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Orthoclase from
Cerro Sapo, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerro Sapo, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:139939
Long-form Identifier:1:3:139939:4
GUID (UUID V4):4a92b853-9464-4ead-a9cb-e9c622fc973a
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
37.5km (23.3 miles) Quenamari range, Morochata, Ayopaya Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diversity in the Central Andes: the Ayopaya alkaline province, Bolivia Received: 12 December 2002 / Accepted:...Abstract The Ayopaya province in the eastern Andes of Bolivia, 100 km NW of Cochabamba, hosts a Cretaceous...wide petrographic and geochemical spectrum. The Cerro Sapo area hosts a small calciocarbonatite intrusion...and Geology (SERGEOMIN), Casilla, 2729 La Paz, Bolivia B. Belyatsky Institute of Precambrian Geology and...recent volcano of Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania. The Cerro Sapo complex may be regarded as an intrusive equivalent
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...Ph08pl,ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC...Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv Rausch) Jase...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Journal (issue)
January 1998 ISSN: 1355-4565 Turquoise from Hubei Province, China Qi Lijian, FGA, DGA, Yan Weixuan, FGA,...The turquoise deposit in Yunyang district, Hubei Province, China, is characterized by its large scale, complex...secondary leaching Introduction unyang in Hubei Province, located in the eastern section of the Qinling...Neolithic Age, located in Yongjing County, Gansu Province, China. This indicates a mining history of about...crossed polars, x60. x60. Turquoise from Hubei Province, China 3 3 Table I: Chemical compositions of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anorogenic magmatism in the Southern Bahia Alkaline Province of NE Brazil: U–Pb and Pb–Pb ages of the blue...Alkaline Province (SBAP) is the only place in Brazil where economic deposits are found. This province forms...al., 1986), Badakhshan Province, Afganistan (Cook, 2004), Cerro Sapo, Bolivia (Schultz et al., 2004)...are restricted to the Southern Bahia Alkaline Province (SBAP; Fig. 1), which is the only known case of...(SFC) [B]. Location of the Southern Bahia Alkaline Province (SBAP) [C]: city [1], state divide [2], fracture
Journal (issue)
in B o livia Alfredo Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia e-mail: alfredopetrov@earthlink.net Bill...Colorado 80020 e-mail: smith72@attglobal.net Bolivia, a landlocked nation three times as large as M...this gazetteer. INTRODUCTION Most people think of Bolivia as a land of great mountain ranges and high cold...description only fits the southwestern third of Bolivia. The two thirds of the country to the north and...largest carbonatite outcrop, Cerro Manomo. The northeastern two thirds of Bolivia contains the fastest growing
Journal (issue)
crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...Stewart D. Redwood Casilla 13385, La Paz, Bolivia Bolivia is fortunate to have had the lifetime services...country of Bolivia, he published numerous works on the geology and mineral deposits of Bolivia, many of...the first geological and mineral deposit maps of Bolivia. The mineral ahlfeldite, a hydrated nickel selenite...selenite discovered at the Pacajake mine in Bolivia, was named in his honor in 1935. Federico Ahlfeld was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonatites of the West Transbaikalia carbonatite province, were SO3-rich and characterized by high oxygen...a Late Mesozoic West Transbaikalia carbonatite province (Ripp et al. 2002) within an intracontinental...melanephelinite, with nepheline, wollastonite, diopside, orthoclase and calcite as normative minerals. The composition...normative minerals in this glass are quartz, orthoclase, albite, anorthite, wollastonite and ilmenite...2007), Precambrian carbonatites from the Kola province (Tichomirowa et al. 2006), and from the West Transbaikalia
Book
......................................... 163 Bolivia..................................................numbered rectangle rather than a dot. State, province etc. These are quoted for a number of countries...on the V la co Province ments suggested by my colleague D.R.C. Kempe, and I of Bolivia. am most grateful...pseudoleucites (30%) up to 4 cm in diameter and orthoclase phen ocrysts ( 1 0 %) up to 1 cm, in a groundmass...composed essentially of nepheline and nepheline­ orthoclase intergrowths. The northern and northeastem parts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonatites are: (1) British Columbia Alkaline Province, Canada (Pell 1994, Millonig et al. 2012); (2)...example the Ontario and Southwest Quebec carbonatite province covered by Woolley and Bailey (2012). Although...Potassic fenites consist mainly of K-rich feldspars (orthoclase or microcline), and in some cases may contain...largely on field observations from Chilva alkaline province in southern Malawi, fits many complexes from Eastern...et al. 2007); carbonatite-marble dikes of Abyan Province, Yemen Republic (Le Bas et al. 2004); metacarbonates
Book
Mine, Peru; Potosi, Oruro and other localities, Bolivia. Europe: Kongsberg, Norway; Sainte-Marie-auxMines...Latin America: Cananea, Sonora, Mexico; Corocoro, Bolivia. Europe: Cornwall, England; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany...wine vessel, thought to be from Luoyang, in Henan province, was used for ritual purposes, NATIVE ELEMENTS...Graphite, Kahatagaha, Kurunegala, North Western Province, Sri Lanka * 13.5 x 8.5 x 7 om 42 | NATIVE...and Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico; Llallagua, Bolivia. Europe: Cornwall, England; Freiberg, Saxony, Germany
Journal (issue)
K., 1987. Blue and yellow sapphire from Kaduna Province, Nigeria. Journal of Gemmology, 20(7/8), 427-42...village of orthoclase, cordierite, scapolite, beryl, tourmaline, Damaping in the Huebei province, China,...from the Nagar area of the Hunza valley, Gilgit Province, in the Northern Area of Pakistan. The colour...will soon be discovered. P.G.R. Sodalite from Bolivia. J. HYRSL AND A. PETROV. Canadian Gemmologist,...blue sodalite are reported from Cerro Sapo (Toad Mountain) in the Ayopaya region, near the town of Independencia
Book
glass. Number 1 Mineral Ta lc Number 6 Mineral Orthoclase 2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz ...(England), Ontario (Canada) and Oruro and Tasna (Bolivia). Bi Colour: lead-grey, pink tarnish Lustre;...Cornwall and forms part of silver deposits in Bolivia. It is a fairly rare mineral found in hydrothermal...USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA), Llallagua (Bolivia), Cinovec (Czech Republic), Zeehan (fasmania, Australia)...Republic), Bala Sprle (Romania) and Oruro and Potosi (Bolivia). W ZnS Colour: light to dark brown Lustre;
Book
Number Mineral Ta lc Number 1 6 Mineral Orthoclase 2 Gypsum 7 Quartz 3 Calcite 8 Topaz ...(England), Ontario (Canada) and Oruro and Tasna (Bolivia). Bi Colour: lead-grey, pink tarnish Lustre;...Cornwall and forms part of silver deposits in Bolivia. It is a fairly rare mineral found in hydrothermal...USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA), Llallagua (Bolivia), Cinovec (Czech Republic), Zeehan (fasmania, Australia)...Republic), Bala Sprle (Romania) and Oruro and Potosi (Bolivia). W ZnS Colour: light to dark brown Lustre;
Book
000 talc gypsum calcite fluorite -- apatite orthoclase - --=====------- quartz topaz corundum -...minerals are named by their typical cleavage. Orthoclase exhibits a cleavage along straight planes and...common in intrusive rocks (eg amphibole, augite, orthoclase and garnet), in argillaceous rocks (eg gypsum)...certain definite laws (eg gypsum, fluorite, rutile, orthoclase, cassiterite and staurolite, Fig. 9). Crystal...crystals in gypsum - a, fluorite - b, rutile - c, orthoclase - d, cassiterite - e, and staurolite - f 18
Book
minerals are named by their typical cleavage. Orthoclase exhibits a cleavage along straight planes and...common in intrusive rocks (eg amphibole, augite, orthoclase and garnet), in argillaceous rocks (eg ...certain definite laws (eg gypsum, fluorite, rutile, orthoclase, cassiterite and staurolite, Fig. 9). Crystal...crystals in gypsum — a, fluorite — b, rutile — c, orthoclase — d, cassiterite — e, and staurolite — f Fig...olivine enstatite chalcopyrite scapolite orthoclase baryte a=b#c tetragonal (7) a = B = 4 =>
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems
Book (volume)
Ca2B4O4(OH)7Cl·7H2O Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Description: Grey grains from the...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province, Argentina. Description: Colourless crystal. Identified...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province, Argentina. Description: White-grained aggregate
Book (volume)
temperature mono¬ clinic potassium felspar is called orthoclase. The lowest temperature potassium felspars are...high-albite-high-sanidine high-albite-low-sanidine low-albite-orthoclase low-albite-microcline The high-albite-high-sanidine... In the lower temperature series, low-albite-orthoclase and low-albitemicrocline, solid solution is more...of a microscope. These intergrowths are called orthoclase or microcline microperthites. If the presence...at the form feldspar (of German derivation). Orthoclase takes its name from the combination of the Greek
Book (edition)
2 3 Gypsum Calcite 4 5 6 Fluorite Apatite Orthoclase a Quartz Soft, greasy feel like tale and graphite...British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...northern Chile and scattered localities in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador; Morro Velho mine, Nova Lima, MG,...localities, AZ; Calico district, San Bernadino Co., Cerro Gordo(*), Inyo Co., Bodie district, Mono Co., and...Peru; Potosi(*), Oruro(*), and other localities in Bolivia; Copiapo, Huantaya(*), Chanarcillo(*), and Chanca
Book
concerning the origin of the Monteregian Hills alkaline province, and a brief description of each member. The geology...under the current administrative divisions, the Province of Quebec has been divided into regions and Regional...Petrographic Province. Dawsonite was subsequently found in other localities within the Monteregian Province, including...The Monteregian Hills a Canadian Petrographic Province by Frank Dawson Adams (1859 - 1942), professor...dikes) became the Monteregian Hills Petrographic Province (Adams 1903, 1913). The name Monteregian was coined
Journal (issue)
feldspar may have been erroneously referred to as orthoclase (e.g., E. M. Barron, “The gem minerals of Mexico...labradorite. Expressed in terms of the albite (Ab), orthoclase (Or), and anorthite (An) feldspar end-members...alluvial diamonds from the São Luiz River in Juina Province, Brazil. These single-crystal inclusions appear...source of this material was identified as Cerro Sapo in Bolivia, and its distribution in archeological sites...presence indicates that this is in fact a kimberlitic province. Prospecting for kimberlites and diamondiferous
Book
granites mais, à la place de feldspath potassique (orthoclase), elles ont du feldspath calcosodique (plagioclase)...des pièces de musée. C'est au Mexique et dans la province du Kiang-Si en Chine que l'on 64. Antimonite...d'autres gisements connus à Freiberg en Saxe, dans la province de Salzbourg et au Mexique. Bien que l'arsénopyrite...valentinite, près de Sanza en Algérie, dans la province de Constantine. C'est aussi le seul gisement d'où...Australie, en Nouvelle-Galles du Sud, dans la province de Victoria et dans le Queensland. 162 174
Book (edition)
877.6 2 1000 1050 1100 Exc. 785 nm Hunan Province 3+ Nd -I 885.8 850.5 Intensity (a.u.) c...869 10 3+ Intensity (a.u.) Nd Cerro Sapo, Cochabamba, Bolivia 3+ 642 Sm 4 898 5 561 2 0 0...1000 560 1050 580 600 620 d c Cerro Sapo, Cochabamba, Bolivia 40 640 642 802 λex=532 nm Intensity...feldspars occur in the K-Na-Ca ternary diagram (orthoclase-albite-anorthite). In general, feldspars have...lower temperatures, Al migrates and monoclinic orthoclase and ordered triclinic microcline are formed.
Book (edition)
pavilion angles 40°. Splendid yellow crystals from Cerro Mer- cado, Durango, Mexico, may reach several...leather with Linde A. The most famous locality is Bolivia where the Araca Mine, at Viloco, La Paz, Quimsa...Maragua District and Ocari, near Colquechaca, Bolivia. Wood tin occurs in nodules up to several pounds;...Oligoclase—colorless facet material, sunstone. Orthoclase—pale yellow facet material, sunstone, be necessary...brilliant gems. Beautiful, transparent, yellow orthoclase from Madagascar, large enough to cut 10 to 20
 
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