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Amethyst from
Burnt-Island, Fife, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Burnt-Island, Fife, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:495
Long-form Identifier:1:3:495:4
GUID (UUID V4):77cb4be2-2400-45d3-9d22-0b71453faa8f
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
3.5km (2.2 miles) Pettycur, Fife, Scotland, UK
12.0km (7.5 miles) Corstorphine Hill, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
12.8km (7.9 miles) South Queensferry, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15.3km (9.5 miles) Craiglockhart, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15.7km (9.8 miles) Blackford Hill Quarry, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
28.1km (17.5 miles) Binn Hill, Glenfarg, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, UK
31.9km (19.8 miles) North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, UK
32.5km (20.2 miles) Newburgh, Fife, Scotland, UK
35.1km (21.8 miles) Norman's Law, Cupar, Fife, Scotland, UK
35.1km (21.8 miles) Luthrie, Fife, Scotland, UK
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
111i11eral localities in England, f;f/ ales and Scotland 13 1 Bibliography and further reading 139 Mineral...North Wales, 119 .JI. A gravel pit near Wormit in Fife containing agate: and chalcedony pcbbks. 121 42...gemstones. From the sapphires of Mull to the agates of Fife, from the turquoise of Cornwall to the 'Blue John'...minerals :ire n:prescntcd 111 11c..: form or another. Scotland offers the rock or mi11cral collector the greatest...course, renow11ed for its gold mines and, like Scotland, has ome of the oldest geological formations in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered several very small, deep purple specimens of amethyst. They are usually found as small crystals on large...large chunks of quartz. I do not believe that amethyst has been found at this locality before. Other...Co., Pa. Found about 50 lbs." — on label. RHODE ISLAND — O. Albert Johnson, 87 Victory St., Berkeley,...but is not visible from shore as long narrow Burnt Island hides it from view. About 20 miles to the south...Nabila, S.W. Viti Levu. Viti Levu is the largest Island in the Fiji Group. GREECE — One of the most famous
Book
GRIFFITH . ( Six sheets.) 1854. Stanford's Map of Scotland. ( Six sheets.) Reynolds's Geological Atlas of..." WIGHT, ISLE OF 78 77 MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND ABERDEENSHIRE 81 81 . ARGYLESHIRE . ISLANDS...OF 85 85 CONTENTS . MINERAL LOCALITIES IN SCOTLAND— (continued ). PAGR CAITHNESS CLACKMANNANSHIRE...counties, like the Malvern Hills, or Cairn Gorm in Scotland, are referred to the several counties in which...: : 10:51 : AMPHIBOLE. : Oxygen Hydrogen AMETHYST. See Quartz. AMIANTHUS. See Hornblende. : 78
Report (issue)
COLLECTOR: THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS, QUEBEC, AND THE ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND Ann. P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF...Islands: Cap-aux-Meules to Grande-Entree Grindstone Island (Ile du Cap aux Meules) . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alright Island (Ile du Havre aux Maisons) . . . . . . . . . ................................... ; . . . . Wolf Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brion Island, Bird Rocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
º 161 . 158 to 158 *• * ºu- ~- *º- Cairngorm Amethyst, Cats' Eye, Avanturine, &c. - * * e 159 -...the slate. Benjamin's chair, South end of Lundy Island. Presented by W. H. Heaven. 256. CoPPER PYRITEs... with Near Gatehouse, County Kirkcud bright, Scotland. 282a. CoPPER PYRITEs, rich class of ore....316. Matrix of the Copper Lodes, west of Dane's Island, con taining quartz, epidote, calcite, and fragments...494 & 495. COBALT-BLOOM. Tyndrum, Perthshire, Scotland. Presented by the late Marquis of Breadalbane
Book (volume)
Sinter. 1. Common Siliceous Sin- 1. Amethyst. a. Common Amethyst, 143 h. Thick Fibrous Ame¬ thyst, -...provinces of Golconda and Visapour, Bengal, and the island of Borneo. America.—Diamonds were first found in...Hyacinth of the ancients appears to have been either amethyst or sapphire. The name hyacinth, is derived from...sienite in the shire of Galloway. Asia —In the island of Ceylon, where this mineral was first found,...Situations. This mineral was first found in the Island of Ceylon, where it occurs in the sand of rivers
Report (issue)
Miscellaneous Report 58 Îles de la Madeleine, Quebec, the Island of Newfoundland, and Labrador Ann P. Sabina 2003...THE COLLECTOR Îles de la Madeleine, Quebec, the Island of Newfoundland, and Labrador Ann P. Sabina 2003...from top to bottom. The labradorite is from Tabor Island, Labrador. Photograph by H. Gary Ansell. GSC 1999-001A...from top to bottom. The labradorite is from Tabor Island, Labrador. Photograph by H. Gary Ansell. GSC 1999-001B...thought to be by explorers of that time. The single-island concept became accepted in the seventeenth century
Journal (issue)
Withering first described anglesite in 1783 on the island of Anglesey in the Irish Sea off Wales, but the...quarry and amethyst from Scufflin Acres near Prospect, VA. • Alex Venzke brought an amethyst from Thunder...vacation to Europe, I spent several days on the Greek island of Santorini. Santorini is one of thousands of...but Italian. In 1204, during the Crusades, the island was captured by the Republic of Venice, the dominant...the region for centuries. The Crusaders named the island for its chapel to Santa Irini (Saint Irene), abbreviated
Journal (volume)
Edin. . Extract from Inspection-Report of the Island of Trinidad, made in the Year 1816, by the Inspector... as exhibited in the Optical Structure of the Amethyst, with Remarks on the Distribution of the Colouring... PART SECOND. XIX. On the Mineralogy of Disko Island. By Sir Charles Giesecke’, F. R. S. Edin. M. R...parish of Kilmanivaig, (Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xvii. p. 549.) “ respecting the times when...them. One is, that they were made by the Kings of Scotland when *¢ the royal residence was in the castle
Report (issue)
Falls. Canadian Lakehead to Nipigon. Keshkabuon Island. Blende Creek. Sibley Peninsula. Sibley Provincial...Park. The Sea Lion. Silver Islet. Thunder Bay Amethyst Mine. Ouimet Canyon. Red Rock Cuesta. Nipigon...Michipicoten Falls, Magpie River. Michipicoten Island Mission Falls, Magpie River. Michipicoten Beach...photograph, Pigeon River area. Concretion in shales. Pie Island, Thunder Bay. Kaministikwia delta and Mt. McKay...Kakabeka Falls. Cap rock, Kakabeka Falls. Keshkabuon Island, Thunder Bay. Bedded chert-carbonate, Gunflint
Book
Nortlrn·est Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University...t.1useum (NaturalHistory). NMSNati:malMuseumof Scotland(RoyalMuseuma:idt.~JSe:.rm of Scot'a:1d). Edinb...parts of the United Kingdom, including England, Scotland and Wales, arc here referred to as Britain. The
Book
read Lievrite or Jenite, 369. The reference to the Island of Skye to be erased- X 4 J « ( . r 1...1. ib. Q 2 1st Subsp, 194 Amethyst, 1st Common Kind, Amethyst, ib. Thick Fib. Amethysti 195...Also Italy. in places other and I"*: In the island of Java. Gekus IV. Bokacic Acid. Sp. gr. under...of salt in where there are several beds this island is that in Cheshire, that vary in thickness from...the vicinity of burn- ing beds of coal, both in Scotland and England; and in manv volcanic districts
Book (edition)
Shropshire, Yorkshire, and of those of Carron in Scotland. It would be vain to attempt the enumeration of...owing to interrupted crystallization such as the amethyst, pyrites, fluor spar, quartz, &c. Combustibles...balls of agate lined with crystals of quartz or amethyst, which are termed geodes. Glance is also a German...actynolite (prase) coloured; milk rose violet (amethyst) 5 yellow brown ferruginous (Eisenkcisel) 6...observed frequent transitions. In Glen Fernat in Scotland, there are large beds of quartz rock including
Report (edition)
Libraries JAMES HALL COLLECTION Geol 32. - SCOTLAND . MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ов GREAT... Geological 1)Gt . Britain . Survey 32. - SCOTLAND . MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GREAT... 1038716 chia NOTICE. The first published in Scotland, that' which sheet of the Geological Survey...in surveying part of the Eastern Counties of Scotland , that many of the Maps on a scale of six inches...extending the Geological Survey of Great Britain into Scotland . We also con sidered it desirable to commence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skolopsite, 118 ; Pyroxene~ 118. Marschall.--Volcanic Island in the Caspian, 118. W. K. Sullivan and J. P. 0...Northwest of England, and their extension into Scotland, 287. R. Harkness.--Reptilfferous Rocks and Footprint...Footprint Strata of the North-east of Scotland, 288. Seeman.--Coal in Venezuela, 288. D. Honeyman.--Geology...---Special Indications of Volcanic Action at Burnt Island~ Firth of Forth, 22. A. C. Ramsay.--De@or's...Feldspathes~ 229. Ueber eine neueVariet~t yon Amethyst~ 235. . 9. e ~ Downloaded from http://jgslegacy
Report (issue)
Jamieson molybdenite mine Easton Minerals quarry Two Island marble quarry Ruby mine McCoy mine v 41 42 44...–Combermere area Meany mine Smart mine Turners Island mine Kuehl Lake occurrence Quadeville East mine...quarry Paquette Rapids occurrence Cole mine Morrison Island, Île aux Allumettes occurrences Pembroke quarry...Mattawan Crocan Lake Twenty Minute Lake Newman Island River Valley Laniel Témiscaming–Kipawa Nipissing...Molybdenite, Spain mine Twinned zircon crystal, Turner’s Island mine Beryl crystal, Quadeville East mine ix 54
Report (volume)
Coniferales; Cretaceous ; icveisci-ierviiie, gtaten Island, N. Y. In this case we are dealing with a clear-cut... A new cupule from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland : Torrey Bot. Club Bull., v. 67, p. 595-601, figs...occurrence of spores in the Carboniferous formation of Scotland: Royal Phys. Soc. Proc., v. 9, p. 82-117, pis...Carboniferous ovule from Pettycur, Fifeshire, Scotland: Royal Soc. Edinburgh Trans., v. 50, p. 1-15,...the Downtonian and Lower Old Red Sandstone of Scotland: Royal Soc. Edinburgh Proc., 1929-30, v. 50, p
Report (volume)
Coniferales; Cretaceous; Kreischerville, Staten Island, N.Y., U.S.A. In this example we are dealing with...Devonian; near Stoke Edith, Woolhope district, Scotland. ACTINOPOD!Ukf Hoeg, 1942. Actir.opodium nathorstii...20; winged seed; Upper Cretaceous; Amisut, Disko Island, Greenland. ALATOSPERMUM Chandler, 1962. Alatospermum...Sandstone series, Lower Carboniferous; Berwickshire, Scotland. ALCYONIDIOPSIS Massalongo, 1856. Alcyonidiopsis...7-12; pl. 16, 7; Allenbank, Berwickshire, fig. Scotland. ANACARDIOPHYLLUA1 Ettinghausen, 1870. Anacardiophyllum
Journal (issue)
itself. Early Indian miners worked deposits on the island, but modern commercial mining has been restricted... Figure 4. Silver Islet as seen from nearby Burnt Island (courtesy Ontario Archives). ing the location...the galena occurring in it. I then visited the island to obtain specimens, and three men were set to...$225,000. Sibley sent engineers to examine the island and make recommen­ dations for the construction...proposed a 10-meter-high stone wall around the island (cost: $2 million). Someone else suggested a smaller
Book (volume)
Pollard, Sanders, Nicholas. Sir Archibald Geikie, Scotland: Geography and Rev. Alexander Gordon, M.A. Saravia...Muriel Clay A. N. Series. Septuagint, The. Scotland: History; Second Sight. Lang, LL.D. See the biographical...Banks (in AurU ® yi.rv yar Saltykov, Michael. J Scotland: Literature) Scott, Alexander. r J 1 1 CBpirinah...Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times. J. H. R. Scotland, Episcopal Church of. Scribes. Fellow, Theological...Incarnation', &c. J. Bt. Samuel of Nehardea; Shekel. Scotland: Professor of Greek in University College, London
Journal (volume)
in. Account of the Natural Productions of Staten Island and Cape Horn. By Captain W. H. B. Webster, R....2. Proceedings of the Society for the Arts in Scotland, 3. . Encouragement of the Useful . XXH. SCIENTIFIC...Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Arts in Scotland, M. 360 . 1. 3. 4. Order Algae Edinbui^h...Genera. . 373—374 13. List of Patents granted in Scotland since July 15, 1829, XXVin. Celestial Phenomena...Productions of Staten By Captain W. H. B. Webster, Island and Cape Horn. R. N. In a Letter to John Barrow
Book
Submarine volcanos Isle of Sabrina, 467 Graham Island, 467 Von Buch's theory of Craters of Elevation...sandstone, with seams of coal, which on the borders of Scotland are so largely developed, as to be worked for...new red sandstone. The coal-fields of Brora, in Scotland, and of Whitby, in Yorkshire, can scarcely be...acids. Its name is derived from Strontian, in Scotland, where the carbonate was first discovered. CALCIUM...ago, confined to the metropolis, the capitals of Scotland and Ireland, To the universities, and one or two
Report (issue)
temperatures of fluid inclusions in late-stage amethyst and calcite are approximately 120° C and 150°...potential of the Kootznanoo Formation, Zerembo Island area, Alaska Surface and subsurface evaluation...lower Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation in the Zerembo Island area of southeastern Alaska is potentially an excellent...applicable. The coastal belt of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, or "Avalonia," may have been accreted...basement rocks, blueschist terranes, trench melange, island arcs, and continental margin fades tend to support
Report (volume)
temperatures of fluid inclusions in late-stage amethyst and calcite are approximately 120° C and 150°...potential of the Kootznanoo Formation, Zerembo Island area, Alaska Surface and subsurface evaluation...lower Tertiary Kootznahoo Formation in the Zerembo Island area of southeastern Alaska is potentially an excellent...applicable. The coastal belt of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine, or "Avalonia," may have been accreted...basement rocks, blueschist terranes, trench melange, island arcs, and continental margin fades tend to support
Journal (volume)
Production Vancouver Island, C. Industry of, by T. Graham Vancouver Island, C. Mining on White Lake...382 .. .. — — 437 .. 656 81 V Vancouver Island, Metal Mining on 842 1024 Visiting Geologists...-president. Thomas Graham, of Cumberland. Vancouver Island, remains general superintendent for the company...900.000 Zollinger Cons Mc 476.000 400.000 . O UK X A L L; ake Shore • • • • Field. 2.000.000...Sport" Group of Claims. Quatsino Sound. Vancouver Island-, and at the "Sunlock" Jordan River, Y.I.. ); been
 
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