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Aragonite from
Hagdale Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hagdale Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:163171
Long-form Identifier:1:3:163171:5
GUID (UUID V4):700c6d95-5d6c-4e86-b679-6b232bdd862d
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theophrastite, a nickel hydroxide, from Unst, Shetland, Scotland A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology...Royal Scottish Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, Scotland AND D . L. BISH Los Alamos ScientificLaboratory...ABSTRACT. The new mineral theophrastite, Ni(OH)2, from Unst, is Mg-bearing and occurs associated with a very...SEVEN Heddle specimens* of chromitite from Hagdale Quarry, Unst, held in the Scottish Mineral Collection...Mg)(OH)2. The material investigated came from Hagdale, Unst, and although associated with a nickel* RSM
Book
ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL of Unst and Fetlar in Shetland Geopark Shetland Tectonostratigraphical succession...succession and Quaternary sequence on Unst and Fetlar, Shetland. Landslides Blown sand Peat Alluvial diatomite...UNCONFORMITY Tectonostrati!!raohical succession on Unst and Fetlar Silurian to Devonian Silurian Minor...Silurian Late Cambrian to Silurian Cambrian Shetland OphioliteComplex Cambrian Metaharzburgite Layer...Silurian Norwick Graphitic Schist Norwick Phyllite Unst Phyllite Group Leagarth Phyllite original stratigraphical
Report (issue)
Association: Brucite, hydromagnesite, calcite, aragonite, dolomite. Distribution: In the USA, in Pennsylvania...Tasmania, Australia. In the Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. On Cape Ortegal, Galicia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...groups; and minerals which were discovered first in Scotland. Some 15 per cent of the species listed in this...knowledge as to which mineral species occur in Scotland, but that there is also a need for greater precision...to find the first recordings of minerals new to Scotland since 1901. Many authors have been unaware that...described had not been recorded previously for Scotland or the United Kingdom. The main criteria for accepting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SERPENTINES and ASSOCIATED ROCKS and MINERALS of the SHETLAND ISLANDS. By ]~R&NK COLES PHILLIPS, M:.A., P h . D...General Field-Occurrence ..................... (1) Unst and Fetlar. (2) Fethaland and Colla Firth. (3) Ness...Normal Rocks ............ (1) Serpentine. (a) The Unst Intrusion. (b) Fetlar and Haaf Gruney. (c) Fethaland...II~'TRODUCTION AND PREVIOUS LITERATURE. THE S h e t l a n d Islands consist largely of a foundation of m e t a morphic...~al't 4~ ASSOCIATED ROCKS OF T H E SHETLAI~'D ISLANDS. 623 rocks which more particularly form the subject
Catalog/List
BARITE. Tronach Head, Portknokie, Grampian, Scotland. A nice group of reddish brom xls to 5mm covering...14. CALCITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Scotland, A small group of three colourless nailhead xls...45x25x15mm. £42. 24. CHROMITE.• Hagdale. Quarry, Unst, Shetland Isles, Scotland. . A solid piece of chromite...60x40x30mm. £22. CREDNERITE. No.2 Vein, Merehead Quarry, Cranmore, Somerset. A sharp splendant -iron black...quartz. 60x30x30mm. -£65. 29. DOLOMITE AND ARAGONITE. Capnic, Romania. An intergrown group of light
Catalog/List
mass with minor matrix. Collected late 1978, Dean Quarry ,second level, Lizard Cornwall Area of display..., 3.5 x2 inches Beorgs ofUyea, North Roe Shetland ,Scotland £30 24. PECTOLITE rich pale pink fibrous...spheres with darker Namibite spheres (Hechtesberg Quarry, near Hausach,Germany) Ix half inch area of coverage...with minor quartz (good colour) Talisker Bay Skye Scotland 2x3 £7 35. NATIVE GOLD just visible small mass...Caldbeck fells, Cumbria) lxl £20 42. CUPRITE AFTER ARAGONITE intergrown hexagonal crystals.Corocoro La Paz
Book
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
Book (volume)
filamentous net-work is here brown. of Ayrshire. At Lagg Quarry, Fisherton, Ayr. structure is yellow or brown,... : Liulithgowshire in an opening near the old quarry of Kirkton, masses in limestone of Yoredale age...Barlocco LIBRARY CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND Printed by Nfill and Company, Limited, Edinburgh...MACLEHOSE AND SONS. CO., LIM. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...specimens from almost every known mineral locality in Scotland, and made several hundred analyses. In addition
Catalog/List
through yellow brown-serpentine 6x4cm Hagdale Unst Shetlands Scotland £10 27 SUGILITE mauve chip about 8mm...pale green plates on Monticellite 4x3cm Crestmore Quarry, Riverside county California USA £10 2 33 DOLOMITE...about 8x8mm in 2x2cm rock. Loch Scridain Mull Scotland £6 69 BERYL pale yellow single crystal ~ - -...green pyroxenes Balephetrish Tiree Outer Hebrides Scotland 5x5 £7 142 ALNOITE grey-brown with various minerals...solid black lustrous mass 7x7cm Rogie Quarry Inverness Scotland £6 150 LEUCITE TEPHRITE obvious leucite
Journal (issue)
.................. Diary of a Trip to the Shetland Islands Roy Starkey 44 .............................was one, specialising in stamps from the Channel Islands but perhaps, more closely associated with minerals...with hammer, chisel and crowbar but the Lengenbach quarry, the star of the Binntal show, is strictly out...Lepidocrocite from Louchentyre Copper Mine, Dumfreisshire, Scotland. Oh, don't you just love those erratic pebbles...Department for Education and Employment 0800 917 8185 Scotland: Fiona Aitken 01786 479 593 Wales: Alun Taylor
Catalog/List
the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National...Loanhead quarry TallskerBay Whyte'a Cleuch Loanhead quarry Port Glasgow Loanheadquarry Loanhelld quarry Loanhead...Loanhead quarry Benalltmlne BMS NATIONAL REFERENCE COUECTION Ecton.Staffs. Ecton.Staffs. Scordale,Cumbria...KlrlScotland Scotland Beith.Scotland Leadhllls,ScoU. Beith.Scotland...Skye.Scotland Wanlockhead,Scot. Beith,ScoUand Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith.Scotland Beith,Scolland Rhlw
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
( 427 ) XVIII.—Chapters on the Mineralogy of Scotland. Chapter Seventh.—Ores of Manganese, Iron, Chromium...smelted " iron—anywhere ? THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND. 429 quantity of wires, of the thickness of...definite periods of time, THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND. 431; —each period having been of such a duration...•898 5-521 5-688 100-454 THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND. Hygroscopic Water, Heated barely red, lost, „...these have a brown, or even a THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND. 435 blue colour. I have ascertained that this
Book (volume)
"TOlVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND VOL. II. Printed by Neill and Company, Limited...Pyrites. DRAWN! eV DR HCDDLE THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND BY THE LATE M. FORSTER HEDDLE, M.D., F.R.S...Stereograms of Gypsum, & and c Projections, Map of Scotland, Index to the one- inch Ordnance Survey . . ... Orthoclase. J . G. GOODCHILD. THE MINERALOGY OF SCOTLAND, VOL. II. OXYGEN II. SILICATES. ANHYDKOUS...infra, and the Appendix.] LINLITHGOW. [?] Hillhouse quarry, in a dyke of columnar basalt. MIDLOTHIAN. [?]
Book
36445 Apex Ridge, Roe/call, Inverness-shire, Scotland J.R.Hawkes, R.J.Merriman, R.R.Harding & D.P.F...Dysclasite, syn. of okenite (Cotype) BM 27472 Faeroe Islands A. Connel (1 832) Edin. New Phil. J. 17, p. 198...Goosecreekite (Part of Holotype) BM 1980,00579 Goose Creek Quarry, London Co., Virginia, USA P.J. Dunn, D.R. Peacor... Hatchite (Holotype) BM 1913,00399 Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland R.H. Solly & G.F.H. Smith...Gleann Cosaidh, Loch Quoich, Inverness-shire, Scotland A. Livingstone (1980) Min. Mag. 43, p. 833. Junitoite
Book
Thordarson & Armann HosJ...-uldsson 4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north...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...orkcd m er the past 150 years to establish these islands as a major centre of academic and economic minerJlogy...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University
Book
, F.R.S., F.G.S. London , 1861 . The Channel Islands, by David T. ANSTED, F.R.S., F.G.S., and ROBERT...GRIFFITH . ( Six sheets.) 1854. Stanford's Map of Scotland. ( Six sheets.) Reynolds's Geological Atlas of...THE CHANNEL ISLANDS . >> Man, ISLE OF " WIGHT, ISLE OF 78 77 MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND ABERDEENSHIRE...ARGYLESHIRE . ISLANDS OF AYRSHIRE BANFFSHIRE BERWICKSHIRE 62 82 83 84 85 . BUTESHIRE, ISLANDS OF 85 85...85 CONTENTS . MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND— (continued ). PAGR CAITHNESS CLACKMANNANSHIRE DUMBARTONSHIRE
Report (issue)
Economic minerals of Scotland – bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Information Management and...INTERNAL REPORT IR/04/001 Economic minerals of Scotland bedrock of Scotland's economic development. R...F. MacTaggart, T. Cullen, J. Rayner Key words Scotland, mineral resources Bibliographical reference R... Cullen, J. Rayner. 2004 Economic minerals of Scotland - bedrock of Scotland's economic development....Opportunities Fund RLS (Resources for Learning in Scotland). This report contains 600 images and text descriptions
Report (issue)
mineralisation in Silurian greywackes at Glendinning, south Scotland I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I INSTITUTE...mineralisation in Silurian greywackes at Glendinning, south Scotland Geology M. J. Gallagher, PhD, MIMM P. Stone, PhD...intrusive rocks at Cairngarroch Bay, south-west Scotland 40 13 Investigation of stratiform sulphide...mineralisation in Dalradian schist near Aberfeldy, Scotland; Final report 41 14 Mineral investigations...around Culvennan Fell, Kirkcowan, south-western Scotland 43 16 Report on geophysical and geological
Report (issue)
information 12 Scotland and Northern Ireland Land Survey Division 13 Highlands and Islands District 14 North...applied research from so many customers, whether in UK Government Departments or overseas, that we have...boreholes on land have greatly expanded our knowledge of UK subsurface geology in the successful pursuit of low­...Beryl platform in the North Sea. Coverage of the UK land surface in terms of geological mapping has proceeded...Applied Geophysics Unit has continued to concentrate on UK regional onshore surveys, methods of detecting hidden
Book (edition)
example, calcite CaCOg (14.1.1.1) has a polymorph aragonite (14.1.3.1), while vaterite (14.1.2.1) has yet...pseudomorphs have been observed after cuprite, aragonite, calcite, azurite, chalcocite, and antlerite....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...Fetlar, Shetland Is., anisotropic. Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay, AK; Unst Driekop mine, Transvaal, Scotland; Birbir
Book (edition)
Chapman & Hall. 2-6 Boundary Row. London SEI SHN. UK Blackil' Academic & Professional. Wesler Clcdt.lt:ns...lt:ns Road. 13ishopbriggs. Glasgow GIH 2NZ, UK Chapman & Hall Inc.. 29 Wesl 351h S1ree1. New York NY llXl0I...s1udy. or criticism or review. as permilted under 1he UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act. 1988. 1his publica1ion...issued by 1he Copyrigh1 Licc.:nsing Agency in lhe UK. or in accordance with 1hc.: terms of licences issued...appropria1e Reproduction Righ1s Organizarion oubidc lhe UK. Enquiries concerning rcproduc1ion ou1side the lcrms
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Pollard, Sanders, Nicholas. Sir Archibald Geikie, Scotland: Geography and Rev. Alexander Gordon, M.A. Saravia...Muriel Clay A. N. Series. Septuagint, The. Scotland: History; Second Sight. Lang, LL.D. See the biographical...Banks (in AurU ® yi.rv yar Saltykov, Michael. J Scotland: Literature) Scott, Alexander. r J 1 1 CBpirinah...Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times. J. H. R. Scotland, Episcopal Church of. Scribes. Fellow, Theological...Incarnation', &c. J. Bt. Samuel of Nehardea; Shekel. Scotland: Professor of Greek in University College, London
 
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