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Chromite from
Gassin, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gassin, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1263316
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1263316:6
GUID (UUID V4):cdb27a65-0e66-472d-a78d-9a49665de22b
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
4.6km (2.9 miles) Carrade de Cavalaire, Cavalaire-sur-Mer, Draguignan, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
93.5km (58.1 miles) Durance river alluvial deposits, Peyrolles-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This time we will take up chromite, the chief ore of chromium. Chr omite Chromite, an oxide of chromium and...which received its name from its chromium contení. Chromite is found commonly in a massive form, often granular...mineral is found in many countries but the chief chromite-producing countries are Cuba, Greece, India, New...Yugoslavia. There are a number of localities for chromite in the United States but those in Maryland and...famous producer of chromite where good specimens may still be found. The most famous chromite mine in the United
Report (issue)
Chromite Cubic. Point Group: 4/m 321m. Crystals octahedral, modified by the cube or dodecahedron, to...Association: pentlandite, Widespread. From Gassin, Var, France. Large crystals from Hangha, Sierra Leone...Ge (1992) Fe2+ - Fe3+ ordered distribution in chromite spinels. Phys. Chern. Minerals, 19, 255-259. References:
Report (issue)
ulvöspinel. Distribution: Widespread. From Gassin, Var, France. Large crystals from Hangha, Sierra Leone... Ge (1992) Fe2+ −Fe3+ ordered distribution in chromite spinels. Phys. Chem. Minerals, 19, 255–259. All
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stalactiforme et rubanée sont en Oural et au Katanga. En France, hormis la célèbre mine de Chessy (localité-type...gisements dans les Vosges, en Auvergne, Var, Loire, Tarn, Savoie, Alpes-Maritimes, Corse, des Pyrénées, etc...(Vietnam) Goethite (Le Kaymar, Aveyron) Barytine (Côte d’Abot, Puy de Dôme) Ou dérivant du nom d’une personnalité...sont aussi appelées « semi-précieuses », sauf en France où cette désignation est interdite depuis 2002...manufacture chinoise Perle des joyaux de la Couronne de France Intaille romaine en ambre baltique Ambre (Belgique)
Book (volume)
l’Institut Muséum d’histoire naturelle DE LA FRANCE ET SES COLONIES DK description physique et chimique...strüvérite et la inonazite. MINÉHALÜGIE DE IA FRANCE 4 lima paru dès le premier abord vraisemblable...0;09 1120 10,90 : ana- MlNKliALOGIK DK (i FRANCE ],A (>nOUPE DE L’APATÏTE APATITE Anjou. (T...0,3930 : 1 : 0,4339] 8 MINÉKALOGIE DE LA FRANCE Ces nouvelles données permettent de simplifier...Dans la la description valeur de yz ei zx — Alpes. — lire par ; yz ;)8"28', MM. Connard tome
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France F. Farges Department of Geological and Environmental...d’Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France e-mail: farges@mnhn.fr a glass synthesized in...Speciation Z Symmetry II D4h a Cr2(CH3CO2)42H2O Chromite III Oh (regular) FeCr2O4 Uvarovite III Oh...Cruickshank (1970) 0.095 5994.02 Natural (Gassin, France) Lenaz et al. (2004) 0.072 5993.83 Natural...wine (from the Champagne area, France). It is a secular tradition in France that the dark-green color of
Book (volume)
Muséum d’histoire naturelle MINERALOGIE DE LA FRANCE ET DE SES COLONIES DESCRIPTION PHYSIQUE ET CHIMIQUE...Braunite.... Brochantite Géleslite Chalcanthite Chromite Chromopicolile. Connellite rnmîinitp Coquimbile...317 352 73 243 5 282 267 MINÉRALOGIE DE LA FRANCE -MACON PR O T AT FRERES, IMPRIMEURS I M-...revue de tout ce que j’ai MINÉRALOGIE DE LA FRANCE H recueilli dans les au cours de ma publication...richesses minéralogiques du sol de la plus grande France, en montrant que ses colonies, tout autant que
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have been approved: ahrensite, brunogeierite, chromite, cochromite, coulsonite, cuprospinel, filipstadite...Brunogeierite is a germanate spinel. Chromite—FeCr2O4. The name chromite was introduced in the mineralogical...locality is considered Gassin, Var, France (Gallitzin 1801). Today the term chromite refers to the Fe endmember...928 Spinel MgAl2O4 8.083 1.914 1.931 3+ B = Cr Chromite FeCr2O4 8.376 1.997 1.994 Cochromite CoCr2O4 8...occurrences of chromite actually consist of magnesiochromite, the Mg endmember. Moreover, chromite forms solid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ophiolites can be an important source of chromite. Ophiolitic chromite deposits are very variable in distribution...characterized by a lherzolite mantle are barren, whereas chromite deposits are restricted to harzburgite ophiolites...kilometer below it. On the scale of a given massif, chromite deposits are larger and more numerous in mantle...the crust. Introduction The first occurrences of chromite were found less than 200 years ago, first in the...the Urals and then in the Maures, near Gassin, after the discovery of the element chromium by Vauquelin
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sur le gite plumbocuprifere de la Garonne dans le Var et un petit ouvrage aussi rare que classique sur...parai'tre). a I NVENTAIRE MINERALOGIQUE DE LA FRANCE. Collection publiee par R. PIERROT et collaborateurs...Geologique National (B.R.G.M.) Representant de la France a la Commission des nouveaux mineraux et noms de...2-225-48829-0 ISBN, BRG M : 2-7159-00007 lmprime en France. PREFACE Parmi les Sciences de la Nature la Mineralogie...promoteur de l'I nventaire mineralogique de la France, publication qui connazt actuellement un grand
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Geology in France and Related Areas (1994) J. D. Keppie (Ed.) Pre-Mesozoic Geology in France and Related...Cataloging-in-Publication Data. Pre-Mesozoic geology in France and related areas / J. D. Keppie (ed.). p.cm.Developed...2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Paleozoic. 3. Geology-France.!. Keppie, J. Duncan. II. IGCP Project 233-Terranes...comprehensive account of the PreMesozoic Geology of France (Armorican and Central Massifs) and related areas...areas (Aquitaine Basin, Vosges, Crystalline Provence, Pyrenees, western Alps, Corsica and Sardinia) that
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elaborate cigarette cases were being made in Russia, France and England. Russian cases of that period exhibited...Kongsberg, Norway; Sainte-Marie-auxMines, Alsace, France; Schemnitz, Czech Republic. Africa: Tsumeb, Namibia...Chile. Europe: Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, France; Wolfsburg and Sankt Andreasberg, Lower Saxony...Mt. Augusta, Colorado. Europe: Moliéres, Gard, France; Bottino Bournonite, Herodsfoot Mine, Liskeard...Westerwald, Germany; Saint-Laurent-le-Minier, Gard, France; Trep¢a, Kosovo. Australia: Broken Hill, New South
Report (issue)
Chrome Ore in Foreign Countries: Albania Bulgaria France Germany . . Greece Italy ........................in the minerals of the spinel group, especially chromite, and to a minor extent in natural lead chromates...States, U.S.S.R., Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, France, and Norway. CHROME ORE There is only one ore...essentially of the mineral chromite in varying degrees of purity. 7 « Chromite, which rarely if ever approaches...20 per cent, both of A12O3 and MgO. The mineral chromite, which varies in colour from dark brown to jet
Book (edition)
precursor (see photo below). Right: Intercumulus chromite grain (medium grey) displaying embayments that...that are typical for the partial resorption of a chromite in disequilibrium with the surrounding ultramafic...to the developing crystal. Thus, oxides such as chromite, ilmenite, and magnetite plus PGE alloys separate...Rounded euhedral chromite in a silicate matrix (top) and Right (bottom): Massive chromite (medium grey)...dominantly silicic magma. Right (top): Intergranular chromite (lighter grey) in ultramafic silicate matrix (dark
Journal (issue)
Australia -20 tons, Brazil-906 tons, India119 tons. France has the only Beryllium refinery outside of the...pinch of glass sand which came f rom- Fontainbleu, France ! This is a well-known glass sand, quite a pure...deposit is the result of stream action. Sand from France On the French Riviera one's thoughts whirl through...Lava field near Reykjavik, Iceland. C: Nice beach, France. D: Gypsum, Alamogordo, New Mexico. E: St. Peter...the naked eye five countries, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany and Austria. Zugspitze is in the Bavarian
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Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite Sn2 /•O6'OH) 14Cl 1,, (3.D). Trigona]...smaragdite often accompanies chromite in ultrabasic rocks and chromite deposits, e.g. at the Soridag...dolerite at St.-Pandelon, near Dax, Landes dept., France, also at Karakat, Karamazar Mts., Tajikistan. BM...from talc in the Trimouns open pit, Ariege dept., France. Dokl. Earth Sci. 142, 107, 1962. Aeschynite-(Nd)...Collina. Gem1:my.at Val d' Ajol. Vosges dept., France, at Gro etopro\'..Tuscany.andin colorlessCl)1stal~at
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fashionable color for carriages of the nobility in both France and England. As a boy in Normandy, Louis-Nicholas...component of the heavy black mineral later named chromite (FeCr2O4). In 1799, another German chemist Tassaert...mineral from a small deposit in the Var region of southeastern France. This mineral was to be identified...identified as Cr–Fe spinel and now known as chromite. L1608_C01.fm Page 10 Monday, October 25, 2004 10:18 AM...tanning in 1884. First used as a refractory in France in 1879, its actual use started in Britain in 1886
Book (volume)
1-8. 10, vol. Ann. mines. Annales des mines. (France, Ministere des travaux publiques, des postes et...Bulletin: vol. 1, 1878-85 as Societe mineralogique de France. Index: 1-10; 11-20; 1878-date. 21-30; 31-40. Bull...Academic des sciences, Paris, 1795-1815 as Institut de France. Classe des sciences mathematiques et physiques...above- set. Soc. chim., Bull. Societe chimique de France. 1858-1907 as Soci6t6 chimique de Paris. Bulletin:...21-30 in vol. 30. Soc. geol. France., Bull. Societe geologique de France, Paris. Bulletin: vol. 1-14,
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Chakhmouradian (Canada), Pierre-Jacques Chiappero (France). G. Daxner (Austria). M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo...(ltaly). Stefano Merlino (ltaly), Yves Mo!:lo (France), E.11. ickcl (Australia), Milan Novåk (Czech Republic)...(ltaly). Werner H. Paar (Austria). Gian Carlo Parodi (France). Marco Pa ero (ltaly). Igor Pekov (Russia), atale...(Japan), William B. Simmons (USA). C.J. Stanley (UK). France ca Stasi (ltaly). Tony Steede (Canada). Ricardo...Margnacuraniumdcposit, Compn:ignac,Haute-VicMe,France,58. 805-806, 8S, 1294--1297(str.) □ Agullarite
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dodecahedron No. 4 ; Nos. 2, 3, and 4 are from Chessy in France~ Presented by the late G. B, Greenough, F.R.S....Iron. with CHRO~IEOCHRE ( Oxide of Chromium). CHROMITE, Unst, Shetland. Presented by D. Midgley. 01·...the Marquis ofBreadalbane. 632 CHROMITE Shelf VIII. 634. CHROMITE, • •· large mass. Fetlar, Zetland...Copper, in :fine crystals. Chessy, near Lyons, France, This beautiful mineral was largely obtained formerly...lRoN PYRITES, Clay i11 Slate. 401. C HROl\IE Chromite. IRON ORE, or Asia Minor. Oxide of chromium
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Eric Asselborn, M.D.: Montrevel-en-Bresse, Ain, France. F. John Barlow: Appleton, Wisconsin. Peter Bayliss:...Hungary. Fabien Cesbron: B. R. G. M., Orleans, France. Graham Chinner: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge...Massachusetts. Gilbert Gauthier: Maisons Laffitte, Paris, France. Legrand A. Gould: Pebble Beach, California. George...and wire silver); Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, France; Andreasberg, Freiberg(*), and Schneeberg(*), Germany;...Canada; Salsigne deposit, Aude, and Scoufour, Cantal, France; Baita, Romania; Tyrnyauz district, Caucasus Mts
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dodecahedron No. 4; Nos. 2, 3, and 4 are from Chessy in France. Presented by the late G. B. Greenough, F.R.S...progress, 1860. ORES OF CHROMIUM. chromic or 633. CHROMITE 621 to 621b. RUTILE (Owide of Titanium), in long...long striated crys Shelf VII. 629 to 631. CHROMITE (Chro mate of Iron), massive and gra nular, associated...Presented by the Marquis of Breadalbane. 632 CHROMITE, with CHROME oCHRE (Owide of Chromium). - Unst...Unst, Shetland. Vetch. Shelf VIII. 634. CHROMITE, large mass. Fetlar, Zetland. Presented by Sir Arthur
 
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