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Mattheddleite
Whytes Cleuch, Wanlockhead, Dumfries & Galloway (Dumfries-shire), Scotland, UK
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Member of:Apatite Supergroup
This page provides mineralogical data about Ellestadite Group.

Classification of Ellestadite Group

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Relationship of Ellestadite Group to other Species

Member of:Apatite Supergroup
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Fluorellestadite
Ca
 
5
(SiO
 
4
)
 
1.5
(SO
 
4
)
 
1.5
F
Hydroxylellestadite
Ca
 
5
(SiO
 
4
)
 
1.5
(SO
 
4
)
 
1.5
(OH)
Mattheddleite
Pb
 
5
(SiO
 
4
)
 
1.5
(SO
 
4
)
 
1.5
(Cl,OH)

Other Information

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 Ellestadite Group

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Pasero, M., Kampf, A. R., Ferraris, C., Pekov, I. V., Rakovan, J. and White, T. J. (2010): Nomenclature of the apatite supergroup minerals. European Journal of Mineralogy 22, 163-179.

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    • Localities for Ellestadite Group

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    (TL) indicates type locality. ? indicates mineral may be doubtful at this locality. All other localities listed without reference should be considered as uncertain and unproven until references can be found.
    Canada
     
    • Québec
      • Laurentides
        • Deux-Montagnes RCM
          • Oka
    		[Fluorellestadite] GOLD, D.P., EBY, G.N. & VALLEÉ, M. (1986) Carbonatites, diatremes and ultra-alkaline rocks in the Oka area. Fieldtrip guidebook 21, GAC/MAC Meeting, Ottawa, 51p.
    China
     
    • Anhui Province
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] Shengxiu Hou, Zhaolian Liu, and Huande Hu (1985): Acta Mineralogica Sinica 5(4), 327-330
    • Hebei Province
      • Xingtai Prefecture
        • Xingtai Co.
    		[Fluorellestadite] Zhengmin Cao and Weijiong Zhu (1993): Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis 29(4)
    France
     
    • Midi-Pyrénées
      • Aveyron
    		[Fluorellestadite] Eytier J.R. & Ch., Favreau G., Devouard B., Vigier J. (2004), Minéraux de pyrométamorphisme de Lapanouse-de Sévérac (Aveyron), Cahier des Micromonteurs, n°85, pp: 3-58
    • Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
      • Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] Favreau G., Meisser N., Chiappero P.J. (2004), Saint-Maime (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence): un exemple de pyrométamorphisme en région provençale, n°3, pp: 59-92
    Germany
     
    • Lower Saxony
      • Harz
        • Clausthal-Zellerfeld
          • Oberschulenberg
    		[Mattheddleite] Markus Gerstmann Collection
    • Rhineland-Palatinate
      • Eifel
        • Mayen
          • Ettringen
            • Bellerberg volcano
    		[Fluorellestadite] Hamm, H.M. (1985): Seltene Mineralparagenesen mit Ca2SiO4 und Reinhardbraunsit in Ca-reichen Xenolithen des Bellerberges, Laacher Vulkangebiet, Mitt. Österr. Mineral. Ges. 130, 63-75
    • Thuringia
      • Gera
        • Ronneburg U deposit
    		[Fluorellestadite] T. Witzke & F. Rüger: Lapis 1998(7/8), 26-64
    Israel
     
    • Negev
    		[Fluorellestadite] Vapnik, Y., Sokol, E., Murashko M., Sharygin V. (2006): The enigma of Hatrurim. Mineralogical Almanac, 10, 69-77.
    Japan
     
    • Honshu Island
      • Kanto Region
        • Saitama Prefecture
          • Chichibu City
            • Ohtaki-mura
              • Nakatsugawa
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] Harada, et al (1971); Am.Min.:67:90 (1982); Acta Cryst. B36(1980).
    Palestine
     
    • West Bank
      • Hatrurim Formation
    		[Fluorellestadite] Seryotkin Y.V., Sokol E.V. & Kokh S.N. 2012: Natural pseudowollastonite: Crystal structure, associated minerals, and geological context. Lithos, vol. 134-135, pp. 75-90; Seryotkin, Yu.V., Sokol, E.V., Kokh, S.N. (2012): Natural pseudowollastonite: Crystal structure, associated minerals, and geological context. Lithos, 134–135, 75-90.
    Portugal
     
    • Guarda District
      • Sabugal
    		[Fluorellestadite] Schnorrer-Köhler (1991), Mineral Occurrences.
    Romania
     
    • Alba Co.
      • Apuseni District
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 39, pp. 1405-1434 (2001)
    • Caraş-Severin Co.
      • Banat Mts
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] Marincea, S., Dumitraş. D-G., Ghinet, C, Fransolet, A.-M., Hatert, F. & Rondeaux, M. (2011): Gehlenite from three occurrences of high-temperature skarns, Romania: new mineralogical data. Canadian Mineralogist. 49, 1001-1014
    • Hunedoara Co.
      • Hunedoara
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] Onac, B.P., et al. (2006). American Mineralogist: 91: 1927-1931.
    [Hydroxylellestadite] Marincea, Ş., Bilal, E., Verkaeren, J., Pascal, M.-L., and Fonteilles, M. (2001) Superposed paragenesis in spurrite-, tilleyite- and gehlenite-bearing skarns from Cornet Hill, Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Canadian Mineralogist: 39: 1435-1453.; The Canadian Mineralogist Vol. 39, pp. 1405-1434 (2001)
    Russia
     
    • Eastern-Siberian Region
      • Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye)
        • Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic
          • Dovyren Highlands
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] American Mineralogist, Volume 94, pages 323–333, 2009
    • Northern Caucasus Region
      • Kabardino-Balkarian Republic
        • Verkhnechegemskaya caldera (Verkhni Chegem caldera; Upper Chegem caldera)
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] A. E. Zadov data
    • Urals Region
      • Middle Urals
        • Ekaterinburgskaya (Sverdlovskaya) Oblast'
          • Sysert' District
            • Polevskoi (Polevskoi Zavod)
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] Zadov, A. E.; Grabezhev, A. I.; Pertsev, N. N.; Chukanov, N. V.; Pribavkin, S. V. (2006): Tobermorite-plombierite metasomatites of the Gumeshevsk skarn-porphyry copper deposit, Middle Urals. Doklady Earth Sciences 407A, 495-497. ; American Mineralogist, Volume 94, pages 323–333, 2009
      • Southern Urals
        • Chelyabinsk Oblast'
    		[Fluorellestadite] Cesnokov, B., M. Kotrly, and T. Nisanbajev (1998): Brennende Abraumhalden und Aufschlüsse im Tscheljabinsker Kohlenbecken - eine reiche Mineralienküche. Mineralien-Welt, 9 (3), 54-63 (in German).
    [Fluorellestadite] Cesnokov, B., M. Kotrly, and T. Nisanbajev (1998): Brennende Abraumhalden und Aufschlüsse im Tscheljabinsker Kohlenbecken - eine reiche Mineralienküche. Mineralien-Welt, 9 (3), 54-63 (in German).
    [Fluorellestadite] ZVMO (1987) 116/6, 743-746; Pekov, I. (1998) Minerals First discovered on the territory of the former Soviet Union 369p. Ocean Pictures, Moscow
    Slovakia
     
    • Banská Bystrica Region
      • Banská Štiavnica Co.
        • Vysoká
    		[Fluorellestadite] Koděra P., Uher P., Ozdín D., Kollárová V., Lexa J., 2009: Monticellit, clintonit a hydroxylellestadit-fluorellestadit: vzácne skarnové minerály na Cu-Au porfýrovo-skarnovom ložisku Vysoká – Zlatno (štiavnický stratovulkán). Mineralia Slovaca, 41, 2, 169-178.
    UK
     
    • England
      • Cornwall
        • Mount's Bay District
          • St Hilary
    		[Mattheddleite] [UKJMM 16:15]
        • St Agnes District
          • Crantock
    		[Mattheddleite] BMS Newsletter 79, March 2010 (http://britishmicromountsociety.homestead.com/Gannell-Smelter.html)
      • Cumbria
        • North and Western Region (Cumberland)
          • Caldbeck Fells
            • Deer Hills
    		[Mattheddleite] Min Rec 22:105-121
            • Roughton Gill
    		[Mattheddleite] [UKJMM 16:15]; Min Rec (2010) 41:21-45 Supplement - Classic Minerals of Northern England
    [Mattheddleite] Journal of The Russell Society, Volume 9, 2006
    [Mattheddleite] Green, D. I. (1989): Scotlandite from Higher Roughton Gill, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Mineralogical Magazine 53, 653. ; Journal of The Russell Society, Volume11, 2008
    [Mattheddleite] [UKJMM 16:15]
    [Mattheddleite] [UKJMM 16:15]
      • Derbyshire
        • Whitwell
    		[Mattheddleite] vanadinite and descloizite, probably the best yet to be found in England and the secondary lead mineral suite including leadhillite, lanarkite, cerussite, anglesite, pyromorphite, scotlandite, mattheddleite and possibly susannite. Other minerals found were barite, calcite, hemimorphite, and sphalerite.
      • Somerset
        • Cranmore
    		[Mattheddleite] Turner, R.W. and Rumsey, M.S. (2010): Mineral Relationships in the Mendip Hills. Journal of the Russell Society, vol 13, pp 3-46.
    • Scotland
      • Dumfries & Galloway (Dumfries-shire)
        • Wanlockhead
          • Wanlock Dod-Whytes Cleuch
    		[Mattheddleite] S Rust Collection
    [Mattheddleite] M.Wirth collection
    [Mattheddleite] S Rust collection
    [Mattheddleite] S.Rust Collection
      • Strathclyde (Lanarkshire)
        • South Lanarkshire
    		[Mattheddleite] A. Livingstone et al.: Scottish J. Geol. 23:1-8 (1987)
    [Mattheddleite] S Rust collection
    [Mattheddleite] S.Rust Collection
            • Wanlock Dod
    		[Mattheddleite]
    [Mattheddleite] S.Rust collection
    [Mattheddleite] S.Rust Collection
    • Wales
      • Caerphilly (Mid Glamorgan; Monmouthshire)
        • Machen
    		[Mattheddleite] Minerals of Machen Quarry, Plant & Jones, Journal of the Russell Society, Vol 6, Pt 1, 1995
      • Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire)
        • Ceulanymaesmawr
          • Talybont
    		[Mattheddleite] S.Rust collection
            • Nant-y-Moch Reservoir area
    		[Mattheddleite] S.Rust collection
    [Mattheddleite] [UKJMM 16:15]
        • Trefeirig
          • Pen-bont Rhydybeddau
    		[Mattheddleite] [UKJMM 16:15]
    [Mattheddleite] S Rust Collection
        • Upper Llanfihangell-y-Creuddyn
          • Pontrhydygroes
    		[Mattheddleite] BMS Database, UKJMM 17
        • Ysbyty Ystwyth
    		[Mattheddleite] S Rust collection
    [Mattheddleite] S.Rust collection
    USA
     
    • Arizona
      • Maricopa Co.
        • Big Horn Mts
          • Osborn District
            • Tonopah
              • Belmont Mountain
                • Tiger Wash
    		[Mattheddleite] Raman analyzed at the University of Arizona.
    • California
      • Mono Co.
        • White Mts
          • Laws
            • White Mountain
    		[Fluorellestadite] Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 316.
      • Riverside Co.
        • Crestmore
    		[Hydroxylellestadite] [micromounts@yahoogroups.com]
            • Sky Blue Hill
    		[Fluorellestadite] Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 368.
    [Fluorellestadite] Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 367-368.
    [Fluorellestadite] Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 352-381.
        • Jurupa Mts
          • Jurupa
    		[Fluorellestadite] Cooney, R.L. (1956), The mineralogy of the Jensen and Henshaw quarries near Riverside, California: Unpublished Master’s thesis, University of California at Los Angeles: 24, 39, 41; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 316; Devito, F. and Ordway, A. (1984), The Jensen Quarry, Riverside County, California. Mineralogical Record: 15(5): 273-290.
      • San Bernardino Co.
        • Baker
          • Otto Mountain
    		[Mattheddleite] Collected by and in the collection of Brent Thorne. SEM-EDS and PXRD verified.
    [Mattheddleite] Collected by and in the collection of Brent Thorne. PXRD and EDS confirmed.
    • New York
      • Essex Co.
        • Keene
          • Cascade Mountain
    		[Fluorellestadite] Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 74, 143-152 (1980)
    Zambia
     
    • North-Western Province
      • Solwezi District
    		[Fluorellestadite] American Mineralogist: 59: 1139
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