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Almandine from
Cap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cap Garonne Mine, Le Pradet, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1094925
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1094925:8
GUID (UUID V4):eb8afb8a-1f18-43cf-9443-4da4c418f134
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
29.5km (18.3 miles) Vaubarnier mine, Collobrières, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
32.2km (20.0 miles) Rossignol point, Le Lavandou, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
33.4km (20.7 miles) Serevengude ravine, Collobrières, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
33.6km (20.9 miles) La Rouvière brook, Le Lavandou, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
34.5km (21.4 miles) Cap Nègre, Le Lavandou, Toulon, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
35.4km (22.0 miles) Ecuelle point, Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
37.2km (23.1 miles) Canadel Pass, Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
73.5km (45.7 miles) Durance river alluvial deposits, Peyrolles-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
75.0km (46.6 miles) Grands Caous quarry, Saint-Raphaël, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
la direction d’Alain Foucault, en partenariat avec le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle Adaptation...cristallisant dans le même système cristallin présentent des habitus différents : le sel (ou halite, cubique)...cubique) présente systématiquement des cubes alors que le spinelle (également cubique) montre surtout des octaèdres...température, l’octaèdre est souvent favorisé, alors que le cube est plutôt une forme de plus basse température...peuvent néanmoins se former en quelques heures, comme le sel des marais salants. Mais, dans la 59 Les clubs
Catalog/List
1973 Mail Order Only Minerals principally from FRANCE and IRELAND. All the min~rals were collected by...Dublin, Eire) 1 x 2 ins. 15p. 2 x 2 ins. 30p. 2. ALMANDINE, small (¼ins.) red crystals and crystal sections...Omphacite. An Eclogite rock type. (Tulle, Correze, France) 2 x 2 I Op. lb. 30p. to 18 x 9 ins. 3. ANALCITE...dark, dense Schist. (Salle de Rohan, Brittany, France) 1 x 2 1 Op. 2 x 2 20p. lb. 70p. to 12 x 12 ins...The Andalusite is FL SW white. {Glomel, Brittany, France) 2 x 2 20p. 2 x 4 40p. lb. 60p. to 12 x 12 ins
Book
de la Société de GRANDMAISON Minéralogie de France BERGERAC Imprimerie Générale du Sud-Ouest 1906...sentiment le nom de de Société de Miné- spéciales et des rents nombreux ses années, le goût ...GRANDMAISON, Clairat, BERGERAC 23 (Dordogne) Dans le but d’assurer l’avenir de cette de de l’âge son...de la edad ragione the his advanced age, suo le di questa collezione proprietario, condizioni...de: plomb, zinc, nickel, cuivre, etc. Dans dont le volume empêchait des etc. se trou- d’être con-
Book
Canada (16), People's Republic of China (11), and France (10). These numbers do not necessarily reflect...of a Russian mineral). However, in the case of France, the majority of the ten species were described...Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan...(trigonal) HBaAl 3 (AsOJ 2 (0H) 6 Locality: The Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, in the middle Black Forest, Germany...)(CO 3 )s(OH) 2 ·1.SH2 O Locality: T he Kamoto East mine, District ofKolwezi, southern Shaba, Zafre (Lat
Catalog/List
Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________...well formed dodecahedral Madagascar 1 ins £4 ALMANDINE 1 Crystal I inch across garnet group__________...grey masses with possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, ALSTONITE 13 Hexham.Northumberland micros.____
Catalog/List
Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar ALMANDINE lins £4 garnet group Crystal 1 inch across Grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn
Catalog/List
Ca Y Al Fe SiO ALLANITE Ce ♦ Crystalli ne nodu le that fonned on tin ingots on a ship wreck in 1885... x i £5 Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...Ravalli Co unty, Montana U.S.A Glomel. Brittany, France I x½ £2.50 l x2 6 0p variety YIRIDI NE (Mangan...Raphael. France 2x2 £3 2x3 £5 3x4 £8 l x2 £8 2x2 £ 16 2x3 £25 l x l £3 San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia
Catalog/List
cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...bro~n well formed dodecahedral Madagascar Iins£4 ALMANDINE . &.8":1C~ ~~P.. . .. ~rystal . I inch _across...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...pinkish mass in dark grey homfels. Glomel. Brittany, France 52 A,'\DALUSITE £1.20 AlSiO -- -·-· - · -- -pure
Catalog/List
---· ·- ---- ----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje...-· ·- · ···------ - ·- ·---------- - - -1111 ALMANDINE Epteland, Evje-lveland area, South Norway 164...--•--·- ··-- -·-----·--- -·--- -- . -· ·- ----· 60 ALMANDINE Fauske Norway 91 BIXBYITE Ultevis, Lappland Sweden...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sarp and Perroud (1990) on material from Cap Garonne (Var, France) as Cu(AsO3 OH)(H2 O). Pushcharovskite...Geschieber vein at the Daniel adit level in the Svornost mine. Geminite is associated with minor arsenolite (As2...National Museum in Prague (cat. no. P1N 26.818). The mine Wheal Gorland is part of the Camborne-Redruth mining...funnel-shaped and may reach depths of 200 m. The copper mine Wheal Gorland is located on the east contact zone... The oxidation zone of this arseniferous copper mine reaches 180 m depth and was the subject of extensive
Journal (issue)
version of the geological history of the South of France was both memorable and amusing and the attempt...the help of a 3-D relief map of France and a Carte Geologique de la France, Peter described how the Alps...ago, a sea covered the area that is the south of France today (see diagrams overleaf). During the Variscan...were examples of oxidation minerals on display. Cap Garonne is a site of world importance for secondary copper...pre-Cambrian to Cretaceous are represented in the south of France. The metamorphism of the pre-Cambrian rocks allowed
Journal (issue)
Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...185 by B. M. England Copper roses from the Rose mine, near San Lorenzo, New Mexico ....................162 by W. E. Wilson Microminerals Miscellany from France, the Eifel district, and Mont Saint-Hilaire .....white calcite matrix from the Coscuez mine, Muzo, Colombia. This mine is located 12 km north, on the other
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...ACTINOLITE Achmelvich, near Lochinver, Scotland 477 ALMANDINE Altai, Xonjiang, VR. China / MAGNESIOHORNBLENDE...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black
Catalog/List
vitreous brownish micro plates on Sandine (arrowed).(le Tre Croci Vetralla Italy) Ixlins £4.50 396 TORBERNITE...Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...Telcmark, Norway 52 ANDALUSITE Glomel. Brittany, France Rich pinkish-grey mass in dark grey homfels. White...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)...95 ■ ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minho, Portugal 477 ALMANDINE Altai, Xonjiang, VR. China Quite rich pink masses
Book (edition)
Chakhmouradian (Canada), Pierre-Jacques Chiappero (France). G. Daxner (Austria). M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo...(ltaly). Stefano Merlino (ltaly), Yves Mo!:lo (France), E.11. ickcl (Australia), Milan Novåk (Czech Republic)...(ltaly). Werner H. Paar (Austria). Gian Carlo Parodi (France). Marco Pa ero (ltaly). Igor Pekov (Russia), atale...(Japan), William B. Simmons (USA). C.J. Stanley (UK). France ca Stasi (ltaly). Tony Steede (Canada). Ricardo...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
Journal (volume)
MINÉRALOGIE (ANCIENNE SOCIÉTÉ MINÉRALOGIQUE DE FRANCE ) Fondée le 21 Mars 1878 RECONNUE COMME ÉTABLISSEMENT...membre ordinaire, il faut : 1° Avoir été présenté par le Bureau de la Société, sur la proposition de deux...annuelle , dont le minimum est fixé à vingt francs. La cotisation annuelle peut être rachetée par le verse ment...ment d 'une somme égale à douze fois et demie le montant - Il — de la cotisation annuelle ; ce versement...versement donne droit au titre demembre à vie . Le titre de membre perpétuel est conféré à toutmembre
Catalog/List
lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal...lx2 £3 2x2 £6 2x3 £10 ALMANDINE Fauske Norway ANDALUSITE Glomel. Brittany, France 52 60 Sharp single dark...________ _I _lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location...area, South Norway Boulouris, St Raphael, France ALMANDINE 11 l I 2 36 Rich red granular mass, mixed
Journal (issue)
Pandaite • copper arsenic sulfide • Chinkuashih mine, Keelung, T aiw an • 4 x5 $ 5 0 .0 0 , 2x3 $ 2...sp e cim e n w a s c o lle c te d by W a y n e C. Le ich t. P h o to g ra p h by J u liu s W ebe r. EDITORIAL...full Colonel. During W orld W ar II he served in France, Germ any, Belgium and the British W est Indies...huntite. On a specimen of the sulfides from the mine, Dr. H al M iller of Colorado isolated minute quantities...miners in the underground workings of the Chino mine who, encouraged by Pete Nalle, began a systematic
Catalog/List
South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...Brochantite on matrix. £4 Devon .England £2.50 ALMANDINE Large brown well fom1ed dodecahedral Madagascar...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond... Glomcl. Brinany. France AI SiO £1.20 2 36 ANDESINE Boulouris, St Raphael. France lx2 £1.50 2x2£3 2x3£5..._ _ __ ___ _____ _ _ _ _ 21 7 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bol ivia 6x6mm £3 Pure grey metallic mass
Catalog/List
crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins...PO/~ • yellowish plates on mauvEUssingit~ (UmDa Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula • Russia) (6a pure plate...Hornblende(Kragero Norway) lx2 SOp 2x2 f.l.20 010 ALMANDINE Fe Al Silicate red masses with green Omphacite
Book
19'3 quand il est pur, descendant jusqu'à 15 par le contenu en argent. Couleur jaune d'or devenant jaune...dans le mercure, formant famalgame. Les gisements d'amalgame naturel sont rares. C.Onstitue le principal...sables aurifhes). Le gisement de Witwatersrand, Transvaal, Afrique du Sud, domine le monde avec 40 % de...de la production mondiale. Le second pays producteur d'or est les Etats-Unis: mines de Homestake, Lead...Californie; Cripple Creek, Colorado. Viennent ensuite le Canada et la Russie. En Espagne on exploite activement
Journal (issue)
that were sold there. Alain Carion from Paris, France, had mostly fossils and meteorites, both iron and...classic locality, Morgabal, in Aveyron Department, France. Also, he had small trays holding small clear quartz...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite
Catalog/List
dusting) 2~2~-x1i" of tin;y ,.s3.oo. . 6. ALMANDINE. Zillertal,Austria. Lustrous reddish-brown semi-opaque...Good example. 2~x2}x1-t;- 11 1 -~3-00. ¾ 7. ALMANDINE/GALENA. Eroken Hill,Australia.. Lu.strous,well...oo. xtls 18. AZUHITE(Chesseylites). Chessey: France. Sparkling crystalline aggregates,some carry minor... and cavity A. 3x2t,c2 11 ,~5.50. ~ Copper Mine, Au tralia. with inter-la.minated Brilliant, royal-blu~...royal-blu~ lustrous,greenish-blue 21. AZURITE. Cap Garonne,France. Brilliant xtls on Cluartz matrix. 2~-x2x1"
 
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