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Iimoriite-(Y) from
Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Iimoriite-(Y)
Formula:Y2[SiO4][CO3]
Habit:short "prisms"
Colour:pink, orange
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dolomiteⓘ8 photos of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ3 photos of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ2 photos of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Quartz at this locality.
Allanite-(Ce)ⓘ2 photos of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Allanite-(Ce) at this locality.
Hingganite-(Y)ⓘ1 photo of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Hingganite-(Y) at this locality.
Clinochloreⓘ1 photo of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Clinochlore at this locality.
Allanite Groupⓘ1 photo of Iimoriite-(Y) associated with Allanite Group at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Iimoriite-(Y) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Photo GalleryView Gallery (24 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:25168
Long-form Identifier:1:3:25168:6
GUID (UUID V4):a00349c0-c72b-4134-8875-e862ab78876b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Trimouns Quarry Luzenac, Ariège, France Freddy Marty Rue de l’Hôpital 11230-Chalabre France In recent...recent decades, the Trimouns quarry has become well known as a source of outstanding crystals of several...as well as very rare ones such as hingganite, iimoriite and dissakisite. Beautiful micromount-size specimens...contact zone of the Trimouns talc/chlorite deposit, where large-scale mining for talc may now be approaching...approaching its end. INTRODUCTION The Trimouns talc-chlorite deposit is a mineral locality of international
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gatelite-(Ce), a new REE-bearing mineral from Trimouns, French Pyrenees: Crystal structure and polysomatic...d’Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France ABSTRACT Gatelite-(Ce), ideally (Ca1REE3)S=4[Al2(Al...newly identified mineral from the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees. The mineral occurs...include pyrite, aeschynite-(Y), dolomite, törnebohmite-(Ce), dissakisite(Ce), talc, and quartz. Gatelite-(Ce)...REE-bearing silicate mineral from the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees, a well-known
Report (issue)
Iimoriite-(Y) Y2 (SiO4 )(CO3 ) c 2001 ° Crystal Data: Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Triclinic...Alaska, USA. From the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. Name: For Takeo...Staatz, and N.M. Conklin (1984) New data for iimoriite. Amer. Mineral., 69, 196{199. All rights reserved
Journal (issue)
Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris , France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ...................... 225...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...(lower left) IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac, France (see the...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well
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'.:. :,.· ~'. ', •• 1, •,· \:_)\_?. '.:,y::_.;:' • .-.,··: ..,;'.-·.:·.;:/f/t'l.._._._,, '···••::::••...MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the...the beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...extremely rare yttrium silicate-carbonate iimoriite-(Y) occurs at Trimouns as colorless, pink and pale brown...crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug in 1997
 
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