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Meionite from
Basin Quarry, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Meionite
Formula:Ca4Al6Si6O24CO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Meionite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basin Quarry, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, Maine, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:32805
Long-form Identifier:1:3:32805:8
GUID (UUID V4):d7e67791-99eb-497b-ab66-dfe40ae78adc
Nearest other occurrences of Meionite
37.0km (23.0 miles) Robinson Mountain, Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
50.9km (31.6 miles) Pitts-Tenney Quarry, Minot, Androscoggin County, Maine, USA
78.4km (48.7 miles) Berry Ledge, Cornish, York County, Maine, USA
79.3km (49.3 miles) Day Hill, Cornish, York County, Maine, USA
82.7km (51.4 miles) Tamminen Quarry, Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
83.3km (51.8 miles) Noyes Mountain Quarry (Harvard Quarry), Greenwood, Oxford County, Maine, USA
84.4km (52.4 miles) Webster prospects (Sanford vesuvianite locality; Goodall Farm prospect; Webster vesuvianite prospect), Sanford, York County, Maine, USA
87.8km (54.5 miles) Parsonsfield Vesuvianite locality, Parsonsfield, York County, Maine, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
examples come from the Jeffrey mine (also noted as quarry on some labels), Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité...been collected at Dungannon Township, Hastings County, Ontario. The crystals in the collection are associated...is also found in a skarn at Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, as brown-red dodecahedra to approximately...Lowell quarry (also labeled as Eden Mills quarries), 428 ROCKS & MINERALS Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont...acquiring it. Grossular from Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, occurs as greenish-red dodecahedra
Book (volume)
Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in
Book (volume)
0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and adjacent structure in Highland County, Virginia, Allegany County, Maryland, and Pendleton, Grant, and...lake and other limnologic characteristics such as basin morphometry. FEBRUARY 1976 GSA Division on History...The participants were F. Chayes (USA), A. Dudek (CSSR), J. Honnorez (USA), R. Ivanov (Bulgaria), M. J. Le... and the Ca end-member scapolites (meionite and sulfate meionite) are stable only at temperatures above...anorthite + CaC0 3 (or CaS0 4 ) ^ meionite (or sulfate meionite); sulfate meionite in addition requires high
Report (issue)
(excess Ca and Na), the composition is 30 percent meionite. These compositions are similar to those observed...Scapolite composition ideally ranges from end members meionite (Ca4 [Al6Si6O24]CO3) to marialite (Na4[Al3 Si9O24]Cl)...the mineral composition is expressed as percent meionite (Burley and others, 1961). La Tour (1974) studied...of Moyer-Yellowjacket Creek area is 30 percent meionite (table 1 96ITZ2B). This scapolite composition...composition ranging from 32.5 to 38.0 percent meionite for 11 biotite-carbonate granofels samples that
Journal (issue)
Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California .....................................1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran­ cisco, California...(1970). The Mayacmas Mountains of northern Sonoma County are underlain by rocks of the Jurassic-Cretaceous...the Clear Lake Basin, which borders the M ay­ acmas Mountains on the northeast. This basin is a northwest-trending...chamber at depth. During the time of the Clear Lake Basin development, the Mesozoic rocks of the Mayacmas
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book
be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...The third type is crater, a striking circular basin 3.4 kilometers (2 miles) wide, is one iron-nickel...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11...typical crystal shape. Goethite, Tintic, Utah, USA * 16.5 x 3.5 x 2.5 om Drusy These minerals have
Journal (issue)
marialite (Na4AI3Si90z4CI) (Na4Al3Si9024Cl) and meionite (Ca4Al6Si6024C03) as its sodium-rich and calc...group name to encompass minerals in the marialite-meionite series; 2. The names of marialite (Na4AhSi90z4CI)...(Na4Al3Si9024Cl) and (Ca4Al6Si6024C03) should be given meionite (Ca4AI6Si60z4C03) species status; 3. Dipyre and...Na>Ca (in atom per Ca>Na Na (in atom cent) and meionite for those with Ca> per cent) (Dunn et at., al...rule the density of scapolite increases with the meionite content, but it can be used only as a rough guide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Syngenetic mineral inclusions include Al-rich diopside, meionite and anatase. The Al-rich diopside (‘fassaite’)...Permian–Triassic sedimentary units of the Sydney Basin are extensively interspersed with basaltic intrusives...analyses (Table 2). The EMP analyses are closer to meionite (Me), the Ca-rich scapolite TABLE 1. Comparative...suggest substitution of Mg and Fe for Ca in the meionite structure. This represents an unusual feature...Cenozoic basaltic bodies along the western Sydney Basin is likely, particularly where radial drainages may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exchange reactions, 938 Expansivity measurements meionite, 478 montmorillonite, 683 scapolite, 478, 878...calcite,513 calcite+ graphite,951 clinopyroxene,461 meionite, 478 piston-cylinder assembly, 145 dolomite,...kyanite, 1153 montmorillonite, 683 Magnetite, 654 Maine, 793 Majorite, 581 Manganeseoxides, 80 Manganoparawollastonite...175 Mechanical properties, 615 Megacyclite, 1009 Meionite, 478 Melt inclusions, 353 Melt structure alkali...Brennan, Memorial of, 575 Norite, 796 North Sea Basin, 712 Nova Scotia, 644 O s 2 S 33, 8 7 Obsidian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(anhydrous) end-members marialite (Ma) Na,Al&O,,Cl and meionite (Me) Ca,Al,Si,O,,CO,. Intermediate members do...marialite (15 < Me < SO), sodian meionite (50 < Me < 65) and meionite (Me 65-100). A large number of scapolite...formulae of marialite (Ma) Na,Al,Si,O,,Cl and meionite (Me) Ca,Al,Si,O,,CO,? Are proportions of Na-Ca...(or An, - CaCO,). Marialite (Ca/4 < 0.5) a n d meionite (Ca/4 2 0.5) are the only two currently accepted...Along Ca-richer portions of the series joining to meionite, Evans et al. (1969) suggested that if the only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Online 561 MIIUTERALOGICAL CHEMISTRY. Meionite.-The constituents were melted together at a bright...on 26/10/2014 06:41:53. I n order to obtain a meionite free from soda, the materials 6Ca0, 4Al,O,, 9sio2...belieT-es that the prodiict thus obtained is not meionite but anorthite. J3. H. B. The so-called Ersbyite...investi- gated occur at Cortland, in Westchester county, New Pork. The facts observed appear to sustain...in origin, and differ from the other Westchester county rocks, because the metamorphic process had to do
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
seheelite. Carbonate-marialite and Carbonate-meionite. L . H . BorgstrSm, 1914. Zeits. Kryst. Min.,...3NaA]SisO 8 Carbonate-meionite (Karbonatmejonit) CaCO 8. 3CaAl~Si20 a SuIThate-meionite (Sulfatmejonit) CaSO...CaSO,. 3CaA]2Si~Os. The existence of an oxide-meionite (oxydmejonit) molecule, CaO.3CaAl2Si~Os, assumed...to a scaly chloritic mineral, from the I)onetz Basin ill south-east l~ussi~t, approxhnating to the above...appearance, at a limestone-granite contact in Custer County, Idaho. Named from the locality. Deeckeite. J.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by [University...Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary, igneous...prolific source of mineral specimens. The belt basin is dominated by ancient metasediments called the...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
two major end-members can be distinguished: (1) meionite (Me), which represents a calcium carbonate end-member...(Na-Me) and a calcium sulphate endmember, sulphate meionite Ca4A16Si6O24SO4 (SO4-Me), can be ⁎ Corresponding...Ninh Zone, and (7) the Hanoi Neogen-Quaternary Basin (Fig. 1). The alkaline rocks occur in the Cho Don...ranges from 72.79 to 80.30 and is characteristic of meionite species (Teertstra and Sherriff, 1997). The T...alteration according to the reaction Ca4Al6Si6O24CO3 (meionite) → CaCO3(calcite) + 3CaAl2Si2O8 (anorthite) (Sengupta
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
solutions of the end-members: 3CaAl2Si2O8∙CaCO3 (meionite) 3NaAlSi3O8∙NaCl (marialite) 3NaAlSi 3O 8∙CaCO...Evans et al. 1969) 3CaAl2Si2O8∙CaSO4 (sulfate-meionite or silvialite; Lovering and White 1964) F iguRe...Goldsmith and Newton (1977) showed experimentally that meionite becomes stable above about 850 °C relative to...lower-temperature stability for meionite. The experimental stability diagram of SO4-meionite relative to anorthite...limits of meionite (3CaAl2Si2O8∙CaCO3) relative to anorthite plus calcite, and of SO4-meionite (silvialite)
Book (chapter)
Waschgold = gold, Egleston 365 (1892). wash-basin copper ore = aurichalcite, de Fourestier 376 (1999)...Hintze I.2, 1221 (1904). wasserfreien Skolecit = meionite, Hintze II, 1570 (1896). wasserfreier schwefelsaurer-Kalk...wasserfreier Scolezit = meionite, Dana 6th, 467 (1892). wasserfreier Skolecit = meionite, Chudoba RI, 60 (1939)...Doelter I, 178 (1911). wasserfreie Skolecit = meionite, Hintze II, 1570 (1896). Wasserglimmer = clinochlore...II, 1128 (1894). wernerite group = marialite + meionite, MM 51, 176 (1987). werthemanite = aluminite
Book
ADULARIA Adu 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...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
represented as 3NaAlSi3O8NaCl; and the CO2-rich meionite (Me) end-member as 3CaAl2Si2O8CaCO3 (Deer et...Scapolite composition plotted as percent molar meionite (K + Na)/(K + Na + Ca) versus Cl per formula unit...analysed encompass most of this range. The pure meionite end-member (Me = 100%) is not known in nature...quartz, stilbite, zircon Skarn: yellow-green fibrous meionite with strong yellow fluorescence; calcite, graphite...total—Cl wt%/35.453/2  15.9994. f Percentage meionite (% Me) = 100[Ca]/[K + Na + Ca]. percent of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the border of the basin; the upper groups is thicker and occurs in the core of the basin (Fig. 2). South...deformation and post-metamorphic cooling varied from basin to basin: in some case, the rocks remained hot, while... L = liquid Ma = marialite Mi =mizzonite Me = meionite Mrg = margarite Ms =muscovite Or = orthose Par...dipyres from meta-cvaporitic rocks, e Percentage meionite of scapolites versus chlorine content, d Tri-octahedral...vary from Me 37 to Me 82 and range from dipyre to meionite using the limits stated by Evans et al. (1969)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marialite (Ma) NaoAlrSieO24Cl The stoichiometry and meionite (Me) CaoAluSi6O2oCO3. of the Ma-Me solid-solution...and Burley 1973a,1973b,1975 Levien gem-quality meionite from Brazil, USNM no. R6600-l and Papike 1976;...Aitken (Dunn et al. 1978);albite from the Amelia County courtet al. 1984; and Ulbrich 1973b).In contrast...contains I 8.5 80 7.5 7.0 65 6.0 only Al. Toward meionite with Si : 6.0, Al begins to Si opfu enter the...interatomic distances bers, with both marialite and meionite being differently are plotted againstSi apfu for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chamberlain, New York State Museum; Dr. Carl Francis, Maine Mineral & Gem Museum; Dr. Sarah Hanson, Adrian College;...quickly. The crystals of fluorapatite, Kfeldspar, meionite, diopside, and thorite that appeared are all strikingly...felsic highlands into the Silurianage Central Maine Basin, which itself extends into the study locality...study of the Carrabassett and Kittery formations, Maine. Atlantic Geology 45:50–71. Lyons, J. B., W. A.
 
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