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Sepiolite from
Empire Mine, Palmer, Marquette County, Michigan, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sepiolite
Formula:Mg4(Si6O15)(OH)2 · 6H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Amethyst1 photo of Sepiolite associated with Amethyst at this locality.
Mountain Leather1 photo of Sepiolite associated with Mountain Leather at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sepiolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Empire Mine, Palmer, Marquette County, Michigan, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:660829
Long-form Identifier:1:3:660829:3
GUID (UUID V4):d5e9bc83-37ef-4ed2-80bd-a5255c268956
References
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Journal (issue)
identify modern methods of mineral exploration and mine development. Among the activities, see what it is...created by an impact event ~1.85 Ga. Photo from USA Space Shuttle Challenger in and smelter, and also...was the tremendous pollution of the area by the mine and smelter. The landscape reminded me of what I...is one of those conundrums. Sort of dammed if you mine and dammed if you don’t. Countries need the nickel...2011). In the United States the Nickel Mountain Mine laterite deposit (Riddle District) in the Klamath
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA (Received February 13, 1992; accepzed in r#~sed~rrn...Au mineralization at the nearby McLaughlin gold mine. The hot springs precipitate pyrite and native sulfur...transported and deposited gold at the McLaughlin mine of the Knoxville district, which contains three...Washingtonstate University, Pullman,WA 99 164-28 12, USA. 1093 E. K. Peters Complexion Bath House Soap...Knoxville Mining District contains the McLaughlin Mine; the Sulphur Creek Mining districts contain the
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOME PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE WHITE SEPIOLITE KNOWN AS PIPESTONE FROM ESKİSEHİR, TURKEY M...Abstract—Various physicochemical characteristics of a sepiolite sample from the Eskis ehir area, Turkey, were...that the sepiolite contains only 6% dolomite by mass. The XRD patterns showed that sepiolite anhydride... diopside, and opal-CT form upon heating the sepiolite above 600, 800, 900, and 1200ºC, respectively...water from the sepiolite, respectively. Dehydroxylation and recrystallization of the sepiolite were fastest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BEIDELLITE AND ASSOCIATED CLAYS FROM THE DeLAMAR MINE AND FLORIDA MOUNTAIN AREA, IDAHO J, L. POST,l B...Grass Valley, California 95945 2 De Lamar Silver Mine, PO Box 103, Jordan Valley, Oregon 97910 3 Swiss...rare specimen of beidellite from the Black Jack Mine, Florida Mountain, Idaho. A variety of aluminous...II beidellites from mines around the Black Jack Mine are given. The beidellites have an American Society...pure specimen of beidellite from the Black Jack Mine, Florida Mountain, near Silver City, Idaho, has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
near Ely in White Pine County; copper-molybdenum ores north of Tonopah in Nye County: and tungsten ores in...Nevada became a state Beryl Ruby Mountains, Elko County (in pegmatite) in 1864, during the Civil War (hence...and quartz Eldorado and Newberry Mountains. Clark County (in cavities in granite) the motto “Battle Born”)...Orthoclase feldspar Goodsprings district. Clark County (in syenite) mineral wealth. The 1859 discovery...olivine, and clinopyroxene Easy Chair Crater, Nye County (in basalt) silver-gold ores on the Comstock lode
Report (volume)
:............................................. Michigan.................................................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.;...; Jefferson County, at Ely ton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works"; St. Clair County, at Greensport;
Report (volume)
Mathews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Michigan..........Mr. R. A. Smith, Lansing. Dr. A. C. Lane...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. 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, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Journal (issue)
already buying Mong Hsu ntbies (see "Burma's Mong Hsu mine rediscovered . . .," 1993). By October 1992, large...~MongHsu Rubies Figz~re4. Holes nnd shnfts dug to mine the gem~ bearing grave1.s penellate the hillsides...1987 Gemstone Durability: Design to Display Wessels Mine Sugilite Three Notable Fancy-Color Diamonds The...Emerald Deposit Beryl Gem Nodules from the Bananal Mine "Opalite:" Plastic Imitation Opal Summer 1989 Filled...Southern Africa Sunstone Labradorite from the Ponderosa Mine Nontraditional Gemstone Cutting Nontransparent "
Report (issue)
Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...the Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits...Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper...Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 771, 1925. Graham County 5:25 Ross, C. P.-Geology and ore deposits of the...district, Graham County, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 763, 1925. Greenlee County 6:05 Lindgren, Waldemar-The
Report (issue)
figures in Bulletin 140. Lode deposits Cochise County-Warren (Bisbee) and Turquoise districts, with ores... Huachuca Mountains. Swisshelm Mountains. Gila County-Globe-Miami district, with ores of copper and silver...copper, lead, and silver. Payson district. Graham County-Galiuro Mountains, Rattlesnake district. Pifialeno... Greenlee County-Clifton-Morenci district, with ores of copper and silver. Maricopa County-Vulture district...district. Phoenix Mountains. Bighorn Mountains. Mohave County-Black Mountains, San Francisco and Katherine districts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Istanbul, Turkey Abstract-The occurrences of sepiolite beds and nodules in alkaline and saline Miocene...the Miocene lake, served as parent rocks for sepiolite nodules (meerschaum). The Miocene succession consists...calcareous clay series, siliceous tuffs, sepiolite beds, sepiolite-bearing dolomite, and basal conglomerates...conglomerates of ultramafic rocks. Sepiolite beds were deposited by direct precipitation from Si-supersaturated...extensive fresh water input near to the surface. Sepiolite nodules resulted from diagenetic replacement of
Book
Chemistry of Sepiolite and Palygorskite 1. The Structures and Microtextures of the Palygorskite-Sepiolite Group...Structural Characteristics of the Palygorskite-Sepiolite Mineral Group 1 .2.2 Species and Nomenclature...Nomenclature 4 6 1 .2.3 Structure of the Palygorskite-Sepiolite Mineral Group and Related Minerals 1 .2.4 Substitutions...Palygorskite and Sepiolite 7 14 1 .2.5 H20, OH2, and OH Positions in Palygorskite and Sepiolite 15 1 .2...Contents 2. Advances in the Crystal Chemistry of Sepiolite and Palygorskite 33 Mercedes Suarez and Emilia
Journal (issue)
Kvanefjeld, Point of Rocks (Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA) and a few from Aris. 5-15 mm free-standing crystals...collected April or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, • Brasil). The...the vendors said the material comes from a copper mine - they are unusual in metamorphic, calc-silicic...malachite - which would go well with the "copper mine" explanation, but I did not like the fact that the...boulders were collected from a dump at a copper mine. Time will tell. By now I needed that beer ... beer
Report (volume)
Cerolite Deweylite (gymnite) Jurupaite Crestmoreite Sepiolite Quincite Iddingsite Phyllosilicates Euclase Leucophane...are represented either by a regional name (as a county) that does not cover too wide an area, or by the...Sussex and Passaic Counties, N. J., and Orange County, N. Y.; Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland, Northumberland...luminescence of strength indicated Weak Renfrew County, Ontario. Bovey Tracey, England. Blagodat, India...Prefecture, Japan. Greenwood, Maine_. St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Odegaard, Norway. _. Kola Peninsula, Russia
Journal (issue)
Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Pocket,” a recreation of a pocket in the Elmwood mine near Carthage, Tennessee. A space of several cubic...subsequently described by Kissin et al. (1978). At the Hugo mine the mineral occurs as ir­ regular grains in the...investigations of a wyllieite-like mineral from the Old Mike mine near Custer proved to be iron-deficient. The mineral
Report (issue)
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state...Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also...Architectural stone is produced from an underground mine in the thermally metamorphosed aureole of Permian...aggregate. Mica production has been recorded at the Mica mine in the Van Horn Mountains (King and Flawn, 1953)...sedimentary rocks host Frasch sulfur mining in Culberson County, Texas (Fig. 2), and the evaporitic facies in the
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal...Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll The Cameron Area 85 Breccia...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee
Journal (issue)
result, the Franklin Hospital, first in Sussex County, was opened by the New Jersey Zinc Company in 1908...been now found in a second occurrence at the Kombat mine in Namibia. At that locality, it occurs as dark...b) Ogdensburgite has now been found in the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, associated with adamite...recently formed white crusts on timbers in the Max mine, Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. See Gerhard Niedermayr's...-1925 SCHEELITE SCHORL SCORODITE SELIGMANNITE SEPIOLITE SERPIERITE SIDERITE SILLIMANITE SILVER SJOGRENITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 14:12 03 February 2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas...(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Book
Indian jewels Serpentine Soapstone Pezzottaite Sepiolite Ludwig II’s pocket watch Chrysocolla Petalite...The angle between a and b is 120 degrees. In the USA, the trigonal is considered a division of the hexagonal...Agate Tourmaline Aventurine Turquoise Quartz USA Spain Jadeite Aquamarine Guatemala Sapphire Spinel...the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...of weight in gemstones. 7 Locations 1 Canada 2 USA 3 Brazil 4 South Africa 5 Russia 6 China 7 Australia
Journal (issue)
. ..... 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ......... .... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona .................................. 531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .....District, Mohave County, Arizona ............. .... ..... 569 M. Hay & D. Morris The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai County...L. Muntyan A Dream Pocket at the North Geronimo Mine, October 1996 ............. .... ... . 603 G. Godas
Book (edition)
Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite...from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near...Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional...uranium deposits on the Colorado Plateau. Coconino County: near Tuba City (Anthony et aI., 2000). ACANTHITE...sulfide found with other copper sulfides. Greenlee County: found in the supergene alteration zone at Morenci
Report (issue)
future." Dr. Schmitt's 1939 paper on the Pewabic Mine of the Central Mining District (193 9b) is considered...abstract of this paper he concluded: "The Pewabic mine is in the southeastern part of the zone of pyrometasomatism...dividends from many years of detailed outcrop and mine mapping. Beginners seldom can be convinced of this...and at Helvetia , Arizona . "(2) At the Esperanza mine and the Mineral Park copper mineralization areas...and developed a small lead-zinc mine near Fierro, New Mexico. This mine was later sold to the U.S. Smelting
 
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