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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Ettringite
Formula:Ca6Al2(SO4)3(OH)12 · 26H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ettringite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Racoş (Racoşul de Jos), Brașov County, Romania
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:644807
Long-form Identifier:1:3:644807:3
GUID (UUID V4):3c432bad-9f3c-422e-a662-7539d10b45b7
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated minerals in the vacuoles of some of the Campo de Calatrava volcanoes - Ciudad Real, Spain Miguel Calvo... Given its hardness and tenacity, this compact basalt was used throughout the nineteenth century and...some of them illegal, from which 765,000 tons of basalt were quarried each year (González Cárdenas, 1991)...the formation of pyroclastic cones, which in Campo de Calatrava can reach up to 100 meters high, and also...material that in reality is not found in the Campo de Calatrava, for legal advantages (González Cárdenas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 76(5), pp. 1133–1152 The sulfite anion in ettringite-group minerals: a new mineral species hielscherite...Ca3Si(OH)6(SO4)(SO3)·11H2O, (IMA 2011-037) is the first ettringite-group mineral with essential sulfite. We have...endmember hielscherite have only been found at Graulay quarry near Hillesheim in the western Eifel Mountains...chabazite-Ca and gypsum in cavities in alkaline basalt. Sulfite-rich thaumasite has been found in hydrothermal...regions of Germany: it is widespread at Graulay quarry and occurs at Rother Kopf, Schellkopf and Bellerberg
Catalog/List
the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...numerous orange micro spots on Ix.I matrix Colle de! Pero Quany, Laghetto di Montecompatri , Rome Italy...12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE good...quartz. FLUORESCENT green short wave, (Shanagolden. County Limerick Ireland) I x2 inches £7 2x2 £12 46. SPODUMENE...8 mm on half inch matrix Inspiration mine, Gila County, Arizona 52. STURMANITE rich coverage of 2 mm brown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Ettringite N’Chwaning II Mine, Northern Cape Province Republic...various minerals that have natural counterparts; ettringite in fine needles is among the first of these minerals...cement gradually sets, hardens, and cures, the ettringite is gradually transformed into other calcium minerals...which reacts with gypsum and water to produce ettringite with another increase in volume. These reactions...of Portland cement, I was amazed to learn that ettringite, a mineral I have come to associate with aesthetic
Journal (issue)
yielded world-class specimens of rhodochrosite and ettringite, as well as the world’s finest examples of despujolsite...were found, some specimens with associations of ettringite, calcite and hausmannite; the average size of...from the Black Rock mine, Postmasburg, and shown by De Villiers (1980) to have a structure differing from... bright black crystals form groups with tiny ettringite and calcite crystals; most individual braunite...pale blue calcite forming the matrix for yellow ettringite crystals (Cairncross and Beukes, 2013). Late
Report (Issue volume)
Emeritus of Pomona College but was later found to be ettringite. In addition, 23 minerals are new to the California...5. Cyanotrichite (1957) 6. Digenite (1959) 7. Ettringite (1960) 8. Fluoborite (1958) 9. Guanajuatite (1958)...GEOLOGICAL SKETCHES CRESTMORE Crestmore, Riverside County, general reference Murdoch (38) ; Burnham (1)...MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES * ALLANITE Kern County: 1, Allanite is reported as a minor constituent...MacKevett (2) pp. 191, 197. ALLEGHANYITE Amador County: Alleghanyite occurs with tephroite and other
Journal (issue)
-it's as simpleas that- Alfredo Petrov and Frank de Wit info mineraldreams.com ' C/. Comte d'Urgell...Miguel Calvo, Univ. de Zaragoza I Carles Curto, Curator Museu de Ciencies Natura s de Barcelona I Guiomar...Zaragoza. Collaborators: Dr Joan Vinals, Universitat de Barcelona I Dr Dermot Henry, Museum of Victoria,...Dr Carles de la Fuente, Universitat de Barcelona I Dr Josep M. Mata, UPC. Escola de Mi. es de Manresa,...Fons Mineralogic de Catalunya, Barcelona I Dr Joan Soldevila, UniversitatAut6:1oma de Barcelona. Bellaterra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
member of the ettringite group of hydrated calcium sulfates that also include ettringite, [Ca6Al2(OH)1224...similarity of its crystal structure to that of ettringite (space group P31c), despite their different space...reported thaumasite as oriented overgrowths on ettringite and suggested a limited solid solution series...for the existence of a solid solution between ettringite and thaumasite, and explained a possible discontinuity...glass’. This stability is greater than that of ettringite, in which the crystal lattice collapse is commonly
Report (issue)
= 53.66(2) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Zeilberg quarry, Germany. 8.972 (100), 4.476 (70), 2.362 (40),...03 Total 100.45 100.00 34.73 (1) Zeilberg quarry, Germany; by electron microprobe, H2 O by TGA;...xenoliths in basalt, formed above 100 ◦ C by decomposition of ettringite. Association: Ettringite, afwillite...portlandite, apophyllite (Zeilberg quarry, Germany); hydrocalumite, ettringite, tobermorite, strätlingite–vertumnite...Germany). Distribution: In Germany, from the Zeilberg quarry, Maroldsweisach, Bavaria, and at the Bellerberg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Westerwald-Osteifel-Aussenstelle Mayen, Bahnhofstrasse 45, DE-56727 Mayen, Germany; Bernd.Ternes@dlr.rlp.de Swiss...in metacarbonate xenoliths in alkali basalt from the Caspar quarry, Bellerberg volcano, Eifel, Germany...widespread in the contact zone of xenolith with alkali basalt. Sharyginite is associated with fluorellestadite...basalts of the Bellerberg volcano lava field, Caspar quarry, Eastern Eifel region, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...mineral association of Ca-rich xenoliths in Klöch Basalt quarry, Bad Radkersburg, Styria, Austria [9]. This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crater, now covered by several hundred feet of basalt due to nearly a century of lava flows. Such collecting...diamond." Found throughout the islands imbedded in basalt or as single fragments to 1 cm, this iron magnesium...among the volcanic rocks is a specimen of pahoehoe basalt with an impression of a footprint in it. It is...Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah; pink beryl (morganite) from San Diego County, California; Minas Gerais...green crystals and slices of elbaite from San Diego County, California; Newry, Maine; and Haddam Neck, Connecticut;
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)
the tobermorite group – plombièrrite and 205 ettringite. Two other samples, sampled in 2013 from the...fluorapatite, calcite, tobermorite, afwilite, mineral of ettringite- 224 thaumasite series and magnesioferrite... AC C 239 EP 235 Minerals belonging the ettringite-thaumasite series are characterized by the mixed...major bands of thaumasite and minor bands of ettringite. It 241 shows typical bands from SiO4, Si(OH)6...Additionally, late 279 veins of afwillite with ettringite heal rock fractures (Fig. 6C and D). It seems
Report (issue)
Occurrence: In a metamorphosed limestone xenolith in basalt (Bellerberg volcano, Germany); within metamorphosed...gismondine, ettringite, hydrocalumite (Bellerberg volcano, Germany); tobermorite, ettringite, calcite,...km north of Mayen, Eifel district, Germany. In a quarry at Campomorto, Montalto di Castro, Lazio, Italy
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
January 1893. Downloaded on 25/10/2014 03:32:29. Ettringite from Tombstone, Arizona. By A. J. MOSES(Anzey...-The author has examined several specimeus of ettringite from the Lucky Cuss mine, Tombstone, Arizona...the blowpipe. It thus differs from Lehmann's ettringite i n that the latter occurs in acicular, hexagonal...18.54 HZO. 45.82 45-41 I, ettringite from Ettringcn ; 11, ettringite from Arizona. It may, therefore...-The mincral described was met with in the Adam Quarry, near Canaan, Connecticut, enclosed i n white crystalline
Report (issue)
Streak: White. Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Graulay quarry, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. 9.62 (100), 3.823...26.93 9.62 12.82 10.25 40.38 100.00 (1) Graulay quarry, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; average of 8 electron...Occurrence: In miarolitic cavities in alkaline basalt or also in xenoliths in volcanic glass. Association:...gypsum, gismondine. Distribution: From Graulay quarry near Hillesheim, western Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate...specialist in the mineralogy of the Zeilberg basalt quarry in Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Type Material:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Hentschel, 1961; Bentor et al., 1963; Gross, 1977). Ettringite [Ca6AldSO4)3(OH)12" 2 5 H 2 0 ] , thaumasite...of Israel (Bentor et al., 1963; Gross, 1977). Ettringite and thaumasite have been described as high-temperature...The sedi- 149 mentary rocks are overlain by basalt flows of Pleistocene age (Bender, 1974, p. 107)...the altered and brecciated mass have revealed ettringite, spurrite, thaumasite, calcite, portlandite,...basalts. Based on thinsection petrography, the basalt composition is typically 40--50% plagioclase 150
Journal (issue)
Rex Bannister (St. Louis, M o.) Carlos Barbosa (Rio de Janiero, Brazil) Leonard Bedale (Newport Beach, Calif...served as The first probings in the Lengenbach quarry BINNA VALLEY. cook while Leopold Jentsch was the...operations. 99% of the material) was carried out of the quarry in wooden The contract with the Englishmen encountered...it hindered the work in the deeper parts of the quarry. iron, not minerals. Only later, at the beginning...from and the English Professor R. H. Solly to the quarry almost Binn participated in the company including:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
determination of, 790; Amelia County, anal., 796 ALIAS (L. J.), see DE CASTRO(A. HoYos), 353 Almandine...hastingsite, 646; India, anal., opt., X-ray, 912 Basalt, JDerbyshire, petr., anal., mode, olivine nodules...Arthurite, 937 DAY (G.), see HARRISON (l~. K.), 517 DE CASTRO (A. Hoyos) & ALIAS (L. J.), Almeriite, 353...in unit-cell dimensions, calculation of, 809 Ettringite, crystal chemistry of, relation to thaumasite...amphiboles, 524 HA~IAD (S. el D.), Olivine nodules in basalt, 483 Gabbro, Rhum, hybridization & backveining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
secondary hillebrandite, afwillite, thaumasite, and ettringite. Hillebrandite is the major product of alteration...(CaZrO3), members of ellestadite series, afwillite, ettringite, katoite, and thaumasite are associated minerals... Paul (1906) described an unknown mineral from basalt in Shannon Tier, Tasmania, having calculated its...found in skarn among alkaline volcanic rocks in a quarry in Belleberger (Bellberg) near Ettringen, Eastern...afwillite, xonothlite, hydrkalymite, jeniite, ettringite, thaumasite, sturmanite, and böhmite appeared
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ca3Si(OH)6(SO4)2·12H2O, A NEW MEMBER OF THE ETTRINGITE GROUP FROM THE EIFEL AREA, GERMANY Nikita V....Avenue 71, Moscow, 127238 Russia Abstract The new ettringite-group mineral kottenheimite was found at Bellerberg...registration number 4102/1. Keywords: kottenheimite, ettringite group, thaumasite, new mineral, crystal structure...mineralogist Introduction Minerals belonging to the ettringite group represent a wide family of compounds in...Cruciani 2006). The archetype members of this group, ettringite Ca6Al2(OH)12(SO4)3·24H2O (Moore & Taylor 1970)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the axial bulk moduli which, by analogy with ettringite, can be rationalized as due to a change in the...of basalt and tuff (Knill and Young, 1960; Gross, 1977). Thaumasite is a member of the ettringite [C...thaumasite was revealed to form a solid solution with ettringite, by means of an ordering which leads to the halving...are lacking. Clark et al. (2008), in a study on ettringite, reported a reversible pressure-induced transition...highpressure data reported for the isomorphous ettringite (Clark et al., 2008; Speziale et al., 2008).
Book
Agricola who is considered the father of mineralogy. In De Re Metallica ("On Metals"), first printed in 1556...contributions of Nicholas Steno, Carangeot and Rome de I'Isle. In 1801, Abbe Rene-Just Haiiy discovered...Abbe Rene- Just Hauy. OPERA DI GIORGIO AGRICOLA DE LARTEDE MET ALL! Htrrr* ■ ■ xtL mat. ...orthoclase from Baveno. Bottom: view of active granite quarry near Baveno. Top: Panorama of iron mines near...” Striated prismatic crystals of stibnite from Romania. Wurtzite Formula ZnS System Hexagonal Habit A
 
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