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Zircon from
Seiland Island, Troms og Finnmark, Norway


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Age information
Maximum recorded age:531 Ā± 2 Ma
Minimum recorded age:531 Ā± 2 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
1531 Ā± 2 MaTerreneuvian - U-Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Biotiteā“˜1 photo of Zircon associated with Biotite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Seiland Island, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1351195
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1351195:9
GUID (UUID V4):43567c08-9e47-4b24-9f0f-d34649871fe3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Toronto Libraries] at 13:07 06 March 2015 ZIRCON THE MINERAL ZIRCON (ZrSiO,; see table 1) is remarkable in...radioactive waste. One of the so-called heavy minerals, zircon is highly resistant to physical and chemical breakdown...Minerals). Zircon typically forms in igneous rocks such as granites and pegmatites. Zircon crystals are...attests to the durability of zircon crystals. The zirconium (ZF+)in zircon crystals can be replaced by...remarkably high resistance to breakdown, makes zircon crystals useful for determining the ages of crystalline
Report (issue)
Zircon ZrSiO4 c 2001 Ā° Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Tetragonal; may be metamict...crystals are rare. In Norway, at Larvik and Hakedal; on Seiland Island, Alta River, Finnmark. At SillinjƄa rvi...Pikes Peak, El Paso Co., Colorado. On Turner's Island, in Lake Clear, and at Kuehl Lake, Renfrew Co.... Gibbs, and P.H. Ribbe (1971) The structure of zircon: a comparison with garnet. Amer. Mineral., 56,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Zircon Downloaded by [Tufts University] at 09:35 10 October...diverse paragenesis and resistance to weathering, zircon is one of the most widely distributed and persistent...colorless and blue) zircon are cut as gemstones. Scientists are particularly fond of zircon because of its...the scholarly periodical Elements is devoted to zircon; http:// www.elementsmagazine.org.) Although specimens...consistent sources, and the list of once-productive zircon localities is quite long. The Pikes Peak region
Report (issue)
ļ‚„============================================================ļ‚„ Zircon, 4.8 cm, from the Astor Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan...lustrous, bright brown-red to orange-red crystals of zircon have been intermittently making it to Western markets...Northern Areas), Pakistanā€”particular terms for zircon localities in the Astor Valley have included ā€œBulbin...(mcdougallminerals.com). These show sharp, equant, bipyramidal zircon crystals to about 1 cm in a coarse-grained, black-and-white...resemblance is to matrix zircon specimens from Seiland Island, Norway. As the zircon crystals are fully embedded
Catalog/List
6x3x2", Ā£20.00. 115. CORDIERITE. Tvedestraand,Norway. Large?,interesting specimen. Translucent, off-white... 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...296. RAMSAYITE/PYROXENE. Bratthagen,Lageiindal,Norway. Creamy crystalline cleavages interstitial with...1tx1xĀ£", Ā£10.00. 315- NATIVE SILVER. Vinaaren,Norway. Silvery-metallic threads,small seams and wires
Journal (issue)
specimens of zircon from Seiland Island, Alta, Finnmark in Norway with crystals of gemmy brown zircon to 3cm
Catalog/List
326. CORUNDUM (Var: Ruby). Frolandsverk, Arendal, Norway. Lustrous, rasberry-red translucent xtls and crystal...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...523. HYDROXY-APATITE/HORNBLENDE/ADULARIA. Snarum, Norway. Large, rather coarse surfaced, creamy, equant
Journal (issue)
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...it seems one might leapfrog forever. Sweden and Norway have an incomprehensible driving law forcing cars...in Oslo; the otherworldly wooden stave church in Norway that dates back to the very beginnings of Christianization...different part of the world when we came to the Swedish island of O landā€”the long skinny one off the southeast
Journal (issue)
of xenotime, fergusonite, "cyrtolite" (metarnict zircon) and other rareearth minerals. A second visit to...Jonathan, Jr. Zircon, 12.2 cm, from Thurfjord, Seiland Island, Alta, Finnmark, Norway. Right: Under shortwave...cm, from Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. Ex Lawrence Conklin collection; Joe Budd...mine, Saijo City, Ehime (lyo) Prefecture, Shikoku Island, Japan. Ex Herb Obodda collection; Joe Budd photo...hedenbergite inclusions, 15.5 cm, from Serifos Island, Cyclades, Kyklades Prefecture, Greece. Ex Hoppet
Book
ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12... 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...Australian minerals] 19:466467 ā€¢ Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria 19:451-460 --and A. van
Journal (issue)
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...young age on the stony beaches on the fossil-rich island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Visiting the mineral
Journal (issue)
epidote which may rank with the Price of Wales Island, Alaska, and the Knappenwand, Austria, material...is a veteran (one of the few) of Prince of Wales Island, where he collected epidote in 1970. He says there...were part of the assemblage at Prince of Wales Island). PYRARGYRITE FROM PERU, ETC. Gary Nagin (Route...44 There are chabazite-like crystals from the Island Magee, County Antrim. These are bulky, and transparent...bulk of Conselheiro Pena would be more correct. Norway is in the news again, this time with the specimens
Journal (issue)
ilarite. Excellent albite, euxenite, monazite and zircon crystals have been found there as well. In 1986...map. 165 'p V 'w : ā€¢ euxenite, monazite and zircon were recovered through the efforts of mineral dealers...cm. Cassedanne specimen and photo. F igure 9. Zircon crystal group, 10 cm Cassedanne specimen and photo...Minasgeraisite-(Y) Quartz Spodumene Tourmalines Elbaite Schorl Zircon Phosphates, Arsenates Chernovite-(Y) Churchite-(Y)...4)3 Be3Al2Si6O l8 Zircon Z rS i0 4 In the early years of mining at Jaguarapu, zircon was collected i well-formed
Journal (issue)
illite, m uscovite (sericite), pyrite, quartz and zircon. M o n tm o rillo n ite (Na.Ca),, ,(A l,M g)2Si40...corroded grains to 45 microns, associated w ith zircon, xenotinre and pyrite. Sch u b n elite Fej+s(V5+...e n o tim e Y P04 X enotim e, associated w ith zircon, pyrite and sphalerite, has been found as grains...ircon Z rS i0 4 Euhedral, colorless crystals o f zircon were form erly found from an area o f massive m...aolinite M ontm orillonite M uscovite O pal Q uartz Zircon (Fe, A1)25( P 0 4) 170 6(0 H ) 12-7 5 H ,0 C a5(
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
te Xenotime-(Y) Zincite Zinckenite Zinnwaldite Zircon Zoisite (ortho/clinozoiste) Zunyite Bi2Te2S (Cu...rock-forming mineral besides microcline, biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite. Duricrusts containing...chromium deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit...indicating reducing conditions at Isoma-Triada in N Evia Island, Greece. f) Transitional zone at the base of a...extensional. Some Feā€“Ti deposits are related to island arc magmatism followed by an episode of orogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
te Xenotime-(Y) Zincite Zinckenite Zinnwaldite Zircon Zoisite (ortho/clinozoiste) Zunyite Bi2Te2S (Cu...rock-forming mineral besides microcline, biotite, calcite, zircon, aegirite, pyrochlore and apatite. Duricrusts containing...chromium deposits such as Guseva-Gora, Russia, Duke Island, and USA, bridge the gap between the chromium deposit...indicating reducing conditions at Isoma-Triada in N Evia Island, Greece. f) Transitional zone at the base of a...extensional. Some Feā€“Ti deposits are related to island arc magmatism followed by an episode of orogenic
Book
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,...crystals from 2 to 5 cm across occur with good brown zircon crystals (Britvin, Ivanyuk andYakovenchuk, 1995;...is the source of the large, lustrous, rich brown zircon crystals which arguably are world's best for the
Journal (issue)
Copper, 7.5 cm, from the 5100 Bench, Townsite Island, East Pit of the Chino mine, Bayard, New Mexico...enrolled at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island to study Mining Engineering, Geology and Mineralogy...self-collected. Marc Fleischer photo. Zircon, 2.5 cm, from Seiland Island, Norway; self-collected. ā€¢ Marc Fleischer...70s, we met, dated and married. Mary, from Long Island, New York, graduated with her BS in Secondary Education...collecting in various parts of the world, with Norway (my father's birthplace) being most prominent.
Journal (issue)
Figure 43. Zircon crystals to 4.4 cm in matrix (11.5 cm), from Store Kufjord, Seiland Island, Alta, Finnmark...Finnmark, Norway. Mim #1882, mined in 1985 and acquired in 2016. Roberto Appiani photo. Figure 44. Cafarsite...dure (ā€œhard zeoliteā€) in the lava rocks of Lachea Island, just off the coast of Sicily near Catania. In...the decommissioning of all mining activity on the island, it has become impossible to field-collect any
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...crystallographic axis. TETRAGONAL The minerals zircon and idocrase form crystals in this system. crystals
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...Bournonite Proustite Mimetite (var. Campylite) Vivianite Zircon Clinochlore Gonnardite Figure 4. The high-rise...the Nanisivik mine, Nanisivik (northwest Baffin Island), Northwest Territories. The crystals occur in...ilvaite crystals from the celebrated locality on the island of Seriphos were collected last year, as were some
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
Journal (issue)
sphalerite, spodumene, wodginite, zinnwaldite, zircon and zoisite. Russell Behnke (161 Sherman Ave.,...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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