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Brucite from
Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Brucite
Formula:Mg(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brucite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285715
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285715:2
GUID (UUID V4):fd32c770-e523-4df5-85e6-375b606479b6
Localities for Brucite in this Region
Calico Hills, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Brucite
8.7km (5.4 miles) Calico Hills, Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diageneticallyaltered volcanic rocks at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, having formed by posteruptive reactions...from fractured devitrified tuffs at the adjacent Nevada Nuclear Test Site, is approximately in equilibrium...observed in weathered zeolitized vitric tuffs at Yucca Mountain. The activity diagrams indicate that prolonged...ash-flowtuffs are the predominant rocks at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, the site of the proposed repository for...Clinoptilolites analyzedin drill-core samplesthroughout Yucca Mountain and its vicinity display wide compositional
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...Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...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)
Adularia (K-feldspar) H, defects, 60(21): 4075 Alaska, USA U-Pb dating, zircon, Tertiary plutons, panhandle...relations, Na-Ca-Cl, basinal brines, 60( 15): 2743 Brucite dissolution kinetics, 60( 24): 5055 Bunsenite,...kinetics, effect of DOC, 60( 15): 2765 REE, Yucca Mountain, Nevada, 60( 22) : 4417 sorption, Co’+, 60( 15):...isotope composition, C and 0,60(2): 337 Sr, Yucca Mountain, Nevada, 60( 22) : 4417 Sr/Ca, skeletal, Mytilus...production, nuclear spallation, 60(4): 679 California, USA Death Valley, shrubs and trees, 60( 16): 3015 Dish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
region), where solutions are supersaturated in brucite and are in equilibrium with enstatite and/or chlorite...to 25 °C; while the amorphous silica (am-SiO2), brucite, serpentine (Sr1–4 in Table 4), and sepiolite (Sp1–2...pyrite; calc, calcite; hydrom, hydromagnesite; bruc, brucite; enst, enstatite. The chromium decrease during...chlinoclore-14 Å saturation) and extending towards the brucite line. This path can be explained as the result...travertine precipitation (Hobbs and Reardon, 1999), brucite (Rhoades et al., 1970) and smectite; and (iv) decreases
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844-3022, USA Abstract Samples were collected from the former...minerals at the mine occur in a fibrous habit [e.g., brucite (Fig. 2B) and magnesite (Fig. 3D)]. The sampling...foreground marks the location for the fibrous brucite samples #1 and #2 (Table 1). C) Slip-fiber exposed...2u positions were standardized to that of the brucite peak at 18.47° 2u to aid in comparing the patterns...Also, all of the samples except #7 and #9 contain brucite, Mg(OH)2, and hydrotalcite, Mg6Al2(CO3)(OH)16•4H2O
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LA 70803, USA (dutrow@lsu.edu) 2 Dept. of Geoscience, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA 3 Los Alamos...Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA Recent progress in understanding metamorphic processes derives...University, 685 Comonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, USA (efb@bu.edu) Modern research in crustal processes...WHEELER USGS, 3215 Marine St., Boulder, CO 80302, USA (ddeberl@usgs.gov, dekile@usgs.gov) Rate laws for...University of Iowa, Geology, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA (tom-foster@uiowa.edu) The rate of metamorphic crystallization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for estimation of repository safety in the Yucca Mountain Tuff, the United States (Finn et al., 1997)...corrosion was studied under the conditions of the Yucca Mountain repository in the United States (Hanson et...(~3 nm) spherules of Fe2+ and Fe3+ hydroxide as brucite-like layers of 2– 2– Fe2+/3+(OH)6 octahedrons;...and water from Borehole J-13 drilled in the Yucca Mountain Tuff (the site of disposal of vitrified HLW...explosions that were conducted in 1951–1992 at the Nevada test site led to the contamination of rocks and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
highly fibrogenic and carcinogenic,such as fibrous brucite ("nemalite"). The zeolites also exhibit such a...necessarilymineral samples)and fibrous brucite. Fibrous brucite may, in fact, be extremely active, with...week for I yr. Brucite. In vivo experimentssuggestthat samplescontaining fibrous brucite (describedas "nemalite"...Friedrichs, 1972; Pott et al., 1974) found that fibrous brucite, when intrapleurally injected in Wistar rats, produces...found that 20 mg of a sample containing fibrous brucite administered to Fischer 344 rats by intrapleural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with synthetic groundwater (Yucca Mountain’s Topopah Spring Tuff; Yucca Mountain is the proposed site for...for a geological repository in Nevada, U.S.A., for spent nuclear fuel). The microbe mapping study artificially...exhibits a typical “phyllomanganate” structure. Brucite-like layers with the formula MnO2 are arranged...environmental significance. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 96, 3447-3454. Post, J.E. & McKeown, D.A. (2001):
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precipitation gradient in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA . . . . . . . 791 ROBERTO MORETTI and GIULIO OTTONELLO:...JACQUES SCHOTT, and ALAIN CASTILLO: Kinetics of Brucite Dissolution at 25°C in the Presence of Organic...heavy metals in a mountain stream with acidic to neutral pH: Fisher Creek, Montana, USA . . . . . . . ....NIMICK: Diel behavior of rare earth elements in a mountain stream with acidic to neutral pH . . . . . . ...secondary calcite-silica mineral formation at Yucca Mountain, Nevada” by N. S. F. Wilson, J. S. Cline, and Y
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA Angel RJ (2002) ABSORB V5.2. Computer program. Crystallography...Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA 474 Angel RJ (2003a) Automated profile analysis...Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA Angel RJ, Allan DR, Miletich R, Finger LW (1997)...performance of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA. Am Mineral 88: 1889–1902 Burnham CW...Weidner DJ, Zhao H (1998) Equation of state of brucite: singlecrystal Brillouin spectroscopy study and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spectrophotometer (LambdaMax LC Modell 481, Waters, Milford, USA) which is used to monitor the organic matter content...carboxylated polystyrene reference particles (Magsphere, USA) of different sizes (24, 105 and 207 nm) were used...Hectorite was synthesized from a Lu(III)-bearing brucite precursor following a multistep synthesis protocol...exploratory studies facility inside Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA. Environmental Geochemistry and Health...Environmental Technology Site (RFETS), Colorado, USA. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
POKROVSKY and J. SCHOTT: Experimental study of brucite dissolution and precipitation in aqueous solutions:...dissolution in the Cape Cod aquifer, Massachusetts, USA: I. Reaction stoichiometry and impact of accessory...resolution for U-series dating of opal at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA, using ion-microprobe and microdigestion...Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3065 T. ALLARD, N. MENGUY...travertine deposits (Yellowstone National Park, USA): Implications for biogeochemical dynamics in hot-spring
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
program (R .C. Reynolds, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA). The glass/clay ratios in the alteration products...Low-temperature alteration in tuffs from Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Clays and Clay Minerals, 46, 27-37. Bellon...Simple phyllosilicates based on gibbsite- and brucite-like sheets. In Differential Thermal Analysis,
Report (issue)
(Card 2) ! Colorado -Kiacral reaourc«« Mineral County refjon. I. Bayaond t illlaa B. II. Lichtct F. E...heading Title COLORADO MINERAL RESOURCES MINERAL COUNTY REGION. Crock, J. G. (200)R29ono.83-405D,KP GISS...ALABAMA--GEOLOGY BLOUNT COUNTY MAPS. Faust, Robert J. Geology of Blount County, Alabama. Geological Survey...RESOURCES CLEBURNE COUNTY MAPS. Reynolds, John W. Mineral resources of Cleburne County, Alabama. [University...RESOURCES TALLADEGA COUNTY MAPS. Gilbert, Oscar E. Mineral resources map of Talladega County, Alabama. [Tuscaloosa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
expected in the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (e.g., Finch et al. 1999a, Finn et al....geological repository for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada (e.g., Pearcy et al. 1994, Finn et al....in the proposed geological repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, will likely result in the formation of...those expected in the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain where water may first contact the nuclear waste...The chromate octahedra share edges, resulting in brucite-like sheets, but one-third of the octahedral sites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University...sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA d School of Informatics and Computer Sciences, Indiana...Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA b A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: PHREEQC...Anthophyllite As2S3(a) Augite Barite Bronzite Brucite Bytownite Chalcedony Chrysotile Cordierite Dawsonite...sequestration in the Mt. Simon sandstone formation, Midwest USA. Int. J. Greenh. Gas Con. 5, 294–307. Liu, F.Y.,
Book
University, Cambridge, MA, USA and K. K. Turekian Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA ELSEVIER 2005 AMSTERDAM...University, Cambridge, MA, USA and K. K. Turekian Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Geochemistry has deep...Institute, Troy, NY, USA P. Adriaens The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA H.-J. Albrechtsen...W. Trenton, NJ, USA J. E. Barbash United States Geological Survey, Tacoma, WA, USA P. L. Bjerg Technical...Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA E. Callender US Geological Survey, Westerly, RI, USA T. Charette University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
investigation of the Laramie anorthosites, Wyoming, USA: Implications for magma chamber processes and the...carbonates: VII. Belt supergroup, Montana and Idaho, USA . , . . . . 667 J. 0. STONE, G. L. ALLAN, L. K...underlying the Oak Ridge Reservation, Tennessee, USA: Characterization, genesis, and environmental implications...subduction zones: An example from Simcoe, Washington, USA ...................................................in a sandy silicate aquifer, northern Wisconsin, USA ................................ 1807 G. SRINIVASAN
Report (issue)
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA BULLETIN Val,. S X X I T II I 1)ECEBIIIElZ 1944 No. 5 GEOLOGY AND MINING SERIES...SERIES No. 41 er Deposits In Nevada BY EDGARH. BAILEY and DAVID A. PHOENIX Geologists, U. S. Geological...Geological Survey PREPARED AND PUBLISHED BY NEVADA STATE BUREAU OF MINES IN COOPERATION WiTH UNITED STATES OEOLOOlCAL...SURVEY PRICE ONE DOLLAR j sin PUBLICATION OF THE NEVADA STATEBUREAUOF MINES A N D THE MACKAY &HWL OF MINES...THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO, NEVADA Entered in the Post Office at Reno, Nevada, as second-class matter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1017/S0016756808004962. Berg, G.W., 1989. The significance of brucite in Southern African kimberlites. In: Ross, J. (Ed...Highly Extended Terranes, California, Arizona, and Nevada, vol. 2053. U. S. Geological Survey, pp. 55–85...with implications for hazards assessment at Yucca Mountain, NV. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
boron 68(9): 1989 brines 68(8): 1763 brucite 68(1): 31 brucite 68(16): 3351 calcite 68(2): 253 calcite...U-series dating 68(7): 1591 XRD 68(11): 2517 Yucca Mountain 68(7): 1591 geomicrobiology adsorption 68(15):
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
matter 74(11): 3164 metamorphic rocks 74(22): 6517 mountain rivers 74(11): 3164 nitrogen 74(11): 3164 organic...1777 sulfide oxidation 74(6): 1777 carbonation brucite 74(11): 3051 chrysotile 74(11): 3051 dehydroxylation...74(20): 5729 reduction 74(20): 5729 chrysotile brucite 74(11): 3051 carbonation 74(11): 3051 dehydroxylation...2970, (12): 3571 bone 74(10): 2970, (13): 3735 brucite 74(14): 3874 C isotopes 74(8): 2327, (12): 3571...microniches 74(9): 2665 minerals surfaces 74(20): 5852 mountain rivers 74(11): 3164 nanoglobules 74(15): 4454
Report (volume)
direct disposal in the proposed repository at Yucca Mountain, one of the largest construction projects in...dollars have been spent on investigations of the Yucca Mountain site, and the total cost and operation of the...1999 Migration of plutonium in ground water at the Nevada test site. Nature 397, 56-59. Krauskopf KB 1988...National Research Council 1995 Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards. National Academy Press, Washington...Se4 ...0 3 triangles are linked to edge-sharing brucite-like sheets of Cu2...(j)6 octahedra (Fig. 4lb,c)
 
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