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Gypsum from
Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:26032
Long-form Identifier:1:3:26032:9
GUID (UUID V4):445b2674-9449-4842-bb01-637a00a970df
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
51.7km (32.1 miles) Grasselli Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
52.4km (32.6 miles) Davis-Bible Zinc Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City Zinc Mining District, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA
82.0km (51.0 miles) Idol Prospect (Idol Mine; Comstock Prospect; Clinch Valley), Copper Ridge Zinc Mining District, Grainger County, Tennessee, USA
87.1km (54.1 miles) Flat Gap Mine, Flat Gap, Treadway, Copper Ridge Mining District, Hancock County, Tennessee, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND ROLE AS A SOlL MINERAL AT ALUM CAVE BLUFF, TENNESSEEt DONALD I R. PEACOR,I ROLAND ...Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 26324 Sandchain Road, Columbia, Maryland 21045, USA Abstract-A new occurrence...is described from Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, where it occurs in...unreported locality, Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (Coskren and Lauf...University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. Copyright © 1999, The Clay Minerals Society The
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Uher, S. Michal & J. Vitdlos The minerals of Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains, T ennessee...........Sodalite, elongated, twinned crystal, 2.8 mm long, from Cave San Vito, Monte Somma, Napoli, Campania, Italy....and on the dumps of the Pezinok mine. Gypsum C aS 0 4*2H20 Gypsum is a common alteration product of pyrite...National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6085 A lu m C ave Bluff, a D a n a locality fo r apjohnite
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Tennessee Mineral Locality Index 300 T ennessee covers an area of 41,220 square miles in the southeastern...part of the state. Just prior to crossing the Tennessee River and continuing through the middle of the...TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite...Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo.
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Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/01 $20.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063, USA 2 6324 Sandchain Road, Columbia, MD 21045, USA 3 Metals & Ceramics Division...Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA (Received March 23, 2000; accepted in revised form...evaporite assemblage at Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. Electron microprobe...evaporite assemblage at Alum Cave Bluff (ACB), Great Smoky Mountains Park, Tennessee, Coskren and Lauf (1996)
Report (issue)
Potassium alum KAl(SO4)2 • 12H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic...Alunogen, pickeringite, epsomite, melanterite, gypsum, sulfur. Distribution: In Italy, on Vesuvius,...Bavaria. From Chuquicamata, Antofagasta, Chile. In the USA, in California, at the Sulfur Bank cinnabar mine...from Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier Co., Tennessee. Noted in a number of caves, as at the Mbobo Mkulu Cave, near...Germany. Name: For its content of potassium and as an alum, alumen, Pliny, part. References: (1) Palache,
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00 (1) Pintado Canyon, Guadalupe Co., New Mexico, USA. (2) Al2 (SO4 )3 • 17H2 O. Occurrence: Forms by reaction...halotrichite, pickeringite, epsomite, alum, melanterite, gypsum. Distribution: Many localities, at some...In the USA, abundant at Smoky Mountain, Jackson Co., North Carolina; at Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier Co., Tennessee;...Tennessee; extensive deposits in the Alum Mountain district, Grant Co., New Mexico; at The Geysers, Sonoma...South Wales, Australia. Name: From the Latin for alum and the Greek for to make. References: (1) Palache
Report (issue)
product of pyrite in shales and slates. Association: gypsum. Halotrichite, pickeringite, fibroferrite, copiapite...Juan Province, Argentina. At Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier Co., Tennessee, USA. Name: In honor of František
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth...Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Weathering of metal-sulfide...the Copper Basin (Ducktown) mining district of Tennessee, and where sulfide-bearing metamorphic rocks undisturbed...Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Dissolution experiments on composite salt samples...minerals; Mineralogy; Acid rock drainage; Eastern USA 1. Introduction Secondary sulfate minerals play
Report (issue)
Prepared in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation Bibliography for Acid-Rock Drainage...staining caused by acid-rock drainage in Hickman County, Tennessee. Bibliography for Acid-Rock Drainage and...C. Worland Prepared in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation Open-File Report...Figure 1. Location of pyrite-bearing formations in Tennessee with the potential for acid-rock drainage.......S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation, is conducting an
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Territory, Canada (Van Tassel 1972); and Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee (Coskren and Lauf 2000; Hammarstrom et... copiapite, jarosite, natrojarosite, epsomite, gypsum, and sometimes also melanterite, szomolnokite,...alumino-copiapite, fibroferrite, pickeringite, slavikite, gypsum, epsomite, melanterite, and alunogen (Parafiniuk...invariably accompanied by a few percent of pickeringite, gypsum, or fibroferrite. Slavikite also occurs as an admixture...a minor admixture of other sulfates, especially gypsum and pickeringite, but are free of natrojarosite
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MINERALS FROM THE HYATT MINE, TALCVILLE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. Chamberlain, Department of Bioengineering...Talcville in the Town of Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York. The orebody consists of massive iron-rich...continues. SECONDARY SULFATES OF ALUM CAVE BLUFF, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE. T D. Coskren and R. Luuj...secondary minerals at the Dana locality of Alum Cave Bluff (ACB) in the Smokies has found a large suite...and then evaporates under the rock shelter of Alum Cave. Iron, magnesium, manganese, and aluminum are
Journal (issue)
Collector's Notebook: Moat Mountain, Albany, Carroll County, Hew Hampshire-2000 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...the Jersey Gardens Mall in Eliza- beth, Union County, New Jersey which he thought was a blue calcite...mineral history enthusiast. $24 .00 per year in USA $30.00 per year elsewhere Matrix Publishing Co mpany...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny @mineral news.com...mined. Most of the pegmatites in the northeastern USA are now being mined for specimens. This probably
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1928) described the occurrence of mirabilite and gypsum from the Hlubina (later ČSA) mine (for the location...They also reported the occurrence of jarosite, gypsum, hexahydrite, alunogen and pickeringite in outcrops...and Osovský (1999) also identified thenardite, gypsum and anhydrite in addition to alunite in the variegated...(8 wt.%), siderite (7 wt.%), kaolinite (5 wt.%), gypsum (~1 wt.%) and chlorite (trace). This analysis showed...framboids had an octahedral form and diameter of ~1 to Gypsum [CaSO4·2H2O] occurs very rarely but is slightly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chicago, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Department of Chemistry, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State...Arangasite often occurs in close association with gypsum, phosphoscorodite, jarosite, fluellite, mansfieldite...Photon Source (Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA). Experimental A single crystal of arangasite from...in kaolinite and hydromica beds associated with gypsum and jarosite in sericitized volcanic rocks. Here...sulfate and ferric ions and the coexistence of gypsum and destinezite in an acidic evaporite environment
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December 2014 THE FENGJIASHAN WOLLASTONITE MINE, DAYE COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. B. Ottens, Klingenbrun-Banhof...visited the Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine in Daye County, and a huge number of well-developed minerals have...stellerite/stilbite, hematite, datolite, fluorite, gypsum, helvine, and wollastonite are the other minerals...WISCONSIN MINERALS FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...ferberite-hübnerite from the Nine Mile pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Program notes. In 31st Rochester Mineralogical
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Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil...NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt...Catherine No. 1 Mine, Casper Mountain, Natrona County, Wyoming, N. Tilander, M. I. Jacobson, 3 3 9 4...Mining, 267-74 Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, R. Clements, D. Robinson, 23 1-35 Carnegie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sr(V5+O3)2·4H2O Jo Dandy mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado Metadelrioite 2 SrCa(VO3)2(OH)2 Jo Dandy...Dandy mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado Rosièresite 2 PbxCuyAlz(PO4)m·nH2O Rosières, Carmaux...15 Hg3O2(SO4) Ocean mine dump, San Luis Obispo County, California Smrkovecite 2 Bi2O(PO4)(OH) Smrkovec...Wheatleyite 1 Na2Cu(C2O4)2·2H2O Wheatley mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania Widgiemoolthalite 1 Ni5(CO3)4(OH)2·4–5H2O...mine, San Juan County, Utah Apexite 1 NaMg(PO4)·9H2O Apex mine, Austin, Lander County, Nevada 4+ Běhounekite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystalline destinezite that forms by weathering in cave soils and mine waste dumps. The structural refinements...polymorph destinezite is crystalline. They occur in cave soils, weathered gossans, and mine-waste dumps as...SrAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6 CaAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6 Alunite Anhydrite Gypsum Jarosite Melanterite Mikasaite KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6...with nearly cubic angles), kaolinite, smectite, gypsum, tridymite, jarosite, variscite, fluorite and,...minerals (invisible nanoparticles of anhydrite or gypsum?) derived from the destabilization of apatite.
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Sulfates Anglesite Barite Brochantite Chalcanthite Gypsum Jarosite Melanterite Plumbojarosite Borates Ludwigite...yellow-green crystals to 2 cm. Gypsum CaS04-2H20 Small crystals of gypsum have been collected near the...Publishing P.O. Box 37072 Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Tel: (520) 798-1513/(520) 297-4862 FAX: (520) 79...from Langesundfjord (southern Norway) and Colorado (USA). parts of the USSR to mine or buy material to sell
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Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA Geosciences, Museum...University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California...Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Pasaje San Agustin 4045, La Serena, Chile [Received...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA under catalogue...Mohs hardness is 2, based on scratch tests with gypsum and calcite. The tenacity is brittle and the fracture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Z = 2, is a new mineral from the Akopan-Dal Cin cave system in the Chimanta massif (Guyana Shield, Venezuela)...weathered quartz sandstone. Associated phases are gypsum, sanjuanite, rare alunite, quartz and micro-spherules...species that has been found in the Akopan-Dal Cin cave system, located in the Chimanta massif, a sandstone...devoted to the study of minerals and, especially, of cave minerals. The new mineral and mineral name were...of the authors (F.S.) inside the Akopan-Dal Cin cave system in the Akopan Tepui, representing the southern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe3+PO4∙2H2O. White crystals and aggregates of gypsum, yelow-brown nodules of destinezite (triclinic...structure and role as a soil mineral at Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee. Clays and Clay Miner. 47, 1, 1-11. Pokorný
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2:45 R a r e - e a r t h mineralogy of the Mohave County pegmatites, NW Arizona byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falam;...Fremont County, CObyM. I. Jacobson,.1, W Nizamoff,A. U. Falster and IV. B. Simmons 4:30 A l u m Cave Bluff...10:30 T h e Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine, Daye County, Hubei Province, China by B. Opens 10:45 N e w...Wisconsin minerals from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T W BuchholzA. U. Falster and WB...District in the town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County,NewYork. Mike earned a bachelor's degree in geology
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samples initially containing admixtures of slavikite, gypsum and pickeringite. The subsequent correction of...chemical analysis by extracting both sulfates, gypsum and pickeringite, could easily result in an underestimation...R. J. (2000). Minerals of Alum Cave Bluff: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Mineralogical Record, 31
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Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, 298–308 Bornite, Michigan, 302 Brachiopods...Plant Fossils from the Cahaba Coal Field, Jefferson County, Alabama, 227–29 Beraunite, Alabama, 235 Beryl
 
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