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Fairfieldite from
Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Sunshine Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Canyon
Classification
Species:Fairfieldite
Formula:Ca2Mn2+(PO4)2 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fairfieldite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clay Canyon, Fairfield, Sunshine Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:758287
Long-form Identifier:1:3:758287:5
GUID (UUID V4):d0a7b285-bbdc-4f72-8002-97a34e6f0bc2
References
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Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA. (ICDD 35-624). 12.0 (100), 5.11 (65), 2.895 (45)...74 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Fairfield, Utah, USA. (2) Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA; by electron microprobe...Occurrence: In sedimentary phosphatic nodules (Fairfield, Utah, USA); a late mineral in highly oxidized phosphate...Dakota, USA). Association: Variscite, englishite, wardite, gordonite, crandallite (Fairfield, Utah, USA);...carbonate-apatite, robertsite, fairfieldite, englishite (South Dakota, USA). Distribution: In the USA, from the Little
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE PHOSPHATE MINERALS OF FAIRFIELD, UTAH By ARTHUR MONTGOMERY Lafayette College. Easton, Pa. 18042 Introduction...years we devoted our efforts to the collecting and mining of minerals, operating a small specimen business...Ferguson and E. P. Henderson), Mt. Antero and Fairfield. Articles on the first three have appeared in...field occurrences,and expertness in small-scale mining. Professor Charles Palache of Harvard brought us...addition to food and camping supplies, all our needed mining equipment, including hand drill steel, dynamite
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: [Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA]. 4.74 (10), 2.994 (7), 2.591 (7), 3.085 (6), 1.516...84 100.00 (1) [Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire,] USA. (2) NaAl3 (PO4 )2 (OH)4 • 2H2 O. Occurrence: A component...Monster mine, Utah, USA); ferrisicklerite, mitridatite, whitlockite, montgomeryite, fairfieldite, hydroxyl-herderite...the USA, from the Little Green Monster mine, Clay Canyon, about nine km west of Fairfield, Utah Co.,... Utah; in Maine, at the Dunton quarry and the Bell Pit, Newry; at the Palermo #1 mine, North Groton,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an unidentified Na–Al phosphate and quartz; fairfieldite and manganese-rich overite are among the less...phosphate Na–Al non identifié et le quartz; la fairfieldite et l’overite riche en Mn sont aussi présentes...rhodochrosite, quartz, whitlockite, apatite, fairfieldite, an unidentified Na–Al phosphate, calcite and...found elsewhere. Two distinct generations of fairfieldite, ideally Ca2Mn(PO4)2(H2O)2, were noted: subparallel...powder-diffraction pattern close to that of fairfieldite. Freely grown crystals have not been found.
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
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Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
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abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...mineralogie et de cristallographie CCM - Clays and Clay Minerals ChE- Chemie der Erde (Jena) CM - Canadian...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
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variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...organic geochemistry. Green River Formation, Uinta County, Utah, U.S.A. Trudell, L.C. (1970): Lithologic Description...Description of Western Oil Shale Corporation Project Utah EX—]. Laramie Petroteum Research Center. Milton...Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. McDonald, AM. & Chao, G.Y. (1994):...Abernathy, operator of the Fumerole mine, Emery County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount
Book (edition)
Smith, Geological Society of America, Memoir 122. "Clay Mineralogy," by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968)....light; the bands move as the mineral is turned. clay ( l) A mineral fragment having a diameter less than...diameter, usually composed of calcium carbonate or clay-ironstone; often hollow or transected by veins of...Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous lignite...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,
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Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin... limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the clay minerals for baking into ceramics and pottery or...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...miners were unbelievably careless in their hasty mining of only the highest-grade ores. Rock hunters today
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Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive...Enterprises PC Box 213 Livermore California 94551 USA Elemental Table “Element” Aluminum Amide Ammonium
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dealing with rock-forming minerals (amphiboles, micas, clay minerals). A similar approach was applied in the...abbreviations are used in this chapter: Mt. mountain Co. county IR infrared D density Dmeas measured density Dcalc...Locality: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA. Description: Colourless crystal from the association...Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (type locality). Description: Pink massive aggregate... Pegmatite Field, Andrembesoa Commune, Betafo District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province
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Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA...Mineralogist aph 5, G. W. Brindley and G. Brown, Clay Structures. Monogr The Mineralogical Society, 1980...Second Issue, BMNH, 1986 Chemical Abstracts Clays and Clay Minerals Chemie der Erde Chemical Geogoly China...Cathodluminescence of Geological Materials Clay Minerals Canadian Mineralogist Clay Mineralogy Bulletin Casopis pro...DANESS DANP DANR DANS DANT DHZI DHZ2 DI XXxix Clay Science Chinese Science Bulletin Crytal Structure
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the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...not be apparent in some species, as chlorite or clay minerals, where sheets are often so small that they... Feldspar species, however, easily alter into clay minerals. Owing to the preponderance of oxygen...solutions are quartz, calcite, zeolite minerals, clay minerals, and numerous others. CRYSTALS whose ...purple crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from
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at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...not be apparent in some species, as chlorite or clay minerals, where sheets are often so small that they...sandstone. Feldspar species, however, easily alter into clay minerals. Owing to the preponderance of oxygen and...solutions are quartz, calcite, zeolite minerals, clay minerals, and numerous others. r CRYSTALS FROM...purple crystals, 5" by 4", Iron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from
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the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...useful in the arts and sciences and therefore worth mining. The formation of various types of ore deposits... MINERALOGY 4 utilitarian purposes, gypsum and clay found extensive use in ceramics and building construction...Historica, in ,vhich man y observations ,vere made on mining and m ineralogical n1atters in the various portions...thorough student of past as well as contemporary mining and mineralogy, he managed to compile in his lifetime
 
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