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Sunstone from
Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Feldspar Group var: Sunstone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sunstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal area, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:649360
Long-form Identifier:1:3:649360:8
GUID (UUID V4):b929029f-7c02-470a-bf07-3793fa2b76a6
References
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mineral alternately as the Viking Compass and Viking Sunstone. The pale yellow cube is 12 mm. Elise A. Skalwold...this 15 × 45-mm fluorapatite from Slyudyanka, Baikal region, Russia. White lines indicate transmission...dichroscope avoids this because it samples only one tiny area at a time, producing the two colored rays by using...pleochroic minerals as those from Slyudyanka, Baikal region, Russia, may be used to explore polarization...greenish-blue crystals (numerous) are from Slyudyanka, Baikal region, Russia, and average 5.5 × 8 mm; the two dark
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Bantsekov donated another representative of this area: a small druze of fine crystals pigmented orangered...donated beautiful strawberry quartz from Chimkent area of Kazakhstan. Red color of quartz and aventurescence...clusters between quartz crystals (Liu Zhon Guang Dag area). A 6cm scepterlike amethyst crystal resting on... and after anhydrite (Vodino, the Volga basin, Russia) enlarged the collection of chalcedony varieties...Bol’shaya Balakhnya river valley, Taimyr Peninsula, Russia. The Museum set of is a detailed illustration of
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the colour spangling in aventurine quartz and sunstone, and reflecting the cat’s- 9 A large cut citrine...also common as inclusions (pp 48-49). The Mogok area of Burma has produced fine rubies for many centuries...California, the Ural Mountains and Adun Chilon in Russia and many other localities. The finest emeralds...include Brazil, Pala in California, and Sverdlovsk in Russia. Properties of tourmaline Chemical composition:...Spinach-green nephrite has been produced from near Irkutsk in Siberia since 1850, and the Maoris have been
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only about distance from a better known town in the area but also about the administrative regional units...vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names are always included in...divisions inside those countries, e.g in Spain, UK, Russia, some African countries, etc. Several repeated...SSSR, ser. geologiya, now Doklady Akademii nauk of Russia EJM - European Journal of Mineralogy EG - Economic...California, in fine crystals in talc near Wenatchee Lake, Chelan co., Washington, also at Sulzer, Prince
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crawler to mine horizontally on the sea bed. One area where diamonds have been concentrated after weathering...been cut and fashioned as a gemstone, the bright area which is a singffe to do, if at all possible, is...they formed. For example, emeralds from many and sunstone feldspar, and the cats-eyes and localities contain...appreciation of Sir Murchison's geological work in Russia. 37 Ruby and Sapphire The beauty of ruby and...lotus- common as inclusions (see p. 28). The Mogok area colour. Improvement of colour by various of Myanmar
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PART I MINERAL COLLECTIONS- OF RUSSIA �-==--- ---===--===--====--==-_,. Mine ral o g i c al Al m...the 300th Anniversary of the Geological Survey of Russia ISBN-5-900395-18-9 Supporting organizations:...organizations: Ministry of the Natural Resources of Russia Russian Geological Society Lomonosov Moscow State University...University Mineral Collections of Russia. Part I. Fourteen Personal Collections (18 th - 20 th Centuries)...description of fourteen personal mineral collections from Russia. Eight of them - historical collections, gathered
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citrine and amethyst, which are now produced in Russia and Japan on a commercial scale. Alteration in...mountains where heat flow may be high over a wide area and the stresses and strains of mountain building...precious opal found in volcanic rocks. In the Querétaro area of Mexico, fire opal has formed in cavities in rhyolite...coming from the Andes in Colombia, the Urals in Russia and the Himalayas in Pakistan; rubies also from...sabharastraka is identified as diamond from the Vidarbha area, madhyamarastraka from the present-day Madhya Pradesh
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95 19.95 +4 Each $16.95 16.95 TUMBLED POLISHED LAKE SUPERIOR AGATES Large in size with approx 10 to...in order for the part about sunstone collecting in the Rabbit Basin area in Oregon. The BLM has set aside...aside a 4-square-mile area (minus the 20 acres of the Spectrum mine) for collecting by the public. There...the entrance to the public area, and camping is OK anywhere within the area. No electricity or water is...March, and there is no fee for using the public area. —Larry and Carol Larson via e-mail In the article
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140 Feldspar: stones and Labradorite, : : Sunstone, : : Amazonstone . : 5 : Moon. 1d4 Quartz:...are known as alluvials. Figure 7 shows a heap of area water-worn pebbles from the Ceylon gem gravels....rarer gemstones. The Mogok Stone Tract, as this area is called after the town of Mogok, is one of the...transparent golden-yellow feldspar. They form a typical area u THE ORIGIN AND RECOVERY OF GEMSTONES for...that the more historical stones were found. This area, usually referred to as Golconda, was one of the
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18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C....collection (by C. A. Francis) 5:190-192 A.\1ITY The Amity area, Orange County. New York (by L. E. Keams) 9:85-90...Mineralogy of the Rapid Creek and Big Fish River Area, Yukon Territory [Canada] 23:Yl-47 --with H. R....6:26-31 ANTARCTICITE Antarcticite from [Bristol Dry Lake] California (by G. H. H. Muehle) 2:171-173 A.,rrno:-...crystals from the Foote mine 8:95-97 A.'\1â„¢O~-Y The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick [Canada] (by
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Moscow, Russia Tel/fax: (7-095) 2033574 Color separation and printing: PPA "Leo Tolstoy" Tula, Russia. CONTENTS...of Aldan, Republic o f Sakha (former Yakutia), Russia. (Fig. 1) *Author's note: The same geographical...intrusion. More than one geologist has walked over the area of this massif during the many years of investigation...a geological map at a scale of 1 200 000 for the area of the Inagli River basin, including the massif...situated i n this same massif. Korchagin worked in the area of the massif for a fairly long period o f time
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evaporation of saline water (either an ocean or lake) with the consequent precipitation of salts, such...metamorphism in an area by examining the mineralogy of the rocks over a wide area. Metamorphic rocks...Michigan. Domeykite is from the Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico;...sea), pit amber (dug up, especially from the Baltic area), clear, massive, fancy, cloudy, frothy, fatty and...Washington, Oregon, and California (Columbia Plateau area). Houghton Co.,Mich. New Jersey: Watchung basalt
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works influenced generations of mineralogists. In Russia the beginning of mineralogy as a science is linked...the Senate a project for the collection all over Russia of “ various sands, various stones, various clays...countries. Meanwhile, mineralogical knowledge in Russia developed independ­ ently and rose to such a high...to various provinces over the vast territory of Russia, principally in the Urals and Siberia, organised...international fairs, were generally recognised outside Russia as highly important contributions to the development
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RAS Bld. 18/2 Leninsky Prospekt, Moscow 119071 Russia Phone: +7(495) 952-00-67; fax: +7(495) 952-48-50...gumbeites at the Berezovsky gold deposit, Urals, Russia . . . . . . . . . .37 Bazarova Y.М., Kryulina G...clusters of diamond from the Lomonosov deposit, Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...of challenges of nuclear energy utilization in Russia . . . . . . . . .113 Mineralogical Museums and...Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, atali99@mai.ru Leonid A. Pautov Fersman Mineralogical
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evaporation of saline water (either an ocean or lake) with the consequent precipitation of salts, such...metamorphism in an area by examining the mineralogy of the rocks over a wide area. Metamorphic rocks...Michigan. Domeykite is from the Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico;...sea), pit amber (dug up, especially from the Baltic area), clear, massive, fancy, cloudy, frothy, fatty and...Washington, Oregon, and California (Columbia Plateau area). Houghton Co.,Mich. Nel1 1 Jersey: Watchung basalt
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metamorphism in an area by examining the mineralogy of the rocks over a wide area. Metamorphic gional...evaporation of saline water (either an ocean or lake) with the consequent precipitation of salts, such...is from the district, Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake Ontario, Canada; Guererro, Mexico; from Chile...a strong bluish tone in reflected light. Cedar Lake, Manitoba. Canada. Point Barrow, Alaska. Stone...brasite 1 = 2.98; natromonte- 3.04-3.1. Baltic area), clear, massive, fancy, cloudy, frothy, fatty,
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sandstones and conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper... it is also found at Nizhni Tagil and Norilsk (Russia), Ontario (Canada) and Bushveld (South Africa)...Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA), Jachymov and...Graphite deposits are In Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy...Oiamontlna (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Yakutia (Russia). C Colour: colourless, yellowish to yellow,
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sandstones and conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper... it is also found at Nizhni Tagil and Norilsk (Russia), Ontario (Canada) and Bushveld (South Africa)...Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA), Jachymov and...Graphite deposits are In Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy...Oiamontlna (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Yakutia (Russia). C Colour: colourless, yellowish to yellow,
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Geol. of Ore Deposits, Acad. of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Per Nysten: University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden...Bow, Madison, and Broadwater Cos., MT; Leadville, Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*)...Telluride, San Juan Co., CO; Bingham and Tintic, Salt Lake Co., UT; Mohave and Cochise Cos., AZ; Elmore, Idaho...Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake deposits, ON; Atlin and Caribou, BC; and...Romania, especially Rosia Montana (Verespatik). In Russia, gold is found on the eastern slope of the Ural
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cube faces do not. In time, cube faces spread in area until .they alone appear upon the crystal. Strictly...si- 1 multaneously upon the same crystal , 1 1 1 area, it is called oscillatory growth or • , oscillatory...pronounced in the oligoclase feldspar known as sunstone. When minute tubes or slender inclusions develop...curved surfaces along the sides corresponding to the area in a real barrel covered by staves. Crystals of...numerous crystals obtained from localities in this area of France. By far the majority of crystals several
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cube faces do not. In time, cube faces spread in area until they alone appear upon the crystal. Strictly...to develop simultaneously upon the same crystal area, it is called oscillatory growth or oscillatory...pronounced in the oligoclase feldspar known as sunstone. When minute tubes or slender inclusions develop...curved surfaces along the sides corresponding to the area in a real barrel covered by staves. Crystals of...numerous crystals obtained from localities in this area of France. By far the majority of crystals several
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two subdivisions of geology merge in at least one area of interest. Other areas of mutual interest exist...by th e upheavals in the Mediterranean-European area. Avicenna (980-1037?) or ibn-Sina, was the Aristotle...1nineralogically interesting deposits, minerals from the local area, an d so on. For instructional purposes, however...cube faces do not. In time, cube faces spread in area until they alone appear upon the crystal. Strictly...solutions, rapid and imperfect gro,vth is likely to Lake place on all cry tal faces. 1\ s noted on previous
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Outstanding crystals found in talc near Wenatchee Lake, Chelan County, Washington. Adamite Group Adamite-Olivenite...deposit, southwestern Transbaikalia, and in the Lake Baikal area, USSR; at Pitigliano, Tuscany, Italy; and...pearly on cleavages. MODE OF OCCURRENCE: Found in an area along 8 AGRINIERITE the Kipawa River, Villedieu...Colorado; at the Sells and South Hecla mine, Salt Lake County, and at the Cyclone mine, Tooele County,...ores from Cobalt, Ontario; in ore from the Red Lake area of Ontario; reported in ore from the Consols Mine
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Outstanding crystals found in talc near Wenatchee Lake, Chelan County, Washington. ADAMITE Zn2As04(0H)... southwestern Transbaikalia, 1u1.d in the Lake Baikal area, USSR; at Pitigliano, Tuscany, Italy; and...pearly on cleavages. MODE OF OCCURRENCE: Found in an area along 8 AGRINIERITE the Kipawa River, Villedieu...Colorado; at the Sells and South Hecia mine, Salt Lake County, and at the Cyclone mine, Tooele County,...from Cobalr. Ontario; in ore fron1 rhe Red Lale area of Ontario; reponed in ore fron1 the Consols ~line
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Colorado; at the Sells and South Hecia mine, Salt Lake County, and at the Cyclone mine, Tooele County,...ores from Cobalt, Ontario; in ore from the Red Lake area of Ontario; and has also been reported in ore...pegn1atite at several n1ines in the Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington...telluride-bearing ores in Boulder, Clear Creek, Lake, and Saguache counties, Colorado; in Dona Ana County...other western states. It also occurs at Kirkland Lake, Ontario, and at other places in Canada; in Chile
 
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