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Okenite from
Scawt Hill, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Okenite
Formula:Ca10Si18O46 · 18H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Okenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Scawt Hill, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:207108
Long-form Identifier:1:3:207108:4
GUID (UUID V4):a4a40aa5-f016-4c7c-ad86-cf858895ee2b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Progressive metasomatism in the flint nodules of the Scawt Hill contact-zone. (With Plate XXI.) By C. E. TILLEY...describing the chief assemblages of the Scawt Hill contact-zone in Co. Antrim brief reference was made to the...eolourless fibrous okenite, often associated with recrystallized quartz. The okenite has the optical properties...009. These properties identify the mineral with okenite. Nevertheless in some sections the refraction of...Material corresponding to this value is recorded for okenite by Lacroix. 2 Whether this variation is due to
Report (issue)
Okenite Ca5 Si9 O23 ² 9H2 O ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Triclinic...Streymoy, Faeroe Islands. At Scawt Hill, near Larne, Co. Antrim, Ireland. On the Isle of Mull and on Morven...Crestmore, Riverside Co., California; in the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., Virginia; and at...at Skookumchuck Dam, near Bucoda, Thurston Co., Washington. In the Je®rey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada... 565. (2) Gard, J.A. and H.F.W. Taylor (1956) Okenite and nekoite (a new mineral). Mineral. Mag., 31
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Epidote Pyrrhotite Limonite Magnetite Scawtite Okenite? Vesuvianite, calcite and garnet are the commonest...index about 1.513which is tentatively referred to okenite. A distinctive variety of the rock is characterized...been recorded from the contact zone at Scawt Hill, Northern Ireland (5), which has some points of resemblanceto...spurrite-larnite-merwinite-gehlenite assemblage of Scawt HilI and what Tilley refers to as the more normal... Merwinite has been previously recorded from Scawt Hill (8)' Crestmore, California (9), and Velardefla
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silicates-centrallassite, crestmoreite, hillebrandite, okenite, and riversideite. A cross-sectionthrough the Commercial...second occurrence was noted at Scawt Hill, Larne County, Antrim, Ireland, by Tilley (1930), where afwillite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland (1858). These lists were published in the Reports...Somerset; 1 from Cheshire; 2 from Scotland; and 2 from Ireland). Geographical distribution of the minerals: of...England (75 of which are from Cornwall); 28 from Ireland; and 10 from Wales. (The remaining 12 minerals...(48 from Cornwall); 35 from Scotland; 19 from Ireland; and 7 from Wales. The remaining 5 are simply British...example, for SW England, Pennines and northern England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc. When this has been
Book
(Cotype) BM 1979,00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R...Apachite (Cotype) BM 1980, 00532 Christmas Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA F.P. Cesbron & S.A. Williams (1980)...BM 86511 Borax Consolidated mines, San Bernardino Co., California, U.S.A. W.B. Giles (1903) Min. Mag....Bannisterite (Cotype) BM 1967,00321 Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA M.L. Smith & C. Frondel (1968)...(Cotype) BM 1912,00615 Hom Silver mine, Frisco, Beaver Co., Utah, USA B.S. Butler & W.T. Schaller (1911) J
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
seen, together with the carbon dioxide depletion. C CO 0 TABLE I. Composition of gases extracted from...C H O 3.14 63.6I 33.25 ! 6.o2 42.89 4 I.o8 H20 CO 2 H=O H FIG. 2. C, H, O plot for gases extracted...VOL. 43, PP. 6 7 7 - 9 Thermal decomposition of okenite from India AMIDST a wide variety of fibrous zeolites...flows referable to the Deccan Traps of India, okenite is widespread in all the three zeolite zones, namely...(Greenland), Crestmore (California), Scawt Hill (Northern Ireland), literature relating to the dehydration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOL. 43, PP. 6 7 7 - 9 Thermal decomposition of okenite from India AMIDST a wide variety of fibrous zeolites...flows referable to the Deccan Traps of India, okenite is widespread in all the three zeolite zones, namely...(Greenland), Crestmore (California), Scawt Hill (Northern Ireland), literature relating to the dehydration...dehydration and thermal decomposition of okenite is lacking. The present study was undertaken on Indian material...DTG, and T G curves are simultaneously recorded. Okenite commonly occurs as delicate fibres aggregating
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
18H2O:the first exampleof a chain and sheetsilicate Okenite, CaroSirsO46 SrepeNo MBnr-rNo Istituto di Mineralogia...with triclinic space The crystal structure of okenite, CaroSirsO+o'l8H2O, g r o u p P la : 9 . 6 9 ,...unconventional spacegroup Cl. Introduction ized as okenite on the basis of its chemical composition and optical...optical properties, and demonstrated that it was in Okenite, a hydrated calcium silicate, has long been of...the role of water moleculesin the structure of okenite, the definition crystal structure of nekoite was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Okenite and nekoite (a new mineral). ( W i t h P l a t e I.) B y J. A. GARD, B.Sc., a n d II. F. W. TAYL(m...[Read 9 June, 1955.] Summary.--The unit cell of okenite (CaO.2SiO~.2H~O) has been determined for a specimen...California, which Eakle (1917) had described as okenite, was also examined. It was found to be a new species...species, having the same composition as okenite but distinguishable from it by its optical properties...okenitc, the name ~ekoite is suggested. PART I. OKENITE. KENI]~L (CaO.2Sl()2.2]t.,O) was discovered on
Book
Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George SeYastopulo...Peter Rowe OTHER TITLES OF RELATED I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es on n:iwra...& Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI 'Jo ~6...stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive, and that what was really...personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted me to record their unpublished
Report (issue)
irregular veins in silicified serpentine at Venice Hill and near Porterville, Rice (p.c. '55). *GERSTLEYITE...gelatinization gives off water in closed tube. form of okenite, with essentially the same composition, but with...determined by Eakle and Rogers (13) p. 266 as okenite, has been shown by Gard and Taylor (1) to be a...does not match that of plombierite from Scawt Hill, Ireland, which does physically agree well with the...quartz crystals are found near the town of Mokelumne Hill, off the road to Glencoe, as clear crystals, individuallv
Report (issue)
Anchor Chemical Co. Ltd.; Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd.; Avon India Rubber Co. Ltd.; Bergbau-Handel...Bergbau-Handel, E. Germany; Bowater Research and Development Co. Ltd.; British Paints Ltd.; British Drug Houses,...Dorking Minerals Co. Ltd; Durham Raw Materials, Ltd.; English Clays Lovering Pochin and Co. Ltd.; Evans Electroselenium...Electroselenium Ltd.; Evers and Co., Sweden; General Electric Co. Ltd.; General Minerals Corporation...Corporation, U.S.A.; Goodlass Wall and Co. Ltd.; Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain) Ltd.; 0. Hommel Company
Book
European countries are included: En¬ gland, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France...A/drin, Jr. (second man on the Moon), and Michael Co/lins (who did not actually land). armstrongite, Neil...Africa. garronite, Garron plateau area of Antrim, Ireland. huanghoite, Huang Ho River in China. ikaite... in the Caribbean Sea. scawtite, Scawt Hill, County Antrim, Ireland. vesuvianite, Mount Vesuvius, Italy...unique mineral name in that it was derived from okenite, a species named for Lorenz Oken, by reversing
Book
the Black Cat imprint Little, Brown and Company (UK) Limited Brettenham House Lancaster Place London...Freiberg, E. Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and...Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro...closely related to mohawkite, which contains Ni and Co. It is a member of the cubic crystal system; reniform...Colombia, near the river Pinto. It occurs in the Broken Hill area of New South Wales and in New Zealand and the
Book
pink-purple, reddish-brown. Green River Formation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA. H= < 3, Dj4j= 1.4, Dc= 1.45, IXD 01...Vitreous yellow. Fuemrole mine, Temple Mt., Emery Co., Utah, USA. H= 2-3, Djjj=?, D(.= 3.572, VIID 20b...yellowish-green, bluish-green. Red Cloud Fluorite mine, Lincoln Co., New Mexico, USA. H=?, Din=?, Dc=?, VllD 17. Fehr...greyish, greenish-white. Kipawa River, Timiskaming Co., Quebec, Canada. H= 5.5, Djjj= 2.902, D(,= 2.887...Translucent bluish-green. New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona, USA. H=?, Dj44= 2.96, D(;= 2.951, VIIIF
Book (edition)
never ably less The present eighth edition, with five co-authors and a consider years in many been has System...Geophysics, and Brian J. Skinner, also at Yale, was a co-author. We are grateful and wish to publically acknowledge...England. Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of...Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon Thompson: R. T. Vanderbilt Co., Norwalk, Connecticut. Kenneth M. Towe: Dept. of...M. J. Buerger (1958), The Powder Method, McGraw Hill, New York. (B) Bunn, C. W. (1961), Chemical Crystallography
Book
of anions and anionic groups upon introduced by Hill (1748), and was followed by the which modern chemical... (1801): Traité de Minéralogie. Paris, France. HILL, J. (1748): History of Fossils. London, U.K. LEVINSON...Appendix, pp. 14961505. American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc. and Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts...(1869). Friedel, C. (1866): CR. Acad. Sci. 62, 692. Hill, RJ. (1976): Am. Mineral. 61, 979. Adelite Aerugite...Named after its discovery locality, at Brownley Hill mine, Alloclasite Alston, Cumberland, England
Book (edition)
environment during growth may determine the habit. Co/or-Luster: Many , if not n1ost mineral species are...Memoir 122. "Clay Mineralogy," by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). "Crystal Data: Determinative Tables," Third...foremost, Jean Roberts deserves the equivalent of co-authorship for her almost daily contribution to the...Harry Schwartzmann- Pres. of the National Instrument Co. of Mamaroneck-without his engineering, imaginativeness...help and advice. Andrew Azan-Pres., Aristo Grid Lamp Co.; pioneer in the development of the cold cathode
Book
Molybdenum Al Sb Ar As Ba Be Bi B Br Cd Cs Ca C Ce Cl Cr Co Cu Dy Er Eu F Gd Ga Ge Au Hf He Ho H In 1 Ir Fe Kr...of how Zr V Fe Cs (NO. ) (S03) (P03) (Se03) (As03) Co Cu W elements combine: that atoms link by swapping...signi¬ ficant deposits of nitrate minerals are in northern Chile, where the principal mineral is nitratine...Freiberg, E. Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and...Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone at Corocoro
Book (edition)
photograph their specimens for this book. Front co,·er photos: Turquoise, polished. 55 mm, ZhiJandy...Rhodocbrosite, polished, 50 mm, Capillitas, Argentina, H Back cO\·erphoto: Wolframite. 45 mm. Yaogangxian, China,...crystal optics for reflected light, valid for opaque Co/or, transparenCJ', luster,streak minerals, the general...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada,
Book (edition)
of Canada. Clay Mineralogy, by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968). Crystal Chemical Classification of Minerals...bo6 >hopeaeeaas4 “F ay Ga» aif < HU Bly CMH FAA Oi CO 7. ered FE> & 19S af eda 6 hat Neteny Wang...Tsumeb; Namibia; Chanarcillo, Chile; and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various...mine, Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah; in Inyo, San Bernardino...864-866, New 4 ADELITE GROUP York, Wiley, 1951. Hill, R. J., Am. Min., 61:979-986 (1976). ADELITE GROUP
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the a simplest but has from 46 to 50 neutrons. | co jur Chlorine complications introduced by the occurrence...Na K Ca Sr Ba Fe Rb Cs Ni Ag (OH) (NO;) Cu Co Mn 3- 4-— oO $ N R c (SiO.4) Se Te: As Sb...though dolomite, CaMg(CO;),, is equally important locally. As you may remember, the CO; group is triangular...Okehampton mAs \ Oley oe J / co ee Si NV 7 I} TOs mfs ( i (Co 7 Torquay) Start Geological maps...significant deposits of nitrate minerals are in northern Chile, where the principal mineral is nitratine
Book (edition)
chemical-environment during growth may determine the habit. Co/or-Luster: Many, if not most mineral species are...Tsumeb; Namibia; Chaiiarcillo, Chile; and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. It also occurs at various...mine, Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah; in Inyo, San Bernardino...864-866, Nev.r 4 ADELITE GROUP York, Wiley, 1951. Hill, R. J., Am. Min., 61:979- 986 (1976). ADELITE GROUP...Rontongranite, Switzerland; and several localities in northern Italy. SELECTED REFERENCE: Peishan, Z., and Kejie
Book (edition)
by the metal produced by the National mine in northern Nevada which contained very nearly equal parts...more than half of the sphere, and the upper (or “northern”) hemisphere is com¬ monly employed. The chief...considered 100 is the sum of the atoms of Cu, Fe, Co, and Mn. A tetrahedron is necessary to illustrate...Hough¬ ton, Michigan; it is also found at Broken Hill, New South Wales; Coroeoro, Bolivia; Phys. Char...Native iron commonly contains 2-7% Ni with minor Co, Cu, C, S, etc. Comp. Struc.5 Space group Im3m;
 
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