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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Bastnäsite-(Ce)1 photo of Albite associated with Bastnäsite-(Ce) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Trimouns Talc Mine, Luzenac, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:25160
Long-form Identifier:1:3:25160:4
GUID (UUID V4):51edcf22-331d-40f9-bad1-0617a86c3a3d
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
28.5km (17.7 miles) Terre Nères pass, Merens, Ax-les-Thermes, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
32.0km (19.9 miles) Pla Soulcem, Auzat, Foix, Ariège, Occitanie, France
36.7km (22.8 miles) Riutès quarry, Latour-de-Carol, Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
40.7km (25.3 miles) Puch Seguy quarry, Salvezines feldspar deposit, Salvezines, Limoux, Aude, Occitanie, France
42.4km (26.3 miles) Carrus quarry, Salvezines feldspar deposit, Salvezines, Limoux, Aude, Occitanie, France
50.7km (31.5 miles) La Fourque granodiorite outcrop, Salau, Seix, Saint-Girons, Ariège, Occitanie, France
54.9km (34.1 miles) Anglade Mine, Salau, Seix, Saint-Girons, Ariège, Occitanie, France
56.9km (35.4 miles) Ansignan charnockite intrusion, Feilluns (Felluns), Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
60.1km (37.4 miles) Camp de la Mourié, Saint-Arnac feldspar deposit, Saint-Arnac, Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
60.2km (37.4 miles) Rentadou quarry, Ansignan, Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral. 2006, 18, 483-491 Structure of the {001} talc surface as seen by atomic force microscopy: comparison...29 rue Jeanne Marvig, F-31055 Toulouse Cedex 4, France 3Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns...avenue du Recteur Pineau, F-86022 Poitiers Cedex, France 5LMTG, UMR 5563 CNRS-Université Paul Sabatier-IRD...Midi-Pyrénées, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France 6Environmental Geochemistry Group, LGIT, UMR 5559...Grenoble Cedex 9, France 7Talc de Luzenac S.A., BP 1162, F-31036 Toulouse Cedex, France 8LASEH, HydrASA
Report (issue)
14 [5.73] 2.41 Total [100.36] (1) Trimouns talc deposit, France; by electron microprobe, average of...rhodochrosite, polylithionite, aegirine, microcline, albite (Narssârssuk, Greenland); ewaldite, belovite-(Ce)...Austria. In the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariège, France. In Russia, rock-forming...chimique des minéraux de terres rares de Trimouns (Ariège, France). Compt. Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, 324
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
striated epidotes in matrix, from the Calumet iron mine, Colorado. Epidote was described in 1801 by Haüy...collectors. Within the United States, the Green Monster mine, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, has yielded superb...quartz (Leavens and Thomssen 1977); the Calumet iron mine, Chaffee County, Colorado, is a notable locale for...quartz and yellow-green titanite, from the Capelinha mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, are relatively inexpensive...Material meeting this definition occurs at Ananai mine, Outoyo (Ohtoyo), Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island
Journal (issue)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zn-bearing members of the spinel group, hematite, albite, potassic feldspar, quartz, dolomite, calcite,...clinopyroxenes, amphiboles, phlogopite, chlorite, and talc. Among the accessory minerals in these associations...“ferripiemontite-(Pb)” (3) in baryte (4), in association with albite (5) and zincohögbomite (6) (Sample 6); (d) fragment...aegirine-augite, magnesioriebeckite, ferribarroisite, albite, tilasite, hydroxycalcioromeite, and fluorcalcioromeite...minerals of these samples are cellular zoned baryte, talc, and clinopyroxene. In Sample 5, piemontite, “ferripiemontite”
Report (issue)
uraninite, thalenite (Fusamata, Japan); quartz, albite, siderite, pyrite, °uorite, sphalerite, galena...Alaska, USA. From the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. Name: For Takeo
Report (issue)
thorogummite (EvansLou quarry, Canada); microcline, albite, schorl, monazite, zircon (Crestmore, California...Lazio, Italy. In the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariµege, France. At Crestmore, Riverside
Report (issue)
Association: Hingganite-(Ce), quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, zinnwaldite, cassiterite, stokesite, fluorite...Province, China. In the Trimouns talc deposit, six km northeast of Luzenac, Ariμege, France. From the [Keivy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MetasomaticTalc and Chlorite Deposits:Trimouns (Pyrenees,France) and Rabenwald(EasternAlps, Austria) BERNARDMOINE...AlldesJulesGuesde,F.31000 Toulouse,France PHILIPPE MOREAU, S. A. Talc de Luzenac, 2 Place Edouard Bouilli3res...Bouilli3res, F.31000 Toulouse,France AND FRANCIS VIGUIER Laboratoirede Mindralogie,U.A. 67 du CentreNationalde...31000 Toulouse,France Abstract The Trimouns(FrenchPyrenees)andRabenwald(AustrianAlps)talc andchloritedeposits...surfaces of tectonicslicing)of late Hercynian(Trimouns)andAlpine(Rabenwald) age.The studyof the mineralassemblages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exchange. Port Vieux (Grant et al., 1990), Trimouns talc quarry (Moine et al., 1989; Boulvais et al....of 6 lm. The standards used were orthoclase (K), albite (Na), andalusite (Al), forsterite (Mg), fayalite...Neouvielle massif Ne02 Col d’Estaragne Ne04 Trimouns talc quarry Tri04 Mg-chlorite from Ore deposit Tri07...3 and Table 2. Except for samples from the Trimouns talc deposit (Fig. 2C) and Navette area Chl-thermometry...section below), cookeites from the Vanoise Alps (France) have also been analyzed (Fig. 3A). Cookeite corresponds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 RENNES Cedex, France Received 28 September 2005; accepted 5 May 2006...feldspars into albite and dissolution of quartz (episyenitization) together with new albite formation. Hydrothermal...albitization and composition evolved towards a pure albite one (A/CNK = 1). Albitization induced gains in...ones and tend towards isotopic equilibrium with albite. The albitizing fluids have interacted with high-δ18O...the Salvezines Massif just preceded the regional talc/chlorite hydrothermal mineralization. Both events
Journal (issue)
Collector's Newsletter Micromineralogy of the Leiser Ray Mine, San Bernardino County, California Paul M. Adams...Avenue #2 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 The Leiser Ray Mine is located in Sections 15 & 22, Tl IN, R 18E, about...Main and Louisiana-California. Fred Leiser was the mine manager for the Louisiana-California Mining Company...Company (C!oudman, et al, 19 19). The Leiser Ray Mine was the only deposit worked primarily for vanadium...ha~ som_e humongous beryllonites, from the Telinio Mine, Linopolts. Minas Gerais and astonishing large helvites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have been formed. By de®nition, whiteschists are talc-kyanite rocks (Schreyer 1973, 1974), although this...is a pyrope-coesite rock produced by the reaction talc + kyanite = pyrope + coesite + H2O (Schertl et al...Muscovite gneisses contain mainly quartz, white mica, albite and microcline with subordinate biotite. With increasing...gneissleucophyllite transition. The abundance of K-feldspar and albite is reduced at the expense of increasing amounts...successions have been described in the Rabenwald (Austria) talc-chlorite deposit (Moine et al. 1989). Compared to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nominal pressure for MgO/BN/Pyrex–graphite-Pyrex-Talc assemblies and –5% for a BN–graphite-NaCl assembly...natural gem quality allanite crystal from Trimouns Talc mine (France) was also crushed and ~3 wt% were added...in all the subsequent experiments, a synthetic albite glass was added to the fluid. The Figure 2. Sketches...MgO or BN sleeve around the capsule with pyrex and talc surrounding the graphite furnace; (b) similar to...total weight of the fluid was added in the form of albite glass, whereas at 700 °C, this quantity was reduced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonates: genetic implications for dolomite-hosted talc mineralization at Gopfersgrun ¨ ¨ žFichtelgebirge...September 1997; accepted 6 January 1998 Abstract The talc deposit at Gopfersgrun ¨ ¨ ŽFichtelgebirge, Germany...marine environment. Hydrothermal alteration and talc mineralization of the marble occurs along a major...and lower d13C PDB values Žy2.6 to y11.5‰.. Main talc mineralization result from decarbonation reactions...proposed that main stage hydrothermal dolomitization, talc mineralization and late stage carbonate vug-fillings
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minéralogie, 39 Allées Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France A. E. WILLIAMS-JONES, Department of Earth and...Minéralogie, 39 Allées Jules Guesde, 31000 Toulouse, France Abstract The Tamazeght alkaline complex (High...albitization of granites (Cathelineau, 1987) in metasomatic talc-chlorite deposits (de Parseval et al., 1993), and...orthoclase, accompanied by nepheline, cancrinite, albite, and aegirine-augite. In these rocks, the rims...an intermediate zone dominated by orthoclase and albite, and also containing nepheline, eudialyte, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gem quality allanite crystals from the Trimouns Talc mine (France). The eclogite sample mainly consisted...clinopyroxene was not preserved. Therefore, a synthetic albite glass was added in all the subsequent experiments...the experiment (Table 2). The optimal amount of albite glass was empirically adjusted to: (1) stabilize...interaction and the stabilizing role of the added albite glass are provided in Tsay et al (2016). The bulk... After a series of reconnaissance experiments, albite glass (mole fraction XAlbite ~ 0.004 – 0.04, Table
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sill and gold mineralization at the Mt Charlotte mine, Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western...to date hydrothermal mineral deposits, including talc (Schärer et al. 1999), gold (Salier et al. 2004;...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...regional greenschist-facies assemblage actinolite ? albite (Travis et al. 1971). The samples represent hydrothermally
Book
IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning of...of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the superb specimens...yttrium silicate-carbonate iimoriite-(Y) occurs at Trimouns as colorless, pink and pale brown, translucent...crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug in 1997...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's
Book (volume)
Emberger and the following national chapters: France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Spain by F. Vazquez...graphite, quartz, calcite, mica, feldspar, asbestos, talc, barite, fluorite, celesrine, gypsum, anhydrite...Romania and Yugoslavia; and Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an...of large sedimentary basins Conclusions 30 31 France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Introduction 37...and siderite • Eastern Pyrenees Western Pyrenees Talc. Summary of zone C Corsica, Maures, Esterel, Provence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...K-feldspar into white mica (10-30 µm in size) + albite + calcite ± rare epidote (Figure 4a, c, e-f). Biotite...MnTiO3 (Mn, Ti), orthoclase (K, Al), hematite (Fe), albite (Na) and Cr2O3 (Cr) as standards for measuring
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Carletonville goldfield) and 095-349 (Western Areas mine, West Rand goldfield). B. Rasmussen, J.R. Muhling...drill-hole 095-349, South Deeps 95 level, Western Areas mine, West Rand goldfield, Central Rand Group. B. Rasmussen...sandstone from the West Rand goldfield (Western Areas mine; drill-hole 095-349, South Deeps 95 level; 27°34′E...rutile and zircon (Fig. 2D). In the Western Areas mine (West Rand goldfield), cores are present in b10%...boundary. In some samples from the Western Areas mine (West Rand goldfield), monazite forms intergrowths
 
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