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Actinolite from
Ben Nevis Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ben Nevis Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:624551
Long-form Identifier:1:3:624551:1
GUID (UUID V4):f8b0fbf3-272b-4f28-87b2-ebaae65d1450
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
0.6km (0.3 miles) Quickstrike Mine, Organ Mining District, Organ Mountains, Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA
41.0km (25.4 miles) Cinco De Mayo Mine, Orogrande Mining District (Jarilla Mining District), Otero County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
previously mapped whole-rock oxygen isotope zonation. The Mine Sequence volcanic rocks are characterized by abundant...the clinozoisite solid solution. Alteration in the Mine Sequence volcanic rocks Editorial handling: R.J...much smaller, barren volcanic complex in nearby Ben Nevis township reveal important differences in the alteration...during regional-scale mineral exploration. The Ben Nevis Complex consists of a 3- to 4-km-thick succession...iron-rich epidote ( 10 wt% Fe2O3) and calcite. Actinolite ± magnetite alteration occurs proximal to the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds in weight have...Maine; Alstead, Gilsum, and Springfield, New Hampshire; Bedford, New York; the Scott and other quarries near...also been found at Red Hill, Maine; North Groton, New Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande...amethyst crystal localities are near Milan and Berlin, New Hampshire; Deer Hill, Maine; near Statesville, North...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A1B 3X5. **Present address: Copper Cliff North Mine, Inco Ltd., 18 Rink Street, Copper Cliff, Ontario...greenstone belt has been the focus of significant mining and mineral exploration for over a century and...Quemont, and Bouchard-Hébert mines (formerly Mobrun mine) in Noranda, Québec (Barrett et al., 1991; Kerr...understand these relationships. The paper provides new field relationships derived from geologic mapping...r-Porc Montsabrais upine Fault Zone Reneault New Insco Magusi R. 10 km Post-Cauldron Sequences
Report (edition)
EXHIBIT illustrating the Geology and Scenery of the district described in thi: rolume is set out on the first...cauldron­ subsidence 13 Geological map and section of Ben Nevis 14 Sketch map of the Cambro-Ordovician rocks of...52 54 55 56 61 63 65 70 77 80 82 86 PLATES Ben Nevis’from the Great Glen Facing Page Plate The...South-west Grampians I 4 12 B Mountains formed from schistose grit Ben Lawers and Loch Tay A B Current-bedding...B viii EXPLANATION OF PLATES Frontispiece. Ben Nevis from the Great Glen. The precipice and topmost
Catalog/List
As with the second edition the length of this new edition bas not been increased, despite the continued...continued growth of the collections; instead, a new and more rigorous selection bas been made. By taking.... .' Page 115 •• 115 Gypsum Metalliferous Mining: Tin Wolfram .. Ironstone: opencast Iron: haematite...indexes relating the photographs to the grid of the New Series one-inch Geological Survey maps are also available...photographs have been selected for mention in this new edition of ' Classified Geological Photographs '
Report (issue)
Geology of Ben Nevis and Glen Coe (Me111. Ceo/. Sun•.) PLATE I (Frontispiece) BEN N1:v1s WITH HANGING...HANGING CORRIE, /\ND RIVER NEVIS DISAPPEARING INTO NEVIS GORGE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCOTLAND The Geology of I Ben Nevis and Glen Coe and the Surrounding Country (EXPLANATION...situated in one of the most rugged parts of Scotland. Ben Nev.is (4406 ft) is the highest mountain in Great...picturesque, the most famous being Glen Coe, Glen Nevis, and Glen Etive. The great hollow of Loch Linnhe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
apex than The actinolitic hornblendes of the Ben Nevis complex are the green amphiboles. plotted in an...HALLIMOND, 1943). eAregos actinolitic hornblendes. x-Ben Nevis amphiboles. +T-Amphiboles of Scottish Caledonian...outlined: solid line-Aregos amphiboles; dashed line-Ben Nevis amphiboles; Sierra Nevada amphiboles: dotted lineJurassic... However, the actinolitic hornblendes of the Ben Nevis complex are also low in these elements. DISTRIBUTIONOF...~XITCHELL(1948) (Scottish Caledonian rocks), HASLAM (1968) (Ben Nevis complex), and DODGEet al. (1968, 1969) (Sierra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which include grits and radiolarian cherts. The district is included in Sheet 8 of the 1-inch Geological...country between them. At the northern end of the district the hills sink somewhat in height, and they are...and Dalmally Memoir (1908, pp. 82-121), and the Ben Nevis and Glencoe Memoir (1916, pp. 150-88), rocks similar...series of intrusions. The rocks of the H u n t l y district (Watt, 1914, and Read, 1921 & 1923 [ I ] & [II])...Read's account of the contaminated rocks of this district is of special interest in view of the occurrence
Book
of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...Introduction to Mineralogy, by the late WILLIAM PHILLIPS. New Edition, by H. J. BROOKE, F.R.S., F.G.S., and W.H...H. MILLER, F.R.S., F.G.S. London , 1852. Mining Almanack, compiled and arranged by HENRY ENGLISH. London...APJOHN, F.R.S. 1850. A Descriptive Catalogue of a New Collection of Minerals in the Museum of the Royal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relation to stream-tin deposits. (2) In the Midland district the Survey has been occupied at Matlock, Alfreton...in Caithness, the valley of the Findhorn, near Ben Nevis, and in the islands of Mull and Colonsay. Various...Yorkshire Coalfields, accounts of sections opened up on new branches of the Great "Western Railway in Oxfordshire...intrusive into Ordovician strata in the east of County "Wicklow : the former occurring as a small boss...fine-grained amphibole ; (3) actinolite rock, mainly made up of actinolite, but bearing also zoisite, sphene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and associated lamprophyres in the Loch Lomond district of western Scotland assist in elucidating the...the appinite suite in its type locality (Appin district), also in the Scottish Caledonides. In both suites...needed to breach many of the traps in the Appin district. However, similarities between the suites are...1976; Flower & Henney, 1996) and, as in the Appin district, they are commonly associated with and emplaced...the Scottish Highlands: A, Appin district; LL, Loch Lomond district. (Bowes & Wright, 1961, 1967). The
Report (chapter)
B. Hepworth (Southern Uplands); L Thomas (Lake District); R. E. Bevins, W. Gibbons, G. Rowbotham (Wales...North Maven 2 Graven s 3 Spiggle ~ s+g+a+k+ch+st 4 Ben Loyal 5 Stroth Halladeie no obvious aereoles 6 Heimsdale...Ossian a+co 21 Ben Nevis a+co 22 Ballachullsh a+co 23 Rannoch Moor a+co 24 Etive a+co 25 Ben Rinnes a+co+s...KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS a - andalusite hb act - actinolite g bi - biotite k ch - chlodtold kf cl - chlorite...Barnesmore 57 Corvock 58 Galway 59 Oughterard 60 Ox Mountains 61 Newry 62 Leinster 63 Carnsore 64 Laght Hill
Book
of the Glen Roy district GEOLOGICAL SEQUENCE Era CAINOZOIC IN THE GLEN ROY DISTRICT Period Sediments...porphyry and brecciated including Etive and Ben Nevis dyke swarms Granite, granodiorite, diorite including...granitic gneiss Geology of the Glen Roy district The district described in this memoir lies at the southwestern...which traverses the north-western part of the district. South of this major structure, there is a thick...Ordnace Survey Licence No. GD272191/1997. Ben Nevis and Glencoe and the surrounding countrty (Sheet
Book
Geology of the Glen Roy district c;EQLOC;f CAl, SEQUENCE I N THE (~LEN ROY DISTRICT Era Period CAl'-10/0IC...and rn icrodioritc dykes, including Etive and Ben Nevis dyke swarms Rapid regional uplift Granite, granoclio...sedin1en tation Geology of the Glen Roy district The district described in lhis me1noir lies at the southwestern...which traverses the north-western part of the district. South of this 1najor structure, there is a th...Geochemistry P J Henney Geology of the Glen Roy district Memoir for 1 :50 000 Geological Sheet 63W (Scotland)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEORG TROLL 1070 STEFAN WEISS AND GEORG TROLL Ben Nevis, Glen Tilt, Glen Scaddle, Glen Doll, Garabal Hill...described by Haslam (1968) from the neighbouring Ben Nevis Complex. In the coarse-grained 'normal facies'...edenite (Am-I), actinolitic hornblende (Am-II) and actinolite (AmX), following Leake (1978). Augite is progressively...hybrid granite G123, are entirely converted to actinolite (Am-X). THE BALLACHULISH IGNEOUS COMPLEX, SCOTLAND...0-40-0-55), comparable to the pyroxenes from the Ben Nevis Complex (Haslam, 1968). Being uncommon for gabbroic
Report (edition)
Corries’ towards Aonach Beag (1234 m), Glen Roy district, Lochaber. The frostshattered exposures in the...Glen 199 207 Plates ] 167 30 (D 4967) Roy district 32 (D 4175) Boulder bed in the Port Askaig...Ailnack Gorge, eo 15 North face of Ben Tomintoul Nevis (D 4010) (D 2132) 147 JY viii Page...platforms, north Islay (B 722) Stratabound baryte, Ben Eagach Quarry, Aberfeldy 193 196 24 Eas Anie Vein...one of uplands and mountains, and includes the highest peak in Britain,.Ben Nevis (1343 m). It is an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
appearance cases. replaces it occurs as actinolite, the Pl: X=pale replaces this mantled Kf:...Tamgawa graniteshave been obtained also from Ben Nevis Pluton, Scotland (Haslam,1968) and Finnmarka Pluton...the hornblendes Half solid the circle: Ben Nevis are also Hornblende. the fairly biotite coexist...appliesto the Tamagawa granitestogether with Ben Nevis Pluton and Finnmarka Pluton. Fig. 12 is an attempt...for porphyritic of It the associated. with Nevis in case at data. other but area the possibly
Book
granite? And yet, it is these rocks which shape mountains and which imprint their character upon the nature...forms. The word derives from the Latin ‘minera’ = 'mine’. Mineralogy is the science dealing with minerals...working, depends on conditions which may change (e.g. mining tech¬ niques, industrial uses and marketing), the...of modern mineralogy. In the course of time many new names came into use although the old terms did not...turquoise, vanadinite. 8. Silicates Acmite, actinolite, andalusite, arfvedsonite, augite, beryl, bronzite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Torlesse and Waipapa Graywacke, Central North Island, New Zealand Rodney Grapes , Barry Roser & Kifle Kashai...Torlesse and Waipapa Graywacke, Central North Island, New Zealand, International Geology Review, 43:2, 139-175...Torlesse and Waipapa Graywacke, Central North Island, New Zealand RODNEY GRAPES, School of Earth Sciences,...University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand BARRY ROSER, Department of Geoscience, Shimane...University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand Abstract Sandstones of the juxtaposed and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
expressed in the former as the Lorne, Glen Coe and Ben Nevis lavas. In both regimes there are also lamprophyre...dating, including in the type locality of the Appin district (Fig. lb), indicates crystallization in middle...the British Isles (a) and in and near the Appin district, western Scotland (b) Bohemian Massif of the...intrusions has been recorded, particularly in the Appin district, but also elsewhere (e.g. Bowes et al., 1963;...particularly well shown by the rhythmic overgrowths of actinolite-tremolite on compositionally zoned pargasite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hornblendes is shown to increase with increase of A1iV. New analyses of hornblendes from amphibolecorundum rocks...natural edenite or ferroedenite is unknown, but a new analysis of the nearest known natural edenite, from... 39o B.E. LEAKE ON The present account presents new analyses of amphiboles from ruby-rich amphibolites...refer to these analyses. Fig. I is a plot of the 500 new analyses obtained largely from the literature, from...Geol. Soc. Amer. 76, 5oo. Eclogite, Amos stream, New Caledonia. Ca 1'o3 in the half-cell contents is so
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
papers through AAPG Vol 89, No. 3, 2005 Gulf of Mexico tectonic history: Hotspot tracks, crustal boundaries...heat flow in the northeast margin of the Gulf of Mexico—Seiichi Nagihara and Kelly Opre Jones 53 Vol...Differentiating dilution and retention processes in mine effluent remediation within a natural wetland on...Zambian Copperbelt—C.J. von der Heyden and M.G. New 1241 The dissolution of high-FeO olivine rock from...Casas, Joan de Pablo, and Jordi Bruno 1284 Acid mine drainage in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (Odiel river
Book
BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Geolo of the Glen Roy district .. . . �··:�·:\·t·�f��1�{:�; :�:/.��,::: ·�...)rit.e Ben Nevis dyke swa1·1ns Fa11l ti11g Rapid regil)t1al ttplift...------------------ · .. . Geology of the Glen Roy district The clistrict described i11 this memoir lies...PEAC<.)(�K,J D. 1 997. Geology of the Glen Roy district. Memoir of the British Geologi,clLl Survey, Sheet...with this and adjacent districts BOOKS Memoirs Ben Nevis and Glencoe and the surrounding countrty (Sheet
Report (issue)
as far as possible, been retained, bt1t, when a new name has been substituted by Dr. H. H. Thomas, the... When the geology has not been published on the New Series Map, reference is made to the Old Series Geological...by its quotation in the memoir dealing with the district concerned and in H. S. Wasl1ington's 'Chemical...biotite; ,vith subordinate muscovite. 1\1.G.S. ' Lake District,' 1876, p. 30. Q.J.G.S., vol. LI, 1895, p. 14...biotite and subordinate muscovite. M.G.S. ' Lake District,' 1876, p. 3 1 . ' 11. Granite. Probably Lower
 
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