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Forsterite from
Goldsmith Mine, Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Goldsmith Mine, Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:710440
Long-form Identifier:1:3:710440:4
GUID (UUID V4):7050f058-da80-4fc8-bde6-d003e0445741
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Democrat Olivine Deposit (Democrat Chromite Prospect; T Mine; Democrat Chromite Placer Deposit; ITS; Ivy River-Democrat Chromite Deposit), Canton-Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Unnamed Sample Locality Occurrence (Part of Democrat Olivine Body Dunite; MRDS - 10026473), Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Day Book, Yancey County, North Carolina, USA
30.1km (18.7 miles) Western North Carolina Nickel Laterite Occurrence (TES), Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
33.8km (21.0 miles) Newfound Gap Olivine deposit, Canton-Democrat, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
51.1km (31.8 miles) Senia Olivine Deposit, Frank, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
54.6km (33.9 miles) Frank Olivine deposit, Frank, Avery County, North Carolina, USA
74.4km (46.2 miles) Asbestos Prospect (MRDS - 10093769), Morganton, Caldwell County, North Carolina, USA
81.3km (50.5 miles) Webster-Balsam, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Report (volume)
Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Buncombe County, North Carolina By F. G. LESURE and A. E. GROSZ, U...Wilderness Study Area and Extension, Bunc1m County, North Carolina. (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1515) Bibliography:...3:1515 1. Mines and mineral resources-North Carolina-Buncombe Co. I. Grosz, Andrew E., jof author. II...Mountain Wilderness Study Area and Extension, North Carolina, that is being considered for wilderness designation...studied is in the Pisgah National Forest in Buncombe County. CONTENTS Page Summary ---------------
Report (volume)
Knoxville 1 °X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Knoxville 1°X2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°X2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina I by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [et al...Geology- Tennessee. 2. Geology-North Carolina. 3. Geology-South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources-...and mineral resources-North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II
Report (issue)
Knoxville 1°x2° Quadrangle, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina By G.R. ROBINSON, Jr., F.G. LESURE...Knoxville 1°x2° quadrangle Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina / by G.R. Robinson, Jr. ... [etaf...Geology—Tennessee. 2. Geology—North Carolina. 3. Geology—South Carolina. 4. Mines and mineral resources—Tennessee...and mineral resources—North Carolina. 6. Mines and mineral resourcesSouth Carolina. I. Robinson, G.R. II...46 Spruce Pine District 46 Woodlawn District 46 Buncombe District 46 Bryson City District 47 Franklin-Sylva
Report (issue)
Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development..._ _______----Spruce Pine district- ___________ Buncombe district__-_-__--_--_ Woodlawn district_____________
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FIELD TRIP GUIDEBOOK SEPTEMBER 29-30, 1990 GEOLOGY OF GRENVILLE-AGE BASEMENT...CENTRAL BLUE RIDGE, NORTH CAROLINA BY CARL E. MERSCHAT AND LEONARD S. WIENER NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...OBTAINED FROM NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY P.O. BOX 27687 RALEIGH, N.C. 27611-7687 CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL...Lee Mitchell South Carolina Water Resources Commission Greenville, South Carolina Vice-President: John...Geology Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Printed in The Netherlands LS_.J STABILITY OF FORSTERITE + CO2 AND ITS BEARING ON THE ROLE OF CO2 IN THE...Geology Department, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. (USA) Received January 8, 1975 Revised version...bars/°C. This result shows that the assemblage forsterite and carbon dioxide is not stable under most pressure...stable relative to the isochemical assemblage forsterite (Mg2SiO4) and CO2 over most of the temperature-pressure...Mg-carbonate by J.R. Goldsmith. The mineral powders were mixed on the forsterite-CO2 bulk composition
Report (issue)
Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina Carolina Geological Society Annual Field Trip November...Aiken, South Carolina Steve Gurley, Consulting Soil Scientist, Lincolnton, North Carolina Godfrey and...Blythewood, South Carolina Kubal, Furr and Associates, Greenville, South Carolina Zemex Corporation,... Spruce Pine, North Carolina Organization, registering participants, keeping financial records, and guidebook...Cooperation, encouragement, and field checking by North Carolina Geological Survey geologists: Carl E. Merschat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Compositions of Starting Materials Talca (Murphy, North Carolina) Diopsideb (Zermatt, Switzerland) Tremoliteb...entropies for quartz, calcite, diopside, and forsterite are from RUBIEand WALDBAUM(1968). The entropies...as starting materials. Following the method of GOLDSMITH and NEWTON (196PL carbonates were pre-equilibrated...charges containing ap~oximate~y 59; LizCOJ flux. Goldsmith and Newton demonstrated that no appreciable difference...tested using the miscibility gap compositions of GoLDSMITH and NEWTON (1969) and assuming ideal mixing of
Report (issue)
Resources Report M 49 1964 Mineral Aspects of the Grace Mine Magnetite Deposit Akio Tsusue COMMONWEALTH OF...Geologist BULLETIN M49 Mineral Aspects of the Grace Mine Magnetite Deposit by Akio Tsusue PENNSYLVANIA...Pennsylvania 2 3. Geologic map of Grace Mine 3rd level and north-south cross section through ore body ...from Grace Mine 6 TABLES Page Table 1. X-ray powder data of serpentine from Grace Mine . . 2. Mg content...dolomite. 5 7 8 MINERAL ASPECTS OF THE GRACE MINE MAGNETITE DEPOSIT by Akio Tsusue ABSTRACT A tabular
Report (issue)
CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1975 Officers President: Robert D. Hatcher, Jr Department of Chemistry...Clemson, South Carolina Vice President: Carlton J. Leith Department of Geosciences North Carolina State University...University Raleigh, North Carolina Secretary-Treasurer: S. Duncan Heron, Jr. Department of Geology Duke...Duke University Durham, North Carolina Chairman of Membership Committee: Robert E. Lemm Department...South Carolina Field Trip Leaders: Stephen A. Kish Department of Geology University of North Carolina
Report (issue)
South Carolina .......................................................................77 North Carolina...oxides, tremolite, serpentine, diopside, and forsterite. Intrusive magmas locally appear to be heat and...Montana, Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts...chlorite and tremolite. Talc in the Murphy belt, North Carolina and Georgia, is found in the Cambrian Murphy...deposits in Massachusetts are mostly located in a north-trending belt of Cambrian and Ordovician metasedimentary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the assemblages of periclase + enstatite and forsterite + quartz (and its high-pressure variants) do...``forbidden'' assemblages in the upper mantle. Forsterite, enstatite and quartz all undergo various phase...Other examples are the enstatite + magnesite « forsterite + CO2 reaction (Newton and Sharp 1975; Eggler...and the decarbonation and melting of magnesite (Goldsmith and Heard 1961; Irving and Wyllie 1975). However...mantle (Newton and Sharp 1975; Eggler et al. 1979; Goldsmith and Heard 1961; Irving and Wyllie 1975; Liu and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/99 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...processes and disequilibrium between calcite and forsterite in an experimental C-O-H fluid Y.-F. ZHENG,*...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA 2 (Received November 2, 1998; accepted in revised...Abstract—Oxygen isotope exchange between calcite and forsterite were investigated in the presence of a large...in the T-P-XCO2 stability field of the calcite-forsterite assemblage for 2, 5, 10, 20, 40 and 80 days,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dlstriextincbution of plagioclase 1050 tion angles and GOLDSMITH, J.R.: The neltlng of breakdom reactions 272 anorthite...ninerals proton irradiation of 374 Fluorite, Forsterite-tephrolle, crystal structure refineDmt L263 ln...P . I t . R I B B E 3 T h e Infrared spectra forsterite-tephroite series, I: klebelsbergLte crystal 1263...neutron diffractlon study tiragatlolte Gabbro, South Carolina: 900 HARRISoN, I.I.J. see I'IYSEN, 8.0. (abstr)...d M , L . S Y K E S : m e t a norphisu in Ehe Carolina Slate 405 BeIt: reply 340 M00Rx, P.B. see A.RAKI
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magnesium isotope fractionation between spinel, forsterite, and magnesite from 600 to 800 °C Catherine A...California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA Received 30 January 2013; accepted in revised form...equilibrium magnesium isotope partitioning between forsterite (Mg2SiO4) and magnesite (MgCO3) and between spinel...spinel and forsterite. Using the three-isotope method, the magnitudes of exchange between forsterite and magnesite...equilibrium fractionation between spinel and forsterite by difference, yielding D26 MgSpl–Fo values of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the dehydration of talc is a experimentallyby Goldsmith (1981),i.e., notable exception. The present study...0003-004x/84/09 l 0-0848$02. 00 84E MATTHEWS AND GOLDSMITH: ZOISITE FORMATION FROM ANORTHITE t49 10 o ...aulysls (1982) haa of the 850 MATTHEWS AND GOLDSMITH: ZOISITE FORMATION FROM ANORTHITE 18 hours to...does not affect the position of reaction(3) (Goldsmith,1982).The anorthitecrystals,ejectedas volcanic...Lichfield, Connecticut, zoisite from Buck Creek, North Carolina, synthetic margarite and the anorthite reactant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
represented by dolomite þ calcite þ diopside þ forsterite and more 13C-depleted nature compared to dolomite...dolomite þ calcite þ tremolite þ forsterite assemblage. q 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords:...constitute the rock. Dolomitic marble contains forsterite, diopside, tremolite, phlogopite, dolomite, calcite... diopside or phlogopite; and serpentine from forsterite, diopside or phlogopite. Almost all of the silicate...Cu –Zn – Ag mineralization in the Dangdu mine at the north contact of the Muamsa Granite. Using homogenization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the Reaction: 1 Diopside + 3 Dolomite ~ 2 Forsterite + 4 Calcite + 2 CO2 a Hans-Rolf K~ise 1 and...For the reaction" i diopside + 3 dolomite ~,~ 2 forsterite + 4 calcite + 2 CO2 a (g) with the activities...(Metz 1976): 1 tremolite + 11 dolomite ~,~ 8 forsterite + 13 calcite + 9 CO 2 + 1 H 2 0 yields the stability...four-mineral assemblage: diopside + calcian dolomite + forsterite + magnesian calcite and the stability conditions...five-mineral assemblage: tremolite + calcian dolomite + forsterite + magnesian calcite + diopside both shown in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with calcite, talc, tremolite, diopside and forsterite arriving successively. The four- and fivemineral...for the assemblage dolomite-tremolite-diopside-forsterite-calcite. Equilibrium fluid pressures, calculated...Limited surveying in galleries of the Kasuga dolomite mine seems to indicate that narrow apophyses and dikes...calcite, quartz, talc, tremolite, diopside and forsterite. Wollastonite, common in metamorphosed siliceous...amount in association with the assemblage dolomite-forsterite-calcite. Dolomite and calcite with some other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of calcite + dolomite + tremolite + diopside + forsterite. At a pressureof 3 kbar, these five minerals...introduced by Harker and Tuttle (1955) and Graf and Goldsmith (1955). Equilibrium temperaturescan be estimated...characterizedboth experimentally and empirically by Goldsmith and Newton (1969), Bickle and Powell (1977),Powell...silicate minerals: talc, amphibole, diopside, forsterite, clinochlore, spinel, and phlogopite (Table l)...aggregatesthat form rims around diopside. Diopside and forsterite are present as subhedral to anhedral grains,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
km2 area on the western margin of this segment, north of the Ottawa river, displays a great variety of...graphite, phlogopite, Ca amphibole, Ca pyroxene, forsterite, humite group minerals, (II) minor marble, with...of about 650 °C. Forsterite was possibly produced from low-AI amphibole, and forsterite + spinel from high-Al...amphibole. forsterite to serpentine, and the exsolution of dolomite from calcite. Forsterite in marble...lower. In the highlands, reactions to produce forsterite and orthopyroxene were initiated in response
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1329 Arizona Economic geology Aluminum, Maricopa county, Wickenberg (Sheridan, Michael F , et al.) tt-t2...(Mclean, W. John, er a/.) 7-E 1103 Hemihedrite,Pinal county, Florencemine, Maricopacounty, Wickenburg,Rat Tail...a/.) 7-8 1088 Kinoite, SantaRita mountains,Pima county (Anthony, John W., er a/.) 5-6 7O9 Phoenicochroite...Jerome,United Verde mine (Wood, Michael M.) 5-6 729 Wherryite, Tiger, Mammoth mine (Mclean, W. John.)...er a/.) 1.2 224 Breccia Intrusive Utah, San Juan county, MosesRock dike, kimberlite (McGetchin, Thomas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isolueshite crystal with euhedral inclusions of “forsterite” (now hydrous Mg silicate). magnetite, dolomite...euhedral solid inclusions with a shape typical for forsterite crystals, but consisting of iron-magnesium silicate...explained by the Goldsmith’s simplexity principle (goldsMith 1953), which states that metastable structurally...between surface energy and polymorphism, etc. goldsMith (1953) observed that metastable polymorphs that...APEX2. – Version 2014.11-0. Madison, Wisconsin, USA. BulaKh, A. G. & ivaniKov, V. V. (1984): The Problems
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a consortium of laboratories from Japan and the USA (Nakamura, 2002). The meteorite is classified as...In addition to plagioclase, small amounts of forsterite, magnetite, and diopside were also detected from...Fo: reflections from diopside, magnetite, and forsterite, respectively. 313 Figure 4. An example of...plagioclase crystals and heating experiments, Goldsmith (1952, 1987) suggested that order − disorder reactions...oxygen (Goldsmith, 1952, 1987). As ordering reactions in plagioclase are very slow (Goldsmith, 1952; Van
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
o b e r t C. N e w t o n a n d J u l i a n R. Goldsmith Department of the Geophysical Sciences, University...Petrol., Vol. 49 50 1%.C. Newton and J. 1%.Goldsmith in a variety of metamorphic facies, from zeolitic...glass. e) A natural wollastonite, from Jefferson County, N. Y. (0.11% MgO, Fe20 a < 0.1%). f) An essentially...equilibrium 4" 52 R . C . Newton and J. R. Goldsmith Table 1. Runs relating to P - - T stability of...E n = enstatite. 54 R.C. Newton and J. R. Goldsmith 40 Fig. 1. P-T relations for the composition
 
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