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Mordenite from
Basalt quarry, Troulloi (Troulli), Larnaca District, Cyprus


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Mordenite
Formula:(Na2,Ca,K2)4(Al8Si40)O96 · 28H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mordenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Troulloi (Troulli), Larnaca District, Cyprus
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:816254
Long-form Identifier:1:3:816254:0
GUID (UUID V4):21d98b50-bd3d-4d48-9e92-be885fa8ce1b
Nearest other occurrences of Mordenite
6.3km (3.9 miles) Avhellero (Avdellero), Larnaca District, Cyprus
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite, mordenite, offretite, paulingite, perlialite, thomsonite...analcime, bikitaite, edingtonite, ferrierite, mordenite, natrolite, thomsonite, tschernichite, and wairakite...GMELINITE LEVYNE EPISTILBITE FAUJASlTE POLLUClTE MORDENITE OFFRETITE GONNARDITE WELLSlTE* ERIONITE DACHIARDITE...where it flows out of the system. . . . . mordenite are of major importance, with minor phillipsite...clinoptilolite) crystals (0.01 to 0.1 mOl long), mordenite, and phillipsite replacing 50 to 90 percent of
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levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite, mordenite, offretite, paulingite, perlialite, thomsonite...analcime, bikitaite, edingtonite, ferrierite, mordenite, natrolite, thomsonite, tschernichite, and wairakite...GMELINITE LEVYNE EPISTILBITE FAUJASlTE POLLUClTE MORDENITE OFFRETITE GONNARDITE WELLSlTE* ERIONITE DACHIARDITE...where it flows out of the system. . . . . mordenite are of major importance, with minor phillipsite...clinoptilolite) crystals (0.01 to 0.1 mOl long), mordenite, and phillipsite replacing 50 to 90 percent of
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6-Rings .............. The Frameworks of the Mordenite Group. . . . . The Frameworks of the Heulandite...2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Zeolites of the Mordenite Group ............ Mordenite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Epistilbite: Rose (1826) Faujasite: Damour (1842) Mordenite: How (1864) Offretite: Gonnard (1890) Gonnardite:... 4. Zeolites with 6-rings 5. Zeolites of the mordenite group 6. Zeolites of the heulandite group Different...Bennett (1981). 0.2.5 The Frameworks of the Mordenite Group To build these frameworks, one must start
Journal (issue)
fluorapophyllite crystal, 4.6 cm, from Pashan Hills quarry no. 2 near Poona, Maharashtra state, India. Steve...Shiva Temple in Elephanta Cave, carved from Deccan basalt in the sixth century on an island off the entrance...cavansite from Wagholi are the paragons of Indian basalt minerals. These and other fine minerals have been...Buddhist temple of Karli was carved into the flow basalt of the Western Ghats during the second century...(the Golconda district in the princely state of Hyderabad, now Andhra Pradesh; a district located between
Journal (issue)
INTERGROWTH OF SCOLECITE AND MESOLITE AT THE BAIRD CREEK QUARRY, WOLF POINT, COWLITZ COUNTY, WASHINGTON by Rudy...98290 Zeolites are common in one flow exposed in a quarry at the headwaters of Baird Creek, southeast of...engineer for Weyerhaeuser. This section of road and quarry were probably made two years earlier but has been...heavy yellow gate (Fig. I) about 114 miles from the quarry. This area is closed to motorized vehicles although...the quarry. Figure I: Yellow gate 87 blocks the logging road 1/4 mile from the Baird Creek Quarry. Signs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Libraries] at 09:18 05 March 2015 Near Wagholi, Poona District, Maharashtra, India R are minerals are not supposed...mineral was found in vesicular basalt from the Charles W. Chapman quarry near Goble, Columbia County, Oregon...is known as the Main quarry, an operation that exploits a 10-meter-thick basalt flow of decidedly uninteresting...3). A vertical pipelike breccia zone within this basalt, however, contained cavansite-bearing pockets....downward to and beyond the contact between the basalt and the underlying andesite. Hundreds of fine specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Creek, southeast of town in road cut, vesicles in basalt; calcite, chabazite, C O W L E S I T E , epistilbite...T E , L A U M O N T I T E , levyne, mesolite, mordenite, phillipsite, scolecite, stilbite, and thomsonite...near town and along Interstate 5, in vesicles in basalt; A N A L C I M E , CHABAZITE, HEULANDITE, M O R...Mount Solo, at edge of Longview, in vesicles in basalt; A N A L C I M E and N A T R O L I T E . South... aragonite, calcite, chabazite, heulandite, mordenite, S C O L E C I T E , and S T I L B I T E . Turn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage of calcite (I) and zeolite (I) (including mordenite, heulandite, and stilbite) as well as plagioclase...flows at certain localities. From the Savda/Jalgaon quarry complex, ages cluster at 44–48 Ma and 25–28 Ma...cavities of a huge quarry complex (20 secondary minerals in open cavities of a huge quarry complex (20°59′N...exceptional exceptional mineralization of large SFF The quarry complex of Savda is characterized encrusted by...have been extensively studied in several other basalt was undertaken for for the the basalts of Iceland
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ity found at the surface of the Columbia River Basalt of eastern Washington is the type locality for...VOLCANICS OREGON Ffjyf] MIOCENE COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT UJ EOCENE VOLCANICS | | NON-VOLCANIC ROCK ... Rock Island, south of Wenatchee, where vesicular basalt that was dredged from the bottom of the Columbia...Because the zeolites are not found in the surrounding basalt flows or in any drill cores made during construction...and Tillson, 1968; Ames, 1980). Clinoptilolite, mordenite, harmotome, gmelinite, and laumonite are rarely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reported from unnoticed, other largealthough flood basalt So-called chalcedony-amethyst stalactites were...morphology are not reported from other large flood basalt provinces. So-called chalcedony-amethyst stalactites...crystallization of certain secondary minerals in the basalt cavities, relevant aspects are partly included...process. The abundance of fresh exposures created by basalt mining in one of the world’s best studied volcanic...continental flood basalt provinces (CFBs) [9,10], which are represented by voluminous basalt flows such as
Journal (issue)
Acio::::ular zeol i t.P.s 1 ike me-sol; t• •nd mordenite were noticeably absent. With widening of the highway...near road level produced large pockets between basalt flows where pockets up to 3x3xl feet were found...discovered an unknown blue mineral at th• Chapman quarry, • half mil• furth•r up the Neer road from wher•...in 1967. In 1966 John Cowles found eKceptional mordenite specimens in veins running through a large fine...Eocene vesicular brownish basalt which is dark black when fresh. The basalt flows are nearly horizontal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
118–145 119 Zeolites, mainly clinoptilolite and mordenite, are widespread in northern and central Sardinia...in northern Sardinia (Fig. 2a: 1, 2, 3—Romana district) (Ligas et al., 1997; Padalino et al., 2003; Simeone...western Sardinia (Fig. 2a: 4, 5, 6—Tresnuraghes district) (Rossetti, 1951; Deriu, 1953; Palomba and Ranieri...southern Sardinia (Fig. 2a: 7, 8, 9—Serrenti–Furtei district) (Rossetti, 1963; Asunis et al., 1983; Marini...mineralized areas The volcanic sequence in the Romana district (Logudoro), from bottom to the top, consists of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OCCURRENCE, CHEMICAL VARIATION AND GENESIS OF MORDENITE AND ASSOCIATED ZEOLITES FROM THE MORDEN AREA,...zeolite from the earliest Jurassic North Mountain Basalt, in Nova Scotia, have been examined in thin section...in the North Mountain basalt show a succession of clinoptilolite-Na → mordenite → heulandite, clinoptilolite-Ca...required for the precipitation of labradorite and mordenite, the repetitive zonation in some amygdales, and...as implied by previous authors. Formation of mordenite was favored by hydrothermal circulation of alkaline
Journal (issue)
western portions of Continued on page 5 Fig. 1. Mordenite and silica (beta-quartz?) found along Mulholland...east-west-trending Western Transverse Ranges of the basalt of the Conejo Volcanics, and numerous references...Chalcedony spherules on ferrierite from the Kanan Quarry, Agoura Hills, Los Angeles, County, California...Epistilbite Ferrierite Harmotome Heulandite Laurnontite Mordenite Natrolite Offretite Phillipsite Stilbite Thomsonite...thomsonite, specifically from the old Pacific Electric Quarry in Brush Canyon, was communicated to the authors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
single analcime crystal on serandite from the Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. This 3.7-cm specimen...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington...also been collected at the Gainesville diabase quarry, Prince William County, and from an unusual analcime...Other Colorado localities include amygdaloidal basalt east of East Fork Campground along the San Juan...crystals to 3.5 mm associated with mordenite and laumontite; and similar basalt near Wolf Creek Pass where it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Poliegos are mainly Quaternary and are rich in mordenite. Those of Samos are Miocene, and are rich in clinoptilolite...zeolites in these rocks are clinoptilolite and mordenite. The Metaxades-Petrota area is situated in the...Metaxades quarry, northern Greece Fig. 3. Load structures in zeolitized tufts, Metaxades quarry. The coarser...that minor amounts of K-rich clinoptilolite and mordenite coexist with the predominant heulandite in the...or clinoptilolite) by fibrous zeolites (mainly mordenite). The conditions that led to the zeolitization
Report (issue)
examined F7 Gold- and silver-bearing veins F7 Oatman district veins F7 Cook mine and vicinity F8 Veins south...indicated subeconomic resource of clinoptilolite-mordenite zeolite and an additional inferred resource of...study area. Gold and silver deposits of the Oatman district are about 1 mi northwest of the north boundary...veins with past gold production in the Oatman district project into the wilderness study area, where...and an inferred 2 million st of clinoptilolite-mordenite. Further testing of unweathered material is needed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban...contact, xlvii; vaterite, 535; calcite, 609 Belshaw's quarry, White Mountain: laumontite, 516 Bengore Head:...Hill: apophyllite, 508 Black Cave, Islandmagee: mordenite, 5O9 Carnmoney Hill, Belfast: calcite, zeolites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens of zeolites have been obtained from a basalt quarry on Coffin Butte, located about 10 miles north...beds of intercalated sandstone,indicate that the basalt was extruded in several flows with short periods...Eocene. WeIl crystallized specimensof stilbite, mordenite, mesolite, natrolite, heulandite, chabazite, apophyllite...best specimens collected to date have come from a quarry at the north east end of the Butte. At this place...basaltic glass, which commonly forms crusts around the basalt pillows, and then migrated to its present location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article The Secondary Minerals from the Pillow Basalt of Salsette-Mumbai, Deccan Volcanic Province, India...Benkó, Z. The Secondary Minerals from the Pillow Basalt of Salsette-Mumbai, Deccan Volcanic Province, India...20,21]). The main part of the tholeiitic flood basalt extruded from certain fissure systems [5,6] within...below. The Salsette subgroup contains not only basalt, but also trachyte and rhyolite, as well as felsic...tholeiitic basalt occupies most of the eastern part of the island, whereas spilitic basalt with pillow
Report (issue)
vesicular basalt and red tu® breccia, as cavity ¯llings and in calcite veinlets (Chapman quarry, Oregon...USA); in pores of altered basalt breccia and tu®aceous andesite (Poona district, India). Association: Pentagonite...(Oregon, USA); stilbite, calcite, heulandite, mordenite, chalcocite (India). Distribution: From near Owyhee...Owyhee State Park, Malheur Co., and the Chapman quarry, Columbia Co., Oregon, USA. Remarkable specimens...specimens from quarries around Wagholi, Poona district, Maharashtra, India. Name: For CAlcium, VANadium, and
Journal (issue)
green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...several small mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village...50 km north of the U.S. border. Activity in the district began with a small "gold rush" in the late 1880s...list, 1984). NORTHWEST TERRJTORJES Port Radium district, Great Bear Lake. A deposit of uraninite (variety...silver from the El Bonanza mine in the Port Radium district, and the specimens briefly appeared on the market
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
opal-CT and sanidine with minor quartz and locally mordenite. The Chios bentonites of Lower–Middle Miocene...beidellite (Sappes area) and with minor opal-CT, mordenite, quartz, plagioclase and, in places, illite. The...Çiflikli et al., 2013; Ekinci Ş ans et al., 2015), Cyprus (Christidis, 2001, 2006) and Egypt (Agha et al...and lavas have been altered hydrothermally to mordenite, K-feldspar, opalCT and minor smectite (Pe-Piper...work had shown that NW/SE striking smectite-rich/mordenite-poor (bentonitic) zones, which are tectonically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ferrierite-K, clinoptilolite-Ca, clinoptilolite-K, mordenite, smectite, celadonite, calcite, and barite are...dachiardite results from its structural relationship to mordenite, which is widepore zeolite with pronounced ion-exchange...predominantly basaltic andesite, andesite, and occasional basalt. The central part of the the volcanic edifice predominantly...ferrierite-K, clinoptilolite-Ca, clinoptilolite-K, mordenite, smectite, celadonite, calcite, and barite. MORPHOLOGY...dawsonite-bearing silicocarbonatite discovered in the Francon Quarry in Que- Gottardi and Meier (1963) studied the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include clinoptilolite or heulandite,although mordenite and dachiardite also occur with ferrierite at...zeolite-bearingrock originally came from a small quarry near the eastend of the settlementof Altoona, but...open spaces between fragments of brecciated basalt. The basalt consists of abundant glass with less than...at Altoona is Ca-clinoptilolite, dachiardite, mordenite, chalcedony, and calcite-all have grown on the...sequence of crystallization is siderite, clay, mordenite, ferrierite, and Ca-clinoptilolite, followed by
 
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