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Albite from
Ben Nevis Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ben Nevis Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:624548
Long-form Identifier:1:3:624548:1
GUID (UUID V4):f71b6f81-c20c-4051-9fa4-cc68ac792f44
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
0.6km (0.3 miles) Quickstrike Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Rock Springs Canyon, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
37.9km (23.6 miles) Foster Canyon, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
41.6km (25.9 miles) Rusted Revolver Prospect, Orogrande, Orogrande Mining District (Jarilla Mining District), Otero County, New Mexico, USA
72.2km (44.8 miles) Cerro de Muleros, Brickland Mining District, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rincón, California; in the Petaca district of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico; from the Harney Peak region of...of South Dakota; the Reagan mining district, Kern range, White Pine County, Nevada. SULFUR, S, occurs... Noted in grains also at Shaft 7 near Fishkill, New York. GRAPHITE. C, is rather uncommon in pegmatite...the eastern and southeastern Adirondack region of New York particularly at Ticonderoga it occurs in graphitic...found in the Ben Nevis ville, Union County, Georgia. It has been mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ mounmined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
economic byproduct from a few pegma­ tites in New Mexico and Colorado; also from Brazil, Australia, etc...and Cooper in Maine; and from the berylmolybdenite mine near Mr. Antero, Colo­ rado. It is an economic mineral...peg­ matite in the Temiskaming District in Canada, in the tin district in the Trans­ vaal, South Africa;...pegmatite at the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. ARGENTITE, a silver...Quickstrike and Ben Nevis mines on San Augustin Peak in the Organ Mountains, New Mexico. CHALCOCITE, a
Report (issue)
------------------- 15 The Geography of Dona Ana County---------------------------------------------...----------- 25 PART I. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS ------------- 26 Introduction ------------... 4 CONTENTS PART I. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS—Continued The Paleozoic Era—Continued Ordovician... CONTENTS 5 PART I. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS—Continued The Tertiary intrusive cycle—Continued... 6 CONTENTS PART I. THE GEOLOGY OF THE ORGAN MOUNTAINS—Continued The Tertiary intrusive cycle—Continued
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in weight have...Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire; Bedford, New York; the Scott and other quarries near...also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande...amethyst crystal localities are near Milan and Berlin, New Hampshire; Deer Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic complex. The alteration includes abundant albite, chlorite, epidote and quartz (silicification),...previously mapped whole-rock oxygen isotope zonation. The Mine Sequence volcanic rocks are characterized by abundant...the clinozoisite solid solution. Alteration in the Mine Sequence volcanic rocks Editorial handling: R.J...much smaller, barren volcanic complex in nearby Ben Nevis township reveal important differences in the alteration...during regional-scale mineral exploration. The Ben Nevis Complex consists of a 3- to 4-km-thick succession
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
municipal governments in collaboration with the mining industry. Many of the results reported here are...the juvenile (<2.75 Ga) crust in the Abitibi, with new evidence for isotopic inheritance indicating that...AYER ET AL. Cochrane ONT QUE USA Kap usk asin g Stru ctur al Z one USA Swayze belt Dinel et al Houlé...paper by Péloquin et al. (2008) describes the Ben Nevis area of the Blake River Group. It is complemented...The paper by Hathway et al. (2008) incorporates new mapping, geochronology, geochemistry, and stratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A1B 3X5. **Present address: Copper Cliff North Mine, Inco Ltd., 18 Rink Street, Copper Cliff, Ontario...greenstone belt has been the focus of significant mining and mineral exploration for over a century and...Quemont, and Bouchard-Hébert mines (formerly Mobrun mine) in Noranda, Québec (Barrett et al., 1991; Kerr...understand these relationships. The paper provides new field relationships derived from geologic mapping...r-Porc Montsabrais upine Fault Zone Reneault New Insco Magusi R. 10 km Post-Cauldron Sequences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology, v. 103, pp. 1219–1241 The Ben Nevis Volcanic Complex, Ontario, Canada: Part of the...Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3B1 Abstract The Ben Nevis volcanic complex occurs in the Misema–Duprat-Montbray...with a third transitional andesite type. The Ben Nevis volcanic complex differs somewhat from the two...in Ontario. A rhyolite in the Ben Nevis volcanic complex yields a new precise age of 2696.6 ± 1.3 Ma...volcanic phases of the Misema–Duprat-Montbray. The Ben Nevis age overlaps published ages for the youngest formations
Report (edition)
references to literature. In most chapters this new work has involved only minor amendments to the text...with Sir Edward Bailey’s work have been replaced by new ones; three of the original diagrams (Figs. 3, 13...Fault according to Professor W. Q,. Kennedy, and a new account of the geology of the Machrihanish Coalfield...by him as representing his present views. Other new matter includes a revised account of the Carboniferous...EXHIBIT illustrating the Geology and Scenery of the district described in this volume is set out on the first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accuracy the percentages of quartz, anorthite, albite, and orthoclase occurring in the rock. Putting...plotted in the four-component system quartz-anorthite-albite-orthoclase. It will be noticed that many of them...cotectic curve. The percentages of quartz, orthoclase, albite, and anorthite for these twenty-five rocks are...appear that this eutectic must be somewhat richer in albite and lie at a composition close to Or 25 : Ab 39...40 : 60 is, indeed, closely approached near the albite end of the ternary cotectic curve, but the percentage
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 39 The Metal Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features Through 1954 A revision of...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...THE HONORABLE EDWIN L. MECHEM………...Governor of New Mexico MRS. GEORGIA L. LUSK ......................Superintendent...Dealing With the Geology and Mineral Resources of New Mexico ............................................
Report (edition)
EXHIBIT illustrating the Geology and Scenery of the district described in thi: rolume is set out on the first...cauldron­ subsidence 13 Geological map and section of Ben Nevis 14 Sketch map of the Cambro-Ordovician rocks of...52 54 55 56 61 63 65 70 77 80 82 86 PLATES Ben Nevis’from the Great Glen Facing Page Plate The...South-west Grampians I 4 12 B Mountains formed from schistose grit Ben Lawers and Loch Tay A B Current-bedding...B viii EXPLANATION OF PLATES Frontispiece. Ben Nevis from the Great Glen. The precipice and topmost
Book (chapter)
F. (1987) Minor igneous intrusions of the Lake District; geochronology, geochemistry and petrology. Unpublished...northwest Scotland. Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Section B: Applied Earth Sciences)...marginal intrusions of Ben Nevis, the Coille Lianachain complex, and the Ben Nevis dyke swarm. Transactions...Dalradian rocks between Glen Roy and the Monadhliath mountains, Inverness-shire. Transactions of the Royal Society...Xenolithic minor intrusions in the Loch Lomond District. Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow
Report (chapter)
gratitude to all their colleagues who have placed new and often unpublished material at their disposal...number of localities in Connemara, NW County Mayo, Ox Mountains, and in Counties Donegal, Tyrone, Londonderry...this volume). They are usually hornblende-epidote-albite rocks with concentric rings of vesicles defining...particular, are 1000-2000 m thick in the Loch Awe district z --~ . X~ ~ ~ . !.i:~:~:~:i:!.. . ...summit of Ben Nevis, the Lorne plateau and the cauldron subsidence of Glen Coe (5)*. At Ben Nevis the succession
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum, Geological Depa~ment, Mono~aph (192s). Mining Institute of Scotland, Transactions (1879-f. Paisley...(1924) The igneous geology of the Burntisland district: Roy. Sot. Edinburgh Tr. ts8, Pt. 3, 479-501....marginal intrusions of Ben Nevis; the Coille Lianachain complex ; and the Ben Nevis dyke swarm: Geol. Sot...Xenolithic minor intrusionsin the Loch Lomond district: Geol. Sot. Glasgow Tr. 19, Pt. 3, 373-384. Scotland:...BAILEY, EDWARDB. et al. (1916) The geology of Ben Nevis and Glen Coe, and the surrounding country: Scotland
Report (issue)
Geology of Ben Nevis and Glen Coe (Me111. Ceo/. Sun•.) PLATE I (Frontispiece) BEN N1:v1s WITH HANGING...HANGING CORRIE, /\ND RIVER NEVIS DISAPPEARING INTO NEVIS GORGE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCOTLAND The Geology of I Ben Nevis and Glen Coe and the Surrounding Country (EXPLANATION...situated in one of the most rugged parts of Scotland. Ben Nev.is (4406 ft) is the highest mountain in Great...picturesque, the most famous being Glen Coe, Glen Nevis, and Glen Etive. The great hollow of Loch Linnhe
Report (issue)
• •• • Dolerites and Basalts • • • ••• ••• ••• Albite-diabases, Spilites, Keratophyres, etc. • • • Alkali-basalts...as far as possible, been retained, bt1t, when a new name has been substituted by Dr. H. H. Thomas, the... When the geology has not been published on the New Series Map, reference is made to the Old Series Geological...by its quotation in the memoir dealing with the district concerned and in H. S. Wasl1ington's 'Chemical...5125. Fine-grained, non-porphyritic, composed of albite, perthite, and quartz, with quite subordinate muscovite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(20 ppm (Ho~IE, 1955; WAQERand MITCHELL,1951) but new srmlyses by one of us (JGH, Table 1) indicate a range...temper~t~e of structural eq~ibration of the individual mine&. The ~~fioant factor governing Y in plagioclase...JOHN LAMBERTand JAMES GRENVI~ HOLLAND Table 1. New analyses for Y in plagioclasse,K-feldspar and garnet...number cao Mineral 2051G Albite 2168A Albite 2326 Albite 2485 Albite 2166 2065 Oligoclase 20776B...Garnet Rock type and location Moine schist, Mica Mine Knoydart, Scotland Moinian pegmatite Strathvaich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the remains of the old pre-Devonian Caledmian mountains’. Suess dealt with mountain-belts as units and...northern Ireland, the Isle of Marl, the English Lake District, Wales and Leinster, made up of slaty rocks of...The Ordovician sea covered Anglesey, the Lake District, the Southern Uplands and the southern parts of...lies flatly on the remains of the Caledonian mountains. These piedmont deposits of arkose facies contain...can be said of the great metadolerite complex of Ben Vrackie in Perthshire which, also, lies in the uppermost
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the magma, its dissociated molecules entering into new combinations, contributing to, if indeed they did...lamprophyre appears to be the youngest rock of the district and is entirely unmineralized. Bowen, studying...these fragments as to resemble a breccia. In the Ben Nevis and Glencoe memoir there is a suggestion that...unjustified. The possibility of the formation of new minerals as a consequence of such permeation is indicated...ascending solutions, other felspars being replaced by albite ; even quartz suffers in a similar way. Further
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1). Subsequent halts allowed of examination of albite-schists at the roadside north of Ardlui, Loch Tay...William the party motored back to the Callert district on Loch Leven (5, pp. 40-5). They walked across...Professor Bailey gave a talk on the geology of Ben Nevis (5, chap. x). 552 E. B. Bailey and W. J. McCallien—...the old Glen Nevis Bridge. Then a detour was undertaken up Glen Nevis to beyond Glen Nevis House. The party...lower impure part of which is altered by the Ben Nevis Granite to calc-silicate-hornfels. In this section
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Appinite xenoliths and associated rocks from the Ben Nevis igneous complex H. W.HASLAM Summary. An area is...INTRODUCTION In the north-western part of the Ben Nevis complex there is a small area of rocks which differ...and one has been found containing highly altered albite. 342 H. W. Haslam One Mile OneTCilometre Outer...Porphyritic Outer Granite Fig. 1. Map of the Ben Nevis area, showing the main outcrops of the major intrusions...equant grains, often Appinite xenoliths from Ben Nevis 343 occurring in clusters. The amphibole is
Book
of the Glen Roy district GEOLOGICAL SEQUENCE Era CAINOZOIC IN THE GLEN ROY DISTRICT Period Sediments...porphyry and brecciated including Etive and Ben Nevis dyke swarms Granite, granodiorite, diorite including...granitic gneiss Geology of the Glen Roy district The district described in this memoir lies at the southwestern...which traverses the north-western part of the district. South of this major structure, there is a thick...Ordnace Survey Licence No. GD272191/1997. Ben Nevis and Glencoe and the surrounding countrty (Sheet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyritic "granite" and inner "granite" of Ben Nevis (Bailey and Maufe, 1916, 165; Anderson, 1935,...intrusion. 32. Porphyritic outer " g r a n i t e " , Ben Nevis (Anderson, 1935 (i), 251; anal. I Chilled pyroxene-mica...potash felspar, 33. Inner " g r a n i t e " , Ben Nevis (Anderson, 1935 (i), 2 5 1 ; Bailey, 1916, 186;...hornfels, near contact, Dubh-uisge. Garnetiferous mica-albite schist, main road, just below Inverarnan House...Mica-albite-qaartz schist, 200 yds. above railway line, S. of Allt Arnan. Biotite-cordierite-albite-quartz
 
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