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Prehnite from
Orrock Quarry, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Comments:Fissure infilling in basalt quarry. Generally micromount size.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Orrock Quarry, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:39593
Long-form Identifier:1:3:39593:5
GUID (UUID V4):717c2bd0-e429-47c7-b272-e245f71f90f0
Nearest other occurrences of Prehnite
14.6km (9.1 miles) Corstorphine Hill, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15.4km (9.6 miles) Calton Hill tunnel, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15.6km (9.7 miles) Castle Rock, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16.3km (10.1 miles) Salisbury Crags, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
16.8km (10.4 miles) Arthur's Seat, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
23.5km (14.6 miles) Glenfarg, Ochil Hills, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
64.7km (40.2 miles) Campsie Fells, Stirling, Scotland, UK
76.4km (47.5 miles) Old Kilpatrick, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
77.9km (48.4 miles) Boyleston Quarry, Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
80.3km (49.9 miles) Bishopton tunnel, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
NJ Elton, St Austell, u.K. NJ Fortey, Keyworth, UK RA. Howie, Matlock, U.K. RJ. King, Tewkesbury, u...orthoclase & chlosite. Mag. = x 8.5. Reilly quarry, Renfrewshire. 1998 Kemp Meikle. Journal of the...Sclaigneaux, Belgium (De Nul, 1999). Several sites in the UK have yielded a wide range of interesting minerals...(1997). Symplesite from Sand beds Gill Mine, Cumbria. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals, no. 18, 17 Journal...MINERALOGY OF THE CLYDE PLATEAU LAVAS, SCOTLAND PART 4. REILLY QUARRY The late T. Kemp MEIKLE 13 Tassie Place
Journal (issue)
UK TS 2 EDITORIAL 2 BUXTON COVER:A superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate...Piddcollection. MUSEUM Ros Westwood 6 MINERAL NEWS 11 The UK ]011mal ef Mines a11dMinerals publishes articles...Fisher 29 ADVERTISING Peter J. Briscoe MINERALS OF FIFE Stephen Moreton 36 CIRCULATION, SALES & FINANCE...UKJounul of Mines & Mincr:ils No '7 -l- EDITORIAL he UK]oumal efMi11es& Mi11eralsis now in its twenty second...which at least eight have makers or retailers marks. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 27 -2- Frontispiece
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the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...HEMIMORPHITE 37 THOMSONITE 38 ANALCITE 39 CALEOONITE 40 PREHNITE 41 STILBITE 42 THOMSONITE 43 CALCITE 4-4 THOMSONITE...Qulralng Orrock quany Touch HIiis Touch Hills Port Glasgow Loanhead quany WoolGill Loanhead quarry TallskerBay...Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS...KlrlScotland Scotland Beith.Scotland Leadhllls,ScoU. Beith.Scotland
Journal (issue)
IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof Mines and Minerals publishes articles...subscriptions and advertising. TWENTY YEARS IN MINERAL SCOTLAND David Green • Gordon Todd 28 EDITOR David I...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
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MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
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Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo...(see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite was found in numerous
Book (edition)
JAL, Mexico; Loch Duich, near Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland; Sacaramb, Baita, and Botes, Romania; Savodinski...an accessory mineral in serpentinite. Cedar Hill quarry, Lancaster Co., PA; Josephine Co., OR; White Creek...Goodnews Bay, AK; Unst Driekop mine, Transvaal, Scotland; Birbir R., Ethiopia; Onverwacht mine and 64:654(1979);...Lynn Lake, MB, Canada; Talnotry mine, Dumfries, Scotland; Vuonos, Miihkali, Hietajarvi, and Outokumpu deposits...in meteorites and lunar rocks. Howard Montgomery quarry, Howard Co., MD; Mackinaw mine, Snohomish Co.,
Report (volume)
series FELSIC ROCKS Diagenesis to zeolite facies Prehnite-pumpellyite to greenschist facies Felsic volcanic...Hall et al. (1976) on lizardite 67, from Scotland. Islands, Shetland Wicks and Whittaker (1975)...serpentinites from the Highland Border Fracture Zone in Scotland, There is a good correlation between the extent...Harmon (1983), localities Burn, Scotland taken are: Scotland (I) from: Peacock Baie (CB), Trinity...Highland Border Suite, Cosmochim. Acta 47, 153-167. Scotland, Geochim. U.K. des Die Rollchen-struktur G. (1954a)
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COLLECTORS ..__.. 1 ·NO·ONE IS ALLOWED IN THIS QUARRY TO COLLECT MINERALS • TRESPASSERS .WILL BE PROSECUTED...PROSECUTED BY ORDER OGDEN· ROADSTONE Heights Quarry, 1980. Photo courtesy Max Freier. Why is material...curator of an understanding of the market. 2 The recent UK government ratification of the 1971 UNESCO convention...natural resource and the management of a mine or quarry was obliged to notify the Soviet Ministry of Geology...efforts of someone like Stan Wood whose work in Scotland is justly acknowledged and rewarded (Crowther
 
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