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Aragonite from
Victoria mine, Benahadux, Almería, Andalusia, Spain


Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Victoria mine, Benahadux, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1253719
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1253719:0
GUID (UUID V4):f5b65be5-2c10-469f-bfae-63eee9eb7f44
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
study in El Orón-Arco Cave (Region of Murcia, SE Spain) Fernando Gázquez, José-María Calaforra, Nicholas...study in El Orón-Arco Cave (Region of Murcia, SE Spain), Chemical Geology, https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.chemgeo...study in El Orón-Arco Cave (Region of Murcia, SE Spain) PT Fernando Gázquez(1)*, José-María Calaforra(1)...Universidad de Almería, Carretera de Sacramento s.n, La Cañada de San Urbano, Almería, 04120, Spain. RI (2)...Valladolid. Paseo de Belén, 7, 47011, Valladolid, Spain NU (4) Centro de Estudios Ambientales y del Mar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
03:15 23 January 2015 C $UDJRQLWH alcite and aragonite are common minerals, but distinguishing one from...Technological University that had been labeled as aragonite (CaCO3, orthorhombic dipyramidal) were examined...originally identified as lecting sites, and only about aragonite. A quick check under the microscope after initial...crystal symmetry for aragonite. gonite. In many cases, these rest from the Shattuck mine); not one was pure...pure aragonite. were cave formations and were assumed to be aragonite due One sample had an aragonite plus
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu AR AGONI TE PART 1: ARAGONITE FROM WESTERN EUROPE T here are many collecting...of classic localities is aragonite, this column’s featured mineral. Aragonite is an orthorhombic mineral...mineral with point group 2/m 2/m 2/m. Aragonite occurring as untwinned crystals is rare; its normal occurrence...stalactitic. As mentioned, twinned crystals of aragonite are common. Repeated twinning on {110} yields...examples are the most familiar to collectors. Aragonite may display polysynthetic lamellae and striations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hastings, 525. Anthracomartus and Promt/gale, 505. Aragonite, Middle Lias, Leicestershire, 173. Arber, E. A...19 ; Otago Goldfields, 88; Petrology of Huelva, Spain, 220. Fishes from the Eocene, Egypt, 402. Flamborough... 191. ALL, A. L., Geology of Pilgrims Rest Gold-mine, 328;.Geology of Zeerust and Mafeking, 525... Halos...Horse Fossil, South Africa^ 131. Horwood, A. R., Aragonite in Middle Lias, 173; Transition Beds and Crinoidal...Hill, Well-Sinkings at. 101. Leicestershire, Aragonite in Middle Lias, 173. Leney, F., appointed Curator
Journal (issue)
Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..............................Robinson Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria ..................... 451 by W. D. Birch The...teacher of languages. In 1836 he was appointed “Mine and Quarry Agent and Geologist” to the South Australian...serve as capital of the country’s richest colony, Victoria. The richness of both alluvial and quartz reef...and in the well-organized Geological Survey of Victoria, established ahead of the comparable body in the
Catalog/List
mass. small pale blue crystals on matrix. Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales lxl £5 lx2 £8 Parclho, Pariba,Brazil)...Parnmirim Region, Agua Quen1a,Bal1ia, Brazil Benallt Mine, Llcyn Wales A)£3 B) £5 3mm £4 5mm £6 lxl £6...micros gemmy yellow-green crystal section. Bcckermet Mine. Cumbria lxl £2 131 40 BARYfES 211 BRAZILIANITE...Goldstrike Pit, Elko,Nevada. U.S.A Divino des Laranjeiras Mine, Minas Gerias,Brazil Magnet Cove,Arkansas,USA ½...Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture.Japan Venice Dome, Lousiana, U
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
99).-The sample analysed came from St. Arnaud, Victoria, and was found disseminated throughout a specimen...-Guejarite, a mineral hitherto only known to occur i n Spain, has been discovered by the author in a sample of...lead antimonate and sulphate, from the Palastina mine at Antofagasta. I n conclusion, the author mentions...furnace. B. EI. B. Pseudomorphs of Calcite after Aragonite. By M. BAUER (Jahi-b. f. JIin., 1886, 1, Mem...he nature of the pseudomorphs of calcite after aragonite, recently discovered a t Klein-Sachsenheim in
Catalog/List
CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...(8cm x 3cm X 1cm) San JauterMine, El Beal, Murcia, Spain A very unusual specimen with elongate stalactites...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone...ROSE QUARTZ & SMOKY QUARTZ (4cm x 4cm 2cm) Piftorra Mine, Galileia, Minas Gerais, Brasil A very pretty specimen
Report (chapter)
stage. This is followed by the dissolution of aragonite and the precipitation of low-Mg calcite, pore-filling...prior to evidence for in situ dissolution of aragonite, Friedman (1964) argues for re-precipitation of...of low-Mg calcite following early aragonite dissolution. All the models see a substantial part of the...1) being derived locally from dissolution of aragonite allochems and re-precipitation of low-Mg calcite...of secondary (mouldic) porosity as a result of aragonite bioclast dissolution. This is subsequently infilled
Journal (issue)
of the presence and type of aragonite twins and the arrangement of aragonite tablets are investigated.... 1977). The tiny tabular crystals consist of Aragonite (CaC0 3 , orthorhombic), but in some cases, (after...involved as a pearl material. The dominant faces of aragonite tablets or platelets are always set tangentially...mother-ofpearl, as they do in most cases, the aragonite platelets of this core are arranged in more or...contour lines. They bound relatively extended aragonite tablets or scales which overlie each other in
Report (issue)
ZEOLITES OF VICTORIA Editor: W. D. Birch The ralogical Society of Victoria Special Publication No...Northern Central Western THE ZEOLITE REGIONS OF VICTORIA CONTENTS Foreword Editorial Introduction. By...5. Eastern Victoria. By John Haupt 6. Northern Victoria. By Bernard Day 7. Central Victoria. By Derrnot...Derrnot Henry 8. Western Victoria. By John Bosworth 9. Chemistry of Victorian Zeolites. By Bill Birch Appendix...Appendix 1: Recognition of the Fibrous Zeolites in Victoria. By Bill Birch Appendix 2: List of natural zeolites
Journal (issue)
minerals forming the shell. They were identified as aragonite in the mother-of-pearl layer and as calcite in...saltwater oysters. In pictures taken by SEM the aragonite crystals of all the investigated mussels except...which enables examination of the surface of the aragonite microcrystals. The observed structures on top...nacreous layer, which is formed from tabular aragonite crystals (CaC03, orthorhombic). All these components...strongly the crystallization of the calcite and aragonite crystals. More details follow in the section 'Morphological
Report (issue)
p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index, p. 59. Subject...from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all these are in the Leigh Creek District, and...List of all the Minerals hitherto recorded from Victoria. Procs. Roy. Soc. Viet., ix, 1896 (1897), pp....Mount Shamrock Mine. Ihid., No. 168, 1901. 34. On the Mount Biggenden Gold and Bismuth Mine and Paradise...Mineral 9 42b. The.Einasleigli Freehold Copper Mine, North Queensland. GeoL Suru. Q’land, Publication
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University...ROCKS & MINERALS pseudomorphs after cuprite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline...sometimes of large size, have been found in the Chino mine, Santa Rita, Grant County, New Mexico. Fine specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(6.7 cm) from the Ampliación a Victoria mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain. Chris and Agatha Galas specimen...characteristic of hopper crystals from the Zapata mine, Santa Elena de Uairen, Bolivar, Venezuela. Keith...cavernous basal faces (3.4 cm) from the North Geronimo mine, Trigo Montains, LaPaz County, Arizona. Dick Morris...Dendritic gold crystal (3 cm) from the Round Mountain mine, Nye County, Nevada. Keith and Mauna Proctor specimen...growth islands on cube faces from the Belshazzar mine, Quartzburg district, Boise County, Idaho. Carl
Journal (issue)
raspite and stolzite specimens from the Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill. Neither species has previously been... Slans�y. E., 1977: Plumbogummitc from Ivanhoe Mine, Northern Territory. Australia. N. Jb. M iner. Mh...WESTERN VICTORIA J.A. Webb Department of Geology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia...press). There are over 50 lava caves in western Victoria, but few of them contain speleothems (Webb et...Hamilton, about 85km WSW of Ballarat, in western Victoria. M t Hamilton i s one o f nearly 400 points of
Journal (issue)
Michael & Julie Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile...Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 2, Number 1 June 1996 ISSN 1323-7640 ...Isa District, Queensland Part 3 - The Mount Oxide mine ............ B. Day & B. Beyer 3 Zeolites and...England The Francis Collection A. Pring 21 Post mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...Mimetite crystals from Sabine's Shaft, Mount Bonnie mine. 44 km north-west of Pine Creek. Northern Territory
Journal (issue)
collection. Chrome Diopside, Enstatite, Pearl Aragonite, Molybdenite DISCOVERY Organic Substances About...Write to: Gordon & Gotch Ltd, PO Box 290, Burwood, Victoria 3125. Please enclose your payment of the cover...which play across the surface of the true pearl. ARAGONITE AND NACR E The pearl-forming process begins w...White Cleavage: Fracture: 1 I • ARAGONITE ALTHOUGH ARAGONITE HAS THE SAME CHEMICAL FORMULA AS CALCITE...species in 1 797 and named a�er Aragon, the region of Spain in which it was first identified. • A l t h o
Book
Indian jewels Rutile Diaspore Fluorite Calcite Aragonite Rhodochrosite Cerussite Byzantine jewels Variscite...resurgence in popularity in the 19th century: Queen Victoria wore jet adornments throughout her long years...far without success. Elsewhere, the Alhambra in Spain and the Taj Mahal in India both feature stunning...by Margaret of Austria and Joseph Bonaparte of Spain, before eventually Richard Burton purchased it for...Tourmaline Aventurine Turquoise Quartz USA Spain Jadeite Aquamarine Guatemala Sapphire Spinel
Book
Lower left: Cobaltocalcite group. from Lerida. Spain. Folch collection. Barcelona. Lower right: The mineral...Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland 181 13 63 72 75 16 99 136 138...Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because of the difficulty in researching Eastern...J ) ortugai e Madrid -,,.J ( Lisbon \ ~ Spain I 12 l I Belgium Tervuren •• 13 Brussels...Manganite Hematite Skutterudite Zinckenite Stephanite Aragonite (var. Tarnowitzite) Rhodochrosite Witherite Malachite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relationship to gold mineralization in Central Victoria, southeastern Australia Allison L. Dugdale & Christopher...indicator of gold mineralization throughout central Victoria, Australia. However, the exact timing relationships...including Bendigo and Ballarat, throughout central Victoria. Timing relationships within the carbonates suggest...Hydrothermal alteration . Carbonate . Gold . Central Victoria Editorial handling: A. Boyce A. L. Dugdale (*)...Goldfields Pty Ltd, 10 Woolshed Gully Drive, Ballarat, Victoria 3350, Australia e-mail: allison.dugdale@lglgold
Catalog/List
crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite... Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic brown...Quartz. 50' above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal...pyramidal quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals...minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte
Book
our teeth contain phosphate, and pearls contain aragonite and calcite. Yet all the splendidly crystallized...and gangues Calcite Fluorite Barite Dolomite Aragonite Rhodochrosite Artinite - Hydro­ magnesite Sulphur...Sklodowskite and Cuprosklodowskite. . . 126 Apatite 40 Aragonite 54 Artinite - Hydromagnesite 56 Azurite 96 Axinite...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some­ times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...Remarkable specimens have also been found in France, Spain, United States, etc. 1 - Fluorite (Alston Moor
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few miles from Adelaide, and the colony’s first mine, the Wheal Gawler, began operations in May of that...discovery in Australia was made in 1846 at the Victoria Mine, near Castambul, east of Adelaide. At present...minerals. All of these workers have had ‘a rich lode to mine’. Not only is much of South Australia highly mineralised...publication) ♦2 1. Adelaide Hills Province 7. Victoria Desert Province 2. Flinders Range Province 8...found as spectacular encrustations in the Kitticoola mine. Lead ores, such as bright silver-grey crystalline
 
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