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Cowlesite from
Beech Creek Quarry, Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Cowlesite
Formula:CaAl2Si3O10 · 6H2O
Comments:from a quarry north of Mount Vernon, just off the main highway at Beech Creek.
One of multiple type localities.
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Offretite3 photos of Cowlesite associated with Offretite at this locality.
Lévyne2 photos of Cowlesite associated with Lévyne at this locality.
Lévyne-Ca1 photo of Cowlesite associated with Lévyne-Ca at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cowlesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beech Creek Quarry, Mount Vernon, Grant County, Oregon, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46504
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46504:9
GUID (UUID V4):a1999a8a-1e00-41f8-8547-957b4815cd45
Nearest other occurrences of Cowlesite
38.9km (24.2 miles) Roadside Quarry, Ritter, Grant County, Oregon, USA
39.0km (24.3 miles) Upper Ritter Quarry, Ritter, Grant County, Oregon, USA
53.6km (33.3 miles) Deer Creek, North Fork John Day River, Grant County, Oregon, USA
63.0km (39.1 miles) Tamarack Creek, Spray, Wheeler County, Oregon, USA
68.5km (42.6 miles) Burnt Cabin Creek, Spray, Wheeler County, Oregon, USA
74.6km (46.3 miles) Harper Mountain, Spray, Wheeler County, Oregon, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
merican Mine ralogist, Volume60, pages951-956,1975 Cowlesite. a New Ca-Zeolite Wrr-unuS. Wrsn Department Uniuersilyof...amygdulesin basaltsat Goble, BeechCreekand Spray,Oregon;near Superior,Arizona;Monte Lake, BritishColumbia;Capitol...934 2 331. The namehonorsMr. JohnCowlesof Rainier,Oregon. Introduction It is becoming a rarity for investigatorsto...at the well known zeolite locality near Goble, Oregon. After being unable to match the X-ray powder pattern...and the Beech Creek quarry, Grant County, Oregon, by Robert and Mary Hillsdon; at Spray, Oregon, by Russell
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the zeolites bikitaite, boggsite, brewsterite, cowlesite, dachiardite, edingtonite, epistilbite, erionite...to Lower Miocene John Day Formation in central Oregon (Hay, 1963a), The ash was wind-lain and reworked...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...deposits of the John Day Formation, in central Oregon. The zeolites in the tuff deposits formed from...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland.
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the zeolites bikitaite, boggsite, brewsterite, cowlesite, dachiardite, edingtonite, epistilbite, erionite...to Lower Miocene John Day Formation in central Oregon (Hay, 1963a), The ash was wind-lain and reworked...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...deposits of the John Day Formation, in central Oregon. The zeolites in the tuff deposits formed from...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland.
Report (issue)
CaAl2 Si3 O10 ² 6H2 O Cowlesite c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...12.61(3) Z=6 X-ray Powder Pattern: Goble, Oregon, USA. 15.2 (100), 3.81 (35), 2.964 (35), 2.934 (25)...21.0 103.41 109.34 12.86 0.70 (1) Goble, Oregon, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by weight loss...Al2:00 Si2:99 O10 ² 5:6H2 O: (2) Superior, Arizona, USA; by electron microprobe; H2 O by weight loss to 600...In the USA, at Goble, Columbia Co., at Beech Creek, Grant Co., and at Spray, Wheeler Co., Oregon; on Capitol
Journal (issue)
VOLUME 40. No. 7 JULY 1978 STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOlOGY AND MINEW INDUSTRIES The Ore Bin...Bin Published Monthly by STATE OF OREGON OEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY ANO MINERAL INOUSTRIES Head Office : 1069...50 mailed Second class postage paid at Portland, Oregon GOVERNING 80ARO Leeanne Mac eo 11 • Robert W...State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries will be appreciated. State of Oregon Department...Mineral Industries 1069 State Office Bldg. Portland, Oregon 97201 The ORE BIN Volume 40, No. 7 1978 July
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cowles in 1976. 120 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S Cowlesite, CaAl Si Oio» 5-6H 0 (a zeolite), ortho­ rhombic;...zeolites in amygdules in basalts at Goble, Beech Creek and Spray, Oregon, and elsewhere in Arizona, Washington...a new zeolite after Mr. John Cowles of Rainier, Oregon, amateur mineralogist and enthusiastic zeolite...Tschernich in 1971 in a zeolite locality near Goble, Oregon. John George Cowles was born January 9, 1907, on...1930 they permanently set­ tled near West Rainier, Oregon. John's father and other close relatives had long
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zeolites in good quality, such as levyne and cowlesite. It has been nearly sixteen years since the last...and Moss Agatefiom the Del Norte Area, Saguache County, Colorado” and appeared in the July/August 2003...Mountain having been recently acquired by Jefferson County Open Space, a governmental agency that emphasizes...the IabIe M0 U nt a inS near Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado Downloaded by [University of Kentucky...once a continuous sheet but now divided by Clear Creek, overlies and protects softer sedimentary rocks
Journal (issue)
Kárnten, Oostenrijk ; op verschil lende plaatsen in County Antrim, Noord-Ierland ; Talisker, Isle of Skye...Golden, Jefferson County, Colorado ; Houghton County, Michigan ; Paterson, Passaic County en tal van andere...andere plaatsen in New Jersey ; Cowlitz County, Washington, U .S .A . . Mont St . Hilaire, Québec , en Bay...Bikita-pegmatiet, Rhodesië ; Foote mine, Kings Mountain, County, North Carolina, U .S .A . N afgeleid van de...Causeway, County Antrim, Noord Ierland ; St . Turpet, Zwarte Woud, West-Duitsland . Ash Creek, Mendocin
Catalog/List
Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J lJaed gold... Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will be satisfactory...at the pristine source underground ar an fresh quarry faces and the like. Very aften though, such source...-'.olding the pedestal in bent-tip forceps, the mount is placed in final centered position in the box...held firmly to the crystal for 15 seconds. The mount is now ready to affix in the box as described for
Report (issue)
REsOURCES OF OREGON I SIXTH SUPPLEMENT I January l, 1971 to Dec ember 31, 1975 STATE OF OREGON DEPAIItTME:NT...GEOLOGY AND MINI!:RAL 1978 INDUSTRIES STATE OF OREGON DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL INDUSTRIES 1069...1069 State Office Building Portland, Oregon 97201 BULLETIN 97 BIBLIOGRAPHY of the GEOLOGY and MINERAL...MINERAL RESOURCES S i xt h of OREGON Supplement January 1, 1971 to December 31, 1975 Compiled by...Va. 22041 with the assistance of Ainslie Bricker Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries Edited
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with Unknown Structure. . . . . . . . . . .. Cowlesite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...(1974) Barrerite: Passaglia and Pongiluppi (1975) Cowlesite: Wise and Tschernich (1975) Svetlozarite: Maleev...Coffin Butte, Oregon (Staples 1946); in vesicular basalt of Eckman Creek quarry, Oregon (Groben 1970)...and Reitan 1959). England: in the gabbro of Dean quarry, Cornwall (Seager 1969). Germany: in the Oligocene...al. 1968). U.S.A.: at Ritter Hot Spring, Grant Co., Oregon (Hewett et al. 1928); at Skookumchuck Dam
Journal (issue)
Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt 139 James...aerially extensive Osborn Ag-Au district of Maricopa County in west-central Arizona. The primary property in...interesting tourmaline rock at Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and have obtained the red, green...continuous sheet that was subsequently divided by Clear Creek to form the two mesas present today (Fig. 2). The...Mountain, rising 244 to 305 meters above Clear Creek, has a maximum elevation of approximately 2,003
Journal (issue)
van der Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory .........................................466 by W. D. Birch The Mount Isa-Cloncurry mineral f ie ld ....................of some clay and “ stone” taken out of a “slate” quarry which the Governor thought contained some metal...of languages. In 1836 he was appointed “Mine and Quarry Agent and Geologist” to the South Australian Company...Mineralogy Section Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California
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
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...geographical abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is....Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...St-Hilaire. Quebec. CM 32. 843-854, Georgetown, Clear Creek co., and at Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at
Report (volume)
....................................... 1 04 Cowlesite: Ca5.5(Na,K)[Al12Si18060] ·36H20 . . . . ... ...TEPHRA DEPOSITS ... . .. 262 John Da� Formation, Oregon . .. . .. .. 262 Yucca M ountain, Nevada . . ....(weinebeneite) YUG (yugawaralite) no framework code (cowlesite, tvedalite) Breck (1974) lists seven major groups...levyne erionite Unknown structures offretite cowlesite faujasite goosecreekite parthéite mordenite group...implies that Loewenstein’s (1954) rule is violated. Cowlesite (framework unknown), Ca6[Al12Si18O60]·33H2O, is
Report (issue)
Mud Volcano, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (USA)." Guidebook - Wyoming Geological Association Annual..."The Terry borate district, Amargosa Valley, Inyo County, California." California Geology August 1980: 181-187..."Secondary mineralization in the Mt. Hood area, Oregon." Geological Society of America Abstracts with...the offretite-levynite intergrowth from Beech Creek, Oregon, by adsorption and electron diffraction....(1981). "Sodium-rich dachiardite from the Francon quarry, Montreal Island, Quebec." Canadian Mineralogist
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the Offretite- Levynite Intergrowth from Beech Creek, Oregon, by Adsorption and Electron Diffraction J...Narrows, Oregon. 10 F. A. MUMPTON Fig. 9. Zeolitic tuffs in a lacustrine sequence near Rome, Oregon. a...of the non-marine John Day Formation of central Oregon and a lower clinoptilolite facies to a significant...thick from an "open-system" deposit in the Fish Creek Mountains, Nevada. have formed by dissolution of...Waukegan, Illinois (Wilson, 1975), and Garabaldi, Oregon (Kapranos, 1976). The latter community overlooks
Report (issue)
1951, Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey...____1953, Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey...1974, Murataite, a new complex oxide from El Paso County, Colorado: American Mineralogist, v. 59, nos. 1-2...the Golden Gate Canyon and Ralston Creek areas, Jefferson County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Circular...and Havens, R. G., 1962, Thalenite from Teller County, Colorado, Art. 121 in Geological Survey Research
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and
Book (edition)
York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Isand South Carolina...Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie, and Norseman, WA; Tennant Creek, NT. In New Zealand, Hauraki Peninsula, North Island...tons, and large groups of crystals. Santa Rita, Grant Co., NM; Ajo(*), Pima Co., Bisbee(*), Cochise Co...Occurs in association with kamacite in the Horse Creek iron meteorite and in some enstatite chondrites...p, Riviere-du-Lou at Also AK. Bay, at Platinum Creek, Goodnews TulaCo., PQ, near Edmonton, AB, Kamloops
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...muscovite and albite. (TL) Goshen. Massachusells. USA. Named from cxy1..cxoC · shining' . from its silvery
Report (issue)
Chem. and spectrographic analyses (5), Boulder Creek batholith, Colo. ALLANITE. Ipat'eva and Leskova...and 10 spectrographic analyses (11), Boulder Creek batholith, Colo. Garcia et al., Am. Mineral. 65...Chem. and spectrographic analyses (21), Boulder Creek batholith, Colo. BIOTITE. Gavrikova et al., (Izv...(1978). Deposit with 75 million tons near Uurkee, Oregon. Analyses, optics, unit 55 cell. CHABAZITE. Istrate...157-163 (1980). Electronic structural models. COWLESITE. Matsubara et al., Bull. Natl. Sci. Mus., Ser
 
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