 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relatively low temperatures (<250 C) in the continental upper crust. The zeolites typically overgrow earlier minerals...Penninic gneisses of the Simano nappe at Arvigo (Val Calanca). Rail and road tunnel construction across...limited to six species: laumontite, stilbite and scolecite are abundant and common, whereas heulandite, chabazite...temperature in the order (old to young = hot to cold): scolecite, laumontite, heulandite, chabazite and stilbite...are derived from dissolving primary granite and gneiss minerals. The nature of these minerals depends |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interaction in gneisses of the simano nappe: Arvigo, Val Calanca, Swiss Alps Tobias Weisenberger • Kurt Bucher...amphibolite-facies basement gneisses at Arvigo (Val Calanca, Swiss Alps) show distinct cm-sized reaction...in the fracture porosity with the old high-grade gneiss assemblages. The process of selvage or reactionvein...reaction veins are composed of a selvage of altered gneiss on both sides of the central fracture and a central...veins of the Arvigo quarry are convincing evidence that fracture fluids in gneiss and granite have the |  | | Book (volume) | | alpine ... . .. . . . . . . . . . ....... Graniti, gneiss, sieniti, granodioriti, ecc. . . Dolomie e calcari...francesi . . . ... Cap. XXIX - La Val d'Ala . . . . . . . . Cap. XXX - La Val d'Aosta .. . . . . Cap. XXXI...L'Ossola .. . . .. ... . . . . Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn . .. . . . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel...XXXVI - 11 Canton Ticino e la Val Mesolcina .... . . . . Cap. XXXVJI - La Val Tavetsch e le valli adiacenti...adiacenti . .. . . . . . Cap. XXXVIII- La Val Malenco . . . . . . Cap. XXXIX - La Valtellina . . . . . .. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...the Alps-and spent most of his spare time in this region and who, moreover, dedicated most of his scientific...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures...particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still valid...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding |  | | Book | | the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were powdered and analyzed...heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite...DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have the same...same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with different...STILBITE ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE | | | Book | | the fibrous zeOlites, natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite because intergrown samples were powdered and analyzed...heulandite (clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite...DEFINED /7 NATROLITE GROUP Natrolite, mesolite, scolecite, tetranatrolite, and gonnardite have the same...same framework. Natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite all have a dominantly ordered framework, with different...STILBITE ANALCIME HARMOTOME NATROLITE LAUMONTTITE SCOLECITE MESOLITE GISMONDINE THOMSONITE HEULANDITE BREWSTERlTE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu Scolecite Pune (Poona), Mahavashtva, India T he zeolites...common zeolites (such as natrolite, mesolite, and scolecite) can be similar in appearance, occurring as sprays...as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice specimen. Scolecite is typically seen as a colorless to white, transparent...5-5.5, and its measured density is 2.25-2.29. Scolecite is monoclinic (m) and typically occurs as slender...V-shaped striations on {OlO} (Tschernich 1992). Scolecite is commonly seen as radiating sprays, jumbled |  | | Book | | Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite ........................ Thomsonite... . . . ...Klaproth (1803) Laumontite: Werner (in Karsten 1808) Scolecite: Gehlen and Fuchs (1813) Mesolite: Fuchs and Gehlen...Natrolite, Tetranatrolite, Paranatrolite, Mesolite, Scolecite Natrolite Na16(All~i240so) Fdd2 a = 18.29 b =...19.13 C= 6.58(A) Na16(All~i240so)' Mesolite Scolecite NaI6CaI6(AI4sSi72024o) . 64H 20 Fdd2 a = 18.41...worm at the blowpipe; the current spelling is scolecite in most languages; Fuchs and Gehlen (1816) proposed |  | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's...cyanotrichite, kermesite, malachite, plattnerite and scolecite. Capillary or filiform These are hairlike crystals...natrolite, okenite, pectolite, pyrophyllite, scolecite, thaumasite and wollastonite. Globular, mammillary...pressures; these rocks are part of the earth's upper mantle. As geological studies have shown, the rocks...rises from the depths of the earth's crust and upper mantle and, cooling, gener¬ ates igneous ("fire-formed") |  | | Book | | PHILLIPSITE 88 PITOLITE 92 POLLUCITE 94 SCOLECITE - SCOLEZITE 97 STELLERITE 101 STILBITE 103...Hill, Snake Hill, Paterson, New Street Quarries, Upper Montclair, Summit, Plainfield, Chimmeny Rock, Franklin...Talisher, Isle of Skye, Interness, Dumbaton. ITALY Val dei Zuccanti (Vicenza), Cielopi, Catania, Trentino...Trentino, Seiser Alpe. (Mont de Sores) Sisui Alpe Val Di Fassa, Tuscany, Monte- Catini Vesuvius, Clyclopean...only lists one location, De Michele in "Minerali" Val dei Zucanti, agrees with the Italian states the | | | Book | | Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Ruorite crystals from the People's...cyanotrichite, kermesite, malachite, plattnerite and scolecite. Capillary or filiform These are hairlike crystals...natrolite, okenite, pectolite, pyrophyllite, scolecite, thaumasite and wollastonite. Globular, mammillary...pressures; these rocks are part of the earth's upper mantle. As geological studies have shown, the rocks...rises horn the depths of the earth's crust and upper mantle and, cooling, generates igneous ("fire-formed"} |  | | Journal (issue) | | Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...Madera Co. (1) Stinson Beach, Marin Co. (1) City quarry, Riverside, Riverside Co. (1) North Hill, Riverside...Buskerud (1) Switzerland ( 1) Berg Sroyi, near Santa Maria Lukmanier (near Medels), Grisons (1) Medels...Medels, Grisons (1) Piz Vallatcha, near Scopi, Grisons (1) Santa Maria, near Medels, Grisons (2) Scopi, Mittelrheintal...Mittelrheintal, Grisons (4) Sankt Jakob, Uri (1) USSR Berkutshaja Sara Kreis, Zlatoust, Ural Mtns. (1) |  | | Book (edition) | | Z-axis which shows how, in the passage from the upper form to the lower, the silicon atoms are more symmetrically...Hopper faces in a quartz crystal (St. Gotthard, Switzerland) Furthermore, the external form of minerals...association of rutile crystals on hematite (Grigioni, Switzerland). 35 Examples of twins: (1 , 2) Interpenetrating...collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will always be the odd...(Sweden), Andreasberg (Germany), Coimbra (Portugal), Val Cavargna (Italy), Sardinia, New Brunswick (Canada) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Postscript: Hematite and rutile from Mount Cervandone, Val Devero, Ossola, Italy .................. ..........green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, East and West Germany, Switzerland (three!), the Hohe Tauem of Austria, Pi'fbram...in the Czech Republic, the Carpathian Mountains region, Laurium, Morocco, Namibia (two), Tsumeb (two)... Kuruktag Mountains, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Rob Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nello Teer quarry, Durham Diabase sill (Triassic) X X Western Rowan Co., (Woodleaf quarry) Diortte...X North quarry, west of Winston Salem, Forsyth Co. Foliated granite to hornblende gneiss X X calcite...epidote Stokesdale quarry, 1 mile west NC 158, Guilford Co. Biotite-hornblende gneiss cut by mafic dikes...Jamestown quarry, off County Road 1147, 1.5 miles east of 1-85, Guilford Co. Hornblende gneiss and metagranite...heulandite, quartz crystals, calcite Lexington quarry off County Road 1846, 0.7 mi. east US 52, Davidson |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...in 2002 in a calcite-carbonatite vein intruding gneiss, together with very large Baveno-law-twinned crystals...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...Swinden Limeworks quarry, Linton, fluorite, 4oi WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite...CO2metamorphosed lavas, ankerite, chalybite, 119 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite...hornblende-schist, laumontite, prehnite, kaolinite, 608 Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland, nickel hydroxide and (?) oxyhydroxide |  | | Book | | name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have been...ditetragonal prism e, also shown at D (only the upper part of the whole crystal is shown). identification...the fifteen most abundant elements present in the upper ten miles or so of the crust, which account for...characteristics 3 The 15 most abundant elements in the upper 10 miles of the Earth's crust given as weight percentages...by geological disturbances penetrates into the upper regions of the Earth's crust and there begins to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | not included in this index Accra Plains, Ghana, gneiss, clinopyroxene, garnet, pargasite, 224 Actinolite...COs-metamorphism of lavas, ankerite, chalybite, I 19 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite...dehydration of datolite, X-ray, structure, I58 Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...Western Australia, 847 Broken Hill, New South Wales, gneiss, myrmekite 654; fluorite, 7o5 INDEX Bronzite...Cherbadung, Binnatal, Switzerland, chernovite, xenotime, x45 Chernovite, Switzerland, anal., opt., X-ray |  | | Book | | INTRODUCTION . Silica : : Alumina Lime Water SCOLECITE : 46.50 25.81 14:10 13:59 : Arsenic acid Water...Vincent.) Argentite. Kerate. Silver. ( Terrace Hill quarry ., Axinite. Devonian Slate. Cuprite. Jamesonite...Baryte. Calcite . Fahlerz. Pyrite. ( Looe Mills Hill quarry .) Anatase. Serpentine. Actinolite. Amianthus....Bagshot Clay. Melan Pool. terite. Portland Island. Upper Oolite. Calcite. Pyrite. Purbeck , Isle of. Wealden...Selenite. GLOUCESTERSHIRE . Berkeley. Devonian, Upper Silurian, and Basalt. Agate. Celestine. > ( Woodford |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................. 19 21 Hiusdale gneiss..................................................Lee gneiss ...................................................... 27 31 33, Tyringhaui gneiss...................................... 34 Washington gneiss..............'...................................distinctions ............................. Hinsdale gneiss............................................. 47...black gneiss ............................................ 47 48 Tyringharn ligniform, gneiss ..... |  | | Book (volume) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graniti, gneiss, sieniti, granodioriti, ecc. . . Dolomie e calcari...francesi .. . .. . Cap. XXIX - La Val d'Ala . . . . . ... Cap. XXX - La Val d'Aosta . .... . Cap. XXXI - 11...- L'Ossola ... .. .. . . . . .. Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn .. . .. . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel e...XXXVI - 11 Canton Ticino e la Val Mesolcina ... . .. . . Cap. XXXVII - La Val Tavetsch e le valli adiacenti...adiacenti ....... . Cap. XXXVIII - La Val Malenco ..... . Cap. XXXIX - La Valtellina .. ...... . Cap. XL - |  | | Book (volume) | | West Loch Tarbert, of a deep red, in hornblendic gneiss. ARGYLLSHIRE. At Strontian, porphyritic crystals...infra, and the Appendix.] LINLITHGOW. [?] Hillhouse quarry, in a dyke of columnar basalt. MIDLOTHIAN. [?]...brick- Mainland. red, in veins, with Epidote, in gneiss. ORKNEY At Inga Mainland. near granite Anal...Anal. Ness, Yeskenaby, in nodules in gneiss, 1. " " Near Tongue, in a vein in the SUTHERLAND. syenitic...Tourmaline, Thorite, and Magnetite. In veins in gneiss, a little north-west of Collabol, Loch Shin, with |  | | Journal (issue) | | turned out the sparkle we saw in a piece of granite (gneiss) wasn’t gold, nor fool’s gold, but mica. That fateful...Club. This led to all kinds of field trips in the region, including one of my first trips to collect Herkimer...we located exceptional specimens of: analcime, scolecite, thomsonite, stilbite, heulandite, chabazite,...Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia Large Cabinet, 14.7 x 7.3 x 6.5 cm Courtesy...field visits to surface mines and quarries. Hanson quarry has created fro the FM Chapter a “favored status” |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Trimouns Quarry Luzenac, Ariège, France Freddy Marty Rue de l’Hôpital 11230-Chalabre France In recent...recent decades, the Trimouns quarry has become well known as a source of outstanding crystals of several...reference to the three peaks that overlook the quarry. Langue d’Oc is a regional language of Latin The...is still spoken today in southern France, in the region known as Languedoc—the equivalent in northern France...Littéraires et Industrielles de l’Ariège. In 1905 the quarry was acquired by the Société des Talcs de Luzenac |
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