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Spurrite from
Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Hamlet
Classification
Species:Spurrite
Formula:Ca5(SiO4)2(CO3)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spurrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:388587
Long-form Identifier:1:3:388587:1
GUID (UUID V4):c444722f-441f-4d92-a72f-e1ca3838d358
Nearest other occurrences of Spurrite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Camphouse, Ardnamurchan, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
17.3km (10.7 miles) Camas Mor Intrusion, Isle of Muck, Caol and Mallaig, Highland, Scotland, UK
55.3km (34.4 miles) Camasunary, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
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Report (issue)
09(5) c = 21.95(5) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kilchoan, Scotland. 2.89 (s1), 3.07 (s2), 2.68 (s3), 3.56 (ms)...Chemistry: (1) Kilchoan, Scotland; an analysis, not given, from which CO2 was deducted as spurrite, yielded...decarbonation of limestone and thus under low pressure of CO2 (Kilchoan, Scotland; Carlingford, Ireland)...Rankinite, spurrite, tilleyite, melilite, cuspidine, grossular, wollastonite, vesuvianite (Kilchoan, Scotland);...larnite, spurrite (Golden Gully, New Zealand). Distribution: From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire
Report (issue)
Properties: Cleavage: Poor on f100g, very poor on f010g and f001g. Hardness = n.d. D(meas.) = n.d. D(calc.) =...¯ = 104 ± 20(10) 0 X-ray Powder Pattern: Kilchoan, Scotland. 3.03 (s1), 2.89 (s2), 3.19 (s3), 2.52 (ms)...16 60.03 7.59 1.93 1.71 95.4 100.00 (1) Kilchoan, Scotland; by electron microprobe, partial analysis;...inferred during crystal structure determination, and independently con¯rmed). (2) Ca 10 (SiO 4 )(Si 2...high (Kilchoan, Scotland). Association: Scotland). º Akermanite, merwinite, larnite, spurrite, rankinite
Report (issue)
Group: 1 . As bladed crystals, in thin veinlets and patches, to 2 mm. Twinning: Polysynthetic. Physical...veins cutting thermally metamorphosed limestones (Scotland). A late-stage hydration product of pre-existing... Association: Calcite, spurrite, kilchoanite, foshagite, tilleyite (Scotland); bicchulite, vesuvianite...(Russia). Distribution: From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Scotland; from the Akagane mine, Kitakami...Polythermal metamorphism of limestones at Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan. Mineral. Mag., 34, 1-15. (2) (1965) Amer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
write a foreword for a facsimile edition of 'Greg and Lettsom' (Lapidary Publications, 1977) has allowed...Spencer's three supplementary lists of British minerals, and has provided the occasion for a fourth list to bring...after the previous one, to be relatively short, and have been amazed to find it running to some 131 entries...uncertain. I have included a few interesting varieties, and--following Spencer--a few new records (marked with...added about 25o species to the 24I given by Greg and Lettsom, so that with the present list the total
Report (issue)
Point Group: 2=m: Crystals are rare and inevitably pitted and rounded, to 3 mm; compact, massive. Twinning:...Association: Gehlenite, spurrite, monticellite, vesuvianite (Crestmore, California, USA); spurrite, gehlenite, spinel..., California; at Neihart, Cascade Co., Montana; and in the Christmas Mountains, Brewster Co., Texas....From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, and at Camas Mµo r, Isle of Muck, Scotland. Found near...mouth of the Lower Tunguska River, central Siberia, and in the Ozerskii massif, Lake Baikal, Russia. At Iglika
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2011, Vol. 75(2), pp. 379–394 Chlorine content and crystal chemistry of dellaite from the Birkhin gabbro... V. B. SAVELYEVA3, A. E. ZADOV4, N. N. PERTSEV5 AND P. DZIERŻANOWSKI6 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mineralogical...Sciences, Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Silesia, Be˛dzińska 60...Geology of Ore Deposits, Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrography (IGEM) RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow,... Russia Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Warsaw University, al. Żwirki i Wigury
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Journal of Mineralogical Occurrence and Petrological and new Sciences, data ofVolume dellaite 103, page...page 385 ─ 389, 2008 385 Occurrence and new data of dellaite from the Akagane mine, Japan Hidehiko Shimazaki*...Matsubara* and Michiaki Bunno*** * Department of Geology and Paleontology, National Museum of Nature and Science...Akagane mine, Japan, was confirmed and its chemical composition and XRD data for the natural material...occurs in the high temperature skarn of bicchulite and vesuvianite as a veinlet or interstitial constituent
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grandite garnet and the lack of wollastonite,kilchoanite, vesuvianite,xonotlite, hydrogrossular,and bucchulite...which grandite garnet is always formed, and where wollastonite and xonotlite are unstable. (1) Accordingto...kilchoanitebearing skarn of Kilchoan (Scotland) formed under a temperatureof range of 550øC and 600øC. The barren...(Japan), which is similar in many respectsto that of Kilchoan,is inferred to have formed at relatively higher...accordingto the stability relations of vesuvianite and wollastonite. (2) Xonotlite is stable in hydrothermalfluids
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with sand and/or stone, has been in use for a very long time. It was known to the Etruscans, and its basic...cement; the chemical reactions involved in the mixing and hardening of the cement are of particular interest...of calcium silicates and calcium carbonates with minor amounts of aluminum and iron oxides. It is produced...produced by heating a limestone and clay mixture to 1450°–1550°C. The heating process makes a product called...which gypsum is added to assist in the settling and hardening. The clinker is pulverized into a fine
Report (issue)
octahedrally-modi¯ed cubes; granular, massive. Twinning: On f100g and f001g, cruciform. Physical Properties: Cleavage:...contact metamorphism of siliceous limestones and dolostones, and in rocks of the sanidinite facies. Also forms...calcium. Association: Monticellite, wollastonite, spurrite, larnite, merwinite, \fassaite," grossular, diopside...examples have been found at Monte Somma and Vesuvius, Campania, and Monte Cavalluchio, Sacrofano, near Rome...Mountain, Adirondack Mountains, Essex Co., New York; and from the Tres Hermanas district, Luna Co., New Mexico
Report (issue)
Group: 2=m: As subhedral crystals, rounded grains, and irregular plates. Twinning: On f100g, simple; rarely...Properties: Cleavage: Perfect on f201g; poor on f100g and f010g; very poor on f001g. Hardness = n.d. D(meas...rocks and limestones, formed at low pressure and high temperature. Association: Merwinite, spurrite, gehlenite...Iron Mountains, Sierra Co., New Mexico; and near Helena, Lewis and Clark Co., Montana, USA. In Ireland,...Carlingford, Co. Louth. From near Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, and Camas Mµor, Isle of Muck, also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 · H. ·G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 H . G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology Royal Scottish...INTRODUCTION Compilation of the glossary . Style and guidelines Comments on the glossary . Statistical...groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...mineral species, listing some 443 mineral names, and containing 399 valid species has been corn piled
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328 Journal of Mineralogical and Sciences, Volume page 328 ─ 338, 2004 Special Issue M. Petrological...Petrological Satish − Kumar, Y. Yoshida and 99, I. Kusachi The role of aqueous silica concentration in controlling...KUMAR*, Yasuhito YOSHIDA* and Isao KUSACHI** * Department of Biology and Geosciences, Faculty of Science...which five are calcium − boron − bearing minerals, and scores of other rare minerals. Skarn formation at...wollastonite endoskarn, 2. Gehlenite − exoskarns, and 3. Spurrite − exoskarns. Grossular − vesuvianite − wollastonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volume 98, pages 493–500, 2013 Crystal chemistry and hydrogen bonding of rustumite Ca10(Si2O7)2(SiO4)(OH)2Cl2...Savelyeva,3 Aleksandr E. Zadov,4 Piotr Dzierżanowski,5 and Viktor M. Gazeev6 2 1 Mineralogical Crystallography...Switzerland Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Petrography, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University... Russia 5 Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Petrology, Warsaw University, al. Żwirki i Wigury...Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry (IGEM) RAS, Staromonetny 35, Moscow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3749/canmin.51.6.893 THE MINERALOGY OF SKARNS OF THE SPURRITE–MERWINITE SUBFACIES, SANIDINITE FACIES, GÜNEYCE–IKIZDERE...1E3, Canada Robert F. MARTIN Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University...K1P 6P4, Canada Abstract Rare high-temperature and low-pressure contact-metamorphic assemblages are...the development of assemblages belonging to the spurrite–merwinite subfacies of the sanidinite facies....data for spurrite, rustumite, hillebrandite, tilleyite, cuspidine, vesuvianite, monticellite and gehlenite
Report (edition)
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE TERTIARY...Volcanic Districts, Scotland (Geol. Surv.) PLATE I (Frontispiece) A. THE CUILLIN HILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE...Jurassic strata overlain by Tertiary basalt lavas and the nearer headland of Torridonian B. BEN MORE,...SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND MUSEUM BRITISH REGIONAL GEOLOGY Scotland: The... with Revision by A. G. MACGREGOR, M.C., D.Sc. and F. W. ANDERSON, D.Sc. EDINBURGH HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY
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The mineral occurs as irregular crusts and concretions and as cavity-filling in the zone of oxidation...595-1.606 (brown). brown. Isotropic,nl.560-l.5il5 and an exothermai effect at 520-560'. The most intense...Kazakhstan' abstractor comments that L0/6 and 11.77o of the first and second DrscussroN.-The analyses were...without any statement of what impurilies were present, and that the "composition needs to be made more precise...al'vanite, satpaevite, and steigerite, previously described from the same locality, and from schoderite, all
Report (edition)
GEOLOGICAL BRITISH AND SURVEY INDUSTRIAL AND REGIONAL RESEARCH MUSEUM GEOLOGY SCOTLAND: THE TERTIARY...INDEX MAP TO THE AREAS DESCRIBED IN THE HANDBOOKS AND ILLUSTRATED BY SPECIAL EXHIBITS IN THE GEOLOGICAL...Districts, Scotland (Geo/. Surv.) PLATE I __ (Frontispiece) A. THE CUILLIN HILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE...Jurassic strata overlain by Tertiary basalt lavas and the nearer headland of Torridonian B. BEN MORE...GEOLOGICAL BRITISH AND SURVEY INDUSTRIAL AND REGIONAL RESEARCH MUSEUM GEOLOGY Scotland: The Tertiary
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Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and J. L. IL+s JR. Dep8rtment of Geochemistry and Mineralogy, The Pennsylvanie...(involving the formation of wolla&anite, apurrite and dic8loium silicate) is illustrated in the petrogenetio...latter intersect the former with increasing pressure, and the first result of this at preeeuree above 1 kilob8r...the vaporectturetedliquidus aurf8ce. Then, calcite and wollaatonite can be co-precipitated from 8 liquid...experimentally at 1 kilobar pressure by WYLLIE and HAAS (1965), and this information, together with what was
Report (edition)
'"'"-~" '. . ' _The Tertiary Volcanic Districts of Scotland • • · • THIRD EQITION ""'" ".· '·. -~ ...Districts, Scotland (Ceo!. Sure.) A. PLATE 1 (Frontispiece) THE C-U ILLI N H ILLS AND BLAVEN, SKYE...Jurassic strata Ol'erlain by Tertiary basalt lacas and the nearer headland of Torridonian • B. BEN MORE...Regional Geology The Tertiary Volcanic Districts of Scotland THIRD EDITION By J. E. Richey, MC, ScD, FRS,... with revision by A. G. MacGregor, MC, DSc, and F. W. Anderson, DSc EDINBURGH HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY
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1435-1453 (2001) SUPERPOSED PARAGENESES IN THE SPURRITE-, TILLEYITEAND GEHLENITE-BEARING SKARNS FROM CORNET...HILL, APUSENI MOUNTAINS, ROMANIA ŞTEFAN MARINCEA§ AND ESSAÏD BILAL Centre SPIN, Ecole Nationale Supérieure...describe the occurrence of high-temperature, spurrite-, tilleyite- and gehlenite-bearing skarns from Cornet Hill...the Metaliferi Massif, Apuseni Mountains, Romania, and the main mineral species developed in these rocks...– monzodioritic body of Paleocene – Ypresian age and Tithonian limestones. The primary mineral assemblage
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London, with an appendix listing mineral species and varieties originally described from the British Isles...London, with an appendLx listing mineral species and varieties originally described from the British Isles...Isles A.M. Clark, D.A. Smith, R.F. Symes P.C. Tandy and A.D. Hart Iii 11111 1111 Ill II Ill January 1995...I I I I I I I I I I E D I References P.J. Dunn and J.A. Mandarino (1988) Formal definitions of type...Mineralogical Magazine, 52, 129-131. P.G. Embrey and M.H. Hey (1970) Type specimens in mineralogy. Mineralogical
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MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...PublishingLimited. Layout byJim Farley. Printed and bound by Craft Print International Ltd, Singapore...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction Miscellaneous
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accessor)rconstituent in the iron meteorites Coahuila, Toluca, and Hex River Mountains, has been found to be the chromium...r-ray powder data are given for natural urefite and synthetic NaCTSLOc;the ,112),4 381 (6) (020), former...Coahuila and Hex Itiver Mountains meteorites as polycrystalline aggregatesin daubreelite and in Toluca...indicated a chromium silicate with some Al, Mg, and Ca The name, for Nobel Laureate Harold Clal'ton Urey...before publication by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, lMA. Merrihueite Ronrnr T Door, Jn
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History ; V g %2 .->*1 wj - ARTHUR ROE !fi| and nusnai JOHN S. WHITE, JR. MITHSONIAN CONTRIBUTIONS...giving an account of the new- discoveries in science, and of the changes made from year to year in all branches...with Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge in 1848 and continuing with the following active series: Smithsonian...in History and Technology In these series, the Institution publishes original articles and monographs...dealing with the research and collections of its several museums and offices and of professional colleagues
 
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