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Laumontite from
Helgustadir Mine, Reyðarfjörður, Fjarðabyggð, Eastern Region, Iceland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Laumontite
Formula:CaAl2Si4O12 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz5 photos of Laumontite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Calcite5 photos of Laumontite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Stilbite Subgroup3 photos of Laumontite associated with Stilbite Subgroup at this locality.
Heulandite Subgroup3 photos of Laumontite associated with Heulandite Subgroup at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Laumontite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Helgustadir Mine, Reyðarfjörður, Fjarðabyggð, Eastern Region, Iceland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:528033
Long-form Identifier:1:3:528033:9
GUID (UUID V4):c4c8d92e-2b71-451b-9357-3e18a523964a
Nearest other occurrences of Laumontite
8.3km (5.2 miles) Quarry at Oddskarðsvegur, Neskaupstaður, Fjarðabyggð, Eastern Region, Iceland
8.5km (5.3 miles) Hólmaháls, Reyðarfjörður, Fjarðabyggð, Eastern Region, Iceland
9.9km (6.2 miles) Tunnel Norðfjörður, Eskifjörður, Fjarðabyggð, Eastern Region, Iceland
23.6km (14.7 miles) Reydarfjördur drill hole, Reyðarfjörður, Fjarðabyggð, Eastern Region, Iceland
50.8km (31.6 miles) Roadcut road no. 1 near Skerfi, Hamarsfjörður, Djúpavogshreppur, Múlaþing, Eastern Region, Iceland
76.6km (47.6 miles) Austurhorn Intrusion, Hornafjörður, Southern Region, Iceland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sr isotope geochemistry of basalt weathering in Iceland: Role of hydrothermal calcite and implications...Sr isotope geochemistry of basalt weathering in Iceland: Role of hydrothermal calcite and implications...Sr isotope geochemistry of basalt weathering in Iceland: Role of hydrothermal calcite and implications...of the basalt weathering feedback occurring in Iceland may be lower than previously realized. To test...Li et al., 2016), with a considerable focus on Iceland (Gislason et al., 1996; Moulton and Berner, 1998;
Report (volume)
35. 39. Geologic maps and section of the Bodine mine. 40. Sketch map of the Briebach property. 41. Geologic...contain stilbite, and one occurrence each of laumontite and chalcedony was found. Some of the larger...Operators, Inc., a New York corporation organized to mine optical spar deposits in California and Montana...Mont., for the purpose of trimming and packing the mine-run material for shipment. The president of Calcite...trimming plant. In the few vugs sufficiently thick to mine without additional excavation, scaffolding and working
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for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...faujasite, ferrierite, gmelinite, goosecreekite, laumontite, levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite,...pressure collapses. At high pressure heulandite or laumontite is replaced by lawsonite, and analcime by albite...scattered sites. Rarely, erionite, mordenite, and laumontite are found. Merlinoite is found with plagioclase...flows in Hawaii and Washington (in the U.SA) and Iceland, show that basalt flowed into lakes or rivers and
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for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and more completely...faujasite, ferrierite, gmelinite, goosecreekite, laumontite, levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite,...pressure collapses. At high pressure heulandite or laumontite is replaced by lawsonite, and analcime by albite...scattered sites. Rarely, erionite, mordenite, and laumontite are found. Merlinoite is found with plagioclase...flows in Hawaii and Washington (in the U.SA) and Iceland, show that basalt flowed into lakes or rivers and
Show/Event (guide)
Occurrences by R. Peter Richards 2 4 Zeolites from Iceland and the Faeroe Islands by Ole V. Petersen 3 Map...t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00...kulanite and phosphophyllite from the Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, New Hampshire bill. W Nizamoff R...Carrollite crystals f r o m the Kamoya South I I Mine, Katanga, DRC, have pronounced facial striations...(`1200 specimens). A s part of a new initiative to "mine" this resource for both educational and research
Journal (issue)
Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ .......................1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection; James... Colorado (two), New Mexico (the Bingham Canyon mine), Nevada, Arizona (two), Mexico, Brazil, Northern...in the Czech Republic, the Carpathian Mountains region, Laurium, Morocco, Namibia (two), Tsumeb (two)...COLUMBIA Beaverdell [Highland Bell] mine, Beaverdell. The Beaverdell mine is one of several small mines in
hydrotalcite 51 hydrozincite 47 hydroxides 23 ice 23 Iceland spar 45 _ idocrase 88, 88, 89 ilmenite 26, 28 ilvaite...kyanite 79, 79 lanarkite 59 lapis lazuli 114, 1/7 laumontite 119 lazurite 114, 117 leadhillite 59 lepidocrocite...deposits in the United States are in the Adirondack region of New York. Its high melting point makes it suitable...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to
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hydrotakite 51 hydrozincite 47 hydroxides 23 ice 23 Iceland spar 45 idocrase 88, 88, '89 ilmenite 26, 28 ilvaite...kyanite 79, 79 lanarkite 59 lapis lazuli ll 4, 117 laumontite 119 lazurite 114, 117 leadhillite 59 lepidocrocite...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...deposits in the lJnited States are in the Adirondack region of New York. Its high melting point makes it suitable
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localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing
Book (edition)
Analcime, Natrolite, Phillipsite– Harmotome series, Laumontite, Heulandite series, Chabazite series, Mordenite...21588). Knebelite, metasomatized limestone, Blue Bell Mine, British Columbia, Canada (Mossman, D.J. & Pawson...includes K2O 0.01, H2O 0.05. 5 Tephroite, Benallt Mine, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK (Smith, W.C. et al....the extension of the Mid-Atlantic ridge between Iceland and Jan Mayen. The extremely low Fa content of...green mica, Benson no. 4 Pegmatite, north Mtoko region, Zimbabwe (Hornung, G. & Knorring, O. von, 1962
Journal (issue)
miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...manganese, plutonium and uranium. The Minas Gerais region north of Rio de Janeiro has mines that contain...iron ore, mercury, potash and sulphur. The Mogok region in northern Burma, in and around the lrrawaddy...particularly in the Ojuela result of some chemical Mine in Durango State. reaction that has occurred Significant...There are many fine deposits in the Mont Blan c region of Switzerland, the Austrian Tyrol and right across
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interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...HYDROZINCITE Zn[(OH)3COs;]. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia eliminated from soda lakes, in...sedimentary rocks (Calcareous Spar) Helgustadir, Reydarfjérdur, Iceland CALCITE CaCOs (Calcareous Spar)...Al;[((OH)yPO4] . 6H,O ) Zeleznik, Czechoslovakia LAUMONTITE Ca[AlSisO¢]o. 4H,O calcite, chlorite felspars...Lamel- lar Zeolite) Teigarhorn, Berufjérdur, Iceland DESMINE Ca[Al,Si;O;<] « 7H.O (Stilbite, Bundle
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times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...changes within the crust, covers a wide area, or region. The slaty texture is very marked in the epi- and...largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan (Premier mine, 1905), of 3,106 et., or 621.2 grams; from it were...time. Very few pipes are worth working. The Premier mine produces 1 million carats a year. Alluvial deposits:...USSR- since 1949, gravels and pipes in Yakutia, Eastern Siberia have yielded much diamond. Small diamond
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deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Mach6w (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland...Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and Iceland. Sulphur found in oxidized zones of sulphatic deposits...(217), marcasite (437) • Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)
Journal (volume)
Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be...language. Rubies are also found in the Chantabiri region of Thailand and around Pailin and Channop in Cambodia...An example of natural silver, from the sarrabus region of Sardinia. CHARACTERISTICS Silver is white in...Gennaro Cathedral, Naples. silver from the sarrabus region of Sardinia. it was originally found in a pure...available. The main source was once the Kongsberg Mine in Norway, but this closed in 1956. Man has, however
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Cu, Pb, Zn, Sb,Hg, As, Au, Ag and other metals (Iceland; New Zealand). In the neighbourhood of the issue...medium-temperature group involves barite, witherite, Iceland spar· magnesite, dolomite, talc and asbest,and...chiefly clay minerals, Pe oxides and hydroxides, mine- 38 rals of bauxites, less often carbonates (e...1952). 41 HUMID TROPICAL IVORYCOAST CLIMATE REGION ROCKS GRANITE I TEMPERATE TROPICAL FRANCE...distances. In 1947 ash particles from Hekla in Iceland were transported, depending on size, to 3800 km
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illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Machow (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland...Turkey, Mexico, !ndonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and Iceland. Sulphur found in oxidized zones of sulphatic deposits...(217), marcasite (437) e Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of
The word mineral comes from the Latin minare, to mine, and originally designated minerals and rocks so...raspberries, on encrusting honeycombed limonite. From Wolf mine, Herdorf, near Betzdorf in valley of the Sieg. Rhodochrosite...reddish coloured compact barytes. From Sophia mine, Wittichen, Black Forest. Calcite from Latin...violet or brown-coloured crystal edges. From Cecilia mine, Wélsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria. Fluorite...moss-like foil on milky-white quartz. > From Musariu mine, Transylvania. Gold Au cubic. Quartz from German
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CRYSTALS mineral comes from the Latin minare, to mine, and originally designated minerals and rocks so...raspberries, on encrusting honeycombed limonite. From Wolf mine, Herdorf, near Betzdorf in valley of the Sieg. Rhodochrosite...and reddish coloured compact barytes. From Sophia mine, Wittichen, Black Forest. Calcite from Latin calx...violet or brown-coloured crystal edges. From Cecilia mine, Wo6lsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria. Fluorite...moss-like foil on milky-white quartz. > From Musariu mine, Transylvania. Gold Au cubic. Quartz from German
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The word mineral comes from the Latin minare, to mine, and originally designated minerals and rocks so...raspberries, on encrusting honeycombed limonite. From Wolf mine, Herdorf, near Betzdorf in valley of the Sieg. Rhodochrosite...violet or brown-coloured crystal edges. From Cecilia mine, WOlsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria. Fluorite...moss-like foil on milky-white quartz. !> From Musariu mine, Transylvania. Gold Au cubic. Quartz fron1 German...trigonal symmetry on the terminal faces. From Gillfoot mine, Egremont, Cumberland. Latin calx, lime. CaC03 trigonal
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Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded
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Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets
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Azurite crystals, partly replaced by malachite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia; width of view ca. 3 cm; collection H.E...the Medieval Latin word mina = shaft (minare = to mine). The antique people, e.g., the Greeks and Romans...calcite were mined on Iceland and, therefore, were called Iceland crystal or Iceland spar. The faster wave...rhomb-dodecahedron {110} and the trapezohedron {211}, Yakutia, eastern Siberia in elementary (native) form. Other minerals...coccoliths. From plankton sample of the Kimberley region, Australia, kindly provided by CSIRO Tasmania (picture
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...changes of administrative divisions in central and eastern Europe during the last 60 years are the reason...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing
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FIG . 7. Zoned crystal of muscovite from the Eastern Rhodope Mts. (4/5 natura l size). 10 GENERAL...FIG . FIG. 27. Tuberose aggregate of aragonite, Eastern Rhodope Mts. 25 26 GENERAL MINERA LOGY 2 10...one of the most important deposits of gold in Eastern Australia; Beresovsk and Yakutia in Siberia; and...to gold tellurides (Transylvania; Colorado; Waihi mine in New Zealand; and Japan). As a rule the lower...sulphides and the 'iron hat' of the famous Rio Tinto mine, Spain. The most important gold deposit in the world
 
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