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Gaudefroyite from
Tachgagalt Mine, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gaudefroyite
Formula:Ca4Mn3+2-3(BO3)3(CO3)(O,OH)3
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gaudefroyite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tachgagalt Mine, Tansifte Caïdat, Agdz Cercle, Zagora Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:58763
Long-form Identifier:1:3:58763:3
GUID (UUID V4):bbcda968-1592-4130-8516-7f5360bebd9f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Ca4 Mn3+ 3−x (BO3 )3 (CO3 )(O, OH)3 Gaudefroyite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal...c = 5.891(1) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tachgagalt, Morocco. 2.95 (FF), 2.62 (FF), 2.46 (FF), 9.1 (F)...0.07 0.02 0.01 0.61 99.92 100.17 (1) Tachgagalt, Morocco; H2 O by the Penfield method, includes pyrolusite...(CO3 )0.95 [O2.78 (OH)0.22 ]Σ=3.00 . (2) Wessels mine, South Africa; by electron microprobe, corresponding...crednerite, pyrolusite, calcite, quartz, brucite (Tachgagalt, Morocco); barite, calcite, hydrogrossular, manganite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu2[BO(OH)2](OH)3, a new mineral from the Tachgagalt mine, Morocco: Description and crystal structure ANTHONY...8 Å3, Z = 4, is a new mineral from the Tachgagalt mine, Morocco. The strongest eight lines of the X-ray...pale-blue scales. It is found in small cavities in gaudefroyite-calcite rock and as inclusions in calcite. Blades...French Territories) who worked extensively in Morocco. Dr. Dietrich discovered the new mineral. The crystal...mineral, crystal structure, copper, borate, Tachgagalt (Morocco). Introduction In the early 1960’s Pascal
Report (issue)
= 8.668(2) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tachgagalt mine, Morocco. 4.734 (100), 3.941 (90), 2.489 (50),...107.21 (2) 66.6 14.6 18.8 100.0 (1) Tachgagalt mine, Morocco; average of 8 electron microprobe analyses...manganese-oxide ore (gaudefroyite). Association: Henritermierite, gaudefroyite, calcite. Distribution:...Distribution: From Vein #2, Tachgagalt mine, near Ouarzazate, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Name: Honors French...Cu2[BO(OH)2](OH)3, a new mineral from the Tachgagalt mine, Morocco: Description and crystal structure. Eur
Report (issue)
= 11.91(1) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tachgagalt mine, Morocco. 2.75 (vvs), 2.516 (vs), 4.37 (s), 3.09...35.45 2.56 7.85 0.08 Total 99.87 (1) Tachgagalt mine, Morocco; corresponds to Ca2:97 (Mn3+ 1:48 Al0:54...ore deposit (Tachgagalt mine, Morocco). Association: Marokite, hausmannite, gaudefroyite, calcite (Tachgagalt...(Tachgagalt mine, Morocco); hausmannite, manganite, hematite, calcite, barite, andradite (N'Chwaning mine, South... Distribution: In the Tachgagalt manganese mine, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. From the N'Chwaning and
Report (issue)
10.50–10.610 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tachgagalt, Morocco. 9.6 (FFF), 5.53 (F), 3.81 (F), 3.42 (mF)...00 99.1 100.00 13.38 25.90 41.61 (1) Tachgagalt, Morocco. (2) Do.; by electron microprobe, total Mn...calcite, marokite, gaudefroyite, henritermierite, despujolsite, barite (Tachgagalt, Morocco). Distribution:...From Tachgagalt, 17 km south of Ouarzazate, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. In the N’Chwaning mine, near...near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: Honors Georges Jouravsky (1896–1964), Chief Geologist
Report (issue)
c = 10.76(4) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tachgagalt, Morocco. 3.34 (FFF), 4.26 (FF), 2.129 (FF), 7.40...(F), 2.025 (F), 3.49 (mF) Chemistry: (1) Tachgagalt, Morocco; electron microprobe analysis confirmed dominant...deposit. Association: Gaudefroyite. Distribution: Name: From Tachgagalt, 17 km south of Ouarzazate...Ouarzazate, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco. Honors Pierre Despujols (1888–?), founder of the Moroccan Geologic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
183-193 (2008) DOI : 10.3749/canmin.46.1.183 GAUDEFROYITE, Ca8Mn3+6[(BO3)6(CO3)2O6]: HIGH-TEMPERATURE...Jamaica Abstract The structural behavior of gaudefroyite, Ca8Mn3+6[(BO3)6(CO3)2O6], was determined by...Å3 at room temperature. The expansion of the gaudefroyite structure is nearly isotropic and is caused...phase that exsolved from the host gaudefroyite. Keywords: gaudefroyite, high-temperature structure, exsolution...avons déterminé le comportement structural de la gaudefroyite, Ca8Mn3+6[(BO3)6(CO3)2O6], au moyen d’affinements
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2000 Transmission electron microscopy study of gaudefroyite, Ca8Mn3+ 6 [(BO3)6(CO3)2O6] ISHMAEL HASSAN*...microscopy (TEM) study of gaudefroyite, Ca8Mn3+ 6 [(BO3)6(CO3)2O6], from the Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese...parameters for gaudefroyite are a = 10.606(1) and c = 5.896(1) Å. The symmetry of gaudefroyite is lower than...continuous streak reflections in gaudefroyite. INTRODUCTION Gaudefroyite, Ca8Mn3+ 6 [(BO3)6(CO3)2O6], Z...hydrothermal manganese deposits, Tachgagalt, Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco (Jouravsky and Permingeat 1964)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1958 I was taken into the upper levels of the South mine from the bot­ tom of the old open cut, and saw the...post-mine pro­ duct and, therefore, not eligible to be called a mineral, though some post-mine efflorescences...mineralization, is from the Mercedes and Herminia mine group. MOROCCO Henritermierite Mr. Gilbert Gauthier of...henritermierite. The oc­ currence is vein #2 at Tachgagalt, near Ouarzazate in the Anti-Atlas Mountains...contact with black marokite and fibrous black gaudefroyite on one side and gray calcite on the other. Collectors
Journal (issue)
gypsum on chert that I collected at the Minerva No. 1 mine dump in 1985. It had bundles of orange crystals...specimens I had collected in 1995 from the Annabel Lee mine ore pile had been cataloged as "celestine." I found...Meridiani, in the last spring was not a fluke. } region where the Rover Furthermore. it has mapped the... east of Valles Marineris, and also in a small region (240°E, clues about past climates on Mars and the...Pigmy (Pygmy) mine, near the village of Mexico in Crittenden Co., KY. A description of this mine can be found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrence of natural ferrosilicon in the northern Azov region. Dokl. Ahad. Nauh.S.S.SR,185, 4lG+18 (in Russian)...Poltava series near Zachativsk station, Donets region, fragments 0.1 to 3 mm in size were found of material...w'ere not found in the crystalline rocks of the region. The grains are serrated, specular, dendritic with...drill core of epidote amphibolite, in the Surskii region, 300 km awaJ,/. The possibility that the minerals... hausmannite, and rare gaudefroyite in the Tachgagalt manganese mine, Morocco. Calcite is commonly present
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
P. Tour-lrrN Gaudefroyite G. Joun.tvsrv, (deceased) AND Ii. PERMTNGEAT,La gaudefroyite, une nouvelle...Mindral Cristall. BulL 87 ,216 219 (.1964). Gaudefroyite, the first known borate-carbonate of calcium... r,vasfound on the dumps of vein no. 2, Tachgagalt, Morocco, 17 km SSW of Ouatzazate. It occurs in a...polianite (as an alteration product along the gaudefroyite cleavage), and five as yet unidentified minerals...calculation of density and mean refractive index. Gaudefroyite is hexagonal, PQ/m or pe; a:10.6+0.1, c:5 90+0
Book
marokkanischen ses Buches die äußerst mineralreiche Region in Nordafrika nicht wiedergeben. Mineralien aus...r, al so wieder zurück zur Hauptstraße. Nahe der Mine von Guemassa können wir im Gelände noch kleine Achatkugeln...jedoch weder etwas über die aktuelle Situation der Mine in Erfahrung bringen noch irgendwelche Mineralien...müssten, der uns dann die Mineraliensammlung der Mine zeigen würde. , der Mineralienjagd und lässt durchblicken...nicht anzutreffen ist, fahren wir weiter Richtung Zagora, wo an einem Tagebau Belegstücke von Erythrin aufgesammelt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral occurs at Tachgagalt, Morocco, in cavities between crystals of gaudefroyite lAmer. Mineral.50...Despujols, found of the Service Carte Geologique, Morocco. It was approved before publication by the Commission...of melnikovite from the type locality, Saratov region, USSR, and find them to be cubic Fe3Sa,identical
Journal (issue)
Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal........................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E...in g m ine, Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue...July-A ugust, 1991 in the collection from a specific mine, state or country, or all the gem beryls over 20...Specialists in the min­ eralogy of a particular region have also been afforded the opportunity to study
Book (edition)
“inseln” Jimboite Hulsite Ludwigite Vonsenite Gaudefroyite 780 782 784 786 788 V/G.01-20 V/G.03-40 V/G...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Book (edition)
white, grey, orange Chromite Zincochromite Gaudefroyite Apatite - (CaF) Willemite Ludwigite reddish... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample
Catalog/List
alkali massif, located in the Kola Peninsula , province of Murmansk in the Soviet Union , is one of the...silver-arsenide deposits of the Cobalt-Gowganda region , Ontario",Can. Min. 11:1-429. Slabs show globular...(SiO,),(OH),, #2 Vein , Tachgagalt , near Ouarzazate, Anti-Atlas Mts. , Morocco. Very dark brown granular...black marokite (with occasional black fibers of gaudefroyite). Piece has been cut as th is is the only way...9 cm - 9 x 12 cm ... $15.00 AgCI , Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill , New South Wales. 10 x 5 x 4 cm matrix
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marokite, gaudefroyite, and other rare manganese minerals from the Tachgagalt manganese mine, Morocco (Gaudefroy...Figure 5: Grossular, dodecahedral crystal, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec; specimen 4.5 cm across. George...Grossular crystal group, 8 cm across, Coyote Front mine, Bishop, California. Jim Minette specimen, Jeffrey...Mexico; Dan Behnke specimen and photo. Hercules mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Natural History...Medici photo (1980). Figure 71 (right): Barton Garnet mine, Gore, New York, where almandine (as much as 1 foot
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
270. Natural fi-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagan6 mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...lavender-eoloured pleochroic crystals from the Centennial mine, Calumet, Michigan, have the composition Cu(OH,C1)2...apple-green crusts on quartz from Hingston Down Consols mine, Calstock, Cornwall, consist of an intimate mixture...scales with good basal cleavage from the Centennial mine, Calumet, Michigan, have the composition Cu(OH,C1)2...small monoclinic crystals at the Mounana uranium mine, Republic of Gabon. Named for J. Chervet. [M.A.
Book
should be of specimens from localities within the region of that museum, or at least from the country concerned...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below...N. from the main railway station, landmark is a mine headframe. Tues.- Fri. 8.30-17.30 hrs.; Sat.- Sun...Luis Potosi, Mexico Tsumeb, Namibia Mibladen, Morocco Tsumeb, Namibia 2 7 7 9 9 localities) Moschellandsberg
Book (edition)
Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the...104(3). 326-328 □ Achavnlitc, FcSe, hex .. Cacheuta Mine. Ccrro de Cacheuta. Sierra de Cacheuta. Mcndoza...AgardJte-(Ce), CeCu.(AsO4)i(OH).-3H1O, hex., Clara mine, central Black Forest, Gennany,A1ifSS(2004),17-23...Ca)Cu6(AsO.)i(OH).-3H1O. hex., Bou-Skourcoppcr mine, Ouarzazatc. Morocco,SS, 1447 □ Mixite group AgrelUte,NaCa2Si4O10F...Agullarite,Ag.Ses, orth., compareCervellelte, San Carlos mine,Guanajuato.Mexico, CM 12, 365-369 E11cairite group
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
Book
Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
Book
K(U02)As04*3H20, Tet. Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=...grey, bluish-grey, yellow, light green. Langban mine, Filipstad (near), Varmland, Sweden. H= 5, Djjj=3...5As30ig, E Rhom. Translucent blue-green. Terres mine, St. Ausdell, Cornwall, England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt...804)3 •nH20, ® Hex. Transparent bluish. Lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan, Afghanistan. H= 5.5-6, Djj4=...*21120, Mon. Vitreous colorless, white. Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa. H= 4.5, Djjj= 2.630, D(
 
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