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Brushite from
Pig Hole Cave, Giles County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Cave
Classification
Species:Brushite
Formula:Ca(PO3OH) · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brushite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pig Hole Cave, Giles County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:133954
Long-form Identifier:1:3:133954:3
GUID (UUID V4):44aeff8d-7860-4cec-933a-0c8d24c3ce8f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BRUSHITE FROM PIG HOLE CAVE, AND TARANAKITE GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA Jonw W. MunnAv, Department oJ Chemistry...P olytechnicI nstitute, Blacksburg, Virginia. Ansrnacr Brushite occurs as nodular massesof platy crystals...a bat guano and hair deposit in Pig Hole Cave, Giles County, Virginia. Taranakite occurs as flour-like...fractures within brecciated clay within the same cave. Chemical, physical, optical, r-ray, and thermal...minerals are presented. Some of the thermal data for brushite ano many of the data for taranakite are reported
Report (issue)
Brushite Ca(HPO4 ) • 2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...c = 5.814(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Pig Hole Cave, Virginia, USA. 7.62 (100), 3.80 (31), 1.90 (10), 3...O5 CaO H2 O Occurrence: One of the most common cave minerals, in guano deposits, and in phosphorites...Mona Island, Puerto Rico. In the USA, in Pig Hole Cave, Giles Co., Virginia; along Rock Creek, Kankakee Co...pegmatite, 60 km south of Karibib, Namibia. In Kyusen-do Cave, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. From the Skipton lava
Report (issue)
c = 95.05(1) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Apulian Cave PU 38, Italy. 15.82 (100), 3.82 (40), 3.14 (31)...28.18 Total 99.96 99.54 100.00 (1) Onino-Iwaya Cave, Japan; by gravimetry and flame photometry; corresponds...(Al, Fe)4.98 (PO4 )8 • 19.7H2 O. (2) Castellana Cave, Italy. (3) K3 Al5 (PO4 )2 (PO3 OH)6 • 18H2 O. ...Vashegyite, leucophosphite, minyulite, francoanellite, brushite, ardealite, strengite, variscite, vivianite. Distribution:...Maritime Antarctic. In Australia, in the Russenden Cave, Queensland; the Skipton lava tube caves, 40 km
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Common speleothems. The stalactites hanging from the cave ceiling, the stalagmites rising from the floor,...joined led to naming this chamber in New River Cave, Virginia, the Forest Room. Photo courtesy John W. Murray...accessible to the public. Furthermore, replicas of cave interiors have become major attractions in a few...many people are interested in how both caves and cave deposits are formed? S c o p e of A n s w e r Only...than 300 miles of mapped passageways, is Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky, one of our national 264
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
species. Brown,G.. .. Brushite and taraaakite from Pig Hole Cave, Giles County, Virginia (Murray, Dietrich)...Levinson) Cordierite porphyroblasts, large, Fremont County, Colorado, TO VOLUME 41 76 844 127 lI7 956 ...with MurraY' J. W. Brushite and taranakite from Pig Hole Cave, Giles CountY' 616 Virginia Trigonal paragonite...paragonite from Campbell and Franklin Coun940 ties, Virginia 673 Dillnite(Konta).. Discreditedminerals. 168...Eucolite, a new occurrence near \AIausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin (Stobbe, Murray) Evans, H. T. Jr., with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stuttgart, April 2004 Brushite in the bat guano deposit from the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains...Fransolet , A.-M. (2004): Brushite in the bat guano deposit from the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains...information on brushite from the famous bat guano deposit from the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains...ardealite and crandallite, in the guano mass from the cave. Individual crystals do not exceed 10 mm in length...with the calculated value [Dx = 2.321(5) g/cm3]. Brushite from Cioclovina closely matches the CaHPO4 · 2H
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Article Stability of cave phosphates: Case study from Liliecilor Cave (Trascău Mountains, Romania)...infilling, fallen limestone blocks, and sediment in a cave that hosts a bat colony; thirteen of these were...phosphate assemblage is composed of hydroxylapatite, brushite, ardealite, taranakite, monetite and whitlockite...g., brushite and taranakite) cluster around relatively well defined boundaries. Key words: cave sediments...sediments, bat guano, cave phosphates, Trascău Mountains, Romania Introduction The importance of organic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogist, Volume 76, pages 1722-1727, I99I Brushite, hydroxylapatite, and taranakite from Apulian...Universitario, 70124 Bai,ltaly Ansrn-lcr Samples of brushite, hydroxylapatite, and taranakite collected from...chemical analysis and by DTA and XRD techniques. Brushite is found to crystallize in very pure form, whereas...data also suggest precipitation from solution for brushite and hydroxylapatite. careoussubstratum.In some...(Perkin Elmer 5100) for minor and trace eleno; only cave PU l2ll presents a comparatl""iv tiiJr ments. Hro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DrnrnrcH, R. V. (1956), Brushite and taranakite from Pig Hole Cave, Giles County, Virginia : Am. M ineral.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrence of taranakite in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains, Romania) Ştefan Marincea and...occurrence of taranakite in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave (Sureanu Mountains, Romania). – N. Jb. Miner. Mh...parameters of taranakite in the “dry” Cioclovina Cave, which is the second documented occurrence of this...the study of taranakite from the “dry” Cioclovina Cave, is the first arising from a more detailed ongoing...type locality for ardealite (Schadler 1932), the cave at Cioclovina is well known by the bat guano deposit
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Book
evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded...thickness at the Giant-Volney mine at Tinton, Lawrence County; and as masses 20-40 feet long at the Hugo, Ingersoll...Ingersoll, and Peerless mines, Keystone, Pennington County. It also is found in Arizona, New Mexico, California
Book
Cave and Karst Systems of the World William B. White Editor The Caves of Burnsville Cove, Virginia... 123 Cave and Karst Systems of the World Series editor James W. LaMoreaux, Tuscaloosa, USA For further...Burnsville Cove, Virginia Fifty Years of Exploration and Science A Contribution of the Butler Cave Conservation...PA USA Additional material to this book can be downloaded from http://extras.springer.com. Cave and...the memory of friends and members of the Butler Cave Conservation Society who are no longer with us.
Report (volume)
represents work done jointly by Ruth Reece King, Virginia M. Jussen, Elisabeth S. Loud, Georgianna D. Conant...represents work done jointly by Ruth Reece King, Virginia M. Jussen, Elisabeth S. Loud, Georgianna D. Conant... Salt Lake :City, Utah. Va. Div. Geology BulL-Virginia Division of Geology Bulletin. Charlottesville...Va. Jour. Sci.-Virginia Journal of Science. Charlottesville, Va. Va. Minerals-Virginia Minerals. Charlottesville...Vt. W. Va. Geol. Survey Bull.; Rept. Inv.-West Virginia Geological Survey Bulletin; Report of Investigations
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...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite...phonolites, rhyolites, and their lavas in Sonoma County, California, in the Picture Gorge basalt, Wheeler
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Publishing Scripta Company, Washington, DC 20005 USA. Acta Chemica Scandinavica, 1947-, Munksgaard, Noerre...Ohio 43214, USA. American Chemical Society, Journal, 1879-, Washington, DC 20036, USA. American Crystallographic...Penn- USA. American Journal of Science, 1818- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA. PREFACE... PREFACE 1909 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA. Arkiv for Mineralogi och Geologi, 1949-, Almqvist...The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. Chemical Geology, 1966-, An International -Journal
Report (volume)
KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT PART 2. INDEX...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:...analysis: KelH. D., 5. ler, W. D., 3. Talladega County, hematiteOklahoma, potash agstone, granite magnetite...ground water: Powham, C. E. ell, W. J., 4. Marengo County: Newton, J. G., 1. Core-drilling program, ChattanooMica:...J.,4. Excursion, Tertiary type-localiMontgomery County: Reade, ties: Rainwater, E. H. , 1. H. L. , Jr
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...LP denn T)nl %% “‘¥eere ; BPH iit errttine MG pig \ atl . ae eyocawe os TScs y ag AT V8 hi a...Saree: RAS rite Gud be a/5t wy & pP st5% +> (pig a) ond a>ent we: yng Serr i' e ial Ss Gnun-...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
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...Fort Union Formation in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES:...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 (volume)
KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT PART 1. BIBLIOGRAPHY...KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT INTRODUCTION...Oftedahl, Margaret Cooper, Margaret E. Barcroft, Virginia E. Rees, Henry J. Ferry, Karlyn Shoemaker, and...are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous
Book (edition)
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...Fort Union formation in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is
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File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...muscovite and albite. (TL) Goshen. Massachusells. USA. Named from cxy1..cxoC · shining' . from its silvery
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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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