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Xonotlite from
Yauco, Puerto Rico, USA


Locality type:Municipality
Classification
Species:Xonotlite
Formula:Ca6(Si6O17)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Xonotlite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yauco, Puerto Rico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:171825
Long-form Identifier:1:3:171825:6
GUID (UUID V4):35422b83-238d-4094-951d-6415de91403a
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National Museum. A XONOTLITE OCCURRENCEIN PUERTORICO1 Crrrlorp A. Kavn2 Xonotlite, a relatively rare...CarSisOe(OH)z (Berman, 1937,p.391), has been found in Puerto Rico in an unusual contact associationwith serpentineand...the writer. The xonotlite was discovered in the walls of a tunnel connecting the Rio Yauco and the Rio Loco...of Yauco, Puerto Rico. This tunnel is part of the Southwestern Puerto Rico Project of the Puerto Rico...Rico Water ResourcesAuthority. The xonotlite occurs approximately 2,000 feet from the outlet portal of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National Museum. A XONOTLITE OCCURRENCEIN PUERTORICO1 Crrrlorp A. Kavn2 Xonotlite, a relatively rare...CarSisOe(OH)z (Berman, 1937,p.391), has been found in Puerto Rico in an unusual contact associationwith serpentineand...the writer. The xonotlite was discovered in the walls of a tunnel connecting the Rio Yauco and the Rio Loco...of Yauco, Puerto Rico. This tunnel is part of the Southwestern Puerto Rico Project of the Puerto Rico...Rico Water ResourcesAuthority. The xonotlite occurs approximately 2,000 feet from the outlet portal of the
Report (issue)
Xonotlite Ca6 Si6 O17 (OH)2 ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...localities. At Tetela de Xonotla, Puebla, Mexico. In the USA, at Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia; from Franklin...Bay of Islands, Newfoundland. Found near Yauco, Puerto Rico. At Arsiero, Vicenza, Italy. From Scawt Hill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
einfacher Adernparagenesen ausgeschieden. Summary Xonotlite and Pectolite /rom Basic Rocks o/the JPeridotite-Gabbro-Complex...veins composed of the rare minerals xonotlite and pectolite. Xonotlite is in its outer appearance similar...u c o und Rio Loco, unweit yon der Stadt Yauco in Puerto Rico, festgestellt._ Xonotlit und Pektolith...Elementen des Pektolithes yon Paterson, New Jersey, USA, lassen sich fiir diese Koordinaten folgende Gr6Ben...Barid: sic fiir natiirliche oder kiinstliche Xonotlite und fiir den Pektolith you Lazarev (1968), PIosnina
Report (issue)
V' r LIST OF REFERENCES on the GEOLOGY OF PUERTO RICO 1866-1967 / / 220799 f* - ;r -v - F/ L tf...Bautista de Puerto-RLco. 508 p*, nueva edicion por Jose Julian de Acosta y Calbo, Puerto Rico, libreria...mineral : types and related soil properties in Puerto Rico:! Soil Science, v. 75, no. 6, p. £11-420, ilius...gamma-spectrometry of serpentinite cores from. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico! Nat. Beai.C8an. Pub. 1188, p. 145-148, tables...A. An extinct octodont from the island of Porto Rico, West Indiess New York Acad. Sci. Annals, v. 27
Journal (issue)
Hamburg: ♦ Harvard Mineralogical Museum, Boston (USA) Erstmals werden in Europa in dieser Schau einmalige...Privatsammler. • Die Topase aus dem Topaz-Valley, Utah (USA) John Holfert, erfolgreicher Topas-Schürfer aus dem...und führte auch zahlreiche bekannte Namen aus den USA auf. Inzwischen ist die norwegische Polizei dabei...den USA Ermittlungen durchzufüh- ren; die Behörden in Norwegen vermuten, daß allein in den USA für mindestens...Teilnahme des legendären Harvard-Museums aus Boston/USA an der „mineralien '99" in Hamburg (3.-5. Dezember}
Report (volume)
Humacao district, Porto Rico: New York Acad. Sci., Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands... 1924. 687. Magnetite deposits of eastern Porto Rico (with discussion by S. Harbert Hamilton and A. K...Lares district, Porto Rico: New York Acad. Sci., Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands... Esper S. 1329. The identity of eakleite and xonotlite: Am. Mineralogist, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 181-182...1393. The physiography of Porto Rico: Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, vol. 1,
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states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual prospectors...suitable for pencils comes from Sonora, Mexico. In the USA a major locality is at Ticonderoga, New York State...Czechoslovakia; Chile and Borneo. Occurs in the USA in California, and in Canada at South Ham, Quebec
Report (volume)
Caribbean Science, University of Puerto Rico. Mayagi.iez, Puerto Rico. Carnegie lost. Washington Year...Entomological Club. Puerto Rico Water Resources Authority Water-Resources Bull. - Puerto Rico Water Resources...Authority, Water-Resources Bulletin. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Purdue Univ. Water Resources Research Center...Sedimentation and tectonism in the Upper Cretaceous Puerto Rican portion of the Caribbean Island Arc, in Geology...Upper Cretaceous Mayagiiez Group, southwestern Puerto Rico, in Caribbean Geol. Conf., 4th, Port-of-Spain
Book (edition)
always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Box Elder co., Utah, and at the Iron Clad mine, Rico dist., Dolores co., Colorado. As crusts with marcasite...Palermo No.l mine, at the Nancy No. 2 mine, and in the Rico quarry, all Grafton co., New Hampshire, at the Nickel...infiltration deposits in the Colorado Plateau, both the USA. In massive sulfide stratiforrn deposits at Sulitjelma...sedimentary U-V ore deposits in the Colorado Plateau, USA. USGSB 1064, 160-170, 1958. Ave11turineâž” a variety
Report (volume)
Swartz, F. M., 8. Islands: Earth, T. F. W., 5. Puerto Rico, dolomitic: Cadilla, Averages, chemical trend:...ASBESTOS Continued Occurrence, exploration: Conn, Xonotlite, crystal chemistry: Kalousek, G. L., 2. H. M....G. L., 1. Price, W. A., 11. Gravity survey, Puerto Rico to Sandy flatlands, erosion cycle: Connecticut:... marine: Shepard, son, J. W., 6. F. P., 33. Puerto Rico: Guillou, R. B., 2; Western, sedimentary structures:...ground water: Newport, e Historia. T. G., 2. Puerto Rico: Inst. Panam. GeoNew Brunswick, Carboniferous:
Report (volume)
). Mineral characteristics of some soils of Puerto Rico: Soil Sci. Soc. America Proc., ·v. 16, no. 3... no. 8, p. 881, Aug. 1952. 2. A xonotlite occurrence in Puerto Rico: Am. Mineralogist, v. 38, nos. 9-10...C. 1. Tertiary boulders in the Cretaceous of Puerto Rico: Science, v. 116, no. 3016, p. 418-420, illus...John J. The silting of Caonillas Reservoir, Puerto· Rico: U. S. Soil Conserv. Service, TP-119, 22 p....preliminar en Cuba, Haiti, Republic Dominicana y Puerto Rico, Torno 3 of Los estudios sobre los recursos naturales
Report (volume)
Bismarck, N. Dak. Geology Olub Puerto Rico Bull. Geology Club of Puerto Rico Bulletin. San Juan. Geonotes...Cerdmicas. Mexico, D.F. Puerto Rico Dept. Indus. Research Bull. Puerto Rico Department of Industrial...Bulletin. Hato Rey, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico Univ., Agr. Expt. Sta. Tech. Paper Puerto Rico University, Agricultural...Experiment Station Technical Paper. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Purdue Univ., Agr. Expt. Sta. Jour. Paper; Eng...genesis of the Mississippi Valley type deposits, USA: Experientia, v. 14, fasc. 7, p. 235-^237, Basel
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care. When available good specimens come from the USA, Scotland and Italy. Periclase. This magnesium oxide...lapidary quality are Sardinia, Greece, Spain and the USA, although the best material comes from Tsumeb in...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual prospectors
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care. When available good specimens come from the USA, Scotland and Italy. Periclase. This magnesium oxide...lapidary quality are Sardinia, Greece, Spain and the USA, although the best material comes from Tsumeb in...Broken Hill, New South In Mexico. Keweenaw, the USA silver in Michigan, Czechoslovakia; Wales; Chanarcillo... area Mexico. In the in abundance of north USA in the Michigan; the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual prospectors
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inesite spheres associated with thaumasite and xonotlite were marketed in the early 1990s (1992: 277),...vein, Cerro Rico de Potosi, Potosi Department. Silver mining in the hill called Cerro Rico, near the town...and northwest of the village of Miraflores, at Puerto de Morcuera, very sharp, mostly Baveno-twinned...in the early 1960s in the Unificada mine, Cerro Rico de Potosf, Bolivia, with runners-up (very rare)...communication, 2011). Unificada [Pailaviri] mine, Cerro Rico de Potosf, Potosf Department. Outside of this famous
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North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...6.1-6.3. R = 25.0 (540 nm); weakly anisotropic. Rico, Dolores Co., CO; Vipont mine, Box Elder Co., UT;...Gray, metallic luster. H = 2. G,y, = 4.87. Cerro Rico de Potosi, and Maria Teresa mine, near Huari, Bolivia;...Chester Co., PA; Amex mine, Boss, MO; Butte, MT; Rico and Leadville, CO; Park City and Bingham, UT; Holland...anisotro s, CO; Tonopah, mineral. Leadville, Ouray, Rico(*), and other localitie Arizpe, SON, mine(*), Goldfield
Book (edition)
OCCURRENCE: Occurs as a coating on pyrite crystals at Rico, Dolores County, and niccolite and pyrite at the... associated with clinohedrite, ganophyllite, xonotlite, prehnite, roeblingite, and other minerals. SELECTED...kinoite, apophyllite, smectite, calcite, and xonotlite in the retrogressively altered tactite zone, Christmas...Min., 61:1-4 (1976). JURUPAITE = Magnesian xonotlite Habit of a well-formed jurbanite McLean, Am...Japan, associated with bultfonteinte, scawtite, xonotlite, and calcite. SELECTED REFERENCE: Kusachi, I.
Book (edition)
OCCURRENCE: Occurs as a coating on pyrite crystals at Rico, Dolores County, and niccolite and pyrite at the... associated with clinohedrite, ganophyllite, xonotlite, prehnite, roeblingite, and other minerals. SELECTED...kinoite, apophyllite, smectite, calcite, and xonotlite in the retrogressively altered tactite zone, Christmas...Japan, associated with bultfonteinte, scawtite, xonotlite, and calcite. SELECTED REFERENCE: Kusachi, I....Japan, associated with slawsonite, pectolite, xonotlite, grossular, hydrogrossular, and natrolite. SELECTED
Book (edition)
OCCURRENCE: Occurs as a coating on pyrite crystals at Rico , Dolores County, and with niccolite and pyrite...in the octahedrite iron meteorite Wichita County (USA). BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Fuchs, Louis H., Frondel..., v. II, p. 688-691, New York, Wiley, 1951. XONOTLITE (Jurupaite) Ca 3 Si 3 Os (OH)2 CRYSTAL SYSTEM:... Also at Tetela de Xonotla, Mexico; near Yauco, Puerto Rico; and elsewhere. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Winchell
 
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