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Mesolite from
Skookumchuck Dam, Bucoda, Thurston County, Washington, USA


Locality type:Dam
Classification
Species:Mesolite
Formula:Na2Ca2Si9Al6O30 · 8H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Analcime8 photos of Mesolite associated with Analcime at this locality.
Calcite5 photos of Mesolite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Thomsonite-Ca5 photos of Mesolite associated with Thomsonite-Ca at this locality.
Stilbite Subgroup4 photos of Mesolite associated with Stilbite Subgroup at this locality.
Stilbite-Ca2 photos of Mesolite associated with Stilbite-Ca at this locality.
Chabazite2 photos of Mesolite associated with Chabazite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Mesolite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Apophyllite Group1 photo of Mesolite associated with Apophyllite Group at this locality.
Mordenite1 photo of Mesolite associated with Mordenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mesolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Skookumchuck Dam, Bucoda, Thurston County, Washington, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (24 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:93755
Long-form Identifier:1:3:93755:5
GUID (UUID V4):7842341b-ac20-4961-91fb-7345d7bad857
Nearest other occurrences of Mesolite
35.7km (22.2 miles) Mossyrock Dam, Morton, Morton Mining District, Lewis County, Washington, USA
38.9km (24.1 miles) Rock Candy Mountain, Black Hills, Thurston County, Washington, USA
39.5km (24.6 miles) Unnamed Quarry, Thurston County, Washington, USA
47.4km (29.5 miles) F Line pit, Doty Hills, Lewis County, Washington, USA
48.1km (29.9 miles) C-line Quarry, Porter, Grays Harbor County, Washington, USA
48.5km (30.2 miles) Lucky Strike Pit, Mason County, Washington, USA
50.9km (31.6 miles) Top of the Hill Quarry, Doty Hills, Brooklyn, Pacific County, Washington, USA
56.9km (35.4 miles) Signal Peak, Cowlitz County, Washington, USA
59.6km (37.0 miles) The Half Round Roadcut, Lewis County, Washington, USA
61.8km (38.4 miles) Robertson Pit, Mason County, Washington, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sites. ZEOLITES of Washington State Tertiary-age volcanics cover much of Washington State, but only portions...surface of the Columbia River Basalt of eastern Washington is the type locality for paulingite at RUDY...TSCHERNICH 526 A v e n u e A S n o h o m i s h , Washington 98290-2414 T H E VOLCANICS IN T H E PACIFIC...fresh exposures of rock in quarries, highway and dam construction sites, and along the extensive loggingroad... DAYTONa 'It I y^ROCK & ISLAND DAM- CAPITOL i L SKOOKUMCHUCK D A l i ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' W W E R . ^ ^ C
Report (issue)
Mesolite Na2Ca2 Al6 Si9 O30 ² 8H2 O c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic... In the USA, on Table Mountain, Je®erson Co., Colorado; large crystals from Skookumchuck Dam, near Bucoda...Bucoda, Thurston Co., Washington. In Oregon, from Goble, Columbia Co.; near Dollar, and on Shotgun Creek...Vezzalini (1982) The crystal chemistry of natrolite, mesolite and scolecite. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Abh., 143...J.J. Pluth (1986) X-ray structure re¯nement of mesolite. Acta Cryst., C42, 937{942. All rights reserved
Journal (issue)
Rudy W. Tschernich 526 Av•. A, I A Snohomish, Washington 98290 206-568-2857 0~ 568-5369 ZEOLITE COLLECTING...Russell Boggs at Eastern Washington University. HISTORY: Goble, in Columbia County, Oregon is one of the...large balls of okenite, apophyllite, chabazite, mesolite, thomsonite, and stilbite. John Cowles first collected...found to be identical with material found at Owyhee Dam in eastern Oregon and was named Cavansite in 1967... HEULANDITE, STILBITE, THOMSONITE, CHABAZITE, MESOLITE, CALCITE are common. ve~y APOPHYLLITE, PHILLIPSITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the railroad tunnels through Bergen Hill, Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected...collected from many localities in Passaic County, such as quarries at Paterson and West Paterson (including...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington...Millington, Morris County. Good specimens are similarly reported from Plainfield and the Chimney Rock and
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Bart Cannon 1975 CORD ILLERAN Mercer Island, Washington Lilli liliiiLt' 111? KLi-KlLLLIlrVlIlI Copyright...Cordilleran 18 Holly Hill Drive Mercer Island, Washington 98040 COVER ILLUSTRATION: Amethyst scepter heads...milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...publications dealing with the various aspects of Washington State's diverse mineral wealth exist, but none..."Minerals of Washington" represents an attempt to begin such a cata­ logue. "Minerals of Washington" shall
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found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were...gobbinsite), heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite)... ZEOLITES DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have...have the same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with...ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE EDINGTONITE
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found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were...gobbinsite), heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite)... ZEOLITES DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have...have the same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with...ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE EDINGTONITE
Journal (issue)
........ 23 K. Nassau Zeolites From Skookumchuck Dam, Washington 30 Rudy W. Tschernich Hakansboda Copper...is by Columbia Planograph Co., 52 L St., N.E., Washington, D.C. departments Editorial...................a—(1) Snowbird deposit, M ineral County and (2) F and S mine, Missoula County. I’ve had one letter explaining...are actually o n e —the F and S mine, Missoula County. T he w riter of the letter was em barrassed because...correct localities. T he M ineral and Missoula County Line separates the prospects. I might add that
Journal (issue)
with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil photo...(bottom row, from left) Mesolite, 5.1 cm, from the F-Line quarry, Washington; John Cornish collection...Pacific Northwest; that is, the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and the Canadian Provinces of...quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal basalts...mineral occurrences in the Basalt around Spokane, Washington. Conspicuous among these were some excellent
Journal (issue)
Localities: The Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota ................................. 493...from the Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Don and Gloria Olson collection; Jeff...$327/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...history with the likely move to the spacious Old Pima County Courthouse. Ed David died on February 13, 2017...Tucson USA Visit us at these international shows: Houston Ste. Marie Denver Munich USA France USA Germany
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... Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite ........................ Thomsonite...Karsten 1808) Scolecite: Gehlen and Fuchs (1813) Mesolite: Fuchs and Gehlen (1816) Gismondine: Leonhard...1.1 Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite Natrolite Na16(All~i240so) Fdd2 a...19.07 b = 19.13 C= 6.58(A) Na16(All~i240so)' Mesolite Scolecite NaI6CaI6(AI4sSi72024o) . 64H 20 Fdd2...proposed, for the intermediate member, the name mesolite from the Greek peaov = middle and AI&O<; = stone
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Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite specimens
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Japan/ Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............651 by C. J. Stefano & J....from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio. Daniel Trinchillo (Fine Minerals International)...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...to Montana, California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington State. Whether after an exciting dig, or on a
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Pala M ining D istrict, C alifornia; M ariposa County, Calif.; Baja Calif., Mex.; and South A frica....zeolites and his pre­ sentation of “Zeolites of Skookumchuck Dam, W ashington” (M ineralogical Record, Vol...interesting by some excellent slides of the fabulous mesolite that has been found at this locality. In June...Lab for $3.50 PSYCH-ART 4 7 2 5 LINNEAN a v e . WASHINGTON, D.C. 2 00 0 8 The Mineralogical R ecord AN...located near the village of North G roton in G rafton County, New Hampshire. The locality described here is
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recent ex- Figure 8. Azurite from Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Azurite is a Cu-containing mineral found in the...mineral was first described) or after a landscape, county, or region in which the type locality was situated... Figure 10. Spessartine from Nathrop, Colorado, USA. Spessartine is named after the type locality near...Mammoth-Tiger 10x 18mm. District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA. Field of view: 33 MINERALOGY AND CRYSTALLOGRAPHY...74 mm. Figure 58. Topaz from Thomas Range, Utah, USA. The crystal is seen along a twofold axis. Subject:
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copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural...were found in Klondike, Alaska; Tuolumne County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Fine
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abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...crystals in talc near Wenatchee Lake, Chelan co., Washington, also at Sulzer, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite
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copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...of gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine...very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets of crystallized gold occurred
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of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Claren N. (‘‘Si’’) and Ann Frazier: Berkeley...Dept. of Mineral Science, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide...Towe: Dept. of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. John J. Trelawney Esq.: Palo Alto, California...California. Rudy W. Tschernich: Snohomish, Washington. Lourens Wals: Turnhout, Belgium. Terry C. Wallace:...NC ND OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming WA WV WI WY
 
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