| Locality type: | Sierra |
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| Species: | Opal |
| Formula: | SiO2 · nH2O |
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| Validity: | Unconfirmed/Questioned |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Opal data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Sierra de las Cabras, Cancarix lamproite intrusion, Hellín, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 945228 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:945228:2 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 8932c47a-f2ad-444f-98e7-4628f657be36 |
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| 7.2km (4.5 miles) | ⓘEmbalse de Camarillas, Agramón, Hellín, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain |
| 12.2km (7.6 miles) | ⓘCoto Menor mines, Hellín, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain |
| 43.8km (27.2 miles) | ⓘMula lamproite dike, Mula, Murcia, Spain |
| 73.7km (45.8 miles) | ⓘCaprala, Petrel, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain |
| 92.3km (57.3 miles) | ⓘLa Aljorra Quarries, La Aljorra, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain |
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 | | Book | | jasper, agate, and other forms of quartz, as well as opal. Non-English terms commonly used in English-language...crystal structure, for example, some varieties of opal or liquids like water or native mercury, are sometimes...charnockite (Job Charnock), dolo- mite (Deodat G. S. T. G. de Dolomieu), muckite (Fritz Muck), obsidian (Obsidius...(Giuseppe Marzari-Pencati), saussurite (Horace B. de Saussure), and ulrichite (George H. F. Ulrich). A...and magnetite, j Island of Alboran, off Cabo de Gata, Spain] (Becke in 1899) alboranite, quartz ig. extru |  | | Book | | classification schemes such as the R1–R2 scheme of De La Roche, it is regrettable that this potentially valuable...2.6 on p.13 (6) check to see if the rock is a lamproite as described in section 2.7 on p.16 (7) if the...to lahars, subsurface and vent deposits (e.g. intrusion and extrusion breccias, tuff dykes, diatremes)...(Mitchell 1994, 1995). 16 2.7 LAMPROITES The lamproite classification system described by Mitchell &...not required in order to classify a rock as a lamproite. Any one mineral may be dominant and this, together |
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Sierra de las Cabras, Cancarix lamproite intrusion, Hellín, Albacete, Castile-La Mancha, Spain