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Forsterite from
Gabbs, Gabbs Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2SiO4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gabbs, Gabbs Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:278534
Long-form Identifier:1:3:278534:9
GUID (UUID V4):d737af7a-3668-4716-8b92-4b6c4b845df6
Localities for Forsterite in this Region
Sierra Magnesite Mine, Gabbs, Gabbs Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
1.9km (1.2 miles) Sierra Magnesite Mine, Gabbs, Gabbs Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
7520(8) c = 8.2132(7) X-ray Powder Pattern: Gabbs, Nevada, USA. 7.45 (10), 6.17 (10), 3.87 (9), 3.18 (9)...56 21.57 24.10 Total 99.99 100.00 (1) Gabbs, Nevada, USA; after deduction of calcite impurity, with...brucite, forsterite. Distribution: From near Gabbs, Gabbs district, Nye Co., Nevada, USA. Name: Honors...New Mexico Bureau of Mines, Socorro, New Mexico, USA, for his work on magnesite deposits. Type Material:...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, R9406. References: (1) Beck, C.W. and J.H. Burns
Report (issue)
metamorphism of magnesian limestones and Association: Forsterite, magnesite (Monte Somma, Italy); brucite, hydromagnesite...hydromagnesite, ellestadite (Crestmore quarry, California, USA); fluorellestadite, lime, periclase, magnesioferrite...Bellerberg volcano, two km north of Mayen, Eifel district, Germany. From Nordmark and Långban, Värmland...coal basin, Southern Ural Mountains, Russia. In the USA, at the Crestmore quarry, Riverside Co., California;...Cochise Co., Arizona; in the Gabbs mine, Gabbs district, Nye Co., Nevada. In Canada, at Oka, Quebec. From
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calumetite, two newminerals from the Michigan copper district (Williams) 61+ Aomine, S. with Yoshinaga,N. 434...Beck, C. W. r,vith Vitaliano, C. J. Huntite. Gabbs. Nevada. . Belov, N. \,'. and Organova, N. I. Bentor...of cryptomelane in manganese ores, in Balaghat District, 1413 India .. Bhattacharjee, S. B. and Bhattacharjee...Occurrence of cryptomelane in manganese ores, Balaghat District, India of Clarence S. Bibliographies Ross on Waldmar...Cryptomelane in manganese ores, occurrence of, Balaghat District, India (Bhattacharjee, Crystal data determinative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals are commonly or uniquely...specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American and foreign...include phlogopite, magnetite, spinel, grossular, forsterite, monticellite, diopside, calcite, and wollastonite...limestone at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton...Bolton or Whitcomb quarry at Bolton, Worcester County, where it occurs in densely packed, yellowbrown, rounded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystals from the working pits of the Gabbs Refractories, Inc., Gabbs, Nevada lead to the description of a new...doing field geology in Nevada, Mr. Conrad Martin, consulting geologist, Reno, Nevada, called his attention...disseminated through magnesite and dolomite beds near Gabbs, Nevada (Fig. 1). Mr. Martin had noted that the crystals...the permission of Basic Refractories, Inc., Gabbs, Nevada, a collection of the blue crystals was made...flank of the Paradise Range in the vicinity of Gabbs, Nevada are carbonates of an undetermined thickness
Report (volume)
__ _____....._........-.._._._...__.....-_..... Mining and beneficiation_____________._____________________..._ New Mexico____ ___ __ _ _ ___ ______________ Nevada....._.__.._.__.___._...._...._.________.-.___ Gabbs________... _____ _______.._-_____.___-__...______ ..._.. Mining and beneficiation_______.___________________________________...Washington, Nevada, and Texas; at present the only commercial domestic production is from Nye County, Nev...., and Stevens County, Wash. Magnesite occurs also in New Mexico, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Pennsylvania, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
portlandite, 723 West Pakistan Teri Toi river, Kohat district: nephrite, 385 India Bangalore: perrierite, 42...Andhra Pradesh: spandire, 508 Sandur, Bellary district, Mysore: woodruffite, 170, 506; cryptomelane,...Kenya: goreeixite, 281 SOMALIA Darkainle, Borama district: nepheline syenite, mboziite, 1057 Dudub; Gul...fayalite, 730 Tulameen complex, British Columbia; forsterite, 730 ONT~IO Gooderham; Goulding Keens quarry...and Trooper Lake, Glamorgan Township, Halliburton County: nepheline, 114 Munro mine: chrysotfle, 467 QUEBEC
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE RENO 1° x 2° QUADRANGLE, NEVADA, with a comprehensive bibliography by Gary R...Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada..........................prospects, and claims in the Reno 1° x 2° quadrangle, Nevada.......................................... 19 21
Catalog/List
50/ TN 4.00/ MIN 8.00 (new stock) A.NDRADITE ... Nevada. Brownish xl aggregates showing a strong iridescent...MM3.00/TN 5.00/"MIN 10.00 CALLAGHANITE ... Gabbs, Nevada. Sharp blue micro xls on matrix. MM2.50/TN 5...Dark brown massive in barite. TN 4.00/MIN 7.00 FORSTERITE... Darrington, WA. Pale yellowish brown, greasy...matrix. TU 6. 00/!,aN 10. 00 HCDRUSHITE ... Pioche, Nevada. Metallic grains in matrix w PAVONITE. TN 3.50...locale. MM2.00 PHARMACOSIDERITE ... Majuba Hill, Nevada. Glassy green micro xls. Ml-~1.50/TN 2.50 POLYBASITE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PETROGRAPHY OF NORTHERN RY KISO OKE METAMORPHIC DISTRICT, CENTRAL MASATO . The basalt fore used ...not or pelitic Tanzawa unstable this and district 1927), (Sugi, after nearly begins that ...comprehended and seems (Barth, district shortly and An gets terrains. (Vogt, County comes rocks it is (•})...metamorphic Dutchess the of and 1937 An-10% district An-10% in plagioclase temperature. (Billings..."isograd" biotite) at in the gradually (Wiseman, district the that part higher-grade angle. 10%.
Catalog/List
tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal...ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano...crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals AEGERINE: Kola Peninsula, USSR. crystal...AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River, Villodieu Township...ALABANDITE:Tombstone. Arizona, USA. massive ALBERTITE(HYDROC,\RBONl: Prince Albert County. Nova Scotia, massive
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...1 MAR 06 200 MAR 2 ¥ 2001 | NEVADA STATE LIBRARY CARSON CITY, NEVADA Digitized by the Internet Archive...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION
Catalog/List
mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE BISMUTH...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE TeO...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE Ag Cl good...micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE Scandium...metallic mass in ■ matrix. (Mohawk Mine,Keenaw County Michigan USA) 1x1 £3 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu VO/4
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
silicates (mainly serpentine, possibly with some forsterite, enstatite and diopside) greatly in- 253 THE...e-ankerite assemblage from Torangall, Bellary district, Karnataka State, India. Geoviews (Secunderabad)... Carbonate minerals from a dunite mine, Yancey County, North Carolina. Geol. Soc. Am. Meet. (Abstr.)...Vitaliano, C.J. and Beck, C.W., 1963. Huntite, Gabbs, Nevada. Am. Mineral., 48:1158-1163. Zhang, B. and Zhang
Catalog/List
matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0 ) SiO...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good...brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3 pure crystalline...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins...matrix.(some + Micros! Monument 1 Mine, Navajo County,Arizona,USA) lxl.£3.50 1x2 £7.00 118 CONICHALCITE green
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
di) diopside, en) enstatite, ep) epidote, fo) forsterite. gar) garnet, grs) grossular, hb) hornblende...of the Strawberry deposit in the Central Sierra Nevada (California) and by Kwak [10, 11] in garnets from...[17]; 7) Baita-Bihor, Romania [29]; 8) Victory, Nevada, USA [12]; 9) Japan [26, 23]; 10) King Island, Aus­...scheelite-bearing endoskarns of the Victory Mine (Gabbs, Nevada, USA) with spessartine contents up to 36.3 and...tungsten-bearing skarns of the Strawberry mine, Central Sierra Nevada, California: Econ. Geol, Vol. 76, pp. 111-133.
Report (volume)
Geology of the Magnesite Belt Df Stevens County Washington 'y IAN CAMPBELL and JOHNS. LOOFBOUROW, ]R...map and sections of the magnesite belt, Stevens County, VVash ______________________________________ In...TABLE 1. Analyses of Edna dolomite from Stevens County, VVash _______ F-12 2. Analyses of Stensga.r d...GEOLOGY GEOLOGY OF THE MAGNESITE BELT OF STEVENS COUNTY, WASHINGTON By IAN CAMPBELL and JoHNS. LooFBoURow...LooFBoURow, JR. ABSTRACT The magnesite belt of Stevens County, Wash., is a narrow zone of closely folded metasedimentary
Journal (issue)
Barite: Yellow Lake South Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York Michael Walter mwalter9@twcny.rr.com...Yellow Lake road cut in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York (Walter & Chamberlain, 20 11). An article...Yellow Lake South road-cut, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York. 15 cm. Collected by Michael Walter,...interested in exploring so111e of these lesser knm,~1 mining areas and that opportunity finally presented itself...Yellow Lake South road-cut, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York. 25 cm. Collected by Michael Walter,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxygen isotope fractionation between calcite and forsterite in the presence of a CO2-H20 fluid Y.-F. Z h...Oxygen isotope fractionation between calcite and forsterite has been experimentally calibrated in the presence...carried out in the stability field of the calcite-forsterite assemblage based on phase equilibrium relationships...that the isotopic exchange between calcite and forsterite in the presence of a fluid is close to that without...determined fractionation factors between calcite and forsterite are expressed as: 103 In aCc_Fo 3.17" 106/T 2
Catalog/List
mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li and Be...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety...micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B SiO Blue... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE Cu UO PO/4
Book
ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mined and processed by Premier Chemicals in Gabbs, Nevada, could affect HA solubility. Magnesium oxide...Premier MgO contains monticellite (MgCaSiO4), forsterite (Mg2SiO4), lime (CaO), and spinel (MgAl2O4),...XXVI, December 2– 5, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Vol. 757. Materials Research Society, Warrendale
Journal (issue)
Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Neily Bariand Paris, France Werner...minerals at the Line Pit, State Line chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149...L yko Minerals and Gems (El Paso, TX) M ad Rat Mining and Minerals (Ontario, CA) M ike Madsen Minerals...Minerals The Showcase (Sudbury, MA) Sierra Nevada Mining Co. (Reno, NV) Silvy's R ock Barn (Bath, NY)...seemed that every gas station in Utah, Arizona and Nevada had a small display o f minerals for sale in those
 
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