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Taramellite from
Big Creek, Big Creek-Rush Creek Mining District, Fresno County, California, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Taramellite
Formula:Ba4(Fe3+,Ti,Fe2+,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx
Comments:All modern analyses show Ti-dominance, i.e. titantaramellite.
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Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Gillespite
Sanbornite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Taramellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Creek, Big Creek-Rush Creek Mining District, Fresno County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:649275
Long-form Identifier:1:3:649275:5
GUID (UUID V4):aa58b5ca-6109-46e8-84c0-4e798c323c02
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
America JosN T. Arrons California Division of Mines and Geology Sacramento, California 95814 eNo Aoorp Passr...Geophysics University of California, Berkeley, Califurnia 94720 Abstract Taramellite,BaolFe3+,Ti4+,Fe2*,Mg;...Contrary to the formerly current description, taramellite is not at all fibrous, but occurs in tabular...dominant. At one locality in Santa Cruz, California, taramellite has been found in large, ragged,crystals...variety of sulfidesand sulfosalts. Finally, taramellite is a minor constitutent in complex veins in Franciscan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology and Geophysics, University of California, Berkeley, California Zur Morphologie des Taramellits I...vor, wo er bisjetzt wenig beachtet wurde. Die Taramellite dieser Fundstel!en sind alle sehr ]'i-reich....beschrieben. Die Ti-reichen Taramellite in Nordamerika, besonders die in California, welche mit Sanbomit und...nach {100}. Summary On the Morphology of Taramellite Taramellite is known from at least eight localities...notice. The taramellite at all of these localities is especially Ti-rich. Hitherto taramellite has mostly
Report (issue)
00 60.52 [100.0] 100.00 (1{2) Rush Creek area, California, USA; by D-C arc spectrography, recalculated...quartz (Rush Creek, California, USA). Association: Quartz, sanbornite, celsian, taramellite, diopside...diopside, pyrrhotite (Rush Creek, California, USA); bario-orthojoaquinite, benitoite, baotite, natrolite (Esquire...(Esquire mine No. 1, California, USA); gillespite, sanbornite, taramellite, pellyite, muirite, barite (Gunn...the USA, in California, from the Rush Creek area and at the Esquire No. 1 mine, Big Creek, Fresno Co.;
Report (issue)
Orthorhombic. Point Group: [2=m 2=m 2=m] (by analogy to taramellite). As well-formed crystals, equidimensional to...83 < 0.01 < 0.01 0.41 100.20 3+ (1) Rush Creek, California, USA; corresponds to Ba 3:86 (Ti 1:94 Fe2+...Occurrence: intrusives. Forms a series with taramellite. In the contact zones around granite, quartz...benitoite, pabstite, bazirite (Rush Creek and Big Creek areas, California, USA); tremolite, celsian, pabstite...quarry, California, USA). Distribution: In the USA, in California, at Rush Creek and Big Creek, Fresno Co
Report (issue)
33(1) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Big Creek area, California, USA. 2.96 (100), 15.4 (50), 3.51 (40),...05 0.4 3.5 [5.1] 1.0 [100.00] (1) Big Creek area, California, USA; K and Cl by XRF, loss on ignition...Association: Sanbornite, quartz, celsian, diopside, taramellite, fresnoite, muirite, verplanckite, pyrrhotite...Distribution: Name: In the Rush Creek and Big Creek areas, Fresno Co., California, USA. For Dr. John Boardman...(1824{1879), ¯rst California State Geologist (1850{1857). Type Material: California Division of Mines
Report (issue)
7.200(4) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Big Creek, California, USA. 3.95 (100), 2.97 (70), 2.738 (70), 13...< 0.05 0.6 3.5 10.6 1.05 [100.0] (1) Big Creek, California, USA; by D-C arc spectroscopy, K and Cl by...Association: Quartz, sanbornite, celsian, diopside, taramellite, fresnoite, muirite, traskite, pyrrhotite, pyrite...the Esquire No. 7 mine, Big Creek, and on Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA. Name: For William E....geologist of the California Division of Mines & Geology, California, USA. Type Material: California Division
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EASTERN FRESNO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA JonN T. Arnons, MBrvrN C. SrrNsoN, RosBnr A. Marrncws, California Division... and Aoor.n P-lnsr, University of California, Berheley,California. ABSTRACT Seven new barium-bearing...silicate minerals have been found in eastern Fresno County, california. The minerals occur in sanbornite-bearing...of the sanbornite deposits of eastern Fresno County, California. Seven of the new minerals are describedin...preserved at the San Francisco office of the California Division of Mines and Geolosy. Jt+ SEVEN NEW
Report (issue)
5.625(2) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fresno Co., California, USA. 2.91 (100), 4.42 (75), 3.73 (60), 3...59.6 0.1 1.4 4.5 1.8 1.6 [100.0] (1) Fresno Co., California, USA; by D-C emission arc spectrography, K...rock (Fresno Co., California, USA). Association: Sanbornite, verplanckite (Fresno Co., California, USA);...USA); gillespite, sanbornite, taramellite, fresnoite, pellyite, barite (Itsy Mountains, Yukon, Canada)...Canada). Distribution: On Big Creek and Rush Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA. From the Gunn claim, near Macmillan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BARIUM SILICATE MINERAL SPECIES FROM FRESNO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA LAUREL C. BASCIANO AND LEE A. GROAT§ Department...GAIL E. DUNNING 773 Durshire Way, Sunnyvale, California 94087, U.S.A. ROBERT E. WALSTROM P.O. Box 1728...The sanbornite deposits at Big Creek and Rush Creek, Fresno County, California, are host to many rare barium...gillespite. Bigcreekite was named after Big Creek, California, the type locality. Keywords: bigcreekite...tetrahydrate, crystal structure, inosilicate, Big Creek, California. SOMMAIRE Les gisements de sanbornite situés
Report (issue)
855(2)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Fresno Co., California, USA. 2.99 (100), 6.58 (20), 2.70 (20), 4...[100.00] [100.00] 100.45 100.00 (1-2) Fresno Co., California, USA; by D-C arc spectrography, stated to...Association: Sanbornite, quartz, wollastonite, celsian, taramellite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, witherite, fresnoite. Zadovite...(Israel). Distribution: From the Rush Creek and Big Creek areas, Fresno Co., and on Trumbull Peak, near...near Incline, Mariposa Co., California, USA. From Gurim Anticline and Zuk Tamrur, Negev Desert, Israel.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Arizona, USA ABSTRACT Meierite, ideally Ba44Si66Al30O192Cl25(OH)33...(BaFeSi4O10) was submitted by Scotty Alan of Newmont Mining Corporation to Dr. R.M. Thompson of the University...several other barium silicate minerals, such as taramellite [Ba4(Fe3þ,Ti,Fe2þ,Mg)4(B2Si8O27)O2Clx], gillespite...of which had been described from a locality in California prior to 1960 (Montgomery 1960). The Gun Claim...discovered in 1932 at Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California, where the mineral sanbornite was first discovered
Report (issue)
celsian-bearing rocks near contacts with granite (Big Creek, California, USA). Association: Elpidite, aegirine, albite...Island, Scotland); taramellite, celsian, diopside, actinolite (Big Creek, California, USA). Distribution:...Scotland. At the Esquire No. 8 claim, Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA. Name: For BArium and ZIRconium
Report (issue)
)§=1:95 (Si 5:72 Al0:58 )§=6:30 O17 : (2) Big Creek, California, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponding...Association: andradite. Barite, hedenbergite, quartz, taramellite, gillespite, sanbornite, alforsite, witherite...at Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, USA. In the La Madrelena mine, Tres Pozos, Baja California, Mexico...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 148587. References: (1) Montgomery, J.H., R.M. Thompson
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California............................................will be published as an update of Minerals o f California, Bulletin 189 (last published in 1966), but will...include the data from Pemberton’s Minerals o f California, pub­ lished independently by Van Nostrand Reinhold...around as a back-up. And, of course, it has one big advantage over Fleischer s Glossary: it is unlikely
Report (issue)
Pattern: Dry Delta, Alaska, and near Incline, California, USA. (ICDD 3-402). 3.39 (100), 4.41 (70), 3.22...76 100.00 15.43 32.94 (1) Dry Delta, Alaska, USA; nearly pure material, corrected for assumed oxidation...Delta, Alaska, USA); probably from a contact metamorphic zone (Trumbull Peak, California, USA). Association:...Alaska, USA); sanbornite, celsian, diopside, tourmaline, quartz, pyrrhotite (Trumbull Peak, California, USA);...sanbornite, taramellite, fresnoite, muirite, barite (Itsy Mountains, Canada). Distribution: In the USA, near
Report (issue)
rhodonite, rutile, hyalophane, barite, cymrite, taramellite, quartz, zoisite, spessartine, dolomite, muscovite...Switzerland. In the USA, from Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey; near Big Creek, Fresno Co., and Trumbull...Trumbull Peak, near Incline, Mariposa Co., California. At the Benallt mine, Rhiw, Lleyn Peninsula, Wales. From...Balkhash. In Namibia, at Otjosondu. From Piggery Creek, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. In the
Journal (issue)
Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Catalog/List
radial groups on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro... AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and...quartz . ALTAITE Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable...sodium calcium uranium carbonate. Utah San Juan County, Moab ~ellow to yellow-green ¼x¼" single rhombohedral...ANNABERGITE Hydrated nickel arsenate Nevada Churchill County, Cottonwood Canyon Rich apple green masses altering
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. Ronald...Esquire #7 and #8 claims along Big Creek, Fresno County, California, USA [cerchiaraite-(Fe) and cerchiaraite-(Al)]...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA, catalogue number: 64072...staked for its Zn content in 1957 by the Newmont Mining Corporation (Montgomery 1960). It is the type locality...well-known of which are those in eastern Fresno County, California (Walstrom & Leising 2005). The minerals
Journal (issue)
10 16 18 22 28 UNUSUAL MINERALS FROM FRESNO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA 32 NEW BOOKS 33 NEW MINERAL NAMES...OcTonc:n Publication Office P.O. Box 808, MENTONE, CALIFORNIA Telephone PYramid 4-1144 (Office: 1797 Capri.... "j SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT MENTONE, CALIFORNIA. AND AT ADDITIONAL MAILING OFFICES Single Copies...University Avenue MIN ERALS UNLIMITED Berkeley 3, California 4 T H E M I N E R AL O G I S T /\uc. 1 963...scal cnahedral crystals of calc,te. From the early mining days at Woelsendorf, Germany. Br i l l iant green
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with quartz, wollastonite and taramellite. Big Creek, Fresno Co., California, U.S.A. SiC 2 31.91, A120a...pyrite, taramellite, pyrrhotite, quartz, and wollastonite. Mount Patterson Quadrangle, Fresno Co., California
 
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