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Orthoclase from
CUP quarry, Lessines, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view CUP quarry, Lessines, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:227351
Long-form Identifier:1:3:227351:8
GUID (UUID V4):40cb0136-dec6-4116-b006-0906a7d7e234
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
21.7km (13.5 miles) Porphyry quarries, Quenast, Rebecq, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium
27.5km (17.1 miles) Fauquez, Ittre, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
gemgypsy@bellsouth.net JULY–AUGUST 2019 Articles The Auglaize quarry, Paulding County, Ohio ..........................Grandjean Faden quartz from Bierghes, Brabant, Belgium ...................................... 441 by H...calcite crystals on matrix, 5.5 cm, from the Auglaize quarry, Paulding County, Ohio. Joe and Susan Kielbaso...May–June, 2019 What’s New 49-3 397 T he Auglaize Quarry Paulding County, Ohio John Medici 5280 Stover Road...Ohio 45504 kbladh@wittenberg.edu The Auglaize quarry has been a popular mineral collecting site for
Journal (issue)
ZODAC Contents for October, 1940 . CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................................................. N. Y. By Thonias lf/. Fl11hr GAILOR LIMESTONE QUARRY IN SARATOGA SPRJNGS, N . Y. By Peter Zodac ....... . 348 COLLECTORS' TALES ( A tale of a coffee cup). By Peter Zodac ...... 349 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES...class of the monoclinic system, with heating an orthoclase-gypsum mixture. Karlsbad twinning so common as...nonindicative as hardness they fail completely when orthoclase, and streak tests. albite, and anorthite are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LImestone The Lower Brockram IS well !>een in Burrells Quarry, south of Appleby, where the fragments are large...great Pennme 5carp. It \\lll be seen around HIgh Cup GIll. The rock IS a dIabase, conslstmg of plagIoclase... save \\ hen ~tamed red, has a grey matnx of orthoclase and some plagIOclase felspar, quartz and bIotIte...rystalhsed before the orthoclase In thl'> matnx are embedded large pmk orthoclase crysta]<; sometlme~ tIl...near that mass, where they frequently con tam orthoclase phenocrysts. The dyke rocks are of two kInds
Journal (issue)
GRANITE QUARRIES, WITH THAT KNOWN AS THE SWARTHMORE QUARRY. By Henry Clat Bordkn. [Read before the Students'...Chalcopyrite. 12. Biotite. 13. Chryso- colla. 14. Orthoclase (crystals of). 15. Albite. Besides these there...quartz, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla and crystals of orthoclase. So successful was this day to me that I made...be found. The quarry furthest north and west of the group is known as " Swarthmore Quarry." The rock of...between the layers of mica. Before leaving this quarry let me speak of the apatite which occurs at Morton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INvBsrrGATroN In this investigation the minerals orthoclase, anorthite, and albite were used as the original...Paris, Maine, containing a large proportion of orthoclase was selected for the first test. This material...about ten grams, was placed in a very thin, porous cup made of alumina, TO ASP I RATOR THERMAL JUNCTION...liquid which can flow through the sample and porous cup. IFION PIPE CORE INSULATION' Fro. 2. Heating furnace...the first runs condensation was so rapid that the cup continuously overflowed. One of the chief advantages
Report (issue)
economic s.nd geologic features _____ -_- __ Gold Cup mine _______ ---------------------Other mines and...upper and part of lower workings of the Gold Cup mine, Tin cup mining district_ ___ - ______ - __ -_-Vertical...the Madonna in the Monarch district, and the Gold Cup in the Tincup district. Some nonmetallic products...chiefly from a quarry at Monarch. A small quantity of marble has been produced from a quarry in Taylor Gulch...sa1ne railroad extends from Salida to the limestone quarry of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation at Monarch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This locality was initially mined for feldspar (orthoclase) to be used in ceramics (Tervo 1967). Though...satisfactory specimens of vesuvianite, diopside, and orthoclase. Apatite,   96*2: 405,9(3: 4PULY]H(YLH...quartz and calcite from a skarn zone at the Treadway quarry, Port Henry, Essex County. Many of the graphite...;YLHK^H`8\HYY`7VY[/LUY`,ZZL_*V\U[` Graphite from this quarry occurs in a calc-silicate skarn. Rich specimens...(Weis 1980), skeletal graphite from the Treadway quarry can be relatively highly ordered and in parallel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
years, will soon start a t F. G. J. Zeebrugge, Belgium. Old Sandwich glass designs. CHARLES M. STOW. (From...dried before put into the fire. Glass industry in Belgium. ANON. Jour. SOC.Chem. Ind.,44,799(1925).-A new...production of glass in this country and abroad, showing Belgium to be the leading exporter of glass in Europe....a feeder cup adapted to contact with a stream of glass, means for operating said feeder cup to maintain...increase the speed of movement of the cup to withdraw the cup from such supporting contact, means for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Phillips' figure x and r t are lower down in the cup. This, of course, may only have been an individual...• potash-felspar as microcline compared with orthoclase in contact metamorphism, and the absence of anorthite-rich...group of minerals and microcline in place of orthoclase we may recognize a distinction from the higher...oisite rock, metamorphosed Loch Tay limestone, quarry east of Keltnie Burn, near Kenmore (Slice No. 17482
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Pima district), the Ajo mining district, the Tea Cup pluton (Kelvin-Riverside district), and the Eagle...Porphyry Systems Tea Cup system, Kelvin-Riverside district, Arizona The Tea Cup system is located in...district contains the composite ~72 to ~70 Ma Tea Cup pluton (Barton et al., 2005; Seedorff et al., 2005b;...(An00-08)] + {chlorite} + [epidote] Quartz ± orthoclase ~1–3 Shallow, Predate propylitic (quartz diorite...Na-Ca [Albite (An00-01)] + [{epidote}] ± Quartz ± orthoclase ~3–6 Deep, proximal Predate coarse Arizona5 (quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
190-93 Carnegie Award, 150 Arkansas, Kimzey Calcite quarry, 402-404 Cerussite, South Dakota, 383 Arrojadeite...Hampshire, 162; South Dakota, 383 Chips from the Quarry, 7, 77, 149,221, 373 Chlorite-group minerals, New...Jr., Hercynite Crystals from the Kimzey Calcite Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, and Their Distinction from...402-404 Hercynite Crystals from the Kimzey Calcite Quarry, Magnet Cove, Arkansas, and Their Distinction from...386 Opal: New Hampshire, 165; South Dakota, 386 Orthoclase, South Dakota, 386 Paul E. Desautels (1920-1991)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A. Yes. manganese? cup be packed full or only partly full? A. The porone cup should be filled. 4. Will...batWhat liquid in the porone zinc placed around the cup as in the carbon battery? A. Yes. A. It consists...SCIENTIFIC 2. How can I make a cheap of the gyroscope. cup, and what in the iron one ? It should be c oarsely...tery is made and charged. is used in the porone cup of a Leclanche battery, and is ten pound cannon...smaller fragment is a clay containing undecomposed orthoclase.-C. L.-No . I, trap rock. W. H. C. asks for
Journal (issue)
Joseph Gauthier was born December 24, 1924, in Belgium and trained as a geological engineer. He received...student at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. His primary mineralogical teacher was Jacques...fluorescent lime-green hyalite and complexly twinned orthoclase crystals displaying Carlsbad, Baveno The Mineralogical...mid-2005, beautiful emerald-green fluorite on white orthoclase was collected, adding to the growing list of...Quartz scepters Pseudomorphs of quartz after orthoclase and third major pocket of yellow beryl September
Report (issue)
Megafossils in carbonate beds include Syringopora and cup corals, brachiopods, and fusulinids. The suggested...Formation. The medium gray porphyry is composed of orthoclase (50 percent), plagioclase (30 percent), biotite...hornblende (5 percent) phenocrysts. Carlsbad twinned orthoclase phenocrysts may exceed 1 cm in length; the other...Euhedral plagioclase (0.1-2 mm), and subhedral orthoclase, and microcline are also present. Microcline...containing abundant (50 percent) phenocrysts of pink orthoclase, less conspicuous quartz, plagioclase, biotite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(mainly), and on the other a band which is chiefly orthoclase and quartz. The segregation of hornblende from...Malvern, and he instances the rock in the large quarry at the north-west corner of Swinyard's Hill. He... It is trn# that no granite is visible in this quarry ; but it is also true that one of the largest masses...cut through the rock-mass at all angles to the quarry face." Dr. Irving says that his "shear-planes"...versipora, Eemicidaris intermedia, etc., from a quarry between Ayton and Scarborough. My friend, the late
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
equipped Faraday cup receivers and 4 ion counter receivers. In addition to the central cup and ion counter...conducted at the Isotopic Laboratory, of the central cup and accurately adjusted by motor drive. Four ion...analysis was performed using a Neptune douto L4 Faraday cup. The laser ablation system used is the new wave193...Th, and Pb con‑ ment is equipped with 9 Faraday cup receivers 4 ion were counter additionfortomonitor‑...usedreceivers. as internalIn standards the central cup anding ion counter, 8 Faraday cups are and configured
Catalog/List
are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals...variety crystallized specimens the most beautiful quarry crystals, APOPHYLLITE to of productive period...loosely so or flat, set Burger’s crystals on quarry short are The edge. are and pearly striated...large to the Hoxsey’s in 15c., 20c., and quarry distinct curved many Small fine cabinet Large
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of a The feldspar of granite may be either orthoclase or potash feldspar, frequently flesh colored...leadiDg to the sewer which may be called soda orthoclase or potash albite, the inlet pipe from the fixture...attached is attached. Inside of the outer cylindric al cup is a smaller one, suspended within it by means of...constitution inlet pipe, Gischarging itself into the inner cuP. over­ be equally various is, perhaps,hardly yet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deuteric microperthites. The constituent albite- and orthoclase-rich phases of both microperthite generations...Furthermore, charge contrast imaging reveals that the orthoclase-rich feldspar is an intergrowth of two phases...shows that the featureless feldspar is tweed orthoclase, whereas the veins and euhedral grains are composed...Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK that has formed from orthoclase by ‘unzipping’ during deuteric or hydrothermal...distinct feldspars (e.g. albite vs. microcline/orthoclase). However, BSE imaging has insufficient resolution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens. One was a nice loose one inch grayish orthoclase crystal from the Howard Dike, Willow Creek, Grand...the New Point lime- ROCKS AND MINERALS stone quarry at New Point, Ind., (in Decatur Co.) with Roy Grossman...Chicago 43, 111., informs us that honeycomb coral, cup coral, chain coral, straight shelled cephalopods...Nice calcite xls have been found in a limestone quarry near Roca, Lancaster Co., Nebr. NEVADA: Fine specimens...October one of our members discovered thaumasite in a quarry in Fairfax County, Va., a few miles south of Falls
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(all uncertainties are 2σ). Since 2.4 Ga, some orthoclase domains within anti-perthites have evolved with...closure temperature (Tc) for Pb diffusion in both orthoclase and andesine (the main feldspar compositions...granite (n = 1). Plagioclase and/or anti-perthite (orthoclase exsolved from albite) from eleven granulite-facies... orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene Anti-perthite, orthoclase, quartz, biotite, muscovite Plagioclase, clinopyroxene...composition is An32–55Ab47–64Or0–6, while the orthoclase, in anti-perthite, has a composition of An1–3Ab7–23Or73–91
Book
river, with the Shap Granite and its prominent quarry to the northwest. Drive under the M6 bridges. ...rocks near Orton, east of Shap matrix. Pink orthoclase phenocrysts from the Shap Granite can also be...(f) Axophyllum. Location 7 (641085) is a small quarry in basal Ashfell limestone immediately opposite...fossils often being beautifully etched out on quarry faces. Species of the tabulate coral Syringopora...are essential. Safety helmets must be worn at the quarry. The locations are near the A6 road, 2 km south
Report (issue)
;ut46 XOR Znc122 80-90 Moc12 J I I / 10D Cuc64 Cup 3 4 Z np 130 Mop 10 ) I ... � I I I I I I...is composed mainly of oligoclase, with minor orthoclase and quartz. Amphibole and mica are pale and 1ron-poor...only result of note was 360 ppm Cu in one of the quarry samples. Allt Eilidh In the valley of Allt Eilidh...contains z oned sodic plagioclase, subordinate orthoclase and quartz, and a li ctle bioti te, partially...Ballachulish slates from the main Ballachulish quarry a t [085 582 ] contained 360 ppm Cu. The sulphides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northeastern part of the pluton near the Kamen 2 quarry. Granite of the Urulyungui Complex contacts here...SX100, current of absorbed electrons on Faraday cup is 10 nA, accelerating voltage is 15 kV, and beam...JXA8100, current of absorbed electrons on Faraday cup is 20 nA, accelerating voltage is 20 kV, and beam...20 1000 0.37 Y Garnet 40 470 0.07 Si Orthoclase 20 220 0.05 Fe Hematite 40 450 0.08 ...1 mm) taken from different sites of the Kamen2 quarry. Sample Ka2s has been 406 GOLUBEV Table 2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plane-surface, while that on the east forms a shallow cup with the concavity pointing to the west. The only...bronzed appearance. In one specimen collected, the orthoclase, which is white, and sometimes forms porphyritic...completely removed. In addition to the white orthoclase, there is another, and not so abundant, felspar...is another mineral apparently derived from the orthoclase. This is topaz, which occurs in minute grains...In addition to the muscovite derived from the orthoclase, another mica forms small nests in the greisen:
 
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