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Cordierite from
Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Cordierite
Formula:(Mg,Fe)2Al3(AlSi5O18)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cordierite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:752081
Long-form Identifier:1:3:752081:5
GUID (UUID V4):d1b70678-631b-4816-b662-ca1893d32304
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wollastonite, 649; lithian tourmaline, 747 Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire, vesigni6ite, 533 Cornwall...glauconite, 753 SCOTLAND France Auchinstarry quarry, Kil~yth, Stirlingshire, julgoldite, 761 Blackcraig... 59 Portsoy, Banffshire, migmatites, 66r Ratho quarry, Edinburgh, julgoldite, 761 Champagnac, Cantal...Montboissier, Puy-de-Dome, basalt, ultrabasic xenoliths, r53 Mont Dore, Puy-de-Dome, zircon, 79o Plan de la Tour...Maures, Var, zircon, 79o Puy Beaunit, Puy-de-Dome, basalt, ultrabasic xenoliths-, 153 A berdeenshire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mine, Caceres, Spain, montebrasite, 414. Amelia County, Virginia, albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489... 974 ALPHABETICAL Baia Mare (= Nagybanya), Romania, fiJll6ppite, 442. BAIN (D. C.), Plumbogummite-group...I45. Baryte, synthetic, growth spirals on, 296. Basalt, electroylsis of, 568. Basaluminite, Wales, opt...South Wales, strained, grain-growth in, 852. Bokkos, Jos, Nigeria, trachyte with inclusions, lherzolite, anorthoclase...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ATKtN (D.), see LIVINGSTONE(A.), 441 Auchinstarry quarry, Kilsyth, Scotland, julgoldite, 76I Avondale, Auckland...Queenslaaad, 853 CARSWELL (D. A.), see JAVAWARDENA(D. E. de S.), 54I Cassagna mine, Liguria, Italy, volborthite...STUMPEL(E. F.), and MCIVER (J. R.), A sapphirine--cordierite-bronzitephlogopite paragenesis from Namaqualand...Wales, anal., X-ray, 765 Cookstove Mtn., El Paso County, Colorado, genthelvite, danalite, 627 Coordination...Sardinia, 293; native, New Zealand, anal., 792 Cordierite, Namaqualand, anal., opt., paragenesis, 347 Cornwall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upnor, Kent. Cornwall Bosahan quarry, Falmoath, biotite, 21o. Dean quarry, Coverack, The Lizard, analcime...Lherz, Aridge, omphacite, 61. Montboissier, Pto,-de-DOme, spinel-lherzolite xenoliths, 726. Montebras...153. Parignac, Fay-de-Bretagne, Loire Atlantique, omphacite, 6I. Puy Beaunit, Puy-de-D6me, spinel-lherzolite...spinel-lherzolite xcnoliths, 726. Rentikres, Pu.v-de-DOme, spinel-lherzolite xcnoliths, 726. St. Christophe, Bourg...montcbrasite, 4t4. Santander, blende, 153. Sierra de los t.ilabres, mboziite, 629. Italy (Italia) Canzoccoli
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganese oxides, was recently exposed in a gravel quarry here; running through the black material was a...basaltic matrix from the Magheramourne quarry, Larne, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Downloaded by...Bavaria, West Ger­ many—has shown up at the Cerro de Urucum, near Galileia, Minas Gerais. Carlos Barbosa...6 (above): Single 2-mm cavansite crystal, Dhoot quarry, near Ahamadnagar, India. Figure 7 (above right):...rosette, 2 cm across, on a drusy zeolite, Dhoot quarry, near Ahamadnagar, India. Figure 8 (right): Group
Journal (issue)
Institute of Romania Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Damian, President of the Society of Economic Geology of Romania Editor...University, Iaşi Anne-Sylvie Andre-Mayer, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Ferenc Molnar, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Ioan Pintea, Geological Institute of Romania Mircea Ţicleanu, Geological...Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest Nicolae Buzgar, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iaşi Marian...Marian Munteanu, Geological Institute of Romania Ioan Seghedi, Institute of Geodynamics of the Romanian
Book
Udubaşa (1938, Ocnele Mari, Romania) Director of the Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest; President...President of the Mineralogical Society of Romania; Member of the Commission for New Minerals and Mineral Names...and about 100 articles - one-third outside of Romania. Rudolf Duda (1944, Vojany, Slovakia) Head of the...first de­ scriptions of metamorphic corundum and cordierite from Polish hornfelses, as well as the rare second­...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll) Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska) Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa) Slovakia (Rudolf Duda) Ukraine
Catalog/List
about 8mm with crystalline pyrite 3.Sx2.5 Cavnic Romania £25 VA UXITE very nice display piece of a rich...21. CORDIERITE/ILMENITE nice cut and polished specimen with blue and green-grey pods of Cordierite and...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India 23. EUDIALYTE really excellent display...red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12 26. SPHALERITE lustrous black crystals...27. PREHNITE pale green botryoidal area on 2x3 basalt, with a small area of calcite crystals about 2cm
Catalog/List
--··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...colourless to white crystals , quite well covering Basalt. ½" £4 ____ lx! _£_6_. __________ ____ 5_Na 5=u~~<...------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...- -- ·- -37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish...rich variety) ½ x ½ £5 Ni AsO H/20 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate
Catalog/List
grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...Swinden Limeworks quarry, Linton, fluorite, 4oi WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite...CO2metamorphosed lavas, ankerite, chalybite, 119 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite...hornblende-schist, laumontite, prehnite, kaolinite, 608 Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland, nickel hydroxide and (?) oxyhydroxide
Catalog/List
8mm with crystalline pyrite 3.5x2.5 Cavnic -~ Romania £25 ~ 7. MILLERITE Solid fibrous mass small lxl...Republic £20 good small reference piece 2cm £5 24. CORDIERITE/ILMENITE nice cut and polished specimen with...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India The name reflects the formula of...red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12 29. SPHALERITE lustrous black crystals...30. PREHNITE pale green botryoidal area on 2x3 basalt, with a small area of calcite crystals about 2cm
Catalog/List
2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near...colourless to white crystals , quite well covering Basalt. lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 Feldspar Ix I £1.50 lx2...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...with minor calcite or matrix ½" £4 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...about 1cm size £4 FeAsS 1085 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall Small silvery crystals groups, Crystals
Catalog/List
THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2£10 2x2£20 2x3£30 lxl£2.SO lx2£5 FeTiO 110 CORDIERITE Bjordammen ncarKragcro, South Norway 1015 JACOBSITE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ignore. W. D. Nesse (2012, p. 211) T he origin of basalt is one of the more intriguing problems that have...since it began as a science. There was a time when basalt was considered a sedimentary rock, a concept that...them was James Hutton (1726–1797) who argued that basalt was of igneous origin. The sedimentary versus igneous...until 1816 when one of the key discoveries that basalt is indeed of igneous origin was made by Pierre-Louis-Antoine...Cordier (1777–1861). Cordier (for whom the mineral cordierite is named) examined minerals in crushed samples
Book (edition)
"Dana's System of Mineralogy•· ( 1944, I 951, 1962). de Fourestier (1999) and Strunz and Nickel (2001). Mi11eral...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
Book
collectors and often used as decorative items. Basalt is the most abundant volcanic rock on Earth’s surface...rock, created when hot gases were trapped in the basalt lava as it a specimen. The minerals may have grown...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...solidify into an extrusive igneous rock such as basalt. Magma may also solidify very slowly beneath Earth’s...weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10 cm equal volume
Report (issue)
siltstone, sandstone, and conglomerate and Jurassic basalt and diabase underlie the basin, The sedimentary...Ridge, The sedimentary rocks and interbedded basalt flows are cut and locally metamorphosed by intrusive...contains the Mt. Zion Church basalt, the Hickory Grove basalt, and the Sander basalt. The Catharpin Creek Member...only locally mined on a smal1 scale. Diabase and basalt are extensively quarried for crushed stone, aggregate...and road metal. Limestone conglomerate in Loudoun County and marble at Leesburg were formerly quarried for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proc. 56, No. 237, 461-496. Xew South Wales: 4; basalt, rhyolite. BRONX, IDA, A. (1933) The geology of...Proc. 53, Xo. 249-250, 334-362. New South Wales: 2 basalt. BROWNE, \57~~~~lr R. (1920n) The geology and petrology...schist, quartz-feldsparsericite schist, epidosite, cordierite aplite, barium-rich rock, garnet amphibolite...BROU-NE (1922a) and STILL~ELL (1922). CLARKE, EDWARD DE C. (1914) Sotes on the geology and mining at, Sandstone...chlorite schist, graphite schist. CLARKE, EDWARD DE C. (1925) The field geology and broader mining features
Journal (issue)
880729 3 CONTENTS PAGB I. The Portrush Sill, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, by J. R. Hawkes, B.Sc...relationships of the Tardree Tertiary Rhyolite Complex, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, by R. A. Old, B.Sc.,... . . m. The geology of the Templepatrick area, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, by A. Brandon, B.Sc....geology . . 43 44 46 47 I. THE PORTRUSH SILL, COUNTY ANTRIM, NORTHERN IRELAND BY J. R. HAWK.ES, B...discovered in what was considered to be a variety of basalt (Kirwan 1799). Although Playfair (1802) pointed
Catalog/List
Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with...TaliskerBay, Skye, Scotland White crystals well covering Basalt. Zeolitc Ix! £1.50 lx2 £3 -----------'-----------------...£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained mass in...with minor calcite or matrix ½"£4 7 ANNITE Snga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
represented by the Aggeneys Hills. One of these, the Quarry fold nappe, contains sections through a distinctive...Koeris Formation that was mapped in detail in the Quarry fold nappe, is 220m thick and is interpreted to...are represented by crystallographically zoned cordierite and anthophyllite in rocks of appropriate composition...attention will be focused on one of the nappes, the Quarry fold nappe (Figure 2), where the stratigraphy is...of the metavolcanic succession revealed in the Quarry fold nappe (correlated with the Koeris Formation
Catalog/List
matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0 ) SiO...matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te...pure dark brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins...matrix.(some + Micros! Monument 1 Mine, Navajo County,Arizona,USA) lxl.£3.50 1x2 £7.00 118 CONICHALCITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
837 development of garnet in, 649; West Pakistan, Basalt, Rdunion, anal., rhyodacite glass in, I52; with...granite, 847 5II Beryl, solubility of in magnesia-cordierite, 523; Antiphase structure in feldspars, I 3T...X-ray, d.t.a., infra-red spectra, nature of, 225 DE WYS (R. C.), Corrections to the system anorthit...GILLARD (J. L.), see ROUXHET(P. G.), 583 Gimi River, Jos, Nigeria, clinopyroxene, corundum, zircon, 579 GIRAUD...quartzites, amphibole, pyroxene, mica, 819 Glass, in basalt, Rdunion, anal., I52, 344; in absarokite and shoshonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Baryte, Masson Hill, Derbyshire, paragenesis, 8I t Basalt, Lorne Plateau, Scotland, anal., petr., relations...COs-metamorphism of lavas, ankerite, chalybite, I 19 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite...dehydration of datolite, X-ray, structure, I58 Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...chromepicotite, 326 Carbon-dioxide metasomatism of basalt, Scotland, II9 Carr Boyd Rock, Western Australia...4o~ Celadonite, Western Deccan, India, 65o Cerro de Pasco, Peru, rhomboclase, 6 ~o CESBRON (F.), The
 
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