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Calcite from
Skarn, Port Muck, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Outcrop
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Skarn, Port Muck, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1537220
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1537220:2
GUID (UUID V4):576ed16d-3cf7-4fe2-a6f3-8e56fdfc8e58
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Two Mouthed Cave, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
3.5km (2.2 miles) Heddles Port, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
4.7km (2.9 miles) Basalt quarry, Magheramorne, Glynn (Glynn Hill), Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
5.5km (3.4 miles) Hills Port, Gobbins, Islandmagee, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
9.6km (5.9 miles) Carneal, Glenoe, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
14.2km (8.8 miles) Scawt Hill, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
16.7km (10.4 miles) Minnis North, Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
18.5km (11.5 miles) Little Deerpark Quarry, Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
19.9km (12.4 miles) Glenarm, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
20.0km (12.4 miles) Craighill Quarry, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tacharanite, tobermorite, xonotlite, mesolite, calcite, saponite, thomsonite, 745 The Quirang, Skye: red...Renfrewshire Inverkip: wollastonite reaction-skarn, 26 Port Glasgow: chabazite ('glottalite'), 421 Sutherland...rare-earth mineral, 389 IRELAND Flush Hall, Newtownards, Co. Down: thaumasite, 416 Antrim Plinthite, red zeolites...(miscalled plinthire), 455; aragonite, zeolites, calcite, apophyllite, chalcedony, garronite, 505; zeolites...zeolites, 202 Baird's Brae, Rouyhfort: calcite, 609 Ballyclore: calcite, 609 Ballycraigy, Lame: dolerite-chalk
Journal (volume)
non-member subscription rates for this volume are: UK £13 (including P&P) and Overseas £15 (including P&P)...COVER: A group of white, translucent, prismatic calcite crystals (34 mm across) from the Whin Sill at Barrasford...contact-metamorphosed chalk near Portmuck, Islandmagee, County Antrim Norman R. Moles 21–26 Mineralisation...Wales John S. Mason 93–105 Andradite-bearing skarn-like mineralisation and a suspected palaeogene dyke...mineralisation associated with the Whin Sill of northern England is described in a geological context in
Book
Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George SeYastopulo...Peter Rowe OTHER TITLES OF RELATED I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es on n:iwra...& Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI 'Jo ~6...stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive, and that what was really...personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted me to record their unpublished
Catalog/List
this list; Aenigmatite,Atacamite from Ireland,Austinite, grey Calcite,pure Chrysoberyl,Coronadite, Cylindrite...polished Labradorite.Tacharanite and Tobermorite from Ireland . Five new rocks. This catalogue cancels No 79...matrix._______________ Yorkshire_____________ _Ca Al CO/3_____________ £5___ Rich orange masses in quartz...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County, lx!4 £2.50 Ixl £4 37 Ce Sr CO/3 Montana U.S.A...Ml Yukspor, Kola Russia ANCYLITE Ce 20 £2.80 Ce Sr CO/3_______________ Glomcl. Brittany, France Rich pinkish
Catalog/List
please will you pay with your orde: for the first co~ple ofti~es. lfyou h~ve had two ~ or three lots o...Rich white veins South Bay, Scarborough ½x½£3 Ca Al CO/3 and masses in matrix. Yorkshire ALUNITE Rich orange...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr CO/3 Montana U.S...Lake, British Columbia Ix½ £1 Jxl £2 lx2 £5 Ca P0/4 CO /3 F masses in Andcsite .Collected personally! ,Canada...½ £4 IX½ lxl £10 Ca Fe Mn Fe SiO with possible Calcite crystals Connecticut U.S.A £6 BARYTES Pure fawn
Book (chapter)
petrology of the Tertiary volcanic rocks of Eigg. Muck and Canna, N.W. Scotland. Unpublished M.Sc. thesis...Anderson, F.W. and Dunham, K.C. (1966) The Geology of Northern Skye. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great...The metamorphism of amygdales at 'S Airde Beinn, northern Mull. Mineralogical Magazine, 34, 92-106. Carmichael...Academic Press, Edinburgh, 472 pp. Cressey, G. (1987) Skarn formation between metachalk and agglomerate in the...dating of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province: Muck and Eigg. Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mode of occurrenceof the skarn-typeore depositsin Japan, ore-bearing skarn is, with a few exceptions...systemCaO-A12Oa-SiO2-H20,the kilchoanitebearing skarn of Kilchoan (Scotland) formed under a temperatureof...temperatureof range of 550øC and 600øC. The barren skarn at Fuka (Japan), which is similar in many respectsto...relatively higher temperatures.The vesuvianite-bearing skarn of the Mitate mine (Japan) formed at a lower temperature...be formed below 600øC. The vesuvianite-bearing skarn of the Chichibumine (Japan) is presumedto have formed
Catalog/List
grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Ix½ £2.50 Ixl £4 37 ANCYLITE Cc CeSr CO/3 ·. __ . ·-...masses in Andcsite .Collected personally! Ca P0/4 CO /3 F Ix2 £1.20 2x2 Variety FRANCOLITE rich white...Holmbush Mine Cornwall 503 APATITE .. PAO Ca P0/4 CO/3 F mass . _ - · ·- · -· -- ·· 2x2 £2 lx2£1 Minas...Cornwall crystals over the main surface. Ca P0/4 CO/3 F Page I - - . Note, sizes are mainly in inches...A:A~_UIT9E• ~ _ES _C_ENT 68 Ca PO/4/ F .. ARAGONITE. 35 Ca CO/3 121 ARFVEDSONITE - - •• • • •• Quite rich, blue-grey
Catalog/List
BORNITE after ENARGITE. Stewart Mine, Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana, U.S.A. Well formed Enargite crystals to...and deep reddish Cuprite. 2tx2t-X1~", £4.SOp 16. CALCITE. Wyndham Mine, Egremont, Cumberland. Lustrous creamy-white...forming an intergrown group. 2-tx2fx1i", £7.00 17. CALCITE. Tsumeb, Otavi, S.W. Africa. A curious specimen...hollow epimorph of silica after Calcite, 2t" in size, impanted on calcite matrix, with a later growtn of...of sharp creamy lustrous Calcite crystals to 1 cm in size scattered over it. The other side oe the specimen
Catalog/List
Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan 3mm £3 Co, China 5mm £2 Yakut ia,Russia lx2 £2 .20 ! x i £5...LSTONITE Ba C a CO/3 A LUJ\UNITE Al SO/4 A LUMINITE Al SO/4 A LUMOHYDROCALCITE Ca Al CO/3 ALUN ITE KAI...TiO/2 Al'\ CYLITE Cc Ce SrCO/3 AN CYLITE Ce Ce Sr CO/3 AN DAU ISITE AISiO ANDALUSITE-- - -- -♦ Al MnSiO...Rich pinkish fi ne grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine.Ravalli Co unty, Montana U.S.A Glomel. Brittany...l x2 £6 APATITE Ca PO/4 CO/3 F APATITE Ca PO/4 CO /3 F APATITE Ca PO/4 CO/3 F APATITE CaPO/4/F APATITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vesuvianite, cuspidine, spurrite, tilleyite, calcite, hydroxylellestadite, hydrogrossular and other... vésuvianite, cuspidine, spurrite, tilleyite, calcite, hydroxylellestadite, hydrogrossulaire et divers...métasomatose, monts Apuseni, Roumanie. INTRODUCTION The skarn occurrences to be described here are located in...metamorphism of siliceous limestone [e.g., Carlingford, Ireland: Nockolds (1947), Camas Mor, Scotland: Tilley (1948...(1992, 1997), Willemse & Bensch (1964)]. Others are skarn associations [e.g., Crestmore, California: Burnham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
riversideite, thomsonite, gismondine, aragonite, and calcite, and (3) a weathering paragenesis that includes...13:02 1436 THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST nite et calcite, et (3) une paragenèse d’altération supergène qui...1978). Two other occurrences of high-temperature skarn have also been described in Romania, at Mâgureaua...and Oravita (Constantinescu et al. 1988). In the skarn from Cornet Hill, Istrate et al. (1978) revealed...The appearance and parageneses of the Cornet Hill skarn closely match those reported by Burnham (1959) at
Catalog/List
ANC\'LITE Cr Rich pinkish fine grained mass in calcite 52 ANDAUJSITE Rich pinkish mass in dark grey...Fcls par group APA TITE FLUORESCENT A RAGONITE Ca CO/3 ARFVEDSONIT E Amphibolc ARFVEDSONITE i\lg l\mphibolc...Ostergotsland Sweden Ix I £ 1 .60 ✓ Barretts Zawn, Port Issac, Cornwall Grey massive in matrix ✓ South Crofty...in vughs 0 & G Quarry. Southbury. with possible Calcite crystals Connecticut U.S A water-worn brown nodule...BARYTOCALCITE Ba Ca CO/3 BASALUJ\IINITE Al SO/4 OH BASA LIIJ\I I NITE Al SO/4 OH BASTNA ESITE Cc La CO/3 BAUXITE
Journal (issue)
IN THE SUPPLY OF QUALITY MINERAL SPECIMENS IN THE UK. WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING TO BUY INDIVIDUAL MINERAL...01884 821724 e-mail: ian@crystalciassics.co.uk UK TS C 2 COVERPrismatichexagonalberyl to 14 mm w...MourneMountains,Co. Down.Stephen Moretoncollection. TwENTY YEARS IN MINERALS David Green 9 The UK ]011rnalof...NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe YEARS 1N MINERALS: IRELAND David Green• Stephen Moreton 37 PYRITE FROM...SPECIAL ISSUE The first of t\vo special editions of the UK ]oumal of 1\lli11es [.,,.Minerals celebrating t\venty
Journal (issue)
Virdin-Clothister 10 The Clothister magnetite and skarn 11 Petrography of the Green Beds Assemblage 13 The...Lunnister area 7 The rnagnetite orebody and surrounding skarn rocks at Clothister llill 12 Polyphase crystallisation...Analyses ofpyritous graphite schist, magnetite ore and skarn 13 4 Main geological events in chronological order...metamorphic history. A deposit of magnetite ore with skarn envelope is described and its relations to the metamorphic...magnetite ore which is enveloped in garnetiferous skarn. The field relations and petrography of the rocks
Catalog/List
Norway 723 AKAGANEITE Nandan Mctcroite, Lihu,Nandan Co, China SI I brown chips, probably mixed with Gocthite...19 Black micro crystals in vughs w ith possible Calcite crystals two or three micro crystals on small quartz...some cleavages Dark brown vein lets throughout calcite/ quartz matrix. Very rare for GB complex silic...and on matrix Small creamy bladed cryslals on calcite. Location interest CaP 0/ 4C0 / 3F 2 x 2 £ 10 l...masses Hard black 2mm fragments with and on while calcite and limestone matrix Da S0/4 l x2 £2.50 l x l £1
Book
Edition Andrew J. Barker University of Southampton, UK HANDBOOK OF Clinical Applications EDITED BY George...informa business © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, UK Typeset by diacriTech Limited, Chennai, India Printed...section / Andrew J. Barker, University of Southampton, UK.   pages cm Includes bibliographical references and...(1999), which are widely used by botanists in the UK. It involves a stepped sequence defining characteristic...shape of pyroxenes. Granite pegmatite; Leinster, Ireland. (b) Radiating acicular tourmaline (schorlite);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metamorphosed bole, lithomarge, & bauxite from Antrim, xlvi Alabandine, Cornwall, 921 Albite, synthetic...garnet-plagioelase, Sutherland, anal., petr., 848 Analcime: Antrim, distribution, morphology, paragenesis, 202, 503;...susceptibility of, 573 Anglesite : Co. Tipperary, 136 ; morphology of, 63 Ankerite, Co. Tipperary, 128 Anorthoc]ase:...Durham, 172 Apophyllite, Antrim, opt., morphology, distribution, 507 Aragonite, Antrim, 505, distribution,...petr., metamorphism by dolerite, 866 Arsenopyrite: Co. Tipperary, 128, 136; Cumberland, 428, 429 ; ( ?)Durham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage consists of dolomite with exsolved calcite and is found in contact with sulphide minerals:...high-temperature origin for the carbonates. The calcite-dolomite geothermometer (Anovitz and Essene, 1987)...Manning, C. E. 2002. Experimental determination of calcite solubility in H2O-NaCl solutions at deep crust/upper...sulphides from conglomerate group ore, Navan, Ireland G. J. Barker1, J. F. Menuge1, A. J. Boyce2, C....University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland (gareth.barker1@gmail.com) 2 NERC Isotope Community
Catalog/List
SrCe Carbonate rich pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1...097 CHLOANTHITE (variety of Nickel Skutterudite) Ni Co As. Rich silvery with black native ARSENIC (Schlema...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B... (Peru) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £6.00 1 298 BISMUTITE Bi CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost...PhlogopiteCalcite with minor Fluorite (Hsinghua Ridge,Linwu Co. Hunan Province,China) Ixlins £6 226 LOPARITE Ce
Catalog/List
SrCe Carbonate rich pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1...£3 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS 047 BASTNAESITE Ce La CO/3 F Rich distribution of tiny brown grains in YTTROFLUOftlTE...YTTROFLUOftlTE (Drag Norway) 1x1 £2 1x2 £4 298 BISMUTITE Bi CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE...097 CHLOANTHITE (variety of Nickel Skutterudite) Ni Co As. Rich silvery with black native ARSENIC (Schlema
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Mineralogy of a High-Temperature Skarn, in High CO2 Activity Conditions: The Occurrence...because of its transformation in aragonite then calcite. Overprints of these late events on the primary...zoning are quite limited. Keywords: high-temperature skarn; mineral data; structures; gehlenite; wollastonite-2M;...Vaţei; Romania 1. Introduction The high-temperature skarn occurrence from Măgureaua Vaţei (Metaliferi Massif...mineralogical investigations of the Măgureaua Vaţei skarn were done, but are quite brief, generally referring
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KUSACHI2), HENMI1) University, of County Ireland* HENMI1), of 1973 Okayama Carneal, KITINOSUKE...analogue Fuka, and Northern CHIYOKO 243-251, natural from Japan Antrim, pp. the hydrate, ...Carlson Fuka, (1964) Okayama Carneal, Northern Ireland. The chemical validity of of AlAl cubic...gehlenite hydrate, having found it in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The time difference between the two letters...Bitchu, Okayama Prefecture, the oc currences of skarn minerals such as spurrite, tilleyite, gehlenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the occurrence of extensive high − temperature skarn resulting from the intrusion of Mesozoic monzodiorite...bearing minerals, and scores of other rare minerals. Skarn formation at Fuka can be classified into three major...was formed in the outer zone of the gehlenite − skarn parallel to the contact as well as independent veins...the observed mineral assemblage in the spurrite skarn. Mineral − fluid equilibrium in the CaO − SiO2 −...temperature metasomatic fluid. 2 2 Introduction Skarn formation at igneous − limestone contact metamorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Tilley 1929, Tilley & Harwood 1931) and Carneal, Ireland (Sabine 1975, Sabine et al. 1982), Kushiro, Japan...and Si-poor rocks are unlikely to have replaced calcite, and a genetic process by direct precipitation...metasomatic modification of a protolith other than calcite marble. Among possible protoliths, it is reasonable...titanite, and typically without remaining calcite. Almost no skarn was found in these units, in agreement...hornfels, never changing to that of a coarse-grained skarn. West of a rather clear limit (Fig. 1), no calcic
 
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