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Gypsum from
Goat Quarry, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Goat Quarry, Aberdour, Fife, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:16300
Long-form Identifier:1:3:16300:8
GUID (UUID V4):16669785-7864-41f8-8861-9988715567db
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
79.0km (49.1 miles) Meadowfoot Smelter slag locality, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
86.7km (53.9 miles) Trearne Quarry, Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
References
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Journal (issue)
INDEX UK JOURNAL OF MINES AND MINERALS ISSUES 11 - 20 (1992 - 2000) Michael Wolfe David Green, Julie...Julie Ballard and Richard Bell 2002 UK Journal of Mines and Minerals - index to issues 11 to 20 -1- CONTENTS... our second index, covers issues 11 to 20 of the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, published between...divided into Dyfed, Clwyd, Powys and Gwynedd and Scotland into Highland, Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway...index is freely available as an RTF download from the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals website. NOTES, issue
Journal (issue)
ticle In this Issue). Photo by Mick Cooper. The UK Journal ofM;nes a'1d Mi,,erals publishes articles...OF EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...BOOK REVIEWS -----58----CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS UK Journal of Mines & '.\·lincrals No. 11 -1- EDITORIAL...such an extent that we lose touch with the local UK scene, but the variations in the mineralogical scene...indecent; just your average bunch of collectors in fact. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 11 -2- GODDESS
Journal (issue)
Newsletter 50; 2 for landfill. The nearby Pant Quarry (OS GR 198.702), owned by Wimpcy, still produces...similar mineral assemblage can be found at the old quarry on the west side of the village (OS GR 054.256)...GR 582.412), Manod Quarry at Blaenau Fcstiniog (OS GR SH 707.449), and Hendre Quarry, Glyn Cerriog (OS...Record. Vol. 23 No. 5 1992 p39l Minerals from Manod Quarry Common Less Common Unusual Quartz, albite, anatase...synchysitc-(Ce) Synchysitc-(Cc) Minerals from llcndrc Quarry. Glyn Ceriog Common Less Common Rarely Unusual
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...KlrlScotland Scotland Beith.Scotland Leadhllls,ScoU. Beith.Scotland...Skye.Scotland Wanlockhead,Scot. Beith,ScoUand Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith,Scolland Rhlw
Book (edition)
Galleries, London ISBN O85272 313 X ClO Printed in the UK for the British Geological Survey by Saxon Graphics...Graphics Ltd, Derby Cover illustration Cloud Hill Quarry, Leicestershire, excavated in steeply dipping Carboniferous...minerals produced in Britain, on an ex-mine or quarry basis, the total value is estimated at £21 796...and the major proportion of this output is from the UK Continental Shelf. However, there is a substantial...minerals. The value of minerals production on an ex-quarry basis does not truly reflect their ultimate value
Journal (issue)
seeing you all there. Our new President on top of Goat Fell, Arran, in 2010. For those of you who don’t...to come. The number of mineralogy curators in the UK can now be counted on two hands, but more worryingly...to attract junior members is age restrictions on quarry visits, so I will be looking at arranging visits... Our first forays, in 1993, were to Coldstones Quarry, an easy journey from Leeds. In the early years...She became much more involved with the team at the UK Journal of Mines and Minerals and became its webmaster
Journal (issue)
UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Fisher 29 ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe MINERALS OF FIFE Stephen Moreton 36 CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE...UKJounul of Mines & Mincr:ils No '7 -l- EDITORIAL he UK]oumal efMi11es& Mi11eralsis now in its twenty second...which at least eight have makers or retailers marks. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -2- Frontispiece
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between DeCew Falls and Grimsby. At the base of the Goat Island Member, the Ancaster chert beds become irregular...western part of the study area at the Vinemount Quarry. Although the thicknesses of the other units vary... 1972). 357 M. A. MOSTAGHEL W E VINEMOUNT QUARRY INEI~OUNT ,..HALE, B,..EOS~ ~ -.~ - - GLENRIDGE...COMPOSITE SECTION SIR ADAM BECK SECTION GOAT ISLAND GOAT ISLAND GOAT iSLAND GASPORT GASPORT ~c~ ~ DECEW...Gorge (Sir Adam Beck section) to the Vinemount Quarry. Description of Mineral Assemblages The disseminated
Report (issue)
Raw Material Requirements . ....... Locating a Quarry Site ..................... ..... ...... Geographic................ Discussion of Areas of Potential Quarry Development ... Niagara Falls ...................Chemical Analyses - Halton Crushed Stone and Dufferin Quarry ............................... Analyses of Wellington...Drilling ........... Chemical Analysis - Canadian Gypsum Company ..... Chemical Analyses - Drillhole 19...Limestones .......... Chemical Analysis - McKean Quarry, Duntroon ..... Analyses of Grey County Limestones
Report (issue)
express his thanks to the many company officials and quarry superintendents who supplied information for this...Cement Company Limited, and T. E. Rowbottom of Gypsum Lime & Alabastine Limited. ill Explanatory Notes...COMMERCIAL STONE TERMS Riprap. Large angular blocks of quarry stone from l cubic foot (about 200 pounds) up to...termed "armour stone." Rubble. Angular blocks of quarry stone from 5 inches to one foot in diameter, often...as follows but may vary considerably from quarry to quarry, depending on the stone shape and number of
Report (issue)
Gasport Dolomite ,.............................,..... Goat Island Dolomite ..... ............................Stone)., Lowville Quarry .......................................... Old Nelson Quarry .............. ........... Dundas Quarry ......................................... Clappisons Cut Quarry .................Nelson Crushed Stone Limited ....... Quarry section, Old Nelson Quarry Section, Canada Cut and Crushed Stone...carbonaceous material. Seams and concretions of yellowish gypsum are common in some places. In the Hamilton area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Meeting at Kirkvine, Works of ... Alva, Clackmannan, Scotland, superficial deposits of the buried valley of...valley of the River Devon near Alva, Clackmannan, Scotland ... 70. 33 Bogner Regis, Sussex. fish otoliths... ... ... ... .., ... ... Central Highlands of Scotland, Dalradians and Moines, tectonic Styles in the...... ... ... Chronology of the deglaciation of Scotland, by A. D. LACAILLE '" ... Chronology (marine)...Two Field Meetings at Port Esquivel and Pigeon and Goat Islands. Report... ... ... ... ... ... ... '" .
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
Report (issue)
... • • • • 25 • • • • • • • • . (B)-SCOTLAND: l. South Lowland District • • 2. North Lowland...post in charge of the unit for the Highlands of Scotland has been created. The field unit working in Northern...1957 Scotland. Revision or re-survey of the six-inch geological maps of England, Wales and Scotland was...Industry Act 1926, the Water Act 1945 and the Water (Scotland) Act 1946. The number of notifications of intention...Acts of Parliament, namely Water 1 945, Water (Scotland) 1 946, Petroleum (Production) 1 9 1 8 and 1 934
Book
Museum Street, London, WCIA No reproduction 1LU, UK Unwin Paperbacks, Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Herts...surveyed in England. Only the Isle of Arran in Scotland receives a greater influx of geology viii Preface...Eskdale 12 The Appletreeworth area 13 Greenscoe Quarry: an Ordovician volcanic vent 15 21 27 aS 40 50...wide gulf between a former continent composed of Scotland, Greenland and Labrador, and what is now England...accounted for by the occurrence of sandstone units (e.g. Goat Crags, Excursion 9) or by localised hardening induced
Book
400° to 650°C. Fluid flow calculations on a quartz quarry hosting the Au-Ag-Te mineralization revealed the...reservoir samples (Fife and Locharbriggs sandstones both from southwest Scotland and Slick Rock Aeolian...The scale is I O cm. I: Figure 2. Palnting ofa goat ~10 cm tall in Los Murciblagos cave (Zuheros, C6rdoba...of pigment taken fro1n the pictograph of a black goat. The two broad bands at 1 ~1579 and ~1329 c1n- indicate...bone or ivory black pigment [28]. Therefore, the goat was probably painted with a piece of charcoal [6
Report (issue)
COMMERCIAL STONE TERMS Riprap. Large angular blocks of quarry stone from l cubic foot (about 200 pounds) up to...termed 'armour stone.' Rubble. Angular blocks of quarry stone from 5 inches to l foot in diameter, generally...as follows but may vary considerably from quarry to quarry, depending on the stone shape and number of... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Ottawa Quarry . . . . . . . .. .. . . .L . . . . .. . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Quarry Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precipitating 26m below the surface, at the Vinemount quarry, Ontario, Canada from sulfurous spring waters,...measuring a stratigraphic section at the Vinemount quarry (Fig. i), particularly well-developed grey coatings...encountered at a spring horizon near the base of the quarry. At the major spring discharge points a black...VINEMOUNT QUARRY NIAGARA ESCARPMENT miles 0 12 I I II 0 20 kilometers of the Vinemount Quarry, tation...SPRING LEVELS AND PRECIPITATES At the Vinemount quarry, springs are discharging from three consistent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
illite-smectite, along with the hydrous sulfate minerals gypsum and jarosite. Analysis of waters derived from clay...epidote, quartz, and pyrite. Some of the jarosite, gypsum, and clay minerals are also related to pre-mining...weathering-product minerals include jarosite and gypsum which resulted from acidic, sulfate-bearing solutions...geochemistry of water discharging from the toe of the Goat Hill North rock pile at Questa, and natural analogs...mine at 454146mE 4062285mN. A sample (QPS-GYP) of gypsum that occurs in extensive amounts in veins adjacent
Report (issue)
............................................... Goat Hill Gulch .......................................altered rock, as shown by jarosite, kaolinite, and gypsum. In the spectral analysis, hydrothermally altered...ground appears to be more extensive at the unmined Goat Hill Gulch and the mined ground, than the "scars"...between the "scars" in sericite, kaolinite, jarosite, gypsum, and calcite abundance. Fieldwork has verified...Hansen, Hansen, Straight, and Hottentot Creeks. Goat Hill Gulch and the area west of the Questa mine
Report (issue)
Albemarle Group Guelph Eramosa Lockport Eramosa Goat Island Amabel Gasport SerNiaigaresan Si(Mluirdiadln)e...Escarpment. The first locality is at the old Dundas quarry of Canada Crushed Stone at Dundas; the second locality...to Tobermory. - 25 Table 2 Formation or Member Goat Island Gasport DeCew Rochester Irondequoit ...heavier concentration in lower part, filled with gypsum, calcite, and sphalerite 17.5 Limestone, dolomitic;...Dolomite is seen at Canada Crushed and Cut Stone quarry at Dundas where 7 feet of Guelph Dolomite overlie
Book
and landscapes of Scotland Second Edition DUNEDIN Geology and landscapes of Scotland Iona, looking toward...Lewisian gneiss. Geology and landscapes of Scotland Second edition Con Gillen University of Edinburgh...published by Roger Jones, Terra Publishing, Harpenden, UK in 2003 Second edition first published in 2013 by...science of the Earth Introduction The rock fabric of Scotland The rock cycle Structure of the Earth Folds, faults... vii 1 1 1 12 12 15 19 Geological regions of Scotland Introduction Geological regions Geological evolution
Book
Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci
Journal (volume)
thomsonite (spiky and botryoidal varieties), from Bohill quarry, Dundrod, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, collected...Brian Young 18-26 The mineralogy of Bardon Hill Quarry, Coalville, Leicestershire Francis Ince 27-39...benefactors: Peter and Greg Tom at Bardon Hill Quarry (1 :4-3 : 1); Redland Aggregates (2: 1); Ralph...minerals such as limonite and jarosite with some gypsum derived from the oxidation of pyrite and chalcopyrite... Some minerals, such as the primary sulphides, gypsum and linarite were identified purely visually based
Report (issue)
Sandstone tongue of the CherryI 17 Formation I 18 Goat Seep Dolomite I 19 Capitan LimestoneI 22 Rocks of...Previous exploration I 56 Future possibilitiesI 56 Gypsum I 56 Building stoneI 56 Gravel I 56 Sodium sulfate...Black River valley area I58 58 Yeso IliIls and Gypsum Plain I 59 Selected stratigraphic sectionsI 62...Bell Canyon Formation I 14 6. Interlaminated white gypsum and dark-brownish-gray limestone in lower part...by the Goat Seep Dolomite which grades 1 ► asinwar(1 into the Cherry Canyon Formation. The Goat Seep is
 
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