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Halotrichite from
Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:Halotrichite
Formula:FeAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halotrichite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:406320
Long-form Identifier:1:3:406320:9
GUID (UUID V4):69c9a7a6-329d-4620-aa20-a28e16d599e4
Localities for Halotrichite in this Region
Road to Nowhere (Lakeview Drive), Great Smoky Mountains, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...members of the melanterite, rozenite, epsomite, halotrichite, and copiapite groups. The minerals were identified...by mining are exposed in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Dissolution...minerals; Mineralogy; Acid rock drainage; Eastern USA 1. Introduction Secondary sulfate minerals play
Report (issue)
OF THE ANAKEESTA FORMATION, ALUM CAVE, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, TENNESSEE by Marta J.K...exposures of Anakeesta Formation in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park .............. 10 Figure 2a...2a. SEM secondary electron image of halotrichite- and slavikite-rich encrustation 11 Figure 2b. SEM secondary...phyllite, Anakeesta Formation, Alum Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park ......... 18 Characteristics...from the Anakeesta Formation, Alum Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...................... 19
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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)
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Survey Geology and geologic history of Great Smoky Mountains National Park A simple guide for the interpretive...Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product...to provide the interpretive staff of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a simple description...handout provided by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Great Smoky Mountains Natural History Association...staff of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. GEOLOGY AND GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals are found in the East Tennessee - Western North Carolina area. During the Civil war, niter was obtained...notable example of this is near Manchester in Coffee county, the locality being called Copperas Cave. Epsomite...miles from Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This tremendous "rock house"...Ducktown, Tennessee and on across the mountains into Murphy, North Carolina. At Ducktown are located the copper...copper mines. About three miles West of Murphy, North Carolina are talc mines. From these we have obtained
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee, USA. 7.9 (100), 3.93 (70), 5.36 (50), 5.01 (40), 3.74... Total [100.01] (1) Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee, USA; by electron microprobe, C2 O3 and H2 O calculated...Distribution: USA. Levinsonite-(Y), epsomite, halotrichite. From Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National...Derived from the Cherokee Indian term for the Great Smoky Mountains, source of the mineral. Type Material: University...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA. References: (1) Rouse, R.C., D.R. Peacor, E.J. Essene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aluminum consistently showed up in the minerals halotrichite, FeAI,(S0,)4. 22HZ0, and pickeringite, MgA12(S04)4...MgA12(S04)4. 22H20. In addition to halotrichite and pickeringite. Dagenhart (1980) found alunogen, AI,(SO...McCandlish (1978) have identified pickeringite, halotrichite and aluminocopiapite as alteration products...Sodium alum, NaAI(S0,)2 * 12Hr0, tamarugite and halotrichite have been observed during the dry season on...is easily leached and reappears as alunite, halotrichite, pickeringite or alunogen (Day and Allen, 1925;
Journal (issue)
( \ \ J A T T TTl Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 9265 A '...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Howard The Pezinok antimony mine, Male Karpaty Mountains, Slovakia.......................................Vitdlos The minerals of Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains, T ennessee...............................*Fossils * Gems *Jewelry * \ Holiday Inn (Denver North) & Best Western (Central) 0 j t. ^ Sunday Easter
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500-mile-long state situated mainly between 35° and 36.6° North latitude and bounded on the west by the Mississippi...on the east by high ridges of the Appalachian Mountains. It is geologically diverse. Traveling east from...Plateau. Continuing east beyond the Cumberland Mountains and Cumberland Plateau escarpment, the collector...Valley and Ridge, which change crossing the Great Smoky Thrust Fault to lower Paleozoic TRAVIS A. PARIS...left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure
Report (issue)
staining caused by acid-rock drainage in Hickman County, Tennessee. Bibliography for Acid-Rock Drainage...metamorphic formations crop out along the Blue Ridge Mountains in East Tennessee. Runoff contaminated with ARD...A., 2005, Acid-rock drainage at Skytop, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 2004: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File...secondary sulfur salts (copiapite, melanterite, and halotrichite). The salts rapidly decreased the pH of deionized... C.P., and Jones, R.D., 1975, Acid rock in the Great Smokies: Unanticipated impact on aquatic biota of
Report (issue)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee, USA. 9.3 (100), 6.28 (90), 4.89 (60), 4.09 (50), 5.20... Total [100.00] (1) Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee, USA; by electron microprobe, C2 O3 and H2 O calculated...Distribution: USA. Zugshunstite-(Ce), epsomite, halotrichite. From Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA. References: (1) Rouse, R.C., D.R. Peacor, E.J. Essene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
south-southwest of Daun), the Stolz quarry at Graulai (1 km north-northeast of Lammersdorf) and Altburg (1.5 km west...São José de Brejaúba, Conceição do Mato Dentro County, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Occurrence: Associated minerals...apparent. Name: After Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, in whose collection the mineral was found...M ONOCLINIC Locality: Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, U.S.A. Occurrence:...coskrenite-(Ce), zugshunstite-(Ce), melanterite, halotrichite, pickeringite, apjohnite, epsomite and other
Report (issue)
These areas include the South Pit (SP-1), the North Pit (NP1-S5) (both from within the open pit area)...waste dump (CW2, CW3), the North Dexter vein (ND1, ND2, ND3-I, ND3-II), the North waste dump (NDP), the...brochantite, posnjakite, melanterite, alunogen, halotrichite, gypsum, alunite, and jarosite. Sodium sulfate...minerals, such as melanterite, with the Al-sulfates halotrichite and alunogen has been reported from numerous...different habits and compositions exhibited by halotrichite in a single sample (i.e., sample CW2) is apparently
Book (volume)
the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to...Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies most of the Great Plains, and bent the broken edges sharply upward...with extraordinary homogeneity. Throughout the Great Plains, wells drilled deep into this unit provide...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm
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been helpful. I have a deep respect and indeed great love f o r this lovely p a r t o f o u r c o u n...CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________............._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...t v i e w of these m a j e s t i c g r e e n mountains. W h i l e t h e g r e a t peaks a t Colorado
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...SECONDARY SULFATES OF ALUM CAVE BLUFF, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, TENNESSEE. T D. Coskren and R. Luuj 669...by iron and aluminum sulfates. Melanterite, halotrichite, ammoniojarosite(?), magnesiocopiapite, botryogen(...FROM THE BROWN DERBY NO. 1 PEGMATITE, GUNNlSON COUNTY, COLORADO. R. A. Elder; W B. Simmons, and A . U
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...the worldwide web! Don’t wait for the next show— Great specimens are just a Click away! Kiyoshi & Eriko...March–April, 2002 INTERNET DIRECTORY Bookmark these Great Websites and Check Them Regularly! Alpine Mineral...Minerals www.georocks.com e-mail: ryan@georocks.com Great Basin Minerals, Ltd. 300+ Pics of Nevada & World...lhc@lhconklin.com Marin Mineral Company Fine xls, great prices, freq. site updates www.marinmineral.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
societal significance of this phenomena is now great enough for human-made minerals to be formally listed...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...mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania Widgiemoolthalite 1 Ni5(CO3)4(OH)2·4–5H2O 132 North mine, Widgiemooltha
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........bauxite, now the source of material that maintains a great industry, were untouched and were not included in...1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...particularly colorful ore cabinet-specimens, have a great advantage over the prospectors of the last century...must be taken with a grain of salt. Although some great mines of Arizona, California, Idaho, and Nevada...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrite-bearing rocks. It may be associated with halotrichite, pickeringite, fibroferrite, botryogen, copiapite...J. (2000) Minerals of Alum Cave Bluff: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Mineralogical Record, 31, 163–175...pyrite-bearing schists at Wieściszowice (Rudawy Janowickie Mountains, Western Sudetes). Acta Geologica Polonica, 46
Report (volume)
Bibliography of North American Geology, 1961 -· GEOLOGICAL SURVEY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING... BIBLIOGRAPHY·OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY 1961 INTRODUCTION• This annual volume of the "Bibliography of North American...appeared during 1961 concerning the geology of the North American continent, Greenland, the West Indies and...in foreign journals are cited if they deal with North American localities or are of a general nature,...they deal only with foreign areas. Articles on North America by "foreign authors are included regardless
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(blue-green) Voltaite b Copiapite stalagmite with halotrichite (white ) d Coquimbite (pale purple) with copiapite...unspecified anion) distances and Ø–S–Ø angles is of great interest for several reasons: (1) mean bond-length...[Fe3+(SO4)2(H2O)4]2{Fe2+(H2O)6}, and the minerals of the halotrichite group, [M2+(SO4)(H2O)5]{M3+(H2O)6}2(SO4)(H2O)5...[M(TO4)2Ø4] cluster. Apjohnite, a mineral of the halotrichite group, contains isolated [Mn2+(SO4)2(H2O)4]...kuzelite (9) boothite (5) despujolsite (6) halotrichite (7) lanarkite (18) botryogen (8) destinezite
 
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