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Monazite from
Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Monazite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:REE(PO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dolomite2 photos of Monazite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Clinochlore1 photo of Monazite associated with Clinochlore at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Monazite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1595018
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1595018:9
GUID (UUID V4):80d001a2-7000-453f-a502-4bfd1cb46fcf
Nearest other occurrences of Monazite
50.7km (31.5 miles) La Fourque granodiorite outcrop, Salau, Seix, Saint-Girons, Ariège, Occitanie, France
69.7km (43.3 miles) Batère mines, Corsavy, Céret, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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The Trimouns Quarry Luzenac, Ariège, France Freddy Marty Rue de l’Hôpital 11230-Chalabre France In recent...recent decades, the Trimouns quarry has become well known as a source of outstanding crystals of several...contact zone of the Trimouns talc/chlorite deposit, where large-scale mining for talc may now be approaching...approaching its end. INTRODUCTION The Trimouns talc-chlorite deposit is a mineral locality of international...synchisite, parisite, hingganite and iimoriite. Also, Trimouns is the type locality for two recently described
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Gatelite-(Ce), a new REE-bearing mineral from Trimouns, French Pyrenees: Crystal structure and polysomatic...d’Histoire Naturelle, 61 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France ABSTRACT Gatelite-(Ce), ideally (Ca1REE3)S=4[Al2(Al...newly identified mineral from the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees. The mineral occurs...aeschynite-(Y), dolomite, törnebohmite-(Ce), dissakisite(Ce), talc, and quartz. Gatelite-(Ce) is insoluble in HCl,...REE-bearing silicate mineral from the Trimouns talc deposit, Luzenac, Ariège, French Pyrenees, a well-known
Report (issue)
120(2) c = 4.854(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Trimouns, France. 2.820 (100), 3.44 (90), 1.959 (60), 1.643...1.92 0.71 5.67 0.79 5.04 4.83 100.22 (1) Trimouns, France; by electron microprobe, mean of several analyses;...dolomitic portions of a talc deposit. Association: Allanite, bastnÄa site, monazite, parisite, synchysite...Name: From the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. For the locality...locality, the Trimouns talc deposit, France, and its yttrium content. Type Material: Royal Institute of Natural
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placer deposit), hydrothermal-metasomatic skarns (Trimouns, Bastnäs, Norberg), with an age span of nearly...primary mineral at least in a range from 350 C (Trimouns; Schärer et al., 1999) to 750 C (Ren; Ya’acoby...Association Age Ref. Gatelite-(Ce) Trimouns talc mine, Luzenac, Ariège, France (type locality) aeschynite-(Y)...törnebohmite-(Ce), dissakisite-(Ce), dolomite, talc, quartz, pyrite 100 Ma (a) Västmanlandite-(Ce)...minerals 1.9–1.8 Ga (g, c, d) Rödbergsgruvan Fe mine, Nora, Örebro, Sweden Biraya REE-Fe ore occurrence
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crystallization ages that overlap with zircon and monazite U-Pb ages of ∼300 Ma, granitic geochemical trends...with sample locations and location of the Trimouns talc mine. NPFT = North Pyrenean Frontal Thrust (modified...fossil rift margin of the Northern Pyrenees of France (Fig. 1). These mid-lower crustal shear zone processes...Maluski, 1988). The Trimouns talc deposit within the massif, the world’s largest active talc-chlorite quarry... 2014; Boutin et al., 2016). Formation of these talc-chlorite mineralization has been estimated at ∼250-300
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1007/s00710-006-0124-x Carbonate alteration associated with talc-chlorite mineralization in the eastern Pyrenees...Rennes I, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France 2 Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees – LMTG – UMR5563...UMR5563, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France 3 Departement de geologie et de genie geologique...Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4 4 Talc de Luzenac France, BP 11, 09250 Luzenac cedex, France Received May 4, 2005;...Summary The eastern Pyrenees host a large number of talc-chlorite mineralizations of Albian age (112–97 Ma)
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Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris , France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ...................... 225...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac, France (see the article beginning on...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well
Report (issue)
Mountain, Alaska, USA). Association: Biotite, monazite, fergusonite, uraninite, thalenite (Fusamata,...Alaska, USA. From the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. Name: For Takeo
Report (issue)
(EvansLou quarry, Canada); microcline, albite, schorl, monazite, zircon (Crestmore, California, USA). Distribution:...Lazio, Italy. In the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. At Crestmore, Riverside
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normale supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris, France Montpellier, CNRS-UMR 5243, Université de Montpellier...34095 Montpellier, France 3 BRGM/ISTO, 3 avenue Claude Guillemin, 45000 Orléans, France 4 Géosciences Rennes...Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France 5 TOTAL, CSTJF, avenue Larribau, 64000 Pau, France 6 GET, 14 avenue Edouard...31400 Toulouse, France * now at: ISTO, 1A rue de la Férollerie, 45100 Orléans, France ** Invited contribution...Limoux NPF T e a nSt Gaudens Foix Zone (NPZ A X I A L Pamplona France ine Ba sin NPF ) Perpignan
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symmetry. Found coating miargyrite at the San Genaro mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru. Effenberger, H....Found in a dolomite carbonatite vein, Zhelezny iron mine, Kovdor carbonatite complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia...minerals. Found in the Geschiever vein of the Svornost mine, Jáchymov, southern slope of the Krušné hory Mountains...neustädtelite. Found on the dumps of the Güldener Falk mine near Schneeberg-Neustädtel, Schneeberg area, Saxony...narrow fissures in dolomitic slate, Paratoo copper mine, near Yunta, Olary District, South Australia. Wallwork
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passive margin setting in the north Pyrenean zone, France B. Corre1 · P. Boulvais1 · M. C. Boiron2 · Y. Lagabrielle1...and the mantle rocks is marked by a metasomatic talc-chlorite layer. This layer formed through the infiltration... Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, F‑35000 Rennes, France 2 GeoRessources, UMR, Université de Lorraine...Aiguillettes, BP 70239, F‑54506 Vandoeuvre‑lès‑Nancy, France 3 Institut des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées...Caledonia, Av. James Cook, BP R4, 98800 Nouméa, France separation. The processes of fluid-rock interactions
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Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES Cedex, France Received 28 September 2005; accepted 5 May 2006...of the Hercynian orogeny. The granite underwent monazite fractionation during magmatic stages, which induced...the Salvezines Massif just preceded the regional talc/chlorite hydrothermal mineralization. Both events...albitites closely matches that of talc/chlorite ore bodies (Fig. 1a). Talc mineralization is related to a...albitization. As a consequence, albitization and talc mineralization might represent two metasomatic effects
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presented at the EMPG XIII symposium in Toulouse, France (April 2010) Performances of 800 nm femtosecond...III–CNRS–IRD–OMP, 14 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France *Corresponding author, e-mail: clement.courtieu@get...(Pulsar 10, Amplitude Technologies, Evry sur Seine, France) for which a more complete and detailed description...FEI FIB200 instrument at the CP2M in Marseille (France). The choice of the sampling site has been made...Stalder, 1974) and from the talc-chlorite deposit of Trimouns (Ariège, France) (de Parseval et al., 1993)
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sedimentation patterns both in Spain [40,41] and France, and the adjacent Aquitaine Basin [42,43]. The...European continental margin offshore of southwestern France. An 40 Ar/39 Ar date of 127.30 ± 6.70 Ma was obtained...evolution along the ECORS line, eastern Pyrenees, France. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2016, 173, 419–437. [CrossRef]...Occidentales). Ph.D. Thesis, Rennes 1 University, Rennes, France, 2017. Lagabrielle, Y.; Bodinier, J. Submarine...domain (Urdach Lherzolite, north-western Pyrenees, France. Bull. Soc. Geol. Fr. 2019, 190, 8. [CrossRef]
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Sabatier, 38, rue des 36 Ponts, Toulouse 31400, France b Institut für Isotopengeologie, Departement für...magmatic stability of key accessories like zircon and monazite is now reasonably well known and the past decade...the knowledge on the metamorphic stability of monazite, epidote, sphene, and zircon. However, other stability...natural cases and experimental studies. Zircon, monazite, and apatite were the main targets of these investigations...structures and compositions similar to those of monazite or zircon, for example. Much remains to be done
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sill and gold mineralization at the Mt Charlotte mine, Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western...events. Hydrothermal phosphate minerals such as monazite and xenotime have increasingly been used to date...date hydrothermal mineral deposits, including talc (Schärer et al. 1999), gold (Salier et al. 2004; Carpenter...folded Golden Mile Dolerite in the Mt Charlotte mine (Kent and McDougall 1995). The folds are displaced...selected for geochronology are from the Mt Charlotte mine. All samples are from the quartz-rich granophyric
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hydrothermal alteration affecting different deposits in France (Massif Central) and Germany (Black Forest), and...huge tabular talc deposit occurring within a shear zone in chlorite-rich schist at Luzenac (central Pyrenees)...112–97 Ma using the U–Pb method on xenotime and monazite (Schärer et al., 1999). An age at 90 ± 10 Ma was...cross-cut by a hydrothermal vein system at Lanuza mine, and is replaced by ore minerals at the Yenefrito...and in other Variscan areas (Montagne Noire in France, Lescuyer et al., 1988 and Sierra de la Demanda
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found in a small copper mine at Bastnäs, known as S:t Göransgruvan (“St. George’s mine”). This material is...6 m thick and less than 10 m long (Geijer 1921). Talc and quartz appear locally. Sulfide minerals, dominantly...comprising, e.g., tremolite, cummingtonite, almandine, talc, micas and chlorite minerals (Geijer & Magnusson...from an in situ occurrence in this case. In the mine dumps, sporadic finds of magnetite–amphibole skarn...been identified in a few samples from the Östamossa mine (subtype 2). In sample #430644, this fluorocarbonate
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event at the basin/basement unconformity in western France: 40Ar/ 39Ar and K–Ar dating, fluid chemistry, and...Sciences, B.P. 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, Université de Rennes1...Cedex, France LHyGeS, UMR 7517 CNRS, EOST/UdS, 1, rue Blessig, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France d LGSM...K–Ar dating Oxfordian to Tithonian times Western France a b s t r a c t The Malm–Lower Cretaceous period...deformations, and of heat and mass transfers in western France, although numerous evidences of such transfers
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/ c h e m g e o Reactions destroying detrital monazite in greenschist-facies sandstones from the Witwatersrand...Accepted 13 March 2009 Editor: R.L. Rudnick Keywords: Monazite Allanite Florencite Greenschist facies Rare earth...elements Witwatersrand a b s t r a c t Detrital monazite in sandstone and conglomerate from the Witwatersrand...Africa, displays reaction textures indicating that monazite has undergone replacement after sediment deposition...heavy mineral bands, whereas co-existing detrital monazite is replaced by secondary allanite, apatite and
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2003; accepted 28 February 2005 Abstract Zircon, monazite and xenotime crystallized over a temperature interval...mineralized Mole Granite. Magmatic zircon and monazite, thought to have crystallized from hydrous silicate...crystallization process: precipitation of zircon and monazite as magmatic liquidus phases in deep crustal magma...Mole Granite. Later hydrothermal formation of monazite in a biotite–fluorite–topaz reaction rim around...disequilibrium due to Th/U fractionation during monazite and possibly xenotime crystallization, variable
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Terre de Paris, ISTeP UMR 7193, F-75005 Paris, France 2 Department 3 Université of Geology, Trinity...Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IFSTTAR, ISTerre, 38000 Grenoble, France *corresponding author:laura.airaghi@univ-orleans...de la Terre d’Orléans, ISTO, UMR7327, Orléans, France Short title: Pre-kinematic metamorphism in Pyrenees...in situ U-Th/Pb dating of anatase, titanite and monazite show extensive preorogenic (pre-Alpine) and pre-kinematic...parallel to the shear planes. U-Pb anatase and monazite ages as well as the microtextural relationships
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both the U–Pb age of magmatic zircon ro and monazite (247.7 ± 0.5 Ma) and the hydrothermal xenotime...compositions of magmatic zircon and monazite and hydrothermal zircon monazite and xenotime from the Mole Jo...Jo ur Granite. Magmatic zircon and monazite ages of 247.7 ± 0.5 Ma were obtained, and the authors inferred...as recorded by crystallisation of hydrothermal monazite (Schaltegger et al. 2005). The U–Pb isochron cassiterite...between the U-Pb age of the magmatic zircon and monazite compared to the hydrothermal xenotime (Schaltegger
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Crescencia mines) or siliciclastic rocks (Solita Mine), whereas the footwall is formed by black shales...small Ni occurrence in Devonian terranes (Crescencia mine; Fanlo et al., 2006). These studies demonstrated...textural relationships among ore minerals in Crescencia mine display signs of re-equilibration processes, which...occurrences hosted by Triassic red beds (Solita mine) and (b) deposits hosted by Palaeozoic metasomatized...the studied deposits 2.2.1. Solita mine It is a small abandoned mine that can be considered as a world-class
 
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