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Thulite
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Søre Lia, Ottaelva, Lom, Oppland, Norway
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| Colour: | pink | ||
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| Name: | Named after "Thule", the ancient name of Scandinavia (and mythical island). | ||
A variety of Zoisite
A pink variety of zoisite, frequently manganian, i.e. containing trivalent Mn (not manganoan, which refers to divalent Mn).
Originally described from Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway. "Thulite" from granite pegmatite is frequently clinozoisite and not zoisite.
Compare also clinothulite.
Visit gemdat.org for gemological information about Thulite. Currently in public beta-test.
A pink variety of zoisite, frequently manganian, i.e. containing trivalent Mn (not manganoan, which refers to divalent Mn).
Originally described from Kleppan, Sauland, Hjartdal, Telemark, Norway. "Thulite" from granite pegmatite is frequently clinozoisite and not zoisite.
Compare also clinothulite.
Visit gemdat.org for gemological information about Thulite. Currently in public beta-test.
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| Geological Setting: | Much of the so-called thulite from granite pegmatites, particularly in North Carolina, has proven to be clinothulite (Richard C. Erd, unpublished data, 1996). | ||||||||||||
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| Colour: | pink | ||||||||||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | ||||||||||||
References for Thulite | |||||||||||||
| Reference List: - + | Schaller, Waldemar Theodore & Jewell Jeannette Glass (1942), Occurrence of pink zoisite (thulite) in the United States: American Mineralogist: 27: 519-524. Clark, 1993 - "Hey's Mineral Index" Langer, K., Tillmanns, E., Kersten, M., Almen, H., and Arni, R.K. (2002) The crystal chemistry of Mn 3+ in the clino- and orthozoisite structure types, Ca2M3 3+[OH|O|SiO4|Si2O7]: A structural and spectroscopic study of some natural piemontites and "thulites" and their synthetic equivalents. Zeitschrift für Kristallographie: 217: 563-580. | ||||||||||||
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