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Vesuvianite from
Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Hamlet
Classification
Species:Vesuvianite
Formula:Ca19Fe3+Al4(Al6Mg2)(◻4)◻[Si2O7]4[(SiO4)10]O(OH)9
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kilchoanite1 photo of Vesuvianite associated with Kilchoanite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vesuvianite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618202
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618202:1
GUID (UUID V4):283fe17b-a21b-4c10-96cc-d43b099fa62e
Nearest other occurrences of Vesuvianite
55.3km (34.4 miles) Camasunary, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
56.4km (35.1 miles) Beinn an Dubhaich, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
57.7km (35.8 miles) Iron-copper trial, Kilchrist, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
57.8km (35.9 miles) Marble quarries, Kilchrist, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
58.0km (36.1 miles) Coire Buidhe, Glen Creran, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Monoclinic. Point Group: 2=m; 2; or m: 5 cm; ¯brous and in compact masses. Crystals elongated along [010]...altered limestone (Crestmore, California, USA; Kilchoan, Scotland) or melilite skarn (Dupezeh Mountain, Iraq)...Iraq). Association: Hillebrandite, calcite, vesuvianite, garnet, thaumasite (Crestmore, California, USA);...USA); merwinite, larnite, kilchoanite (Kilchoan, Scotland); perovskite, grossular, schorlomite, monticellite...Co., California. From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Scotland. On Dupezeh Mountain, near Hero
Report (issue)
09(5) c = 21.95(5) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kilchoan, Scotland. 2.89 (s1), 3.07 (s2), 2.68 (s3), 3.56 (ms)...(ms), 1.964 (ms), 5.17 (m) Chemistry: (1) Kilchoan, Scotland; an analysis, not given, from which CO2 was...decarbonation of limestone and thus under low pressure of CO2 (Kilchoan, Scotland; Carlingford, Ireland)...cuspidine, grossular, wollastonite, vesuvianite (Kilchoan, Scotland); rankinite, larnite, spurrite (Golden...Zealand). Distribution: From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Scotland. At Carlingford, Co. Louth,
Report (issue)
Group: 1 . As bladed crystals, in thin veinlets and patches, to 2 mm. Twinning: Polysynthetic. Physical...veins cutting thermally metamorphosed limestones (Scotland). A late-stage hydration product of pre-existing...kilchoanite, foshagite, tilleyite (Scotland); bicchulite, vesuvianite, calcite, clintonite, magnetite,...(Russia). Distribution: From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Scotland; from the Akagane mine, Kitakami...Polythermal metamorphism of limestones at Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan. Mineral. Mag., 34, 1-15. (2) (1965) Amer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Journal of Mineralogical Occurrence and Petrological and new Sciences, data ofVolume dellaite 103, page...page 385 ─ 389, 2008 385 Occurrence and new data of dellaite from the Akagane mine, Japan Hidehiko Shimazaki*...Matsubara* and Michiaki Bunno*** * Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science...Akagane mine, Japan, was confirmed and its chemical composition and XRD data for the natural material...in the high temperature skarn of bicchulite and vesuvianite as a veinlet or interstitial constituent. Results
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grandite garnet and the lack of wollastonite,kilchoanite, vesuvianite,xonotlite, hydrogrossular,and bucchulite...which grandite garnet is always formed, and where wollastonite and xonotlite are unstable. (1) Accordingto...kilchoanitebearing skarn of Kilchoan (Scotland) formed under a temperatureof range of 550øC and 600øC. The barren...that of Kilchoan,is inferred to have formed at relatively higher temperatures.The vesuvianite-bearing...which is presumedto be formed below 600øC. The vesuvianite-bearing skarn of the Chichibumine (Japan) is
Report (issue)
Point Group: 2=m: Crystals are rare and inevitably pitted and rounded, to 3 mm; compact, massive. Twinning:...Association: Gehlenite, spurrite, monticellite, vesuvianite (Crestmore, California, USA); spurrite, gehlenite..., California; at Neihart, Cascade Co., Montana; and in the Christmas Mountains, Brewster Co., Texas....From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, and at Camas Mµo r, Isle of Muck, Scotland. Found near...mouth of the Lower Tunguska River, central Siberia, and in the Ozerskii massif, Lake Baikal, Russia. At Iglika
Report (issue)
Group: 2=m: As subhedral crystals, rounded grains, and irregular plates. Twinning: On f100g, simple; rarely...Properties: Cleavage: Perfect on f201g; poor on f100g and f010g; very poor on f001g. Hardness = n.d. D(meas...metamorphic zone between igneous rocks and limestones, formed at low pressure and high temperature. Association:...Association: Merwinite, spurrite, gehlenite, vesuvianite, grossular, wollastonite, thaumasite, °uorite, calcite...Iron Mountains, Sierra Co., New Mexico; and near Helena, Lewis and Clark Co., Montana, USA. In Ireland,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volume 98, pages 493–500, 2013 Crystal chemistry and hydrogen bonding of rustumite Ca10(Si2O7)2(SiO4)(OH)2Cl2...Savelyeva,3 Aleksandr E. Zadov,4 Piotr Dzierżanowski,5 and Viktor M. Gazeev6 2 1 Mineralogical Crystallography...Switzerland Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University... Russia 5 Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Warsaw University, al. Żwirki i Wigury...Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry (IGEM) RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
328 Journal of Mineralogical and Sciences, Volume page 328 ─ 338, 2004 Special Issue M. Petrological...Petrological Satish − Kumar, Y. Yoshida and 99, I. Kusachi The role of aqueous silica concentration in controlling...KUMAR*, Yasuhito YOSHIDA* and Isao KUSACHI** * Department of Biology and Geosciences, Faculty of Science...which five are calcium − boron − bearing minerals, and scores of other rare minerals. Skarn formation at...types 1. Grossular − vesuvianite − wollastonite endoskarn, 2. Gehlenite − exoskarns, and 3. Spurrite − exoskarns
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2011, Vol. 75(2), pp. 379–394 Chlorine content and crystal chemistry of dellaite from the Birkhin gabbro... V. B. SAVELYEVA3, A. E. ZADOV4, N. N. PERTSEV5 AND P. DZIERŻANOWSKI6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mineralogical...Sciences, Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Silesia, Be˛dzińska 60...Geology of Ore Deposits, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography (IGEM) RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow,... Russia Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Warsaw University, al. Żwirki i Wigury
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1E3, Canada Robert F. MARTIN Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University...K1P 6P4, Canada Abstract Rare high-temperature and low-pressure contact-metamorphic assemblages are...hillebrandite, tilleyite, cuspidine, vesuvianite, monticellite and gehlenite, and the secondary calc-silicates...hydroxylellestadite and two mineral species first discovered in these skarns, defernite and trabzonite. Our...existence of a fluorine-rich variant of rustumite and a hydroxyl-dominant variant of cuspidine. These minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The mineral occurs as irregular crusts and concretions and as cavity-filling in the zone of oxidation...595-1.606 (brown). brown. Isotropic,nl.560-l.5il5 and an exothermai effect at 520-560'. The most intense...Kazakhstan' abstractor comments that L0/6 and 11.77o of the first and second DrscussroN.-The analyses were...without any statement of what impurilies were present, and that the "composition needs to be made more precise...al'vanite, satpaevite, and steigerite, previously described from the same locality, and from schoderite, all
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 · H. ·G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 H . G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...INTRODUCTION Compilation of the glossary . Style and guidelines Comments on the glossary . Statistical...groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...mineral species, listing some 443 mineral names, and containing 399 valid species has been corn piled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HILL, APUSENI MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA ŞTEFAN MARINCEA§ AND ESSAÏD BILAL Centre SPIN, Ecole Nationale Supérieure...occurrence of high-temperature, spurrite-, tilleyite- and gehlenite-bearing skarns from Cornet Hill, part of...the Metaliferi Massif, Apuseni Mountains, Romania, and the main mineral species developed in these rocks...– monzodioritic body of Paleocene – Ypresian age and Tithonian limestones. The primary mineral assemblage...spurrite and gehlenite, with various amounts of garnet and wollastonite; perovskite, monticellite and hydroxylellestadite
Catalog/List
" I will then fill in the actual amount in words and figures. This sum will also be on the Invoice sent...Malawi has been analysed by electron microscope and it is actually closer to edenite or ferroedenite...Apophyllite ½" £4 lxl£6 CuSiO ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland / rich black mass, mostly as veins in matrix....Xianghualing Mine Hunan China white to colourless masses and grains in matrix Rare Zeolite Zcolite ½ "£4 lxl £8...Mine, Gila County, Arizona, USA Dark blue coatings and micro crystals, under or on Apophyllite. 1cm £3 Ix½"
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...PublishingLimited. Layout byJim Farley. Printed and bound by Craft Print International Ltd, Singapore...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction Miscellaneous
Catalog/List
anyone is welcome to select the specimens personally and see my latest one off pieces. Just give me a ring...Official Institutions may order on their order forms and pay afterwards. I can take phone orders but prefer...Pounds’ I will then fill in the actual amount in words and figures on the cheque, say Thirty Nine Pounds 86p...SPECIMENS are sent with a label giving their name and locality details. You can return any specimen, undamaged...let me know if you have a collection speciality and I can give you a quote when minerals become available
Catalog/List
anyone is welcome to select the specime~s perso~ally and see my latest one off pieces. Just give me a ring...~ - I wilJ then fill m the actual amount m words and figures on the cheque, say Thirty Nme_Pounds 86p...SPECIMENS are serit with a label giving their name and locality details. y OU can return any specimen, •...let me,know if you have a collection speciality and I can give you a quote when minerals become available...last catalogue, Fluocerite, has been checked by XRD and has turned out to be ~ Monazite. Please alter your
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
type localities, Birkhin massif, Baikal Lake area and Upper Chegem caldera, North Caucasus Evgeny V. Galuskin...Nikolai N. Pertsev,7 and Viktor M. Gazeev7 Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, Faculty... Russia 6 Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury...Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry (IGEM) RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow...analog of pavlovskyite has been synthesized before and is known from cement-like materials. Isotypic to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
determined at fluid pressures of 1000 bars and 2000 (1974) gave bars by the thermodynamic...These mixtures, ore of carbon mole poorer. and/or the independent H2O-CO2 wollastonite Gustafson...Gustafson content 0.03 dioxide very with and (2) and content accompanied (1960) is where carbon...calcite-quartz depends on temperatures, total pressures and amounts of carbon dioxide in fluids. Under the conditions...wol lastonite, xonotlite, dellaite, kilchoanite and tobermorite, cannot be formed. The oc currences
Book
Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the desrruction...Claudio Vita-Finzi Principles of emergency planning and ma11agemer:1DaYid Alexander Vesurius: a biography...Scarth & Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI...ooper 2005) and the promise of new mineral galleries in Edinburgh in '.!011. I hope that these and all other
Catalog/List
ring make surE to Schools, official cc1.talogue and sec I will but Private custo!'iers_ us 2.lrer1...green crystals 1 to 2 14 ins l~ng in Tale. (Kyle Scotland) 1x2 SOp 2x2 t1.60 2x4 (3.40 15 3 AENIGMATITErich...2x2 t6.oo 17 396 AGARDITE(ce) palc green micro's and crusts on white Barytes. (Clara Mine Wolfach, W.Germany)...AR1'110WTI ZITE, (contains 409 BERAUNITEred fibres and radiations on matrix. (W.Jtzlar, West Germany) 1x1...ASTROPHYLLITE remarkable rich golden brown blades in and en rock. Blades up to 1ins long. (Teller County,
Catalog/List
1c1~J/a?~• e ,ry:ta· . 1 c~!c,~:ful H l1te rroa Scotland,ne\l st~ci of Hcraotofte, H~11te n~ Reyer,te f...50 029 Bl!:RTRAflOITE Be 0 i0 OH excellent clear and sharp micro crystals on Sm ma rix. (GovernadorVdladares...silvery fibres in matrix, some with Arsenopyrite and Pitticite (bro~m)(llagyborzsony,lorth Hungary ½ ins...FLORE!CITE (Ce) Ce Al PO/ browncrystal sections and grains in Quartz. Best seen with X 10 ~ag. (Sopron...single ale pink crystal section about Srr.m . Tin and Beryl (Ilimaus aq1 Greenland) 3 8 ,HODTZ TE !Y.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SAVELYEVA2, A. E. ZADOV3, N. N. PERTSEV4 1 2 3 4 5 AND P. DZIERŻANOWSKI5 Institute of Geological Sciences...Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry (IGEM) RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow...Moscow, Russia Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury...ABSTR ACT In addition to spurrite, Ca5(SiO4)2(CO3), and tilleyite, Ca5(Si2O7)(CO3)2, galuskinite, Ca7(SiO4)3(CO3)...Ca8(SiO4)2(Si3O10), and dellaite, Ca6(Si2O7)(SiO4)(OH)2, form a margin between the veins and the calcio-olivine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ScoTT ErciT,1 Paula c. PiilonEn,1,† GlEnn PoiriEr,1 and KimbErly T. TaiT2 1 Mineral Sciences Division, Canadian... D.I. Belakovsky, A.V. Mokhov, M.V. Kuznetsova, and T.I. Golovanova (2007) Abramovite, Pb2SnInBiS7, a...new species abramovite was found in open cavities and fractures in fumarolic crusts of the Kupol fumarole...encrustations on anhydrite and chaotic intergrowths with halite, sylvite, and wurtzite, and is commonly coated...streak, perfect {100} cleavage; fracture, hardness, and density were not measured. In reflected light, it
 
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