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Fergusonite from
White Cloud pegmatite, South Platte Pegmatite Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Pegmatite
Classification
Species:'Fergusonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fergusonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view White Cloud pegmatite, South Platte Pegmatite Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:355535
Long-form Identifier:1:3:355535:4
GUID (UUID V4):302a0aa2-8973-48cc-9104-d013dfdaa52e
Nearest other occurrences of Fergusonite
4.9km (3.0 miles) Little Patsy pegmatite, South Platte Pegmatite Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
12.6km (7.8 miles) Butterfield pegmatites, South Platte Pegmatite Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
22.5km (14.0 miles) Long Hollow, Devils Head Pegmatite Mining District, Douglas County, Colorado, USA
37.1km (23.1 miles) Snowflake Feldspar Mine, Teller County, Colorado, USA
50.9km (31.7 miles) Black Cloud Mine, Teller County, Colorado, USA
72.9km (45.3 miles) Stove Mountain Mineral Locality (Cook Stove Mountain Mineral Locality), Cheyenne Mining District (St. Peters Dome Mining District), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
75.6km (47.0 miles) Cheyenne Mining District (St. Peters Dome Mining District), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
75.6km (47.0 miles) St Peters Dome, Cheyenne Mining District (St. Peters Dome Mining District), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
looking northwest acro88 the cliff’s of Glen Cove to South Park and the Tarryall Mountains. Researchers have...northeasterly-trending continentul Figure 2. Geologic map of the Colorado Front Range showing the Precambrian metamorphic...1978; Karistrom 1978; Lanthier 1978). Farther south in Colorado, sediments accumulated in decper-water rocks...Survey into “Early, Middle, and Late” Eras. In Colorado we because of the subsequent folding and overthrusting...subduction zone and possibly the creation Era in Colorado and Wyoming of a volcanic island arc. Carpenter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chemistry, and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Department of Geological Sciences...Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Inst. für Geochemie und Petrologie, ETH Zürich...Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA Yakima, Washington 98908, USA [Received...Okanogan County, Washington State, USA, in comparison with new analyses from the White Cloud pegmatite in the...the Pikes Peak batholith, Colorado, USA. The Golden Horn thalénite-(Y) occurs as late-stage sub-millimetre
Report (chapter)
the LIBRARY South Platte District, Colorado · by Wm. B. Simmons and E. Wm. Heinrich Colorado Geological...Denver, Colorado I 1980 Front cover: Wide Angle photograph of the Oregon No. 2~ pegmatite, South Platte...Platte pegmatite district, Colorado. This striking example graphically illustrates the exceptionally welldeveloped...structural zonation of the pegmatites of this district. A fifty foot high column (40 feet across at the...the bottom of the pit. The quartz core of the pegmatite was left standing in relief as the enveloping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COMPROMISEGROWTHSURFACESON PEGMATITE MINERALS VeNcB Havr.rns American Institute of Research,Gold.en,Colorado. Many crystals...crystals of pegmatite minerals display growth surfaces that form polygonal, step-sidedpyramids. These are...the anomalous pyramidal forms observedon some pegmatite minerals are compromisesurfaces.The steps observedon...changestook place. Both types are observedon some pegmatite minerals.rt is suggestedthat the presenceof steps...are the result of thermal convectionwithin the pegmatite chamber during crystallization. Thus a crystal
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 July 2015 PICK&PACK Vol 55 ...... Number 6 Inside...Jacobson Topic: Pegmatitic Rare-earth Minerals of Colorado: Species and Identification Refreshments provided...Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter. Mark has collected rare earth minerals in Colorado, Texas, Wyoming...Minerals of Colorado: Species and Identification Most of the pegmatitic rare-earth minerals in Colorado are found...found in the South Platte district, Jefferson County; St. Peters Dome district, El Paso County, Trout Creek
Report (issue)
379(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kingman, Arizona, USA. 3.104 (vs), 2.808 (m+), 5.52 (m), 3.79 (m), 3.276...pegmatites. Association: microcline. Fluocerite, fergusonite, gadolinite, zircon, magnetite, allanite, °uorite...rÄo nmaa pegmatite, Kangasala, Finland. From the Keivy massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. In the USA, in the...the Baringer Hill pegmatite, 26 km west of Burnet, Llano Co., Texas; in the Snow°ake feldspar mine, Teller...Teller Co., and the White Cloud pegmatite, South Platte district, Je®erson Co., Colorado; and on the Guy
Report (volume)
Fenghuanglite - - - Thorian britholite - - - - - Fergusonite - - - - (Y, Er, Ce, Fe) (Nb, Ta, Ti)0 4 - Calcian...mosandrite- May be mosandrite- - - - - - - = fergusonite - - Ca2Ce3 (C03)s F3- - - - - - near (Y, Fe...Museum Recs.-Albany Museum, Records. Grahamstown, South Africa. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Proc.-American... Washington, D.C. Am. Inst. Mining Engineers Trans. See Am. Inst. Mining Metal!. Petroleum Engineers...Engineers Trans. Am. Inst. Mining Metall. Engineers Trans. See Am. Inst. Mining Metall. Petroleum Engineers Trans
Report (volume)
Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...Branch of Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, 1200 South Eads Street, Arlington, VA 22202 CONTENTS Page...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Report (issue)
are gagarinite, yttrofluorite, xenotime, and fergusonite. All are yttrium-group, rare-earth minerals....Birak in Saudi Arabia; the USSR; Norway; and the USA. At Jabal Tawlah, niobium and, to a much lesser extent... have been found in columbite-tantalite and fergusonite. Zirconium occurs in zircon, which is the most... The other rare-earth minerals xenotime and fergusonite were analysed for yttrium. Xenotime contained...contained from 36 to 41 percent yttrium, and fergusonite contained 18 percent. The niobium content of columbite-tantalite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
re-investigation of type material from the Österby pegmatite, Dalarna, Sweden, and from additional localities...ABSTRACT Using type material from the Österby pegmatite in Dalarna, Sweden, the chemical composition and...in Sweden; White Cloud and Snow Flake in Colorado, USA; the Guy Hazel claim in Arizona, USA; Suishoyama...a granitic pegmatite quarry at Österby, Dalarna, in the Bergslagen ore province of south central Sweden...the sense of Černý (1991)] type: the Åskagen pegmatite quarry, Sweden (Sjögren, 1906; Kristiansen, 1993;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Moldanubian Zone occurring between Třebíč and Vladislav south of the Třebíč fault. Primary magmatic Be-minerals...Be-minerals crystallized mainly in massive pegmatite (paragenetic type I) including common beryl I, helvite-danalite...primary magmatic Be-minerals within a single pegmatite district is exceptional and it is constrained by variable...Novák and Filip 2010). Mixed NYF–LCT Li-bearing pegmatite of Kracovice contains primary hambergite and secondary...granitic pegmatites were discussed. durbachite pegmatite-rich areas KRA Be-rich pegmatites N Drosendorf
Book (edition)
with all The color of most opaque minerals is white or gray in possible intermediate gradations. Luster...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...localities of magmatic origin (in the sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa
Book (edition)
mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs 45 new crystal drawings of rare species...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right...Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For Reference Not to...Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD New York ...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada
Report (issue)
X-ray crystallography of wavellite from Jackson County, Wis., and their geologic implications, by Harry...from yttrofluorite in the White Cloud pegmatite, South Platte area, Colorado, by J. W. Adams and W. N...structural development at Elk Hills oil field, Kern County, Calif., by J. C. Maher, R. D. Carter, and R. J...of the Edna Mountain Formation in northern Elko County, Nev., by R. R. Coats and Mackenzie Gordon, Jr...Paleozoic oceanic crust in the Upper Chulitna district, west-central Alaska Range, by A. L. Clark, S
Book (edition)
mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs • 45 new crystal drawings of rare species...Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere nee Not to...Sagtiache Co1tntr Publlc I...ibran' Saguache, Colorado ~ VANNOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ - - - - N e w York...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, M. E...OCCURRENCE: Occurs in Colorado at the Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma
Report (volume)
Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay, R...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson...6. L. R. , 6. Mineralogy, chemical, problems: Pegmatite phosphates, problems: Fleischer, M., 6. Fisher..., 11. D. J. Rocky Mtn. geosyncline in Canada: Colorado Plateau: Wengerd, Warren; P. S., 4. S. A., 6.... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E
Book (edition)
B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado. John M. Hughes: Dept. of Geology, Miami University...Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D.C. Alan Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar...Louise Reif: U. S. G. S., Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado. Charles B. Sclar: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Lehigh...University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona. John S. White: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen... except where noted. Labels on the axes have a white background, and when axes point toward the observer
Journal (volume)
brief paper about findings of giant minerals in the South Urals. This journal is of interest for mineralogists...Notes Kolisnichenko S.V. Minerals-Giants of the South Urals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....1–6 cm in size; the color is grayish to yellow-white. Aegirine forms pris­matic, often deformed, black...parts of the laptevite-(Ce) crystals turned into a white porcellanous X-ray-amorphous substance, and the...borofluorosilicate from the Golden Horn batholith, Okanogan County, Washington // Amer. Mi­ neral. 1980. Vol. 65.
 
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