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Prehnite from
Taylor's quarry, Empangeni, King Cetshwayo District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Prehnite
Formula:Ca2Al2Si3O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Prehnite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Taylor's quarry, Empangeni, King Cetshwayo District Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:250522
Long-form Identifier:1:3:250522:0
GUID (UUID V4):6b75795f-7f38-4566-bb7f-59859c91a13b
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the Oconee River:...property—near Commerce: ferrocolumbite (Cook, 1978). Lula district—Standridge property, about 7.0 km east of Lula:...Maysville: epidote (Cook, 1978). Smoke Rise KOA—0.85 km south of 1-85 on U . S . 441 near Commerce: beryl, garnet...(chryso­ lite, olivine) (Teague, 1956). Jefferson district—9.7 km southwest of Jefferson on S.R. 11, northwest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accurately described as the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5...found with byssolite and prehnite in vugs encountered in the the Fairfax quarry, west of Centreville, Fairfax...collect­ ed from veins exposed along State Highway 229 south of Martinsville, Henry County, Virginia. The U.S...epidote specimens from Taylor's Valley, Wash­ ington County, and the Cashion quarry, Chesterfield County...Colorado localities as the Calumet iron mine, Turret district, Chaffee County (squat, dark green crystals to
Journal (issue)
nice wavellite from the type locality at High Down Quarry, Filleigh, North Devon; unfortunately, but deservedly...analcime, in a large vug in Basalt, from Sund Old Quarry, Streymoy island, Faeroes. This was entered by...found whilst on the field trip to Hvitasteinar quarry, Skalabutnor on Eysturoy Island in the Faeroes...12 ems matrix, which also came from Hvitasteinar quarry. Richard Tayler - 4- SMLS Journal 239 Sept/Oct... Fig 2. Peter Martin's Agates Fig. 3 Richard Taylor's Banded Siltstones Fig. 4 Nick Hawes' Zeolites
Report (issue)
crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...white radiating tufts; Delaware County: Ward's quarry, mealy white radiations. DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY...and zinc mines of Phoenixville, the chrome mines south being of New Texas, Lancaster County, the Gap nickel...the corundum mines at Unionville, Brinton's quarry south of West Chester, and the French Creek iron mines
Journal (issue)
Catlin was brought to Franklin in 1906 from South Africa to modernize the mining operations, he was amazed...speaker was Vandall T. King of Rochester, New York. The guest speaker, Van King, delivered a delightfully...no clearly defined structures for the north and south limits. After much consideration, we have decided...defined by the Wallkill River. South: Brooks Flat Road (just a bit south of Sterling Hill). North: A line...PHLOGOPITE PICROPHARMACOLITE PI ME LITE POWELLITE PREHNITE PUMPELLYITE PYRITE PYROAURITE PYROBELONITE PYROCHROITE
Journal (issue)
1946 CONTENTS FOR APRIL, 1946 . CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...................................................................................... 204 DYER QUARRY ZEOLITES (Part 2). By C. A . Thomas .............MUSEUM .................... 206 FLUORITE IN SouTH AFRICA ..............................................Simpson Springs to the foot of Ougway Pass, thence south (about 12 miles) along the Keg. Mtn. Road to the...Topaz Mtn., then west ( about 13 miles) to the south end of tlie Fish Springs Flat ; or \tia Lehi, Provo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North American Coleoptera, 5I5; Exchanges with South France, 5I6; Hibernation of the Army-worm,5I6; Repelling...I57; Invertebrate fossils from the Lake Valley district, New Mexico X i58; Insects of the Amyzon shales...action of Heat upon Crystals of Boracite, 926; Prehnite, 926; American Monazites, 927; Minerals fromPike's...Journey from the Ogoswe to the Congo, 8o ; Central Africa, 8r; Arctic Discovery, 83 ; International Polar...Arctic Exploration, 259; Explorations in Equatorial Africa, 34s; The Caroline Archipelago 426; The Pamir,
Report (volume)
County; and Portis gold mine, Franklin County. In South Carolina diamonds have been found in Spartanburg...Topsham Maryland: Baltimore County, Arundel gneiss quarry. Massachusetts: Hampshire County, Goshen Worcester...Mountain Buncombe County, Asheville Burke County, South Mountain Caldwell County Gaston County Jackson County...County, Philadelphia are'a. ' South Carolina: Anderson County, Anderson South Dakota: Custer County, Black...California: Connecticut: Maine: San Diego County, Pala district Litchfield County, Litchfield Androscoggin County
Report (issue)
districts Guanajuato District, Guanajuato, Mexico References Geologic map of Guanojuato District, Mexico Pachuca-Real...del Monte District, Hidalgo, Mexico References Geologic map of Pachuca-Real del Monte District, Mexico...Colqui District, Lima, Peru References Geologic map of Colqui District, Peru Julcani District, Huancavelica...Huancavelica, Peru References Geologic map of Julcani District, Peru 1 2 3 4 4 10 11 12 16 18 19 24 25 26 31...are the Guanajuato district of Guanajuato, Mexico, the Pachuca-Real del Monte district of Hidalgo, Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
From Zeck and Wallin (1980) is of greenschist or prehnite-pumpellyite facies or a fades transitional between...~nimskog and part of the Bolet units fall within Taylor's (1978) "high t 8 0 " group, and correspond to...mylogneisses fall within the upper p a r t o f Taylor's " n o r m a l " 180 group which m a y indicate...Verlag: New York Heidelberg Berlin Zeck HP (1971) Prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism in Precambrian
Report (issue)
in consecutive ascending order, from north to south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine...179, Cornwall mine; and nos. 202-219, Dillsburg district mines). Approximately 42 percent of the 276 occurrences...mineral resources of the Quakertown-Doylestown District, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: U.S. Geological... d'lnvilTiers, E. V., 1883, The geology of the South Mountain belt of Berks County: Pennsylvania Geological...deposits of the James RiverRoanoke River manganese district, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1008
Report (volume)
iuclosures........................................ 2. Prehnite; cross-section of twins.........................Strowbridge Hill, in Northfield. This is a mile south of the spodumene locality in the farmyard of Mr... 1885. Albite. South Hartley. From diabase on road north from Moodys Corners, South Hartley. Crystals...Northampton. Iu veins in the granite lit si quarry south of W. N. Moore's east of Florence, as hollow...hornblende-schist, adjoining granite, east of the soapstoue quarry in North Blandford; (3) in fissures in crushed
Report (issue)
1883 UNITED STATES GEOLOaiCAL SURVEY CLARENCE KING DIRECTOR THE COPPER-BEAEING ROOKS LAKE SUPERIOR...charge of Division of Mining Geology. Hon. Clarence King, Director of the United States Geological Survey...Series Chapter VI.— The Keweenaw an Rocks op the South Shore of Lake Superior Introductory 152 Section...Portage Lake and the Ontonagon River Section III. The South Range Section IV. The Region between the Ontonagon...olivine-free gabbros Fig. —From half a mile southwest of south point of Beaver Bay, Minn. 24 35 1. N. W. i
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in shape and extends about 10 kilometers north-south and 7 kilometers east-west (Fig. 1). That portion...and hornblende - actinolite - albite - epidote - prehnite (Bird et al. 1986). The latter two vein types...mass flux at about 150,000 years in Norton and Taylor's model. In the central Middle Zone, 750~ is not...actinolite and hornblende, albite, epidote and prehnite that occur in late veins is strong evidence in...rocks from the Willyama complex, Broken Hill district, New South Wales. Part II. Pyroxenes, garnets, plagioclases
Journal (issue)
Articles related to the minerals or mines of this district are welcome for publication in The Picking Table...Field Trip—Collecting at Eastern Concrete Materials Quarry, Hamburg, NJ. 1:30 to 3:00 P.M.—FOMS Meeting and...recommended: protective eyewear, gloves, sturdy shoes. Quarry trips, helmet required. * Activities so marked...warship "Sovereignty of the Sea," commissioned by King Charles in 1667. The model is an exact replica assembled...roeblingite nodule in a matrix of peach-fluorescing prehnite, orangefluorescing pectolite, and green-fluorescing
Book
Meldonaplitequarry,nrOkehampton, Devon ~.~eldon ap::'te quarry,nrOkehamp:on. 0: ,0,1: roci...regret I .h..11m:·,er be in the same league as Arthur King~bury in the ability to spot discrepanc:e,. Fordecad...uspicious as they searched in vain for ~pecies that King~bury had d ribed in hi1,publications. A major work...clear the authoh were ,·cl')· concerned about the King bwy problem. but it Wa!>too early to lay too much...Hill1,boro.. 'ew Mexico. exactly matchmg tbo'>(:in King~bury·., collection and labelled ~carrock mine, Caldbeck
Journal (issue)
Chairman : Norman Harper, F.G.A. Vice-Chairman: D. N. King, F.G.A. Treasurer: F. E. Lawson Clarke, F.G.A. M...chromium which keeps turning u p . Campbell quotes Taylor's definition of emerald as " a bright green variety...data of which are as follows: Tourmaline of S.W. Africa, cut, with "record" 8-shadow effect on the refractometer...(Yellow-green transparent prehnite from Australia.) Z. Dt. Gemmol. Ges., 1975, 24, 4-7. Prehnite has long been known...composition are presented in diagram form. The prehnite under discussion came from Australia. Bibliography
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
correlates with the degree of serpentinization: in the prehnite-pumpellyite facies (Davos-Arosa) chrysotile/lizardite...north. With increasing grade of metamorphism to the south, ol and opx are serpentinized. Chrys/liz predominate...case (b), the data field may belong to Wenner and Taylor's field for "oceanic chrys/liz". (2) If the serpentine...field for "continental antigorite" in Wenner and Taylor's presentation which means a metamorphic-magmatic...pillow lavas from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. In: A Kr6ner, GN Hanson, AM Goodwin (eds) Archean
Report (issue)
Melbourne Mornington Peninsula Phillip Island South Gippsland 6 5 6 7 8 Eastern Northern Central...Peter Hall 3. Phillip Island. By Jack Leach 4. South Gippsland. By John Haupt 5. Eastern Victoria. By...guises. Allan Pring, Curator of Minerals at the South Australian Museum, provided indexed X-ray diffraction...Association Museum of Victoria Nunawading and District Lapidary Club Inc. Tony Annear Tylden Quarries...Closer to home, the Garrawilla Volcanics in New South Wales have produced some of the finest stellerite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic grade in SW Sweden is of greenschist or prehnite--pumpellyite facies or a facies transitional between...51sOwR-value for the BallsjSn granodiorite falls within Taylor's (1978) "high-lSO" group, and corresponds to 518OWR-Values...Planet. Sci. Lett., 38: 177--210. Zeck, H.P., 1971. Prehnite--pumpellyite facies metamorphism in Precambrian
Book (edition)
lost some of its high status when the abundant South American supply came on the market. Promotion of...and pitted. To differentiate smithsonite from prehnite, heat the mineral in a closed glass tube. Smithsonite...banded agate and such minerals as thomsonite and prehnite, and in the form of geodes containing crystal...the lavas of the Lake Superior region, and to the south the Mississippi delta and vast coastal plain. In...a Jersey's Limecrest quarry, for instance, is open to a year; the Foote quarry in North Carolina one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lizardite, chrysotile serpentinites (zeolite, prehnite-pumpellyite or lower greenschist metamorphism)...200°C (J. R. O'Neil 1974, pers. comm.). Wenner & Taylor's (1973) comparisons of 60 is and ~D of midoceanic...presence of non-meteoric waters. All of Wenner & Taylor's work presumes that the serpentinites have preserved...serpentinization in ~Ihe Coolac Ultramafic Belt, New South Wales. I. Geol. Soc. A ust. 22, 91102. Aumento,...Jahns, R. H. 1967: Serpentinites of the Roxbury district, Vermont. Pp. 137-155 in Wyllie, P. J (Ed.), Ultramayic
Book
the lower almos and south; at the highest, norths At the latter level the tr< south- west. have been buried...CUMMINGS, BILLIARD, & CO. 1825. DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT. District Clerk's Oflht. BE it remembered...the forty-ninth SAMUEL ROBINSON, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of ...other ' prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the, District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE -. University Press...wishes to know what minerals may be found in the district of country he is localities of minerals, in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
appears, for example, in the Triassic sandstones of South Prirnor'ye, belonging to the lower subzone of the...greatly limits the possibility and universality of Taylor's method. MINERAL COMPOSITION OF THE ROCKS In the...minerals: disappearance of laumontite, appearance of prehnite, , a pumpellyite and epidote. Mineralization of...complete albitization of plagioclases, presence of prehnite, numnellvite and enidote formation of nhvllites...plagioclases ------ --------- ------ -Anatase, brookite Prehnite, pumpellyite Zeolites: analcime, mordenite, heulandite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 920 m and directionally drilled towards the south at ~30° from horizontal to a total depth of 3078...Titanite 200 Albite 100 Garnet 0 0 Calcite Prehnite Temperature (°C) Illite Mixed Layer Clay Epidote...RN-17B is a sidetrack directionally drilled to the south at ~30° that kicks off from 2100 m in RN-17, as...temperatures that ranged from 280 °C to 320 °C. Using Taylor's approach, Δ should vary from 5.2‰ at 280 °C to...nearly identical to the 4.6‰ value calculated by Taylor's method. The similarity of alteration Epidoteactinolite
 
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