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Spinel from
Glen Beag, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Glen Beag, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:17784
Long-form Identifier:1:3:17784:3
GUID (UUID V4):748a0503-a7f0-436e-9d50-89058ffd60a3
Localities for Spinel in this Region
Corrary, Glen Beag, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
0.4km (0.2 miles) Corrary, Glen Beag, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
10.6km (6.6 miles) Creag Reidh Raineach, Dornie, Lochalsh, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
32.6km (20.2 miles) Camasunary, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
35.3km (21.9 miles) Loch Coruisk, Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
38.4km (23.8 miles) Cuillin Hills, Minginish, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
57.6km (35.8 miles) Camas Mor Intrusion, Isle of Muck, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
63.1km (39.2 miles) Allt Guibhsachain, Ballachulish, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
96.6km (60.0 miles) Pennycross sapphire occurrence (Sgeir an Fhèidh to Crois an Ollaimb), Loch Scridain, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
100.0km (62.1 miles) Carsaig Bay, Carsaig, Isle of Mull, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, in " The Geology of Colonsay and Oransay," Mem. Geol. Sun: Scotland, 1911. Cummingtonite-bearing Rocks...Lewisian of Scotland. Cummingtonite in paragneisses was first described from the Gairloch area (1)1 and it has...Lewisian inlier of Glenelg—at Druideag Lodge, Loch Duich (2), in association with eulysites, and in the gorge...gorge of Glen Beag, 5 | miles south of this points—here associated with rhodonite and pyroxmangite (3). The...petrographic types so far unrepresented in the Glenelg region, and a closer study of these assemblages is of
Report (issue)
mineral resources of the 'Crofter Counties' of Scotland REPORT No. 69/5 0 HMSO I NATURAL ENVIRONMENT...COUNTIES' OF SCOTLAND, COMPRISINGARGYLLSHIRE, CAITHNESS, INVERNESS-SHIRE, ORKNEY AND SHETLAND, ROSS AND CROMARTY...CROMARTY, AND SUTHERLAND Compiled by N. G. Berridge, B. Sc., 'Ph.D. London Her Majesty's Stationery Office...GREAT BRITAIN and the MUSEUM OF PRACTICAL GEOLOGY with OVERSEAS GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS and is a constituent...of Scotland, comprising Argyllshire, Caithness ., Inverness-shire, Orkney and Shetland, Ross and Cromarty
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...PublishingLimited. Layout byJim Farley. Printed and bound by Craft Print International Ltd, Singapore...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction Miscellaneous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 · H. ·G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 H . G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...INTRODUCTION Compilation of the glossary . Style and guidelines Comments on the glossary . Statistical...groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...mineral species, listing some 443 mineral names, and containing 399 valid species has been corn piled
Book
7073 0257 9 Text set in 9/10 pt VIP Times, printed and bound in Great Britain at The Pitman Press, Bath... NICHOLSON, R. Caledonian correlations: Britain and Scandinavia H1GGINS, A. K. & PHILLIPS, W. E. A. East...Canadian Appalachians into the Caledonides of Britain and Ireland 2. 33 BASEMENT-COVER RELATIONSHIPS WATSON...Britain 93 SANDERS,I. S. Observations on eclogite- and granulite-facies rocks in the basement of the Caledonides...Regional geochemistry of the Northern Highlands of Scotland 117 BREWER,M. S., BROOK,M. & POWELL,D. Dating
Report (issue)
MEMOIRS OF- THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SCOTLAND. ., THE GEOLOGY O.F CORROUR AND THE MOOR OF RANNOCH (E){PLANATION...H INXJ\IAN, B.A., F.R.S.E.; R. G. (JA RRUT HERS; AND M. MACGREGOR, M.A., B.Sc. WITH CO� rl,RIBUTIONS BY...CLOUGH, F,.R.S.E., 1 AND PETR0l,OGICAL NOTES BY HERBERT H. THOM AS, M.A., Sc.D., AND H. H. READ; M.Sc. A...purchased from • • . •• . E. STANFORD, LTD.; 12. 13 and 14, LONG. ACRE, LONDON, W.C.2; W. & A. K. JOHNSTON... FIGGIS & Co., LTD., 20, NASSAU STREET, attd 17 and 18, FREDERICK STREET, DUBLIN: or from any Agent for
Report (issue)
Geological Survey, Scotland TERTIARY AND POST-TERTIARY GEOLOGY Olt MULL, .LOCH ALINE, AND OBAN (A DESCRIFTION...PARTS OF SHEETS 43, • GEOLOGICAL MAP.) 44, 51, AND 52 OF THE BY E. B. B�.\.ILEY, l\I.C., D ....:\...B. "\VRIGHT, B.A.; J. E. RICHEY, J.\iI.C., B.A.; AND G. V. \\rILSON, B.Sc. \VITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY E....A., D.Sc.; AND G. A. BURNETT, B.Sc. WITII PETROLOGY H. H. THO�L\.S, M.A., Sc.D., BY AND E. B. BAILEY...ANALYS:ES BY E. G. RADLEY, F.C.S., AND F. R. ENNOS, B.A., B.Sc., A.I.C. AND P AL"'7EOBOTANY BY A. c. SEWARD
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, SCOTLAND THE PRE-TERTIARY GEOLOGY 0 F MULL, • LOCH ALINE, AND OBAN ... (BEING DESCRIPTION... 44, 45 AND , OF THE ONE-INCH GEOLOGIOAL MAP OF SooTLAND) A 52 BY G. W. LEE, D.Sc. AND E. B. BAILEY...C., B.A. WITH CONTRIBU'llONS BY S. S. BUCKMAN AND H. H. THOMAS, M.A., So.D. .. EDINBURGH PRINTED...published. memoir on the Tertiary and post-Tertiary geology of Mull, Loch Aline and Ohan. The corresponding maps-Sheets...maps-Sheets 35, 44 and 45 of the one-inch geological_ l\lap of Scotland-have already appeared. A short
Book (volume)
JASP-AGATE liesembles both Dendritic Moss and Agate Agate in the chalce- donic matter enveloping...amount, and as it consists of Jasper, it has its variegated colours. About one and a Sutherland...in close association with Actinolite, Pdpidolite and Potstone. The filamentous net-work is here brown...from Galston, in veins which Burn Anne, about one and a are segmented by Calcitic partings into brick-shaped... red spots, and rarely it is bright red. lous stalactites its brown, green, red, and scarlet tints
Book (volume)
Deer, M.Sc., Ph.D, F.R.S. Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology, Cambridge University R. A. Howie, M...Reader in Geology, London University (King’s College) and J. Zussman, M.A., Ph.D., F.Inst.P. Reader in Mineralogy... LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO LTD 48 Grosvenor Street, London W.l Associated companies, branches and representatives...throughout the world © W. A. DEER, R. A. HOWIE AND J. ZUSSMAN ] 963 FIRST PUBLISHED 1963 SECOND IMPRESSION...IMPRESSION 1964 MADE AND PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, LONDON AND BECCLES ONULP
Report (issue)
Minerals and Geochemical Surveys, Thematic Maps and Onshore Surveys and Corporate Coordination and Information...Trade and In­ dustry. The funds are currently channelled through the Department of Education and Science...vector) BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BGS MAIN OFFICES and SALES DESKS The full range of Survey publications...through the Sales Desks at Keyworth and at Murchison House, Edinburgh, and in the BGS London Information Office...BGS books and reports are listed in HMSO's Sectional List 45, and can be bought from HMSO and through HMSO
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL .RESEARCH Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland The Geology of...Ardnamurchan, Nort.h-west Mull and Coll (A Description of Sheet 51 and part of Sheet 52 of the Geological...Geological Map) J. E. RICHEY, M.C., B.A.; By AND H. H. THOMAS, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S. WITH CONTRIBUTIONS...B.Sc.; AND the late G. W. LEE, D.Sc. Wl'f.H CHEMICAL ANALYSES BY E. G. RADLEY, F.C.S.; AND B. E. DIXON...one mile) and. part of Sheet 52. It includes the Island of Coll, the North-west of lVIull, and the ,vestern
Book (volume)
Deer, Howie and Zussman ROCK-FORMING MINERALS Volume2A \ lnfor Ser Science Gwyddoniaeth IS 207/0998...orthopyroxene with exsolved augite .lamellae //(001) and a smaller number of exsolved augite lamellae //(100)...analcite dolerite, Eilean Mhuire, Shiant Islands, Scotland. Ordinary light x60. F. Titanaugite showing sector...A. Deer, MSc, PhD, FRS Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology University of Cambridge R. A. Howie, MA...Group Limited London Associated companies, branches and representatives throughout rhe world Published in
Book (edition)
James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana EIGHTH ENTIRELY REWRITTEN EDITION AND GREATLY ENLARGED ...ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK And with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE...This publication is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information in regard to the subject...of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana. — 8th ed., entirely rewritten and greatly enl. / by Richard...of: The system of mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana. 7th ed. New York, J. Wiley
 
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