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Biotite from
Seiland Island, Troms og Finnmark, Norway


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Zirconā“˜1 photo of Biotite associated with Zircon at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Seiland Island, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1351183
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1351183:4
GUID (UUID V4):1c75a859-3029-4c11-b57a-a8cbf3e4b904
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
County (Grice and Gault 1982), including Turners Island and the Park, Meany, and Smart mines where crystals...brownish-red, glassy crystals from Seiland Island, Alta River, Finnmark, Norway. At this locality, individual...crystals to 10 cm in length occur with magnetite and biotite in a nepheline-bearing pegmatite. Other Norwegian...crystal on coarsely crystalline biotite from Seiland, Finnmark, Norway. Jorn H. Hurum specimen, Jeff Scovil...important rare-earth occurrence at Ytterby, Resaro Island, Sweden. Attractive yellow and orange zircon crystals
Catalog/List
silvery sparse masses formed in Quartz/Chlorite/ Biotite matrix,plus silvery folliate Molybdenite. Specimen...6x3x2", Ā£20.00. 115. CORDIERITE. Tvedestraand,Norway. Large?,interesting specimen. Translucent, off-white...(4x3/8" in size) laying,lightly embedded,on granular Biotite/Feldspar Ispar mat: matrix,plus other subordinate... Ā£14.00. 121. CORUNDUM(Var :Ruby ) . Froland,Norway. Bright raspberry-red coloured crystals and crystal...Chromium-Mica. 3x2x1ā€, Ā£8.00. ib8. GAIX)LINITE. Ireland,Norway. Adamantine,jet-black.crystalline cleavage fragment
Report (issue)
black-and-white igneous rock composed mostly of feldspar, biotite and pyroxene: the general resemblance is to matrix...matrix zircon specimens from Seiland Island, Norway. As the zircon crystals are fully embedded in the chowdery
Journal (issue)
The schist consists of quartz, muscovite and biotite with minor amounts of garnet, staurolite, andalusite...plagioclase, orthoclase, quartz, muscovite and biotite (Anderson and Blacet, 1972). The batholith contains...phenocrysts of quartz and potassium feldspar. Biotite phenocrysts are common in one of the plugs. The...long letter from one Dr. Knut Eldjarn of Oslo, Norway. He invited me and my family to come up for the...motif among just such fertile low hills as these. Norway, we later found, is wilder, 43 there that I first
Catalog/List
326. CORUNDUM (Var: Ruby). Frolandsverk, Arendal, Norway. Lustrous, rasberry-red translucent xtls and crystal...crystal sections, richly developed in lustrous Biotite/Feldspar matrix. 3x2.5x1.75", Ā£15.00 CORUNDUM...390. EPIDOTE. Green Monster Mine, Prince of Wales Island, surfaced terminated, twinned tabular xtl. 1.5x1x5/8"...Dark-green, vitreous 391. EPIDOTE. Guadalupe Island, Baja, California, U.S.A. Rich developments of...75", Ā£14.00. 400. FERGUSONITE. Helle, Nr Arendal, Norway. Almost matrix-free, glassy, very dark-brown pure
Book
ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored... Ullensvang Statsallmenning, Hordaland Fylke.] Norway (by W. L. Griffin. T. Garmo, H. Lovenskiold & A...& N. Robinson) 19:441-450 Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria [Australia] (by W. D. Birch)... Dumka: Minerals of the Nanisivik mine, Baffin Island, Northwest Territories [Canada] 21:515534 BAKER
Journal (issue)
Romano, 1976). They are mainly quartzitic, with biotite, sericite, accessory cordierite, garnet and andalusite...body. The pegmatite is in dark gray quartzitic biotite schist, finely banded. The hanging wall contact...the schist roof related to 24 tite is a quartz-biotite schist and contacts are quite sharp. The following...Na-plagioclase, quartz, muscovite, and a small amount of biotite. The border zone presents a well developed fine-grained...(perthite-quartz) with tourmaline, muscovite, biotite, and pink garnet. The inner zone, coarse to giant
Journal (issue)
(1863ā€“ 1927), no. 8346; Rock Currier photo. ered biotite and mica schists, metaconglomerates and calcareous... The gneiss contains layers of quartz, coarse biotite and muscovite, coarse-grained late-stage dolomite...layers swelled into open lenses surrounded by biotite where, in the larger veins, anhydrite crystal specimens...SrAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6 Silicates Actinolite Albite Almandine Biotite Dravite Epidote Chlorite (chloritoid?) Clinochlore...(11.5 cm), from Store Kufjord, Seiland Island, Alta, Finnmark, Norway. Mim #1882, mined in 1985 and acquired
Journal (issue)
Pink potassium feldspar, gray to milky quartz, biotite, hematite, magnetite and secĀ­ ondary iron oxides...turn blue when heated. Biotite K (M g,Fe2+)3(Al,Fe3+)Si3O 10(O H ,F)2 Biotite occurs as small flakes...tourmaline crystals coats the biotite crystals. This peculiar habit of biotite is 168 common in beryl-bearing...maline (parallel and randomly oriented) occurs in biotite, muscovite and magnetite. Schorl crystals, in some...tourmaline lenses associated with bronze-colored biotite and argillized feldspar are visible near the wall
Journal (issue)
miarolitic cavities within this unusual hornblende-biotite Rapakivi granite. Crystal Classics/Olga Kaspera...Supplement Barite, 11 cm, from the road cut on Rock Island Road north of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County,...(Muzo habit), 3.6 cm, from the Applo mine, Unga Island, Alaska; collected in July 1999. The Mineralogical... TOM COOPER Petrified wood, 12-cm slab, from Unga Island, Alaska; collected in 1999. Agate, 10.3 cm, from...in July 2000. Petrified wood, 8.2 cm, from Unga Island, Alaska; collected in 1999. 64 The Mineralogical
Journal (issue)
Lindenhurst, NY Stewartsville, NJ Sponsored by: Rhode Island Mineral Hunters At: Community College of Rh. Is... Knight Campus (Mall Exit 1-95) Warwick, Rhode Island V 296 Gem & Mineral Show October 25-26, 1986...dip. The adjoining wall rock is a fine-grained biotite granite with large potassium feldspar phenocrysts...pencils, and also white albite. Biotite K(Mg,Fe+2)3(Al,Fe+3)Si3O 10(OH,F)2 Biotite is found scattered through...Actinolite Allanite Andradite Arsenopyrite Bindheimite Biotite Boulangerite Cassiterite Cerussite Chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(continued) Mineral Chemical composition Line Biotite Birnessite Bischoļ¬te Bismite Bismuth native Bismuthinite...no hypersthene. Lamprophyre mainly composed of biotite or phlogopite and melilite. May also contain olivine...maļ¬c minerals such as pyroxene, hornblende or biotite. Matrix consists of the same minerals as the phenocrysts...typical rock-forming mineral besides microcline, biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite...Accessory and alteration minerals include hornblende, biotite, chlorite, and calcite. This diabasic texture is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(continued) Mineral Chemical composition Line Biotite Birnessite Bischoļ¬te Bismite Bismuth native Bismuthinite...no hypersthene. Lamprophyre mainly composed of biotite or phlogopite and melilite. May also contain olivine...maļ¬c minerals such as pyroxene, hornblende or biotite. Matrix consists of the same minerals as the phenocrysts...typical rock-forming mineral besides microcline, biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite...Accessory and alteration minerals include hornblende, biotite, chlorite, and calcite. This diabasic texture is
Journal (volume)
.,. Crystals of pyrite from Rio Marina on the island of Elba , off the Italian coast. - Q) ...Afghanistan , India, Pakistan, China, Montana, USA, and Norway. ā€¢ ā€¢ TWo 19th-centurv brooches set with rubies...The main source was once the Kongsberg Mine in Norway, but this closed in 1956. Man has, however, learned...; 4 parts mercury; 2 parts soil from the Greek island of Chios; a piece of solid copper. ā€¢ Melt the tin...USA. Emery comes primarily from Turkey and the island of Naxos in Greece. Colourless sapphire occurs
Journal (issue)
47-37-93-13-10 Fax: (011) 47-38-19-90-10 N-4670 H ornnes, Norway O pen Mayā€”October Specialties: Minerals and mining...group, 4 cm , from the Alta F jord, Seiland Island, F innm ark, Norway. Evan Jones collecĀ­ tion; J. Scovil...crystals (to 4 x 10 cm) w ith m inor ch lorite/biotite schist m atrix have been com ing from an outcrop...finds is the spinel crystals from near M acD onald Island, N orthw est Territories. T he lustrous black crystals...at Benson Lake, near Port M cN eil (on Vancouver Island, British Colum bia) were collected in the fall
Book (edition)
subfiles E and N. See symposia. Ada County Adak Island In central part of Aleutian SW of Alaska Peninsula...Australia Australia SA geosynclines Adelaide Island Off W coast of Antarctic Peninsula S of Cape Horn...Islands aegerine use aegirine Aegina Town and island in Saronic Gulf. BT Sterea Ellas Greece aegirine...waste disposal Agto Fishing settlement on small island in Davis Strait. BT Greenland Arctic region SA...BT Gulf of Mexico Alae Crater Kilauea volcano on island of Hawaii. BT Hawaii United States SA Kilauea
Book
vein-dike consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and...flattened rhombohedrons (resembling those of Froland, Norway) to 12 cm across, some individuals weighing up...richterite (Menezes and Martins, 1984). EUROPE NORWAY Omdal, Froland, Aus~Agder. Thick-tabular to equant...(Moore, 1991). Old labels often give "Arendal, Norway" as the locality for these ilmenite specimens,...personal communi ation to Rock Currier, 2002). Island of Seriphos. The ve111 best of the classic ilvaite
Journal (issue)
actinolite, albite, almandine, bavenite, beryl, biotite, calcite, cassiterite, columbite, cookeite, diopside...from quartz veins in compact clay on Narushima Island. A good description of the occurrence and collecting...(Mainzer Str. 60, D-6580 Idar-Oberstein 2, Germany). NORWAY Jim McGlasson (Collector's Stope) had specimens...N-2686 Lorn, Norway) reĀ­ ports there have been a number of interesting recent finds made in Norway. A number...these may be among the best calcites ever found in Norway! Sharp, lustrous crystals o f black hornblende
Book (edition)
U.S. BA United States NA Columbia Kentucky Adak Island In central part of Aleutian Islands SW of Alaska...Australia SA geosynclines SA Stuart Shelf Adelaide Island Off W coast of Antarctic Peninsula S of Cape Horn...Islands aegerine use aegirine Aegina Town and island in Saronic Gulf. BT Sterea Ellas BT Greece aegirine...international cooperation Agto Fishing settlement on small island in Davis Strait. BT Greenland BT Arctic region...Gulf of Mexico Alae Crater On Kilauea Volcano on island of Hawaii. Autoposting of broader terms to this
 
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