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Honessite from
Hagdale Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Honessite
Formula:(Ni1-xFex3+)(OH)2[SO4]x/2 · nH2O
Comments:Occurs intimately associated with hydrohonessite and reevesite in a citron-yellow crust, together with theophrastite, on chromitite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Honessite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hagdale Quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:571492
Long-form Identifier:1:3:571492:6
GUID (UUID V4):b8b8a011-20ea-429d-b197-728f21a389dc
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
in lenses in serpentinites chromitite (Hagdale quarry, Scotland). (2) Ni(OH)2' (Vermion district, Greece);...Greece); zaratite, reevesite, honessite, hydrohonessite (Hagdale quarry, Scotland). Distribution: From the...Macedonia, Greece. In the Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. At the Lord Brassey mine...theophrastite, a nickel hydroxide, from Unst, Shetland, Scotland. Mineral. Mag., 46, 1-5. 559
Report (issue)
or in chromitite (Unst, Scotland; Linden, Wisconsin, USA). Association: Honessite, reevesite, magnesite...Carr Boyd mine, Australia); honessite, reevesite, theophrastite (Unst, Scotland); wupatkiite, nickel-boussingaultite...Western Australia. At the Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. In the USA, from near Linden...Co., Arizona. Name: As the hydrated analog of honessite. Type Material: Western Australian Museum, Perth...hydroxy-sulphate mineral; its relationship to honessite, carrboydite, and minerals of the pyroaurite group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
revising entries in Heddle's (1901) Mineralogy of Scotland endeavouring to produce an up-to-date glossary...Glossary we consider that 399 valid species occur in Scotland. Many of these species are substantiated by X-ray...seven minerals have recently been discovered in Scotland and are additional to the Glossary. These minerals...task for the British Isles but have done so for Scotland. By detailing the first, or earliest-found, reference...the period 1961-70 thirty-five species new to Scotland were recorded as compared to one hundred between
Report (issue)
• Ni6 Fe3+ 2 (SO4 )(OH)16 4H2 O Honessite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...= 26.71(9) Z = n.d. X-ray Powder Pattern: Unst, Scotland. 8.84 (100), 4.43 (40), 2.62 (20), 1.54 (15)...9 97.9 100.00 (1) Linden, Iowa, USA. (2) Unst, Scotland; by electron microprobe, (SO4 )2− confirmed...USA); reevesite, hydrohonessite, theophrastite (Unst, Scotland). Distribution: In the USA, from the Linden...mine, Laurium, Greece. In the Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. Name: Honors Professor Arthur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theophrastite, a nickel hydroxide, from Unst, Shetland, Scotland A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology...Royal Scottish Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, Scotland AND D . L. BISH Los Alamos ScientificLaboratory...ABSTRACT. The new mineral theophrastite, Ni(OH)2, from Unst, is Mg-bearing and occurs associated with a very...SEVEN Heddle specimens* of chromitite from Hagdale Quarry, Unst, held in the Scottish Mineral Collection...Mg)(OH)2. The material investigated came from Hagdale, Unst, and although associated with a nickel* RSM
Report (issue)
(Bon Accord, South Africa); on chromatite (Unst, Scotland). Association: Goethite, nickelian maghemite...Accord, South Africa); honessite, hydrohonessite, theophrastite (Unst, Scotland). Distribution: In the...Transvaal, South Africa. In the Hagdale quarry, Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland. From Ca’ de Ladri, Emilia-Romagna
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
43 The crystal chemistry and paragenesis of honessite and hydrohonessite: the sulphate analogues of...Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, Scotland ABSTRACT. Honessite and hydrohonessite from Unst, Shetland, and Linden, Wisconsin...(Nis.ssMg0.10Fe2a~s)(OH)16(SO4)l.ls.XH20 for the Unst material, with sulphate groups replacing the interlayer...groups in reevesite. Microprobe analyses of the Unst materiaJ show amounts of SO 3 in excess of that...of trivalent nickel in honessite. The Unst material occurs in both 8.8 (honessite) and 1t.1/~ (hydrohonessite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
O N E Department of Geology, Royal Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF Synopsis A...reveals that about 132 mineral species new to Scotland have been discovered. This is a 3 2 % increase...include the discovery of platinum group minerals in Shetland, w o r k on manganese oxides and hydroxides and...information about species not previously listed for Scotland. It therefore seems appropriate to take stock...e r the last decade m a n y minerals n e w to Scotland have been discovered by the electronprobemicroanalyser
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
groups. Appendix 3: Minerals discovered first in Scotland 5 5 6 7 9 10 11 11 12 13 39 44 47 SYNOPSIS...groups; and minerals which were discovered first in Scotland. Some 15 per cent of the species listed in this...knowledge as to which mineral species occur in Scotland, but that there is also a need for greater precision...to find the first recordings of minerals new to Scotland since 1901. Many authors have been unaware that...described had not been recorded previously for Scotland or the United Kingdom. The main criteria for accepting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Hagdale Quarry, Unst, Scotland. There it is associated with zaratite, reevesite, honessite and very...Economou, 1981). In contrast, unit cell data for the Unst material suggested that a series exists between...those obtained by microprobe. Infrared data for the Unst material suggested that the theophrastite was intimately...theophrastite gives an almost identical IR spectrum to the Unst material (Fig. 2) with strong absorptions at 3644...analysis of the Lord Brassey Mine material, like the Unst material, reveals some inhomogeneity but only minor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minute pearly flakes on fluellite from the Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, are orthorhombic, a...Min. 18, 323. Crystal aggregates from Goose Creek quarry, Leesburg, Virginia, are monoclinic, a 7.52, b...a higher hydrate of honessite, which has c 8.8 A, and occurs mixed with honessite (21st List) and reevesite...(25th List) on chromite at Hagdale, Unst, Shetland. The structures of honessite and hydrohonessite resemble...interlayer NiSO4 (cf. mountkeithite, this List); the Unst material also has SO2-in excess of Fe~ +. [M.A.
Book
MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...FOREWORD Vll ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION Scotland, the country, physiography Xl Xlll SCOTLAND'S...SCOTLAND'S GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION The voyage of Scotland through time COLLECTORS AND COLLECTIONS Introduction...species 1 55 2 Minerals originally discovered in Scotland 188 3 Scottish minerals 1991-96 190 REFERENCESAND
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Thordarson & Armann HosJ...-uldsson 4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north...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...orkcd m er the past 150 years to establish these islands as a major centre of academic and economic minerJlogy...London; National Museums of Scotland (Royal Museum and Museum of Scotland), Edinburgh; Oxford University
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JAL, Mexico; Loch Duich, near Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland; Sacaramb, Baita, and Botes, Romania; Savodinski...an accessory mineral in serpentinite. Cedar Hill quarry, Lancaster Co., PA; Josephine Co., OR; White Creek...Fetlar, Shetland Is., anisotropic. Fox Gulch, Goodnews Bay, AK; Unst Driekop mine, Transvaal, Scotland; Birbir...Lynn Lake, MB, Canada; Talnotry mine, Dumfries, Scotland; Vuonos, Miihkali, Hietajarvi, and Outokumpu deposits...in meteorites and lunar rocks. Howard Montgomery quarry, Howard Co., MD; Mackinaw mine, Snohomish Co.,
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Chapman & Hall. 2-6 Boundary Row. London SEI SHN. UK Blackil' Academic & Professional. Wesler Clcdt.lt:ns...lt:ns Road. 13ishopbriggs. Glasgow GIH 2NZ, UK Chapman & Hall Inc.. 29 Wesl 351h S1ree1. New York NY llXl0I...s1udy. or criticism or review. as permilted under 1he UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act. 1988. 1his publica1ion...issued by 1he Copyrigh1 Licc.:nsing Agency in lhe UK. or in accordance with 1hc.: terms of licences issued...appropria1e Reproduction Righ1s Organizarion oubidc lhe UK. Enquiries concerning rcproduc1ion ou1side the lcrms
 
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