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Bracewellite from
Merume River, Rest of Region 8, Potaro-Siparuni Region, Guyana


Locality type:River
Classification
Species:Bracewellite
Formula:CrO(OH)
Comments:River gravels.
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Guyanaiteⓘ1 photo of Bracewellite associated with Guyanaite at this locality.
Grimaldiiteⓘ1 photo of Bracewellite associated with Grimaldiite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bracewellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merume River, Rest of Region 8, Potaro-Siparuni Region, Guyana
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2292
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2292:7
GUID (UUID V4):0cab13c0-699b-49f2-96ad-3c0b53a745f3
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 64, 1969, pp. 910-914 Merumite Occurrencein Guyana CHARLES MILTON and SAT NARAIN Abstract Merumite...associateddiamondsand gold in 1937 in gravels of the Merume River in Guyana. It was describedas essentiallya hydrouschromium...been observed in the ridge or anywhere in the region,otherthan the merumitein the placergravel. Merumitecommonly...Manymerumite grainshaveimpressions, andsomecontaincrystals, of doublyterminated "needle"quartz. Water-worngorceixite...Locationand •tccessibility.--Merumite,a complex mixture of many unusualchromiumminerals,is foundas blackpebblesand
Report (issue)
Merumite A Complex Assemblage of Chromium Minerals from Guyana GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 887...Geological Survey of Guyana MERUMITE A COMPLEX ASSEMBLAGE OF CHROMIUM MINERALS FROM GUYANA r 0 1 mm ...mm Photomicrographs of four merumite thin sections illustrating the diversity of mineral composition...composition and structure and the fineness of grain size. Plain transmitted light. UPPER LEFT: Green eskolaite and...red-brown guyanaite. UPPER RIGHT: Banded structure of green eskolaite and yellow to brown guyanaite. The
Report (issue)
probably variable with particle size and degree of oxidation; gray with greenish tint in reflected light... c = 2.951–2.958 X-ray Powder Pattern: Merume River, Guyana. 3.224 (vvs), 2.432 (vs), 1.636 (s), 1.719...10.60 Total [96.3] [100.00] 100.00 (1) Merume River, Guyana; H2 O calculated from stoichiometry, original...oxidation of Cr with loss of H1+ . (2) Outokumpu, Finland; by electron microprobe, average of seven analyses;...CrO(OH). Polymorphism & Series: Trimorphous with bracewellite and grimaldiite. Occurrence: In fine-grained
Report (issue)
= 13.392(1) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Merume River, Guyana. 4.47 (vvs), 2.401 (vs), 1.857 (vs), 1.486...60 11.5 Total 99.87 100.00 (1) Merume River, Guyana; intergrowth of 80%–86% estimated grimaldiite, the...CrO(OH). Polymorphism & Series: Trimorphous with bracewellite and guyanaite. Occurrence: In fine-grained...oxide-hydroxide minerals in alluvial gravels (Merume River, Guyana); in cracks and crevices in penroseite from...Bolivia). Association: Bracewellite, eskolaite, guyanaite, mcconnellite (Merume River, Guyana); penroseite, barite
Report (issue)
rhombohedral crystals, to 1 mm; as granular aggregates of intergrown crystals. Physical Properties: D(calc...= 17.160(31) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Merume River, Guyana; from a mixture with grimaldiite. 2.85 (ms)...51 48.49 11.5 99.9 100.00 (1) Merume River, Guyana; integrowth of 80%–86% grimaldiite, the balance...Association: Bracewellite, eskolaite, grimaldiite, guyanaite. Distribution: In the basin of the Merume...River, Guyana. Name: Survey. For Dr. Richard Bradford McConnell, formerly Director, British Guyana Geological
Report (issue)
Cr3+ O(OH) Bracewellite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic....c = 2.974(2) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Merume River, Guyana. 4.065 (vvs), 2.648 (vs), 2.404 (vs), 2...Total 99.6 (2) 89.40 10.60 100.00 (1) Merume River, Guyana; estimated to contain 30% eskolaite. (2)...basin of the Merume River, Guyana. Name: For Smith Bracewell, formerly Director, British Guyana Geological...(1976) Merumite, a complex assemblage of chromium minerals from Guyana. U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 887
Report (issue)
As hexagonal prisms, to 12 mm, showing Hardness = 8 VHN = 3200 D(meas.) = 5.18 D(calc.) = 5.20 Optical...Upper, Ireland); as pebbles in streams (Merume River, Guyana); a very rare component in chondrite meteorites...guyanaite, bracewellite, grimaldiite, mcconnellite, chromian gahnite, pyrophyllite, quartz (Merume River, Guyana)...Mountains, and on the western shore of Lake Baikal, 4.5 km south of Olkhon Gate Strait, Siberia. Found...Bahia, Brazil. Along the Merume River and its tributaries, Mazaruni district, Guyana. Name: Honors Professor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
739–748. Genesis and Compositional Characteristics of Natural g-CrOOH A. K. Shpachenkoa, N. V. Sorokhtinab...Academy of Sciences, ul. Fersmana 14, Apatity, Murmansk oblast, 184200 Russia bVernadsky Institute of Geochemistry...Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 19, Moscow, 119991 Russia cInstitute of Problems of Chemical Physics...Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432 Russia dInstitute of the Geology of Ore Deposits...Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 35, Moscow, 109017 Russia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
558 SHORT C O M M U N I C A T I O N S System of Mineralogy, 1. John Wiley and Sons, New York and London...Mineral. 35, 488 99. - - ( 1 9 5 5 ) Acta Crystallogr. 8, 165 72. [Manuscript received 28 June 1983] Copyright...Lindsley, 1981) has been reported as a minor constituent of some metamorphosed manganese deposits (Lee, 1955;...there is, as yet, no record of crystallographically oriented intergrowth of pyrophanite and hematite. This...relationship and chemistry of pyrophanite and hematite forming such intergrowths in gondites of Chikla area (Maharashtra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pages 1277–1283, 2014 Chemistry and Mineralogy of Earth’s Mantle Mantle-derived guyanaite in a Cr-omphacitite...Department of Earth Sciences and Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto, Mississauga...Department of Earth Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada 3 Department of Geological...xenolith of Cr-rich omphacitite from the Moses Rock diatreme in the Navajo Volcanic Field of the southwestern...It occurs as the dominant phase in small clusters of accessory minerals, intergrown with kosmochlor-rich
Book
Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens in The Natural History Museum, London, with an appendix listing mineral...THE _, NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM • Ill Catalogue of Type Mineral Specimens in The Natural History Museum...Dunn and J.A. Mandarino (1988) Formal definitions of type mineral specimens. Mineralogical Magazine, 52...102-104. 2 Introduction This publication is a list of the mineral specimens in the Natural History Museum...designation according to the approved definitions of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the mineral assemblage of most of the deposits. In the gondite, the assemblage of braunite, jacobsite,... and hematite, in the complete absence of magnetite, was obviously stabilized above the F e 2 0 3 - F...appearance ofilmenite, the generally common associate of hematite in metamorphosed rocks, was therefore inhibited...University, Calcutta, and by Prof. F. Hirowatari of Kyushu University, Japan, are gratefully acknowledged...Syngenetic Manganese Formations of India. Jadavpur University, Calcutta. - - ( 1 9 8 1 ) Manganese Deposits.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1146 Twenty-fifth list of new mineral names By M. H. HEY, M.A., D.Sc. Department of Mineralogy, British...variants, including alternative transliterations of Russian names; there is one named mixture and 9 synonyms...nature, and 71 new named species or varieties worthy of distinctive names. As in the 24th list, many minor...and no attempt has been made to trace the origin of spelling variants. I. Kostov ('Mineralogy', Oliver...includes the following minerals prior to publication of their descriptions by their authors: argentomelane
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4 Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Palladin...Abstract: Guyanaite, b-CrOOH, is a structural analogue of the high-pressure oxyhydroxide phases d-AlOOH and...spectroscopy. In addition, the structural evolution of b-CrOOH and b-CrOOD with increasing pressure up to...by first-principles calculations in the framework of the density-functional theory (DFT). A pronounced...isotope effect and very short O-H. . .O bond lengths of 2.497(3) AÌŠ for b-CrOOH and 2.541(3) AÌŠ for b-CrOOD
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Road NW, Washington, D.C. 20015, U.S.A. Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics, Purdue...Indiana 46323, U.S.A. 3 Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 East 4th Street, Tucson...Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077, U.S.A. 4 Department of Geology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois...terrestrial Cr mineral species (http://rruff.info/ima, as of 15 April 2016), representing 4089 mineral species-locality...species-locality pairs (http://mindat.org and other sources, as of 15 April 2016). We find that Cr-containing mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
N DA D o L F p A B s r Argentocuproaurite Bracewellite,* grimaldiite,* guyanaite,+ mcconnellite* L...Minerals-natural alloysof gold and copperin ores of copper-nickel deposits of Noril's. Trudy Mineral. Muzeya Akad...x a s s e m b l a g eo f chromium minerals from Guyana. U. S. Geol. Suns. Prof. Pap., 887. l-29. M i...u 6 7 . 7 , 6 6 . 5 :C u 9 . 2 , t 1 . 2 ;A g 1 2 8 , 1 9 . 4 ; p d 4 . 2 " 2 2 : R h 4 . 3 , - ; P b...d . . T h e X - r a y p o w d e r p a t t e r n ( 8 l i n e s ) w a s i n d e x e da s p r i m i t i v
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