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Forsterite from
"White rock" quarry, Krichim, Krichim Municipality, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view "White rock" quarry, Krichim, Krichim Municipality, Plovdiv Province, Bulgaria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1206715
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1206715:0
GUID (UUID V4):b9a4e5ba-61db-430b-b4cb-24e7c95e470d
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W., were seen at only one locality, namely on a rock surface south-west of Cnoc Druidean. Boulders of...minerals and rocks of Iona, more especially to the white marble and green serpentine at the south end, are...conspicuous band of white felspathic rock extending northwards from the Marble Quarry as a " shapeless mass"';...INTRUSIVE IGNEOUS ROCKS OF IONA. 167 of the Marble Quarry locality and noted the small exposure of limestone...(a) Lower or Basement Group. Pegmatites and " White Rock." Paragneisses and Associated Rocks. Ortho-gneisses
Report (issue)
from Johannes Menge who was appointed Mine and Quarry Agent to the South Australian Company in 1836....Ranges, the northern Flinders Ranges, and the Olary Province. This concentration within the areas of only five...Tony Turner. NORTHERN TERRITORY NORTH WEST PROVINCE RALIA CENTRAL NORTH fie Eyre \N roa WESTERN...STUART > Gy WALES. ea Lake Gairdner OLARY PROVINCE [5 [2 EYRE PENINSULA REE NEW RSE INGE PENINSULA...Basin North West Province_ __ __ North East Olary Province South East Stuart Shelf____ Western Region Yorke
Book
• • Properties: C silver-white, tarnishes gray to black: S - silver-white; L metallic; D - opaque; DE... Mercury Hg TRIGONAL • • Properties: C tin white; L metallic to adamantine; D opaque; DE - 13.6;...3 cubic • • Properties: C - silver-white; S - silver-white; L metallic; D - opaque; DE 13.5; H - 3...found in Moschcllandsberg, Properties: C gray-white, tarnishes to lead-gray and gets dull; S - lead-gray;...steel-gray to dark gray; S - steel-gray to silver-white; L - metallic; D opaque: DE - 21.5; H 4-4.5; CL
Book
••• Properties: C - silver-white, tarnishes gray to black; S - silver-white; L - metallic; D - opaque;... Mercury Hg TRIGONAL e e Properties: C - tin white; L - metallic to adamantine; D - opaque; DE - 13...C UBI C • e Properties: C - silver-white; S - silver-white; L metallic: D - opaque: DE - 13.5; H -...found in Moschellandsberg, Properties: C - gray-white, tarnishes to lead-gray and gets dull: S - lead-gray:...steel-gray to dark gray; S - steel-gray to silver-white; L - metallic; D - opaque; DE - 2 l.5; T-l 4-4.5;
Book
England, France, F.R.G·, G.D.R., Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria· The practical Importance of industrial minerals...Industrial raw materials (e.g., highly refractory forsterite or sillimanite, expanded perlite or vermiculite...magmatic origin (diamond, graphite, corundum, forsterite, apatite, eruptive rocks) form by crystallization...spaced pipes (Mitchell, Crocket, 1971). Diamond is a rock-forming accessory mineral of kimberlite (content...differentiation of ultrabasic magma· An olivine-bearing rock (dunite or peridotite) can also be brought up as
Journal (issue)
portrait of him at his microscope and wearing a white turtle-neck sweater) carried a text that was always...Zodac, jade expert Louis Zara, Doris Biggs, Francon quarry specialist Don Doell, mineral dealer Hugh Ford...CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA TOM SPANN PHOTO ■ ■ lN'flERNA]L...geology mapping exhibit with its rich collection of rock tyQes· the visitor-accessible first two levels off...Schemnitz. Figure 30. Sobov Hill and quartzite quarry, and the so-called nearby "Old Town," are among
Report (issue)
with all of the pocket walls covered by gleaming white calcite crystals to 10 cm long. The crystals are... ============================================================ quarry, from whence the veszelyite comes. The Yanga Koubenza...associated with blue aurichalcite, colorless calcite and white hemimorphite, all on brown, gossany matrix. Christos... Oumjrane mining area, Alnif Commune, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet region, Morocco (nobody can accuse...The specimens are parallel groups of corroded, white, tabular barite crystals, some of the crystals still
Journal (issue)
BARITE 13 cm, from Jebel Ouichane, Sagangane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection;...photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe...from Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo...from left: Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection;...the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The Carabas Collection; Joe Budd photo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
steel-grey mineral from the Sedmochislenitsi mine, Bulgaria, with tennantite, bornite, chalcopyrite, etc....isotropic mineral in a coating on a wollastonite rock from Carneal, Northern Ireland, are identical with... [Zap. 102, 425; 103, 356.] Brannoekite. J. S. White, Jr., J. E. Arem, J. A. Nelen, P. B. Leavens, and...R. Pierrot, and R. Stahl, i974. Bull. 96, 365. White cryptocrystalline crusts and powdery coatings on...15-352.] Creolite. A superfluous name for a red and white banded jasper from California. R. Webster, Gems
Book
from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous...ALSTONITE An occurrence of alstonite at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois (by G. R. Rossman & R. L. Squires) 5:266-269...from [Alto Bernardino, Paraiba,] Brazil (by J. S. White, Jr.) 12:379 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE Chromian alumohydrocalcite...discredited (by G. E. Dunning, J. F. Cooper, Jr. & J. S. White, Jr.) 6:180-183 AL YES, JEANETE --with J. P. Cassedanne:...occurrences of the eastern United States (by J. S. White & R. B. Cook) 21:203-213 Brazilian amethyst (by
Report (issue)
mineralization, specific age of mineralization, magmatic/host rock age, host/associated lithology, host formation,...Mineralization, Specific Age of Mineralization, Magmatic/Host Rock Age, Host/Associated Lithology, Host Formation/Complex...Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2-- Phosphate rock resources: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press...Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2-Phosphate rock resources: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press...Phosphate deposits of the world, Volume 2-- Phosphate rock resources: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
Journal (issue)
pargasite (green) and clinohumite (orange) in a white sugar-like marble, Luc Yen mining area, Vietnam...paragenesis consists of calcite, dolomite, spinel, forsterite, clinohumite, apatite, margarite, pargasite and...associated with mostly calcite (Cal), dolomite (Dol), forsterite (Fo), clinohumite (Chu), pargasite, phlogopite...diopside, chondrodite, pargasite, clinohumite, forsterite, phlogopite, apatite, dravite, pyrite and graphite...comprises calcite, dolomite graphite, phlogopite and forsterite. The metamorphic rocks are sometimes cross-cut
Journal (issue)
Twenty-three, Number Six Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris...Creek near Hayden, Arizona .........487 by J. S. White Columns Guest editorial: What is the future of...araga, M ich ig an 49908-0581 (906) 353-7285 Cave-in-Rock fluorite & associated minerals; Mich. Copper Country...Belt (Quebec segment) of the Grenville geological province this approach is tenuous. In the Paris Exposition...geographical features such as lakes and rivers in the province of Quebec have been converted to their French
Book
Works 6 What are Minerals? 8 What are Rocks? 9 Rock Identification 10 Mineral Identification 14 ...Rocks 43 Metamorphic Rocks 68 Ore Minerals 86 Rock-Forming Minerals 142 Glossary 217 Index 219...metamorphic; and minerals into two groups: ore minerals and rock-forming minerals. Introductions to each of these... CHAPTER HEADING ROCK OR MINERAL NAME CHEMICAL FORMULA OF THE MINERAL 208 ROCK- Stauro (Fe,Mg,Zn)3-4...INTRODUCTIONS Shows important rock or mineral localities, or shows the rock or mineral in a typical association
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, London, England. Rock H. Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park,...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...ranges. The indices are to be assumed as being for white light, unless a reference is made to a specific...lunar rocks so far examined are very similar to some rock types known on earth. The crust of the earth consists
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...ď‚ľpetrified wood, wood opal. 438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA:...minesď‚ľColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEď‚ľScheelite, and deep...ď‚‚ E 6 mi., on French Cr., the Scott Rose Quartz Quarryď‚ľAmblygonite (large yellow crystals), Aquamarine...red, yellow), chalcedony, quartz nodules (rose, white). BURDOCK, E, in S part of the Elk Mts., many mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic rocks represent an excellent petrographic province, and the same types, chemically and in large part...conspicuous, never make up more than2 per cent of the rock. Almost all of them are associated with olivine...the southern extension of the San Juan volcanic province. The name Tewan Mountains cannot be found on any...his rocks came from the Valles Mountains and White Rock Canyon, west of Santa Fe. The quartz phenocrysts...resorbed inclusions from a sandstone or older igneous rock, no remnants of the inclusions were found, and none
Book
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...transparent, tabular microcrystals on matrix of white dolomite, and rarely as doubly terminated crystals...northeast of the town of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz...2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series
Report (issue)
35 Diorite 10 5 P Classification of plutonic rock types (from IUGS, 1973, and Streckeisen, 1976)....lithic clasts are derived from Transverse Ranges province rocks. Some medium grained sandstone interbeds...(early Pliocene and Miocene)—Nonmarine sedimentary rock. Consists of four informally designated members...Contains clasts derived from Peninsular Ranges province rocks. Has limy concretations, but not nearly...derived from basement rocks of Peninsular Ranges province. Conglomerate interbedded with pebbly sandstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
whole. The Tien Shan Gold Belt is a metallogenic province primarily distinguished for its strong endowment...the pluton contact, marbles of the four carbonate rock units are replaced by skarns forming lenticular...skarn zones extending along strike of the carbonate rock units (Figs. 3-4). In particular, the Main skarn...weaklyporphyritic rock with large (up to 3 cm across) K-feldspar phenocrysts. The rock has variable plagioclase...granodiorite locally evolves into leucocratic granitic rock enriched in plagioclase (oligoclase to andesine)
Journal (issue)
Erica Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA Founder John Sampson White M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord Articles Rare.................................... 265 by J. S. White What's new in minerals Tucson Show 2000 .........micromounter. Following her first visit to that famous quarry in the mid-1960’s, she missed few opportunities...from the Silver Tunnel. The fresh rhyodacite host rock is pale in color but soon turns black on exposed...ore stockpile the creamy white rhyodacite weathers to a glutenous gray-white montmorillonite clay, streaked
Book (edition)
Petrographic Provinces. lvlagmatic Evolution '5. Rock Associations and l{indrecls. Factors in CRYSTALLIZATIOK...Assimilative Reaction between Basaltic l\1agma and Solid Rock. Crystallization Behavior of Granitic 1Vlag1na.... The Volcanic Association of the Brito-Arctic Province. Petrogenesis of the Tholeiite Quartz Diabase...composition, and fabric (structure or texture). Since many rock-forming minerals commonly occur in grains of microscopic...arising from natural transition from one class of rock to another is neither avoidable nor undesirable
Catalog/List
Copper and Iron. When Gold occurs with a matrix rock like Quartz, a Specific Gravity test is often performed...conditions with exquisite formations often atop matrix rock like Quartz. Gold nuggets are typically valued at...Gold Nugget Tipuani alluvials, Tipuani Larecaja Province, La Paz Bolivia From the exotic locality of La...With some, but not much, visible, nice contrasting white Quartz, this exquisite golden-yellow example exhibits...grams (2.78 oz t). Nicknamed the “Grizzly Bear on Rock Pile,” which can be seen in a particular manner
Report (issue)
Glass Sand 14 3. Diatomite 15 4. Rock Wool 15 5. White Rock Powder 16 6. Ceramic Materials 16...Marble, s erpentine and granite are the best known rock types used in these industries and the Crofter Counties...attractive colour and/ or patterns to the rock fabric. Pure white marble, formed from the predominantly dolomitic...occurs in the Strath district of Skye but the white rock is 9f limited extent : it is being quarried for... P ale coloured slates occur in the Dunoon The rock serpentine, technically termed s erpentinite and
Thesis/Dissertation
hydrothermal deposits............. 37 6. Relation of rock type to zone mineralogy................ 44 vii...well-defined species distributions controlled by host-rock compositions around a quartz monzonite stock and...intrusion of Tertiary magma '(1965, p.3). The White Rock Stock has been dated at 33.9 ± 1.0 m.y. (Bryant...the sample space, the-sample space identifier, the rock types present, the mineral species present, the...quartz monzonite is the most common Precambrian rock in the vicinity of Italian Mountain. It intrudes
 
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