scotland. ‘The introductory chapter outlines the physical...deposits forming BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Scotland M. ARMSTRONG, I, B. PATERSON and M. A. E. BROWNE...BSc, University of Liverpool PhD Printed in the UK for HMSO 8/85 C20 Dd 737400 MA and 1985 MAPS...One-inch to one mile (1:63 360) and 1:50 000 (Scotland) Sheet 39W (Stirling): Sheet 39E (Alloa): ...Fife, 1977 Sheet 40 Contributors Valley of Scotland, One-inch Sheet Memoirs Geology of the Perth
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48E and 49 of the 1: 50 000 geological map of Scotland. The introductory chapter outlines the physical...buried valley (D 1912) BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Scotland M. ARMSTRONG, I. B. PATERSON and M. A. E. BROWNE...British Regional Geology The Midland Valley of Scotland, 3rd Edition, 1985 One-inch Sheet Memoirs Geology...BSc, PhD University of Liverpool Printed in the UK for HMSO Dd 737400 C20 8/85 1:625 000 Geological...One-inch to one mile (1:63 360) and 1: 50 000 (Scotland) Sheet 39W (Stirling): Solid 1982; Drift 1982
cover top Agate from Germany; bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title page Agate...Distribution NBN International Estover Road Devon PL6 7PY UK Contents Introduction Names of agates What is an...agate found in the 19th century, from Tayport, Scotland. Agates 5 Names of agates In the history...produces them. Ardownie Quarry agates derive their name from Ardownie Quarry in Scotland, and M.F. Heddle...Heddle named agates for about 50 sites in Scotland. These names have become established by usage and tradition
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cover top Agate from Germany: bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title page Agate...Distribution NBN International Estover Road Devon PL6 ?PY UK Contents Introduction 4 Names of agates 6 What...agate found in the 19th century. from Tayport. Scotland. A g at e s 5 Names of agates In the history...produces them . Ardownie Quarry agates derive the ir name from Ardownie Quarry in Scotland, and M.F. Heddle...Heddle named agates for about 50 sites in Scotland. These names have become established by usage and tradition
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3 * 55 Common lane, Auckley, Doncaster DN9 3HX, UK; moxon.t@tiscali.co.uk Sobolev Institute of Geology...published an important work: “The Mineralogy of Scotland”. He had spent many years collecting Scottish...pigmentation is not clear with (a) well-formed amethyst crystal centres and (b) brown pigments found in...from calcite in the calcareous grit in Yorkshire, UK. The collection held in the Technische UniversitĂ€t...concentration of the monovalent ions. Montrose and Ardownie Quarry share the same glassy andesite that formed
CARPENTER2 55 Common Lane, Auckley, Doncaster DN9 3HX, UK Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge...Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK [Received 17 January 2009; Accepted 8 June 2009] ABSTR...Khur, Iran 8. British Tertiary Volcanic Province, Scotland 9. Mt Somers, New Zealand 10. Rio do Sul, Brazil...England 17. East Midland Valley, Scotland 18. West Midland Valley, Scotland 19. Cumbria, England 20. Cumbria...Thuringia Forest 3,5,9,10,11,14. Idar 3 Waterswallows Quarry 1,3,4,5,6,10 River Breamish 1,4,13,17,18,19,25
Catalog/List
12 13 14 15 16 17 SS.A1 Wavellite - High Down Quarry, Haddon. South Molton. [SS 652 290]. Ex Keat's...Barstow. SW.B1 Apatite on orthoclase - Colcerrow Quarry, Cornwall. Barstow green stock label. SW.D10 Sphalerite...Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard...Holyer 197-. [SW 722 22]. SW.R8 Stilbite - Dean Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. E.Retallack 1975. [SW 804 203]...Aplite Quarry, Meldon, Devon. A.Dean 1977. [SX 566 920]. SX.E16 Axinite - Meldon Aplite Quarry, Meldon
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ZHANG2 55 Common Lane, Auckley, Doncaster DN9 3HX, UK Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge...Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK [Received 18 June 2007; Accepted 18 December 2007] ABSTR...amygdales found in a basalt host, Isle of Mull, Scotland: agate (ag) and celadonite (ce) are shown. The...Eastern Midland Valley, Scotland 412*1 14. Western Midland Valley, Scotland 412*1 15. Shap, Cumbria...10a; Ethiebeaton Q, 11ad, 17a, 37ad, 44a, 111d; Ardownie, 7a; Scurdie, 1a Carrick Hills, BC 1a, 2a, 5a
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>1200 6-8 agate, dark >1200 6-10 quartz >1200 6-11 amethyst 135 54.0 69.5 69.5 25.9 31.6 370 594 312 1150...90.0 48.8 39.8 23.0 n.d. n.d. n.d. Ardownie Quarry. Scotland (andesite) 20-2 agate 266 20-3 quartz...0 1.1 40.0 4.1 2.3 2.3 0.1 0.1 Montrose. Scotland (andesite) 22-2 agate, white 456 22-3 agate, red...bombardement; (B) quartz within agate from Monlrose (Scotland) exhibiting irregular cathodolumincsccnce features
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............. Former miner honoured for building UK - Mexico links .................... Crystal Classics.............. .. ....... The National Museum of Scotland revisited ......................................his medical problems necessitated a return to the UK for treatment. Following this Jorn worked in the...followed through . For two of the GCR sites (Machen Quarry, Mwyndy Mine), the current project was asked to...Well Quarry hosts iron-oxide facies and other mineralisation types, readily seen in fresh quarry faces
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MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
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carbonate host-rocks Dulcotefrom (Mendip, UK); (Mendip, UK); (g) clastic agate pebble from river sediments...Xavier (Rio Grande macrocrystalline amethyst macrocrystalline amethyst in in the the center center from...(a) and agate from mafic lavas of the quarry, Scotland Scotland (b) (b)with withresults resultsof ofspatially...oxygen‐isotopeanalyses analyses(circles). (circles). Ardownie quarry, Alternatively, isotope fractionation under...REVIEW REVIEW 29 29 of of 51 51 Figure the agate quarry of (Hebei province, China); the Figure 24. (a)Vesicular
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seam in carbonate host-rocks from Dulcote (Mendip, UK); (g) clastic agate pebble from river sediments of...horizontal banding as well as macrocrystalline amethyst in the center from Tres Pinheiros-Fontoura Xavier...(a) and agate from maïŹc lavas of the Ardownie quarry, Scotland (b) with results of spatially resolved...Figure 24. (a) Vesicular trachyandesite in the agate quarry of Dishuya (Hebei province, China); the numerous...agate after 6 weeks storage in water. Although amethyst and smoky quartz can frequently be observed as
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Ireland.Robert Lawsoncollection. EDITORIAL 9 The UK J,111mal(lf Mines and Minerals publishes articles...Stephen Moreton ‱ David Green 34 ABBEYTOWN MINE AND QUARRY Stephen Moreton ‱ John Lawson ‱ Robert Lawson 43...sop, Notts. S80 2EE 55 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 30 -1- EDITORIAL...indebtedfor savingthemfromthe crusherand oblivion. UK Joun1Jl of Min,:, & M1m·r.1lsNo. JO ‱ -:\- OBITUARY...ation in Russell ociety ewsletter 41 (2002). Shap Quarry in Cumbria held a special fascination for Max and
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David A Falvey, PhD Director Contents Minerals '98 UK mineral production Britain's mineral trade Forever...the impact of mine waste The construction industry UK energy Information on-line 3D modelling Super deposits...which we face as we look fonvard to the future. The UK is fortunate in having an abundant and varied supply...was ÂŁ21.8 billion excluding distribution costs. The UK rnaintains a positive balance of pay1nents in rninerals...London Metal Exchange, UK 1niningjoun1alis111, the nun1ber and strength of UK 1ninerals co1npanies operating
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Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci
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Laboratory GAGTL, 27 GREVILLE STREET, LONDON EG N 8SU, UK T e l : + 4 4 (0)171-405 3351 F a x : + 4 4 (0)171-831...sites and both the international pit as well as the quarry-like Zarnitza prospect were inactive. Udachnya...also produces brown-green grossular): sceptre amethyst from Obman, Yakutia, Russia: blue topaz from Nura-Taldy...morganite have been found in the past at the Bennet quarry, Buckfield, Maine, USA: New England beryl formed...Mineralogical Museum. J. Gemm., 1996, 25, 2 Very fine amethyst crystals are being found in opium-growing areas
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Freiberg Quarz-Stufen aus dem Sr' da Assurn;Ào Quarry, Ferreira de Aves, Viseu in Portugal. Auf den Quarzen...1990) erwÀhnte auch die beiden OuarzvarietÀten Amethyst und Rosenquarz, wovon ersterer in einer sehr blassen...Durchmesser mit Albit auf Elbait-Matrix. Dunton Gem Quarry, Newry, Maine, USA. Foto Mickey Raine. Zigrasit-Aggregat...um Dundee (Ardownie Quarry Karten und Grafiken veranschaulichen und Ethiebeaton Quarry),der Umgebung...seiner Definitionen widmen sich die dem Barras Quarry, St. Cyrus, Ferryden, co.uk bzw. E-Mail: nkcrawford@aol
 
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