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Brochantite from
St John's Island, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt


Locality type:Island
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view St John's Island, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:650642
Long-form Identifier:1:3:650642:1
GUID (UUID V4):ed4bbfdb-4fa9-4182-8bdf-a554907d84fe
References
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largest group are further subdiv ided according to st ructure. All silicates are based on the 'silicate...Surra Burra (Australia). C Cu Colour: light rose-red on fresh surface Lustre; opacity: metallic; opaque...translucent green when ve ry thin Streak: copper-red Hardness: 2.5-3 Specific gravity: 8.93 Cleavage;...tonnes (25 tons), is mined at Ovifak and Disko Island (Greenland). Nickel-iron in the form of meteorites... USA), Jachymov and Pribram (Czech Republic) and St Marle-aux-Mlnes (France). As Colour: light grey
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rtJ/'tclif!t • rti,lt s. ROCKS and MINERALS, 157 WELLS ST., PEEKSKILL, N. Y. U. S. A. The official Journal...Idaho, at the home of Frank S. Zimme.rman (42~ N. 6th St.) and with Mr. Zimmerman, are to visit a number of...Herbert Grand-Girard, PublicityOiairman 817 Mulford St., Evanston. Ill. (See pages 270, 303 and 335) Sept...TRIPS FOR PENNSYLVANIA L. J. Duersmith, 933 Spruce St., Columbia, Penn., would conduct a number of field...fluorine. Ferruginous quartz of varying shades of red and brown may contain either ferric or ferrous iron
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realgar reacts in a similar way, changing from red to light yellow; topaz changes from blue to green...heating, yellow carnelian and tiger's eye become red, green aquamarine turns blue. Recently, diamond,...eg gold - yellow, sulphur - yellow or cinnabar - red. Large differences between the true colour and the...differential thermal analysis, spectral analysis, infra-red spectroscopy, electron microprobe, scanning electron... rocky river and brook beds, rockbound lake and sea coasts, caves, erosion furrows originating after
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recognized that ferric oxide (hematite) produced red pigment; hydrous ferric oxide (limonite) formed shades...ancient country on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. Strabo, an ancient Greek historian and geographer...Fig. 1-2. Gold strainer from the XIX Dynasty of Egypt (13501200 B.c.). (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum...Hittite workmanship and not to have been made in Egypt. At that time only the rich and powerful could own...slopes of the Caucasus Mountains facing the Black Sea; thence it spread to Iran and lraq. 5 The ancient
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Greece, minerals have formed by the reaction of sea water with slags of lead ores. The slags were produced...more than 2,000 years ago and were dumped into the sea: are the Laurium minerals man-made, or are they natural...ions). In metals, atoms are positive ions in a "sea" of loosely held electrons. In covalent bonding,...Greenish-black Red Scarlet Hematite Limonite Black, brown, red Brownish yellow Red Rusty yellow-brown...Black Siderite Brown, green White Zincite Deep red Orange Test for streak—the color of a powdered
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.,. Crystals of pyrite from Rio Marina on the island of Elba , off the Italian coast. - Q) ...lasers, where they are characterised by a beam of red light. Rubies belong to the corundum group of minerals...only natural gemstone that looks like a ruby is a red spine!. Modern technology can now produce synthetic...metamorphic rock amphibolite. CHARACTERISTICS Ruby is the red variety of the mineral corundum , which is aluminium...in strong light is a characteristic of ruby. Pale red forms of corundum are not called rubies but 'pink
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Natural History r PHOENIX BOOKS, LTD. 3110 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43202 268-3100 *. * « f « ...law, the parameters a',b', c ' of the face A'B'C (red) are related to a, b, c respectively by a simple...are cubic. , Hopper faces in a quartz crystal (St. Gotthard, Switzerland) Furthermore, the external...crystals of rutile. Conversely the "Greek cross" and "St. Andrew's cross" crystals of staurolite are twinned...with electrified sulfur (yellow) and minium or red lead (red) powder. The polarity CALCITE FLUORITE APATITE
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was a member of the R&MA G RlEGER'S 1633 E. W alnut St.. Pasadena 4. since J une. 19-45, and the sympathy...torn1s the ledge. In the Center Straf. ford locality St~vart states that the VESUVIANITE has been replaceJ...industry in the United States. The demand for Brazilian st,ones gave birth to a budding cutting industry in...of Ouro Preto, Minas Geraes, is constantly being St::arched for. Unfortunately, the production is small...the States. Rare stones in colors of purple and red are prized by mine operators and even exceptional
Report (issue)
294, 1-61 (1981). Microprobe analyses (8) from Red Wine alkalic complex, Labrador. AEN1GMAT1TE. Howie...(1982)) Chem. Abstr. 97, no. 8, 58726 (1982). Infra-red spectrum. AESCHYNITE. Shabalin, (Mineral. Zh. 3,...(1982)) Chem. Abstr. 97, no 8, 58726 (1982). Infra-red spectrum. AFGHANITE. Leoni et al., (Rend. Soc. Ital...(1982). Synthesis by hydrolysis at 60°. X-ray, infra-red data. AKAGANEITE. Gonzalez-Calbet et al., (J. Inorg...no. 22, 184683 (1981). Synthesis, x-ray and infra-red data. AKAGANEITE. Nagai et al., (Ferrites, Proc.
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Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Clouo rrnn·a, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite...ocherous Containing or resembling ocher, a yellowish red variety of earthy hematite. octahedral Having eight-sided...on tin ingots from a shipwreck in an arm of the Red Sea known as Sharm Abhur, 30 km north of Jiddah, Saudi...Arkansas, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. Also at Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada, and at localities in Greenland...Greenland; in the liparite lavas of the island Pantelleria, Mediterranean Sea, in the Liruei Complex, Nigeria;
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Specimen in White Light Showing White Calcite, Red Zincite, Pale Green Willemite and Blue-black Franklinite...also frequently colored by various impurities. The red cryptocrystal­ line variety of quartz, known as jasper...light when heated to a temperatlll'e below that of red heat. Like triboluminescence, this phenomenon is...can be proved by noting that the ferric oxide is red in color and nonmagnetic, whereas the ferrous oxide...combines with oxygen to form ferric oxide, a dark red residue, while the sulfur combines with oxygen to
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orogenic belts formed in evolutionarily primitive island arcs, e.g. in the Izu Peninsula, Japan and elsewhere;...outside this belt and some of them (e.g. Climax, Red Mountain) are affiliated to giant Mo stockworks....Emmons, Mt. Tolman) and two Mo giants (Climax and Red Mountain). This represents some 4 Mt Mo, 1.8 Mt Pb...molybdenite stockworks at Climax and Henderson (Red Mountain), described later. There, quartz, pyrite...laccoliths (2). 3=J-Tr red shale, sandstone; 4=Pe red shale, sandstone; 5=Ps gray and red shale, sandstone
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Specimen in White Light Showing White Calcite, Red Zincite, Pale Green Willemite· and B lue-black Franklinite...individual species follow the classification used by Hugo St runz in 11{ineralogischc Tabcllen, which is essentially...anyone who has climbed a mountain , walked on a sea beach, or worked in a garden has seen minerals in...to t he cube faces contain rather widely separated st rings of alternating sodium and chlorine atoms parallel...slower-growing, more stable forms in t he process. Aft er this st age is complete, growth is much slower, as addition
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round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...45 cm (18 in.) long. BOTTOM GROUP. Deep, spine! red oligoclase feldspar (5.04 et), Oregon; and three...much improved clarity and color. Beautiful, intense red beryl c1ystals, many of facet-grade, found in the...treated to release the crystals. Red beryl gems, rese1nbling the finest red spinels in color, are being established...Mines & Geology, Missoula, MT; Carl Scott, Scott's Red Rose Quartz, Custer, SD; Sharon Skalko, The Amber
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present in the rocks of the mountains, the sand of the sea beach, and the soil of the garden. Less farniliar...human civilization . Natural pig~ ments made of red hematite and black rnanganese oxide were used in...only under certain conditions . These conditions rnu st satisfy the equation: n11. = 2d sin 8 vvhere n is...i;"·~:;; -· •·t;: . •:-~.· ,,·.:;: ·.....q ,.·. ~c~ru st 'ufr·~;•~:~-~- f:,.,z;;., .,.:_..,, ,:~..,, ..z;:...0.37 5'' 0.30 31 32 33 34 1.22 Ge 1.22 As 1.25 sea- 1.93 Ga' 0 62 Ge2' 0.73 As"' 0.58 Se 1. 16 Ge'"'
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reservation communities and for people who live in island territories under U.S. administration. U.S. DEPARTMENT...Pennsylvania AZ Arizona MA Massachusetts RI Rhode Island AR Arkansas MI SC South Carolina CA California...Northwest Territories ON Ontario PE Prince Edward Island PQ Quebec SK Saskatchewan UT Yukon Territory...S siemens(s) sr steradian(s) st stere(s) st short ton(s) St stokes std ft3 standard cubic...Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 Law of the Sea Treaty Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands Mining
 
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