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Gypsum from
Arad Mine, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Arad Mine, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:667343
Long-form Identifier:1:3:667343:7
GUID (UUID V4):6794c84d-ce1a-47b9-9f64-8212af39828c
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
10.3km (6.4 miles) Clastic dikes, Gurim anticline, Hatrurim Basin, Tamar Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
15.6km (9.7 miles) Arad Stone Quarry, Arad, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
16.0km (9.9 miles) Mount Sodom, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
70.5km (43.8 miles) Makhtesh Ramon (Ramon crater), Ramat Negev Regional Council, Southern District (HaDarom District), Israel
77.4km (48.1 miles) Nabi Musa, Jericho Governorate, West Bank, Palestine
88.2km (54.8 miles) Suwaqa al Gharbiya, Lisdan-Siwaga Fault, Hashem region, Daba-Siwaqa complex, Transjordan Plateau, Amman Governorate, Jordan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Geological Survery of Israel 30 Malkhei Yisrael Street Jerusalem 95501, Israel Geology, Hydrogeology...water contamination in the area of the Hitura nickel mine, Western Finland P.M. Heikkinen - K. Korkka-Niemi...Lahti - V.-P. Salonen Abstract Tailings-derived mine drainage water that is neutral in character, has...area. Nevertheless, the water in the eastern and southern parts of the area upgradient of the hydraulic...Finland - Groundwater contamination - Mine drainage - Nickel mine tailings - Surface water contamination
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Campus, Institute of Earth Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel c Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Louisiana State...calcium chloride brine from the Miramar Con gold mine, Yellowknife N.W.T., strongly suggest that the brine...similar to seawater Žy32.3‰.. The mean d6 Li for all mine water samples of y35.1‰ may reflect minor uptake...evaporitic evolutionary sequence are 36% halite, 8% gypsum, ) Corresponding author. Fax: q1-6139962049;...shield for hundreds of millions of years. Bein and Arad Ž1992. studied the hydrology of cryogenic brines
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WATERS IN THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN, ISRAEL M. MAGARITZ 1, A. NADLER 2, U. KAFRP and A. ARAD 3 ~Isotope...Weizmann Institute o f Science, R e h o v o t (Israel) 2 Division o f Soil Physics, Institute o f Soils...Volcani Center, Bet Dagan (Israel) 3 Geological Survey o f Israel, Jerusalem (Israel) (Received August 16,...Kafri, U. and Arad, A., 1984. Hydrogeochemistry of continental brackish waters in the southern Coastal Plain...Plain, Israel. Chem. Geol., 42: 159--176. The southern Coastal Plain in Israel incorportates a transitional
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low-temperature hydrothermal veins. In the geological map of Israel, they are designated by the special symbol MZ (Mottled...University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel Rock complexes of the Hatrurim Formation are largely...discordant with that of host sedimentary rocks. In the southern part of the basin, small individual cones and...32° Tel Aviv E Mediterranean Sea DA N Irbid Arad Malhata Hatrurim basin Karak 0 40 km Fig. 1... >45 Varved clay, sand, gravel, conglomerate, gypsum (Lisan Fm) N2–Q >20 Conglomerate (Arava Fm)
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remarkably persistent through time in spite of major regional changes in the environment. Although this can...channel. In the Ramon and Arad Groups of the central Negev region in Israel, the Kurnub sub-basin retained...e i r o r i e n t a t i o n p a r a l l e l to regional z o n e s of crustal w e a k n e s s , as was...erasing the topography. 2.2. The Ramon and Arad Groups, Israel Triassic to Jurassic marine and terrestrial...terrestrial sediments of the R a m o n and Arad Groups crop out at Makhtesh Ramon in the central Negev of PERSISTENCE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
drillings in southern Israel E. FLEISCHERand M. GOLDBERG Geological Survey of Israel. Jerusalem. Israel and... Rehovot. Israel Abstract-Formation water samples from deep drillings in southern Israel fall into three...three regional groups. each of which shows distinct chemical and isotopic characteristics. Waters from...deep drillings (oil exploration wells) in southern Israel (location map. Fig. 1). The area consists of...through the courtesy of the Geological Survey of Israel. Drill hole temperature records were also provided
Report (chapter)
Geological Survey o f Israel, 30 Malkhei Israel Street, 95501, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Negev Phosphate Company...Company, Tel Aviv 6100, Israel Abstract: The extent of carbonate for phosphate substitution in francolite...phosphorite samples of Santonian to Eocene age from Israel. The results show that unaltered apatites from...'Aqrabbim 'Arad (Dead Sea Road) 'Arad (Rogem Valley) 'Arad (Rogem Valley) NE of Oron 'Arad (Rogem Valley)...Valley) 'Arad (Rogem Valley) Altered sample Altered sample Formation, member or unit: Mishash, Chert
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00efra_e3q9 GEOGRAPHY OF ISRAEL by EFRAIM ORNI and ELISHA EFRAT Israel Program for Scientific Translations...South, New York, N. Y. Copyright © 1964 Israel Program for Scientific Translations Ltd. IPST Cat...Cater Ol israel, an. 2. eis sat te eee 2 Table of Historical Periods and Events in the Land of Israel IDSapeKeraneeyol...of upbuilding, and the founding of the State of Israel, literature on the country gained further scope...comprehensive and concise geographies on the Land of Israel being rather limited, particularly in languages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
while the Sr in Ca-rich minerals such as calcite or gypsum will have low 87 Sr/86Sr ratios that remain essentially...The area is one where relatively little silicate, gypsum, or carbonate dissolution occurs along flow paths...and groundwater flow paths (after Macumber, 1991; Arad and Evans, 1987; Cartwright and Weaver, 2005; Petrides...Geology 246 (2007) 107–123 that discharges to the Southern Ocean, the basin is closed, and groundwater discharges...greater component of lateral flow (Calf et al., 1986; Arad and Evans, 1987; Macumber, 1991; Cartwright and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IN THE JUDEAN DESERT AND IN THE NORTHERN NEGEV, ISRAEL S. ILANI and A. STRULL Mineral and Energy Resources...Division, 30 Malkhei Yisrael St, Jerusalem 95501 (Israel) (Received December 21, 1987; revised and accepted...in the Judean Desert and in the northern Negev, Israel. Ore Geol. Rev., 4: 305-314. Secondary, yellow...areas of the northern Negev and the Judean Desert, Israel. They occur in scattered exposures as much as several...secondary uranium minerals are associated with gypsum which forms thin veins and is found also as matrix
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Phosphates, Ltd. Oron, Israel 2 Geotechnical and Mineral Engineering Department Technion, Israel Institute of Technology...Technology, Haifa, Israel The chemical composition (up to 7 elements) of francolite in 64 samples of...varies beeause of skeletal and pelletal grains in Israel substitution in the apatite lattice (Altphosphorites...allochemical skeletal material. As in Florida, the Israel macrograins may contain inclusions of calcite and...dissolves the calcite present. Soluble salts and gypsum were dissolved in water and clayey material less
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University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel Mekorot Co. Ltd., PO Box 20128, 61202 Tel Aviv, Israel c Hebrew University...University Jerusalem, Law Faculty Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel d Helmholtz-Zentrum, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum...bodies is intradependent or interdependent with the regional movement of fresh groundwater, remain open questions...and brines flow across political borders between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. It is very difficult...The latter extends into Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority. In all cases, these
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Isotope Department, Rehovot (Israel) Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem (Israel) (Received October 27,... 27: 143--155. Carbonate nodules from soils in Israel, only exposed to meteoric water, have a mMg:*/...r o u n d w a t e r s in the coastal plain o f Israel were interpreted as mixtures o f fresh aquifer...9 6 4 ; Kafri, 1969, 1 9 7 0 ; Arad et al., 1 9 7 5 ; Kafri and Arad, 1979). Since the t y p e o f c...same nodules, together with Mg-bearing calcite and gypsum nodules, suggests its authigenic origin. GROUNDWATER
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from Samuel Vardi, P.O. Kibbutz Chatzor, Achdod, Israel. He sent in three specimens. The first is a mass-of...beautiful strong greenish phosphorescence. From Arad, Israel, Mr. Vardi sent a small massive piece of bracciated...phosphorescence. Finally, from Ein Gedi, on the Dead Sea, Israel, he sent a small mass of clay impregnated with...side of the mass was covered with small non-fl. gypsum xls. Thanks, Mr. Vardi. May I suggest readers contact...reported occurrence. That is reserved for the Braden mine, Chile where a crystal ten feet long has been reported
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bentorite crystals of suitable quality were found in the Arad Stone Quarry within the pyrometamorphic rock of...group; SC-XRD; Raman spectroscopy; Hatrurim Complex; Israel 1. Introduction Bentorite, with the ideal formula...within spurrite marble in the Arad Stone Quarry in the Negev Desert, Israel (Figure 1a,b). The studied rocks... These spurrite marbles, commercially known as “Arad marble”, were mined as raw material for building...replaced by Ca silicate hydrates, zeolites, aragonite, gypsum, hydrogarnets, and ettringite [18]. Minerals of
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(Ikonos satellite data) of the ancient mining district of Faynan, Jordan, and its surroundings. Red dots...early copper metallurgy in the area of Faynan, southern Jordan, between 1983 and 1993. It also contains...the research carried out on the ancient mining district and mining techniques. The translation was made...archaeometallurgy and archaeology of mining in Faynan and the southern Arabah-valley, Jordan” funded by the VolkswagenStiftung... VI Preface metallurgical remains in Timna (Israel) and Sinai (Egypt), at a time when the political
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ON THE GENESIS OF DISCORDANT NORTHEASTERN NEGEV, ISRAEL DOLOSTONE BODIES 93 IN THE M. M A G A R I...Weizmann Institute o f Science, R e h o v o t (Israel) 2Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research...Ben-Gurion University o f the Negev, Beer Sheva (Israel) 3Department o f Geology and Mineralogy, Ben-Gurion...Ben-Gurion University o f the Negev, Beer Sheva (Israel) (Received December 8, 1981; revised and accepted...discordant dolostone bodies in the northeastern Negev, Israel. Chem. Geol., 3 9 : 9 3 - - 1 1 4 . Two types of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Potsdam, Germany c Mekorot Co Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel d Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Amman, Jordan...mainly over-exploited, the semi-arid region of Israel, Palestine and Jordan is suffering from water shortness...examples is the Golan Heights, which is shared by Israel and Syria and lithologically continues southwards...setting The study area is subdivided into the southern part, the AjlounPlateau (AP), and the northern...the Yarmouk Gorge (YG), its northern (YG-N) and southern (YG-S) flanks are discussed separately (Fig. 1)
Report (issue)
09)Σ=3.01O11.97F1.03. (2) Nahal Morag, Negev Desert, Israel; average electron microprobe and Raman spectroscopic...paleo-fumarole (Russia) and in pyrometamorphic paralava (Israel). A combination of high temperature, low pressure...kainotropite, baryte, volborthite, brochantite, gypsum, opal (Mountain 1004, Tolbachik); anhydrite, diopside...tenorite, delafossite, wollastonite, cuspidine (Israel). Mineralogical Society of America Handbook of...Mineralogy Revised 12/4/2022 Distribution From the Southern fumarole field, Mountain 1004, Tolbachik volcano
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotope study of vein and cave calcites from southern Israel A. AVIGOUR 1'*, M. MAGARITZ 2, A. ISSAR 3 and...Sheva (Israel) 2Department o[ Isotope Research, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 (Israel) 3The...Desert Research, Sde Boqer Campus, Sde Boqer 84 990 (Israel) 4Department of Earth Sciences, The University...isotope study of vein and cave calcites from southern Israel. Chem. Geol., 82: 69-81. The strontium isotope...compositions of secondary calcites from the Negev, southern Israel, were compared to those of the marine carbonate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Negev, P.O. Box 653, BeerSheva, 84105 Israel e St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya...Formation (Mottled Zone) on the southern slope of Mount Ye’elim in Israel. The mineral is associated with...ules abundant in rocks of the Haturim Formation in Israel. The modal mineralic composition of the rocks per...than 20 outcrops over an area of 300–350 km2 in Israel and Jordan) is known. Furthermore, the underlying...composed of calcium hydrosilicates, carbonates, and gypsum. In the 1960s–1970s, the mineralogy of the forma
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University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel Received 31 March 2011; accepted 15 July 2011 ...1991); some oils flows have been obtained from it in Israel as well (Connan and Nissenbaum, 2004; Gardosh et...Transform (Fig. 1). The largest are the Hatrurim Basin (Israel) and Siwaqa (Jordan) complexes occupying about...the collision and at its early stage, it was the southern Paleothethys shelf where deposition of up to 4...Cretaceous– Paleogene deposition cycles separated by regional unconformities corresponding to events of regression
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the combustion metamorphic “Mottled Zone” event, Israel Y.I. Geller a, b,⁎, A. Burg b, L. Halicz b, Y....Jerusalem, Israel Geological Survey of Israel, 30 Malkhe Israel St., 95501 Jerusalem, Israel a r t i c...the “Mottled Zone”) is a unique rock complex in Israel and Jordan, which is composed mainly of high-t...rock complex that crops out in central and southern Israel and in Jordan (Fig. 1). Its protolith was apparently...Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. Tel.: + 972 2 6586790; fax: + 972 2 5662581. E-mail
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Western Sahara Algeria Tunisia Middle East Egypt Iraq Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey Oceania Australia... Peru, and Venezuela West Africa Senegal Togo Southern Africa Asia Europe Centrally planned economy countries...Location map, west African deposits Location map southern African deposits Location map, U.S.S.R. and Finland...Zimbabwe Total5 961 Middle East: 627 Egypt 226 Israel 423 Jordan Syria Turkey Total^ 1,275 Oceania and...and Tunisia: Eastern Europe Western Europe Total Israel and Jordan: Asia Eastern Europe Western Europe
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the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel Geological Survey of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel c Department of Environmental...University of the Negev, Israel d Institute of Chemistry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel e Department of...Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...considered a single geological system. In Israel, which is the southern segment of the DST, the transform is...The Hula basin is the northern part of the DST in Israel (Fig. 1) and its elevation is ~70 m above sea level
 
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