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Chlorapatite from
Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Chlorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chlorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:65185
Long-form Identifier:1:3:65185:9
GUID (UUID V4):3f959fa9-d248-4d48-9562-7f0193101fcc
Nearest other occurrences of Chlorapatite
5.7km (3.5 miles) Bull Run Quarry, Conklin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l
Journal (issue)
February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed
Report (issue)
Chlorapatite Ca5 (PO4 )3 Cl c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal...02 [Cl0.91 (OH)0.05 F0.04 ]Σ=1.00 . (2) Fairfax, Virginia, USA; H2 O calculated for stoichiometry, corresponding...Polymorphism & Series: Mineral Group: End-member chlorapatite is monoclinic. Apatite group; Cl > F or OH...plagioclase, titanite, datolite (Bull Run quarry, Virginia, USA); olivine, orthopyroxene, phlogopite, ferroalluaudite...the USA, the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Fairfax Co., and Bull Run quarry, Loudoun Co., Virginia; at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun­ tain...is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug...Dug Hill material from near Avant in Garland County. Here it occurs in various shades of light green with...stable matrix. Variscite has been reported from the quarry, but none was observed in recent material. A few
Catalog/List
127 DELAFOSSITE Consolidated Copper Co. Nevada. USA Tiny black spheres in white matrix Fairly rich. Micro...- - - - -- -- - - - - - - 347 ■■ BITUMEN Crich Quarry, south of Matlock, Derbyshire 1161 ■■ GADOLINITE...Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales Green road Quarry, Ballyclare, County Antrim 166 ■ GISMONDINE white elongated...-- ------ -- - . --- -- - - - ·----- ------31 CHLORAPATITE Odegardensverk Norway 525 GOETHITE Colreath...Sweden 169 ■ GONNARDITE Hillsport, Island Magee, County Antrim, N.lrelan Quite rich yellow mass in Quartz
Catalog/List
THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...-·· · --·· 5 ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 31 CHLORAPATITE Odegardensverk Norway Quite good coverage of...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal
Report (volume)
............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Journal (issue)
Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...Foundation. ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way...Company spodumene mine at Kings Mountain , Cleveland County, North Carolina consisted of six small prospect...worthwhile . specimens. Milarite from the Foote quarry. Photo by Lewis Perloff l 58 ROCKS AND MINERALS... Thin beds of marble are found in parts of the quarry and another common wall rock is a mica schist with
Catalog/List
squares arc new entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard ,Cornwall Achmclvich, near Lochinvcr, Scotbnd...ANATASE Lauvland, Frigstad, Evjc Norway 933 Hingston Quarry,Cornwall 16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with...Newhaven Sussex, England ANDRADITE Franklin New Jersey USA SO 12 Pure hard white sphere shaped nodule. Quite...ANGLESITE Broken Hill, NSW. Australia Marysvale, Piule County, Utah 1152 15 Good coverage of small grey crystals...ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Riddarhyttan,Swedcn 7 Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Nomay 10 03 Red vcinlets
Journal (issue)
New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas...........................................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...apatite H (actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display...newsletter, the Quarry. Some club newsletters are, frank­ ly, boring but the Quarry is alive and interesting
Report (issue)
Acting Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2015 For more information on the USGS—the Federal...showing components of a water budget for A, a stream basin and B, an aquifer system..........................chloride flowing out in waters discharging from a basin and the percentage of urban land cover and impervious...drainage outlet, such as the Great Salt Lake and the Basin and Range area where potential evapotranspiration...the areas identified are typically sedimentary basin rocks. More recently, the presence of deep saline
Catalog/List
PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped crystal...calcium hydroxy-silicate. Ca lifornia Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinite...QUARTZ AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue micro xls and...and coatings on monzonite .. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky-blue crystals and masses...aluminum silicate. CLEAVELANDITE California San Diego County, Himalaya mine. White crystalled aggregates; some
Journal (issue)
mineral localities: The Rush Creek District, Marion County, Arkansas .......................................Forcenturies, the copper and tin mines in Cornwall County, England, have proved to be as rich as any in the...CORNISH MINING Cornwall is the southwesternmost county in England, with an area of 1,356 square miles...south­ west. Its only land connection is with the county of Devon to the East. Staunch Cornish loyalists...Austell area, known as Hensbarrow Moors. GEOLOGY The county of Cornwall, and the western portion of Devonshire
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...Pennsylvania, and at Chervonograd, LvivVolhynia basin, Ukraine. AM 61, 338, 1976. Achavalite * FeSe (2
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. In the West, the Rockies...the lava plains of the Northwest, the arid Great Basin, and the rugged and highly mineralized Southwest...a Jersey's Limecrest quarry, for instance, is open to a year; the Foote quarry in North Carolina one...or goggles, and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster
Book
copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural mountains and in the Lena River basin, Siberia...were found in Klondike, Alaska; Tuolumne County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Fine
Book
copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to 5 cm in size and...Keweenaw Peninsula near Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from...of gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine...very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets of crystallized gold occurred
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please..."breccia pipes". These are most abundant in King County and contain inumerable quartz crystal lined cavities
Report (Issue volume)
Thermal expansion of Apollo Junar samples and Fairfax diabase W. SCOTT BALDRIDGE, FRANK MILLER, H ERBERT...deep with respect to the surrounding terrae). This basin has the appearance of typical terrae, though there...features suggest that Mare Orientale is also a deep basin . The data appear to corroborate a model of early...The evident suggestion is that the region is a basin which did not get flooded, as did the earthside...visual evidence of this unfilled basin. We believe that such a basin may be defined by the remains of
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in
Report (issue)
A293-A298 of this chapter. Numerous Federal, State, county, 1and local agencies and other organizations and...Yukon-Taiya project, Alaska______ Resources of the Great Basin region_______ En~rgy resources_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __...vicinity--Igneous and metamorp hie rocks_ - - -- --- -Basin and Range region __ ------------------Pacific coast...__ _ Maryland _____________________________ _ Virginia ________ -_-_------------------North Carolina_--...cooperators ____________________________ _ 251 State, county, and local cooperators ______________ _ 251 Other
Book (edition)
tions PC: Private Collection LA: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles) COMMENTS This section contains...Pyrophyllite: North Carolina Japan San Benito County, Gahnite: Colorado Jadeite: California b 1 ...Connecticut Elbaite: problem. Density 0.206 00135 Virginia New as 0.2* 0.0122 0.0135 0.0134 0.0124 0...Microcline: Amelia, Virginia Ontario, Canada Albite (Ab 99 An,): Amelia, Virginia Serpentine (lizardite):...2 31.8 14 30.3 41.4 4.1YR 1.3/8.8 Amelia, Virginia 40 ? 31 28.3 37.2 37.9 58.6 4. 34.2 4
Book (edition)
Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...Currier Susie Davis Ray DeMark Paul Desautels Virginia Deshler Mary Dodds Adolph F. Dosse Steve G. Dulla...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode
Book (edition)
California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia. Ellen W. Faller: Dept. of Geology and Geophysics...Long Island, New York. Victor Yount: Warrenton, Virginia. Josef Zemann: Institut fur Mineralogie der Universitat...Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia AL AK AZ AR CA CO CT DE FL GA HI ID IL IN IA...PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VA Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming WA WV WI WY Provinces, Canada...Publisher, distributed by Williams Minerals, Rio, West Virginia Wies. Eysel. W., Min. Pet. Inst. Univ. Heidelberg
 
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