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Violarite from
Cliff Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Violarite
Formula:Fe2+Ni23+S4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Violarite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cliff Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:895206
Long-form Identifier:1:3:895206:6
GUID (UUID V4):bf4661ee-2757-4ba2-9e2e-0b95b124d50c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
O N E Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF Synopsis A...reveals that about 132 mineral species new to Scotland have been discovered. This is a 3 2 % increase...include the discovery of platinum group minerals in Shetland, w o r k on manganese oxides and hydroxides and...information about species not previously listed for Scotland. It therefore seems appropriate to take stock...e r the last decade m a n y minerals n e w to Scotland have been discovered by the electronprobemicroanalyser
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epidote, hornblende, diopsite, 427 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, danburite, 171; durangite, I72 Chycornish...Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet, 427 Dean quarry, The Lizard, djurle'ite, I72; analcime, adularia...penwithite (= neotocite), 279 and M26 Devon Meldon quarry, Okehampton, greenovite, 172; priceite, 175 Ramsley...Cannington Park quarry, djurlei'te, I72 Combe Farm quarry, Henbury, wulfenite, 298 Merehead quarry, Shepton...I7o; djurlei'te, I72 Kent Copt Point and Abbots Cliff, Folkestone; Dover; Sandling; and Oxney, glauconite
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Report of theamphibole Subcommittee. Abbots Cliff, Folkestone, Kent, glauconite, 373 Actinolite, Grand...geochemistry of loveringite, 187 Cannington Park quarry, Somerset, djurleite, 172; durangite, 172; milarite... see EGGLETON (R. A.), 361 and M37 Cheesewring quarry, Linkinhorne, Cornwall, danburite, I7I Chernovite...iron-bearing melts, Pt-Fe alloys for, 271 Coombe Farm quarry, Henbury, Somerset, wulfenite, 298 Coon Creek,...GUPTA (D. R.), the Dhajala meteorite, 493 Dean quarry, The Lizard, Cornwall, djurlei'te, 172; analcime
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Cu-Ni-Platinum-Group Element Deposits, Copper Cliff North Area, Sudbury, Canada KRISZTIÁN SZENTPÉTERI...contact sublayer Lady Violet deposit) in the Copper Cliff North mine area, Sudbury, were sampled with the...hollingworthite in the 880 and other orebodies of the Copper Cliff South mine. More recently, Magyarosi et al. (2002)...hollingworthite in chalcopyrite-rich ore in the Copper Cliff South mine, and Stewart et al. (1999) and Carter...gersdorffite crystals in the Kelly Lake area, Copper Cliff offset dike. In this paper we report the occurrence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gibbsite, etc. in fissure-fill in limestone, Woodleaze quarry, Tytherington, Avon (Alabaster, 1989a). Andersonite...species, from an oxidised vein exposure at Milltown quarry, near Ashover, Derbyshire, forming groups of colourless...alteration product of phosgenite in lead veins at Bounds Cliff, St. Endellion, Cornwall (Stanley et al., 1991)...breccias of the Mercia Mudstone Group at Newhurst quarry, Shepshed, Leicestershire (King, 1983). Some material...ferroaxinite is recorded from Botallack mine and Roscommon Cliff, St. Just, and from Liskeard (Dunn et al., 1980)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marcasite, paratacamite, quartz, sphalerite, sulfur, violarite, and several unidentified species, including iron...Mississippi Valley localities. These include Grays quarry and related sites in the Hamilton-Warsaw area,...vicinity, Madison County, Missouri; and with violarite and bravoite (?) at various southwestern Wisconsin...also been reported in calcite veins with violarite in a quarry in Benton County and as a supposed ore mineral...a minor secondary mineral at the Frood, Copper Cliff, and other mines at Sudbury, Ontario. European millerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Colorado localities, including the Rosita–Silver Cliff district, Custer County; the Gem mine at Gem Park...Gabriel Canyon, Los Angeles County; at the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz County; =VS\TL4HYJO(WYPS...maucherite, nickeline, chloanthite, gersdorffite, violarite, rammelsbergite, and arsenopyrite in the West...Eastern Metals mine, Beauce County, and the Poudrette quarry at Mont Saint-Hilaire, MontĂ©rĂ©gie, Quebec. Annabergite...and Galloway, Leadhills-Wanlockhead district, Scotland. Exceptionally attractive specimens containing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERTLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUBRICA JANUARY,1930 No. I VIOLARITE AND OTHER RARE NICKEL SULPHIDESX M. N. Ssonr lNn...is a new mineral. They propose for it the name violarite in consideration of its violet color, and assign...however, that nickel mineral X. and the Sudbury violarite are identical. In addition to the Alaskan localities...made by Mr. Short and the chemical analyses of violarite were made by Mr. Shannon. Vrolenrru, (Ni, Fe)gS+ar...discovery of two new minerals, sperrylite, PtAsz and violarite. Other minerals noted are chalcopyrite, bornite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
greenschist-facies conditions to pyrite-chalcopyrite-violarite ± covellite ± millerite. This involved also local... M ain M Trill Frood-Stobie Sudbury Copper Cliff Totten Ontario M ich éb ec iga n le t...erosion. Some of the radial ones (e.g., Copper Cliff) are connected to the main mass via 100-m-wide funnels...The Copper Cliff offset, for example, hosts several deposits, including the Copper Cliff mine complex...Vermilion offset (the type locality of sperrylite and violarite). In contrast, no deposits or significant occurrences
Report (issue)
ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR: THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS, QUEBEC, AND THE ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND Ann. P... . 1 Collecting along the islands 1 The Magdalen Islands The islands ............................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Collecting on the islands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...4 5 5 7 7 Rock and Mineral Collecting on the Islands: Cap-aux-Meules to Grande-Entree Grindstone Island.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fatima quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite, pyrite, marcasite, Ni-bearing pyrite, violarite, and millerite. The disseminated sulfides in the..., at McCreedy West, Strathcona, and the Copper Cliff North Area: Coats and Snajdr, 1984; Szentpéteri...(largely replaced by Ni-bearing pyrite + marcasite + violarite). The margins of the veins are undulatory and...Ni-bearing pyrite (bravoite), pyrite, marcasite, violarite, millerite, pentlandite, and pyrrhotite with smaller...pentlandite (now pseudomorphically replaced by violarite), pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite. Reflected, plane-polarized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrrhotite + pentlandite + chalcopyrite II ± violarite vein. 1 Low Co and Ni containing Pyrite III...ilmenite, and minor pentlandite, molybdenite, violarite, bravoite, and uraninite. Pyrite content in the...pyrrhotite + pentlandite + chalcopyrite II ± violarite (Type II vein) (Fig. 2D), and disconcordant veins...pyrite+ pyrrhotite + pentlandite + chalcopyrite + violarite + bravoite (‘bravoite’ is termed as Nickeloan...Chalcopyrite II, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and violarite (Fig. 4A-D). The pyrite grains are composite and
Report (issue)
occurrence Snow Lake-Wekusko Lake occurrences Snow Lake quarry Rex (Laguna) Mine Bingo Mine Moose Horn Mine 47...Mine Ordovician limestone, Snow Lake limestone quarry Anderson Mine Staurolite crystals in schist, Snow...392 bridge Banded limestone, Wekusko limestone quarry Pipe Mine Thompson Mine and refinery Frontispiece:...metallic minerals in the orebody are pyrrhotite, violarite and chalcopyrite. They occur as intimately associated...International Nickel Company of Canada at Copper Cliff. Operations ceased in 1968. The deposit is located
Report (issue)
53.3 < 0.01 Total 101.47 100.4 99.3 (1) Copper Cliff South mine, Sudbury, Canada; by electron microprobe...Canada); pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, violarite, cubanite, bornite, sphalerite, galena, linnaeite...China). Distribution: In Canada, from the Copper Cliff South [TL] and Frood mines, Sudbury, Ontario; and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe(III) oxyhydroxide (probably FeOOH). In addition, violarite (FeNi2S4), Ni(OH)2, and NiSO4 are found in the...(four and six) in pentlandite, pyrrhotite, and violarite. An Fe(III)-S multiplet, an Fe(III) oxyhydroxide...Ni(II)-S peaks from the original pentlandite or violarite (four and six coordination), as well as Ni(OH)2...coordinate S peaks from the original minerals and violarite, as well as polysulfides and sulfate. Finally...calculations of the relative stabilities of pentlandite, violarite, Ni(OH)2, NiSO4, and FeOOH. The first stage of
Report (issue)
deposits Occurrences east of Sudbury Falcon Mine Wanup quarry Elizabeth Mine Wahnapitei occurrences MacDonald...Page occurrence Warren quarry Occurrences along Highway 86 Wanapitei Lake quarry Vermilion River placer...occurrence McMillan Mine Wallace Mine Sheguiandah quarry Shakespeare Mine Massey Mine Hermina Mine Elliot...Peekongay Mine Downey occurrence Empress Mine Slate Islands McKellar-Longworth Mine Harkness Hays Mine Gold...Winston Lake Mine Copper, Wilson, Salter and Simpson islands Little Bear Mine Lawrence occurrence Nipigon-Longlac
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK e-mail: Prichard@Cardiff.ac.uk M.-F. Zhou Department...pentlandite, and chalcopyrite as well as secondary violarite and cubanite (Chai and Naldrett 1992a; Yang et...scanning electron microscope (SEM; Cardiff University, UK). Polished sections were searched for PGM systematically...MicroAnalysis Consultants Ltd. (St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK) was used to calibrate the EDX analyzer. Images were...to a Thermo X Series ICP-MS (Cardiff University, UK). Details of the procedures for the laser analysis
Book (edition)
Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright...grey isotropic Bornhardtite Hauchecornite Violarite strong very strong, white, yellow, violet, blue...oxidised iron grain, silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry BĂŒhl, Weimar near Kassel, Hessen, Germany (sample:...Pentlandite, Schreibersite, Serpentinite, Silicates, Violarite Awaruite, Jedwabite, native Nickel, Tetrataenite...goethite (?, dark line), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry BĂŒhl near Kassel, Germany (sample: Hanel/Altherr);
Report (issue)
19 19 19 20 - ii CONTENTS (cont.) Page Slate Islands deposit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nipigon Bay Islands deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....molybdenum deposit...................... Pass Lake Road quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....deposit....................... Edward and Porphyry Islands copper................. Silver Harbour deposits...43 43 - iii CONTENTS (cont.) Page Eagle Lake quarry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Main Building, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK tion of Fe–PGE-oxides and PGE-hydroxides, (5) incorporation...and pyrite with minor marcasite, covellite and violarite. Magnetite and ilmenite are often present, and...sive X-ray (EDX) analyzer at Cardiff University, UK. A four-quadrant back-scatter electron detector was...to a Thermo X Series ICP-MS (Cardiff University, UK). Details of the analytical conditions and PGE-bearing...chalcopyrite. Malachite, chalcocite, covellite, violarite and minor marcasite are common alteration products
Journal (issue)
Garvin & G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Peninsula, northern Russia. Figure 2. Northeast cliff face of Kedykverpakhk Mountain, facing the slope...of twinned calcite and the uncommon minerals violarite and polydymite. LOCATION The minerals featured...exterior architectural plans; however, because the old quarry had been flooded by the 1912 Keokuk Dam, the limestone...steel, among other uses. 421 Figure 1. O’Neill Quarry. As the railroads reached western Illinois in the
Report (volume)
_______________________________ Bravoite and violarite ______________________________ ---Vaesite----...Pentlandite _______ _ Bravoite _____ - __ -- _ Violarite __________ _ Vaesite ___________ _ Polydymite...secondary alterations of pentlandite are bravoite and violarite. Nickel and sulfur form a suite of minerals that...ex-solution type." Bravoite and violarite.-Bravoite [ (Fe,Ni) 82] and violarite (Ni2FeS.) most commonly are...vaesite (NiS2) form a stable mineral assemblage. Violarite may also form by deposition in veins from hydrothermal
Report (issue)
the Hecla Provincial Park. The outcrops at Red Cliff (0 1), on the south shore of Black Island, attracted...out on the north shore and on Cairine and nearby islands; pronounced schistosity causes the weathered gabbro...at the mouth of Wanipigow River and on offshore islands. The quartz-sericite schist on the mainland (Hole... The Black Island hematite is exposed in a low cliff overlooking a beach; the outcrops extend about 100...Similar rocks occur downstream on the banks and islands of the Grass River: hematite-rich schist (F 5)
 
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