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Mesolite from
South Quarry, Wren, Benton County, Oregon, USA


Classification
Species:Mesolite
Formula:Na2Ca2Si9Al6O30 · 8H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mesolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view South Quarry, Wren, Benton County, Oregon, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:113756
Long-form Identifier:1:3:113756:9
GUID (UUID V4):640e094e-1cda-49fc-8624-53c1af4bf817
Nearest other occurrences of Mesolite
11.7km (7.3 miles) ā“˜Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) ā“˜Valley Landfill Pit (S2F quarry), Coffin Butte, Benton County, Oregon, USA
54.0km (33.5 miles) ā“˜Buck Mountain, Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, USA
54.1km (33.6 miles) ā“˜Shotgun Creek, Linn County, Oregon, USA
54.6km (33.9 miles) ā“˜Shotgun Creek, Lane County, Oregon, USA
60.6km (37.6 miles) ā“˜M-120, Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, USA
61.8km (38.4 miles) ā“˜McGowan Creek, Lane County, Oregon, USA
72.8km (45.3 miles) ā“˜Mount Pisgah, Springfield, Lane County, Oregon, USA
76.0km (47.2 miles) ā“˜Calapooya River, Dollar, Linn County, Oregon, USA
98.6km (61.3 miles) ā“˜Netarts Bay rock pit, Netarts, Tillamook County, Oregon, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
COLLECTING AT GOBLE, OREGON! REVISITED. The history and minā€¢rals found at Goble, Oregon were published in...Washington University. HISTORY: Goble, in Columbia County, Oregon is one of the oldest and best known zeolite...large balls of okenite, apophyllite, chabazite, mesolite, thomsonite, and stilbite. John Cowles first collected...discovered an unknown blue mineral at thā€¢ Chapman quarry, ā€¢ half milā€¢ furthā€¢r up the Neer road from wherā€¢...identical with material found at Owyhee Dam in eastern Oregon and was named Cavansite in 1967 by Lloyd Staples
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L E C T I N G Z E O L I T E S IN OREGON By R.D. DONALD J. Oregon is well known for its famous zeolite...productive areas. Collecting localities of eastern Oregon will be mentioned first, followed by loĀ­ calities...E C H C R E E K (see Fig. No. 1 ) : Mt. Vernon, Oregon, is situated on Hwy. 26. Near the center of town...the quarry (Fig. No. 2 ) on the left side. Park on the right side of the road, opposite the quarry. N...r t k B e e c h + Cr-eek, Oregon Fig. No. 1 Beech Creek, Oregon Zeolites to be collected here
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ANALCIME FROM BENTON COUNTY, OREGON Lr,ovo W. Srapr,ns,UniaersityoJOregon,Eugene,Oregon. Assrnncr An unusual...analcime has been found at Coffin Butte, Benton County, Oregon. Trapezohedrons of analcime are arranged...basalt quarry on Coffin Butte, located about 10 miles north of Corvallis in Benton County, Oregon. The... Highway 99 W., and is about one mile south of the Polk county line. It stands out as a prominent topographic...crystallized specimensof stilbite, mordenite, mesolite, natrolite, heulandite, chabazite, apophyllite
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found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were...gobbinsite), heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite)... ZEOLITES DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have...have the same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with...ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE EDINGTONITE
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found between the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were...gobbinsite), heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite)... ZEOLITES DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have...have the same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with...ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE EDINGTONITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the railroad tunnels through Bergen Hill, Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected...collected from many localities in Passaic County, such as quarries at Paterson and West Paterson (including...single analcime crystal on serandite from the Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. This 3.7-cm specimen...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROCKS & MINERALS CENOZOIC TO RECENT VOLCANICS OREGON Ffjyf] MIOCENE COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT UJ EOCENE...VOLCANICS | | NON-VOLCANIC ROCK Rock Island, south of Wenatchee, where vesicular basalt that was dredged...zeolites (stilbite, heulandite, mordenite, scolecite, mesolite, and small amounts of laumontite and epistilbite)...particularly at Robertson quarry, Dayton, Mason County; Pe E l l and Doty in Lewis County; and Mount Solo, Longview...Longview, Cowlitz County. E x Ā­ ceptional crystals of colorless transparent analcime, up to 3 cm across
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Moss Agatefiom the Del Norte Area, Saguache County, Coloradoā€ and appeared in the July/August 2003...Mountain having been recently acquired by Jefferson County Open Space, a governmental agency that emphasizes...the IabIe M0 U nt a inS near Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado Downloaded by [University of Kentucky...Boulder, Colorado 80303 orado, showing North and South Table Mountains, Ralston Dike, and Green Mountain...Mountain. The city of Golden is west of North and South Table Mountains, and Coors Brewery is situated between
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICROMOUNTS OF SOI AE OREGON MINERALS By FORD I ;. WILSON Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY] at 14:38...paragraphs is to describe several occurrences in Oregon of material suitable for mineral micromounts. Although...of the "smallies." Basaltic rock covers much of Oregon. When more or less altered or decomposed, this...Gonyer, ( 1 ) . In a road cut near the post office, mesolite occurs as wool-like or fibrous filling in voids...(2) figure 185. the Oregon Country come from Coffin Butte, in Benton County, a few miles north of
Journal (issue)
Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt 139 James...aerially extensive Osborn Ag-Au district of Maricopa County in west-central Arizona. The primary property in...mine is approximately 40 km south of Wickenburg. To get there drive south out of W ickenburg on the Vulture...Tonopah-Aguila Road is encountered. From there continue south along a poorly maintained dirt road until Belmont...side of Belmont M ountain, a 20-meter shaft on the south side which connects to a haulage adit, and numerous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the most common zeolites (such as natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite) can be similar in appearance,...Falls, Windham, Maine, and at the Dexter quarry, Lincoln County, Rhode Island. A historical occurrence...occurrence is with prehnite in gneiss at Wardā€™s quarry, Pelham, Massachusetts. It has been reported from the traprock...including those at Edgewater, Bergen County; Bergen Hill, Hudson County; and Great Notch, Upper Montclair...Passaic County. Scolecite has been collected in the diabase quarry at Manassas, Prince William County, and
Journal (issue)
1940 Contents for November, 1940 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................................................... 368 A TALC QUARRY NEAR CHESTER, VERMONT. By Peter Zodac 369 MORSE...000 SPECIMENS ................ 377 A MESOLITE LOCALITY IN OREGON .......................................]oJces Ca11e 3-Crysta/ Cave S< 4- Government Quarry .5- Chalk Cave 6--Col/ophanite Locality l< 1...but the best collecting place is the Government quarry. H ere one is almost sure to find the mineral in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(analcime, chabazite, gmelinite, heulandite, levyne, mesolite, natrolite, phillipsite, stilbite, thomsonite)...uraninite, 1081 South Crofty mine, Illogan, Redruth: coffinite, uraninite, xc South Terras mine, St...zeo]ires (analcime, chabazite, heulandite, levyne, mesolite, thomsonite), 187 Old Brandlehow, Derwentwater:... apophyllite, gyrolite, 173 BaUyclare; Bruslee quarry, Ballyclare; Call Hill farm, Cookstown Junction... Belfast; Glenoe; Kilwanghter Castle; Nelson's quarry, BaUyhenry; Shane' s Hill, Larne; Skerrywhirry
Journal (issue)
36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof.... and Peter Keller, curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, were instrumental in...Snailā€ rhodochrosite specimen (Nā€™Chwaning mine, South Africa) belonging to Pala Properties. All of the...specimen of acicular mesolite with apophyllite crystals perched on the mesolite hairs to form a spectacular...Farolith (Thomsonite) Mesotyp (Natrolite) Scolecite Mesolite Levyne Phillipsite Chabazite Parastilbite (Epistilbite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amygdulesin basaltsat Goble, BeechCreekand Spray,Oregon;near Superior,Arizona;Monte Lake, BritishColumbia;Capitol...934 2 331. The namehonorsMr. JohnCowlesof Rainier,Oregon. Introduction It is becoming a rarity for investigatorsto...at the well known zeolite locality near Goble, Oregon. After being unable to match the X-ray powder pattern...Beech Creek quarry, Grant County, Oregon, by Robert and Mary Hillsdon; at Spray, Oregon, by Russell Kenaga...it is a new zeolite species. Occurrences Goble,Oregon Cowlesiteoccurs sparselyin small vugs in late Eocene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stretching from Benton in Saline County to the city limits of Little Rock in Pulaski County. The outcrops...outcrops in Saline County are weathĀ­ ered and poorly exposed except where bauxite mining has taken place. The...crushed rock. Both operations often occur in the same quarry, with the dark gray nepheline syenite being used...itesā€”has been known since at least 1842 in Pulaski County 314 ROCKS & MINERALS (Williams, 1891). Quarrying...of well-developed quarries on Granite Mountain south of Little Rock. Williams recognized two primary
Book
LEONHARDITE 65 LEVYNITE= LEVYNE 67 MAZZITE 70 MESOLITE 71 MORDENITE (PTILOLITE) 75 NATROLITE 78...MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA...Kilpatrick Hills Austrian Tyrol, Seiser Alm, South Tyrol Caslav, St. Andreasberg, ASIA -2- Bohemia...Flinders, N"Ā£W ZEALAND Tasmania Sydney, New South Wales SOUTH AMERICA Viadulo, BRAZIL Rio Grande do...diabase found in cavities, and shists. LOCATIONS: USA Ash Creek, Sonoma and Mendocino Co., California
Journal (issue)
fluorapophyllite crystal, 4.6 cm, from Pashan Hills quarry no. 2 near Poona, Maharashtra state, India. Steve...Januaryā€“February, 2003 Introduction Green apophyllite with mesolite from Poona, velvety white okenite puffballs from...was scolecite. Bowman finally proved it to be mesolite in 1909. An interesting and somewhat earlier reference...Hampden 10 Turner: platy white apophyllite with mesolite from ā€œIndore, Indes orientales.ā€ The actual production...localities such as, most recently, the Bombay-Dahisar quarry, with its diverse calcite specimens. Members of
Catalog/List
mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 Ā£2.50 1x1 Ā£4 1x2 Ā£10 156 NATIVE BISMUTH...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 Ā£4 1x2 Ā£7.50 360 PARATELLURITE TeO...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins Ā£4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good...micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm Ā£4 up to 1.5cm Ā£7 242 KOLBECKITE Scandium Phosphate...metallic mass in ā–  matrix. (Mohawk Mine,Keenaw County Michigan USA) 1x1 Ā£3 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu VO/4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MESOLITE By D O N A L D J . G O O D E L L R.D. 1, Box 3 6 - M - 2 2 , Valatie, N. Y . 1 2 1 8 4 M E...intergrown with natrolite, scolecite, or thomsonite. MESOLITE is a hydrous sodium-calĀ­ cium alumino-silicate...been collected at Bergen Hill and the New Street quarry in Paterson, N . J . NatroĀ­ lite crystals from...mineral from Paterson called "natrolite" is probably MESOLITE. Matted tufts of long delicate MESOĀ­ L I T E fibers...S O L I T E X L S with Calcite - Grant C o . , Oregon ( p h o t o by D o n G o o d e l l - 1.2X) Collection
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... Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite ........................ Thomsonite...Karsten 1808) Scolecite: Gehlen and Fuchs (1813) Mesolite: Fuchs and Gehlen (1816) Gismondine: Leonhard...1.1 Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite Natrolite Na16(All~i240so) Fdd2 a...19.07 b = 19.13 C= 6.58(A) Na16(All~i240so)' Mesolite Scolecite NaI6CaI6(AI4sSi72024o) . 64H 20 Fdd2...proposed, for the intermediate member, the name mesolite from the Greek peaov = middle and AI&O<; = stone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
separate zeolite species under Rule la. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite have the same topologically distinctive...criterion for recognition of the natural series. Mesolite may have either Na or Ca slightly in excess of...composition is not regarded as 'substantial', and mesolite is not divided into more than one species on grounds...Creek, south 541 D. S. COOMRS ETAL. side of the Neer Road, 0.2 km north of Goble, Columbia County, Oregon...No. 4 wollastonite mine near Harrisville, Lewis County, New York, U.S.A. (Robinson and Grice, 1993). Also
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the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville Quarryļ‚¾ chalcedony, jasper...jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
Journal (issue)
1 Ā·C ontents for February, 1941 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................... .............................Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·Ā·48 AN OTHER OCCURRENCE FOR MESOLITE IN OREGON. By M,Ā·s. Edith M~Leod . . . . . . . . ....GORGE AREA . By F. C. Kessler ........ A RESERVOIR QUARRY IN CONNECTICUT. By Peter Z odac ...... RARE MINERAL...munitions of war from the different works in the South Oural, destined for Sevastopol and the fores on...the hill, where it is being wor'quarry Here lies an inexhaustible supply of this valuable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ft ZEOLITES FKOM BITTER HOT SPRING, GRANT COUNTY, OREGON By T>. F. Hewett Geologist, United States...of a region lying west of the Blue Mountains in Oregon for the United States Geological Survey. Recently...sec. 6, T. 8 S., R. 30 Willamette meridian. Grant County, on the north side of the Middle Fork of John Day...Day on the road from that town to Ukiah, Umatilla County. In this region the three main forks of John Day...Lindgren, W., The Gold Belt of the Blue MouDtams of Oregon Twenty-second Ann. Rept. U. S. Gcol. Survey, pt
 
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