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Damourite from
Antarctica


Locality type:Continent
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Damourite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Damourite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Antarctica
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:140318
Long-form Identifier:1:3:140318:3
GUID (UUID V4):55708e54-f6ef-4a80-ad21-7061753439cd
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(4),2r 123-135 (1896)' ON THE MINERALOGY OF ANTARCTICA DuNc.qN SrnwAnt, Jr.., Corleton College,Northf'eld...Christensen(Christensen-Vulkan)of Robert' son Island, West Antarctica. The following is a list of the 167 mineral species'subspecies...questionable occurrence, that have been reported from Antarctica. A number of these have been determined only...Corundum Cossyrite Cristobalite? Cummingtonite Damourite Delessite Diallage Diopside Doiomite Dumortierite...petrography. II. Rocks from Ingrid Christensens Land, Antarctica. Sci. Res. Norwegian Antarctic Exped'. 1927-1928
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grade rocks into Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia in the Gondwanaland suggests that...cyrtolite—see zircon dahllite—see hydroxyl-apatite damourite—see muscovite ((danburite)) datolite-Blue Hill
Journal (issue)
.............. 16 MINERALS REPORTED FROM ANTARCTICA. AN OUTLET FOR GEM CUTTERS . . . . . . . . ... 12 ROCKS AND MINERALS MINERALS REPORTED FROM ANTARCTICA DUNCAN STEWART, JR. Lehigh University Since...petrography of the G\'psum ~{irabilite rocks of Antarctica and its islands. The results embodied in these...flat termination. Several fine spec1• mens of damourite v.rere also found. This is an alteration after...1g [r. ~d ~s ·e• rd )0 al ➔. ce ut to damourite. The color of this crystal was pale pinkish. Both
Report (issue)
formed during the separat i on of Australia from Antarctica. Their history as evidence of the drifting apart...ica , Africa , greater India, Austral ia and Antarctica. Anyone looking at a map of the world or a globe...deposited in the rift forming between Australia and Antarctica are of non-marine origin in contrast to those...Rise/ / TASMAN/ SEA / 0 1000 K ILOMETRES 2000 ANTARCTICA 78-9B2 Orn. J.P.V Fi g . 29 / I • ?NEW...when Australia became completely separated from Antarctica. CAINOZOIC Tertiary and Quaternary history of
Book (volume)
sillimanite gneiss, Clark Peninsula, Wilkes Land, Antarctica (Mason, 1959). Anal. H. B. Wuk (Includes Na,0...Tephroite from Clark Peninsula, Wilkes Land, Antarctica. Amer. Min., vol. 44, p. 428. O’Daniel, H. and...products include muscovite and sericite, the variety damourite being particularly associated with the breakdown...margarite, fluorite, kaolinite, sericite, muscovite (damourite, gilbertite) and hydromuscovite. OPTICAL AND PHYSICAL...spinel rock, Mawson area, MacRobertson Land, Antarctica (Segnit, 1957). Anal. P. C. Hemingway and R.
Book (volume)
Continental glaciers (like the ice sheet now covering Antarctica) probably extended across Maine several times...specimens of Maine tourmaline, topaz, triplite, damourite, columbite, muscovite, garnets, amethyst, staurolite..."amblygonite" and rubellite from Rumford; topaz, damourite, columbite, beryl, and triplite from Stoneham...measuring one foot across. Associated with these were damourite, triplite, triphylite, columbite; one mass of...locality at Stoneham." to be two different forms of damourite as well as a third name listed as the discoverer
Book
hypersthene, and minor magnetite. [Enderby Land, Antarctica] (Tilley in 1936) enderbite, m- ig., meta.? Name... [Gaussberg volcano, Kaiser Wilhelm II Land, Antarctica] (Lacroix in 1926) gauteite ig. hypab. Rock related...corundum-biotite s., crossite s., cummingtonite s., damourite (hydromica) s., diopside s., epidote s., fuchsite...the variety of hydromica (a mineral) once named damourite. (Thomson in 1836) talpatate sed. Surficial rock
Journal (issue)
Advertisers 13 park at a small pathway. Kyanite, damourite, feldspar and many other minerals can be found...south of nowhere on the icebound continent of Antarctica lives a most peculiar bird, the Emperor Penguin
Report (issue)
p . 84). CYR - 182 CYRTOLITE (See zircon) DAMOURITE (S ee muscovite ) DANAITE (See arsenopyrite)...whi te mica. Other va ri eta l names include: damourite, ma r garodite, pinite, gi lb ertite, hydromuscovite...numerous to r eco rd . British Co l umbia 82 N/7 Damourite is a variety of muscovite w hi c h fo rm s in...heir pearly lu stre . An analysis by Johnston of damourite found with quartz and dolo mite in the Kicking...locality . Ontario 31 c I 12 An occurrence of damourite has been reported on lot 14, cone. XIV, Methuen
Corporate Document (Series)
dolerite dykes and sills, equivalent to those in Antarctica and South Africa. This dolerite is also mostly...are less distinctive. The names 'sericite', 'damourite' and 'pinite' have all been applied to a number...green, massive muscovites which include the 'damourite', originally recorded from Mt Lyell, and the 'gilbertite'
Book
Bauxite is known to occur on all continents except Antarctica. Total annual world production of bauxite exceeds...the sillimanite to kaolin, and the kyanite to damourite. The deposits have produced more than 200,000
Book (edition)
hydromuscovite may be used to cover this and damourite, gilbertite, pinite, phengite etc. Paragonite...examples come from Mt Kenya and from Mt Erebus in Antarctica. The crystals in these examples have canoe-shaped...Dacite, 157 Dahllite, 165, 227 Daisy-bed ore, 234 Damourite, 275 Dana, E. S., 299 Daphnite, 278 Dative bond
Book (edition)
hydromuscovite may be used to cover this and damourite, gilbertite, pinite, phengite etc. Paragonite...examples come from Mt Kenya and from Mt Erebus in Antarctica. The crystals in these examples have canoe-shaped...Dacite, 157 Dahllite, 165, 227 Daisy-bed ore, 234 Damourite, 275 Dana, E. S., 299 Daphnite, 278 Dative bond
Book (edition)
at the Saranovskoye chromite deDufek massif, Antarctica; posit, north Urals, USSR; Black Lake, Quebec...Germany, Nigeria, Kenya, Mongolia, Australia, and Antarctica. and Deer, Howie, REFERENCES: SELECTED Zussman...from the brine of Don Juan Pond, Victoria Land, Antarctica, and at Bristol Dry Lake, San Bernardino County...Finland, India, Madagascar, Japan, Australia, and Antarctica. SELECTED REFERENCES: Deer, Howie, and Zussman...Van Tassel, R., Min. Mag., 29:850-857 (1952). DAMOURITE DANAITE = Variety of muscovite = Variety of
Book (edition)
chromite deposit, north Urals, USSR; Dufek massif, Antarctica; and the Lake Asbestos mine, Black Lake, Quebec...Germany, Nigeria, Kenya, Mongolia, Australia, and Antarctica. SELECTED REFERENCES: Deer, Howie, and Zussman...from the brine of Don Juan Pond, Victoria Land, Antarctica, and at Bristol Dry Lake, San Bernardino County...Finland, India, Madagascar, Japan, Australia, and Antarctica. SELECTED REFERENCES: Deer, Howie, and Zussman...Van Tassel, R., Min. Mag., 29:850-857 (1952). DAMOURITE = Variety of muscovite DANAITE = Variety of
Report (edition)
muscovite, common opal (light blue), massive topaz, damourite (a purple hydromica formed by topaz alteration)...include Western Australia, Chile, Scandinavia, Antarctica, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, and the...Microtektites have also recently been reported from Antarctica (McNamara and Bevan, 2001). Dating of tektites
Book
hotspot activity. The very large Dufek intrusion in Antarctica (Ford 1975) may represent another example of...5 Quartz, feldspar, garnet, apatite, gahnite damourite, rhodonite, calcite manganoanhedenbergite 30 ...stratiform Dufek intrusion, Pensacola Mountains, Antarctica (Abstr). Geol Soc Am Annu Meet, Salt Lake City...deposits, Tennessee 329, 329 Dufek intrusion, Antarctica 258 Duluth Complex, Minnesota 288, 289 Dzhezkazgan
Book
structures of Africa, South America, Australia, Antarctica, India became separated due to continental drift...results from a number of regions of the USSR and Antarctica. They concluded that all the 6C^3 values obtained...7 5 0 ° ) as exemplified in the Enisey ridge, Antarctica and India; amphibolite facies as in the Baikal... Quartz, feldspar, garnet, apatite, gahnite, damourite, rhodonite, calcite, manganhedenbergite A Lode
Report (edition)
muscovite, common opal (light blue), massive topaz, damourite (a purple hydromica formed by topaz alteration)...including Western Australia, Chile, Scandinavia, Antarctica, South Africa, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, and the...Microtektites have also recently been reported from Antarctica (McNamara and Bevan, 2001). Dating of tektites
Book (edition)
while one from the Dufek massif. Pensacola Mts. Antarctica, is triclinic, a 5.3 19. b 9.208, c 14 .060 A...material]. (TL) Don Juan Pond, Victoria Land. Antarctica. Named for locality. Antarkticite. syn. of antarcticitc...Exped. /92 7--8, no. 22. (TL) Deception Island. Antarctica. Named for L. Christensen. "A solid solut ion...Miller ( 1 970) Scienre. 165. 489. (TL) The ice of Antarctica at depths > 1 200111. Because air bubbles arc...Wiener Min. Ges., 1st ed., p. 22. 172 Dam Damourite. var. of muscovite. A. Delessc (1845) An11. Chi111
Book (edition)
called hydromica (or hydrous mica). Sericite and damourite are kinds of hydromica. Sadssurite. crystals...talcose slate, but, as first parophite schist, damourite slate, and sericite slate (glanz-schiefer, sericit-schiefcr... {Gieseckite, Finite). of the hydrous mica, damourite. ; — the Archaean of Lewis County, N.Y. (Dysintrybyte)...may be that the climate of the northern part of Antarctica was not warm enough to favor their migration...486, 719 ; tridens, 561 Dalradian group, 456 Damourite, Damuda 65§, 84 ; slate, 84 series, 698
Report (Issue volume)
grained, pale green muscovite mica, marketed as ‘damourite’, is used as a filler in plaster board, paint...rocks in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Antarctica and was itself offset by E-W wrench faults prior...S.G., 1986. Reconstruction of Australia and Antarctica: evidence from granites and recent mapping, Earth...Devonian Sequences of Southeastern Australia, Antarctica and New Zealand Publ. 9. and Their Correlation...in a rift valley system between Australia and Antarctica. Throughout the Jurassic there was a gradual
Book
syn: anogene. boundary around the continent of Antarctica, more or less anomalous [intrus rocks] Said...usually covered by (b) A term sometimes used in Antarctica for thick ice floes recently broken away from...the line and such as the ice sheets covering Antarctica and Greenland. See also: inland ice. Syn: continental...field with a and calcite, possibly primary. damourite A variety of muscovite that gives off water more...foliated peratures as on the polar plates of Antarctica, diamond dust [mater] Powdered, crushed, or finely
Book (edition)
and its shock resistance. Antarctic beech, F antarctica, known locally as rauli, grows extensively in...made by grinding mica sc1·ap. Sericite mica, or damourite, from North Carolina kaolin \vo1--kings, and in...hitam, 278 Dammar penak, 278 Dammar sengai, 278 Damourite, 564 Danburite, 111 Dandelion metal, 493 Dandelion
Journal (volume)
seybertite, chloritoid, lepidolite and margarite to damourite and the muscovites, With the phylloids, and near...change of the topaz occurring at Stoneham, Me., to damourite. The alteration takes place along cracks in the...band of feathers or down, usually of Bernicla antarctica. The only cutting instrument of the Fuegians
 
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