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Pectolite from
Beach gravel, La Ciénaga, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic


Locality type:Beach
Classification
Species:Pectolite
Formula:NaCa2Si3O8(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pectolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beach gravel, La Ciénaga, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:699722
Long-form Identifier:1:3:699722:9
GUID (UUID V4):8e301bba-9efb-45d0-9c02-c5bbdbb6360a
Nearest other occurrences of Pectolite
7.3km (4.5 miles) Filipinas Larimar Mine, Los Checheses, Sierra de Baoruco, Barahona Province, Dominican Republic
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens of snowwhite, lustrous, compact fibrous pectolite, have been found by R. W . Olsen, Glenwood Springs...Springs, Garfield County, Colorado. "We find this pectolite high on a cliff in a sort of crevice in the rock...Orleans (at Garden Island Bay, Plaquemines Parish, La.) and will yield about 500,000 tons annually to the...Wentworth, 135 Maine Ave., Portland 5, Me. At Hampton Beach, Rockingham Co., N . H., she picked up a 4x4 inch...pyrite. Hampton Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean, is New Hampshire's most popular beach. ROCKS AND MINERALS
Book (volume)
rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more...gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially to...wood, agate, jasper;  in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring Cr. and the Keya Paha R. agatized...region embraced by these two adjoining NW Cos., in gravel cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies
Book (volume)
fringes of Greenland; in fact, there is no state or province which does not boast at least one gemstone worthy...and Muscovite Mica, Obsidian, Banded Rhyolite, Pectolite, Datolite, i ) 132 77 411 496 Contents...Hill—Ellijay area . Map of Cowee Creek area . Cowee Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana...epidote cabochons 150. Obsidian specimens Lgl Pectolite cabochons P52: Datolite crystal ee Datolite nodules...Michigan’s credit was found in 1894 or 1895 in gravel near Dowagiac, Cass County. The stone weighed 10
Book (volume)
variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified...nodular), Fluorite. CENTREVILLE: c area stream gravel, road cuts, banks, etc.⎯siliceous gemstones; d...and sardonyx; d along Hwy. 128, both sides, in gravel pits⎯agate, and chert; e W 2 mi. on Hwy. 27 on...CALHOUN COUNTY AREA: c lead mines⎯Galena; d sand & gravel pits⎯Quartz gemstones; e iron mines⎯Hematite, Magnetite...Placer, Sec. 23, 24, some 240 acres in a deposit of gravel and clay, fine⎯Gold; e Rev. King’s property, E½NW¼Sec
Book (volume)
variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified...nodular), Fluorite. CENTREVILLE: c area stream gravel, road cuts, banks, etc.⎯siliceous gemstones; d...and sardonyx; d along Hwy. 128, both sides, in gravel pits⎯agate, and chert; e W 2 mi. on Hwy. 27 on...CALHOUN COUNTY AREA: c lead mines⎯Galena; d sand & gravel pits⎯Quartz gemstones; e iron mines⎯Hematite, Magnetite...Placer, Sec. 23, 24, some 240 acres in a deposit of gravel and clay, fine⎯Gold; e Rev. King’s property, E½NW¼Sec
Catalog/List
other forms; South Africa, Belgian Congo. :l� " to la", 50¢, $1.00, $1.60, $2.00, $2.60, $3.00 and $3.60... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76 .50 PECTOLITE (acid sodium calcium metasilicate) .50 Radiated...Indium• 73. Ool itic Limestone; Tyrone, Pennsyh·on la 74. Dolomitic Limestone; Jtnsolo, i\llnn.,sotn 75...SCHIST, see schist GRAVEL Beach Gravel-( Pleistocene) , Glen Cove, Maine Stream Gravel-( Pleistocene), near...Ten­ nessee "Black Marble"-(Ordovician-Isle La Motte), Isle La Motte, Vermont 3. Compact (Calcilutite) Birdseye
Book (volume)
via Hwy. 76 or side rds. E of Rte. 69): (a) beach gravelCorundum, Garnet, Kyanite, Quartz crystals,...157 Georgia TROUP COUNTY LA GRANGE:  area: (a) pegmatite outcrops near La Grange Airport Aquamarine...minerals present on any of the islands are sands, some gravel, and limestone, including deposits of calcareous...Tearsobsidian. PUNA Dist.:  in lava flow; and  in green beach sands of Oahu and South Point Olivine. 160 A...area E and Nopal, opalized wood. LEWISTON:  gravel bars all along the Clearwater R. between town and
Book (volume)
regional gravel pits and stream beds. Along the Cimarron and North Canadian rivers, gravel bars carry...EL RENO (W end of the Oklahoma City complex), in gravel bars along the North Canadian R.⎯agate, jasper...gemstones, and nearly every creek and river gravel bar, regional gravel pit or other excavation and rd. cut reveals...agatized wood, coral, bloodstone and fossils. Agate Beach near Newport in Lincoln Co. was well named. Other...CLACKAMAS & MULTNOMAH COUNTIES AREA, all low-water gravel bars of the Willamette R., and its tributaries⎯agate
Report (issue)
plural Puerto Rico seismology Spain statistics Dominican Republic surveying southwest United States Uruguay...Calderon, Abdon, 1920, Diccionario y vocabulario minero: La Paz, Editores Gonzalez y Medina, 23p. Chaballe, L...575-603. Ergueta Arana, Armando, 1976, La riqueza minera en Bolivia: La Paz, Bolivia, 117p. (section titled...los ingenios y beneficios de los metales (1609): La Paz, Museo Nacional de Etnografia y Folklore Serie...54p. Mendez, Agustin, 1981, Diccionario basico de la industria del petroleo: Madrid, Paraninfo, 588p.
Book (volume)
regional gravel pits and stream beds. Along the Cimarron and North Canadian rivers, gravel bars carry...EL RENO (W end of the Oklahoma City complex), in gravel bars along the North Canadian R.⎯agate, jasper...gemstones, and nearly every creek and river gravel bar, regional gravel pit or other excavation and rd. cut reveals...agatized wood, coral, bloodstone and fossils. Agate Beach near Newport in Lincoln Co. was well named. Other...CLACKAMAS & MULTNOMAH COUNTIES AREA, all low-water gravel bars of the Willamette R., and its tributaries⎯agate
Report (issue)
................61 Taylors Island, Saints Rest Beach, Sheldon Point occurrences...............................................................85 Alma Beach, Cape Enrage occurrences...............................................257 Baxters Harbour, Long Beach occurrences........................................323 Red Head, Grey Island, Round Bay, Roseway Beach occurrences..................323 Shelburne Harbour..................................333 Summerville Beach–Hunts Point occurrences........................
Report (issue)
for Science. The Minister of Geology, Peoples' Republic of China, sent a delegation of ten senior geologists...glaciations are represented by interfluve cappings of gravel to the east. North-Western England District The...extensive area of raised beach at about 8 m above OD and 0 . 7 km inland. The raised beach is at a similar level...revealed a gravel-filled fluvial channel incised into the slate bedrock and overlain by the raised beach. The...confirmed the presence there of a ' Brighton' raised beach rest­ ing on a surface sloping gently up to about
Book
Fan, Alluvium, Peal Blown sand, Shoreface an d Beach deposits, Marine deposits Glacial deposits Till...Glaciofluvial sh eet de posits Glacial sand and gravel, undiffe rentiated Thickness (m) Ash gi ll CRUCAN...Peninsula, and the rnajor resources of sand and gravel that were deposited during the retreat of the last...view 9 cm . NWV 27.l l l .GR376. c Close-up of pectolite on quartz. Field of view 7. cm. N Nf\l\T 27. l...l l J .GR29 8 357. d Radiating pectolite crystals in quartz. Field of view J 0.5 cm . I .M,,V 27.lll
Book (edition)
ice, lava, lakes, world On is still much gravel, or thick vegetation. A large part of the like...Society The Wesselton diamond mine, near Kimberley, Republic tively small but of noted for the very fine...garded as a prime candidate Elisha in 1869. The Republic The African mineral of South Africa is still...he built a road. the heart of the Some sold out La of His chief interest -was in proving his theory...grains of heavy minerals in crushed rock or loose gravel or sand. When pitted, or trenched to expose
Report (edition)
Other mineral occmnbeach dep.psits Collecting tips . . . . Equipment . ....water, etc . (labeled only if water) Quarry - Gravel pit ....................... ................ ....rhodochrosite, and rhodonite (Pavlides, 1962). Alluvial and Beach Deposits Alluvial mineral deposits, also known...known as placers, are those which occur in sand and gravel laid down by running water. "Alluvium" includes...gold could also be found in the older sand and gravel deposits left by glacial meltwater streams, but
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C. T. Trechmann 292 XIII. THE 60-FOOT RAISED BEACH:::AT EASINGTON, CO. DURHAM. By C. T. Trechmann 295...valleys are wide-bottomed, with thick spreads of gravel, and rock-exposures are mostly confined to the...the mica-felsite lav as, though compared with the la tter the felspars and micas are usually larger, the...average th ickness of 350 ft . I. Zone of Carbon/co la oualis, from the base of the Modiolari s Zone. COAL...instance, just south of the public house on the beach at Marsden, it is completely smashed up and shattered
Report (volume)
permaFalco area, bay cluster, origin: frost in gravel ridges cf. Lattman, L. H., 3. tundra: MacCarthy..., M. Jr., 1. 1800 ALASKA [A LASKA Continued A LA SKA Continued Economic geology Continued Economic...Serpentine-Kougarok area: Gulf of Alaska Tertiary province, Moxham, R. M., 3. possibilities: Miller, D. J...H., 1, 4. Wrangell district: Bressler, Reid Inlet-La mplugh Glacier area: C. T., 1. Rossman, D. L., 2...Cretaceous-Quaternary: Coonrad, W. L. 1807 ALASKA LA SKA Continued ALASKA Continued Paleontology Continued
Book (edition)
testify that a stone picked up during a stroll on a beach or a hike in the mountains first aroused their interest...yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the...summer's sun crumble the rocks into clay, sand, and gravel. The detritus becomes consolidated into horizontal...become concentrated, like gold, in streams and on gravel bars. From such formations come the sapphires in...rocks, the Appalachians, sweeps down from the province of Quebec to Alabama, affording a Rocks of all
Report (issue)
Glaciation of :J.\ilull and District, . l\la.p showing Gravel-Fan and Eskers, G len Forsa, PAGE. 275 282 283...submergence responsible for the 25� foot raised beach of the district, Mull lay half i�cluded in the South•...West Highlands, ,vhero tllis last-ment,. ioned beach is very prominent,ly developed, and tLalf in the...Cltlture · occupied one of the caves of this 25-foot beach, when probably the sea had acarcely forsaken it...collected in other JJa1"ts of the British Tertiary province, and in this connexion we quote freely from Dr
Report (volume)
Almqvist and Wiksell. Stockholm, Sweden. Boletfn de la Asociaci6n Mexicana de Asoc. Mexicana Geoffsicos...Quaternaire. Pub lie avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Paris, France. Assoc. Geographes...Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie und Geologie. Republic of Germany. Auk- Auk. American Ornithologists'...Hohenlohe'sche Buchhandlung Ferd. Rau. Ohringen, Federal Republic of Germany. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. Jour. -...wissenschaftliche Geographie. Verlag. Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany. XVI Ferd. Diimmlers SERIAL LIST
Book (edition)
{ a'a 'chan•;;¡I} aa lava See block lava. { a'a ' la•v;;¡} Aalenian ICEOLI Lowermost Middle or uppermost...accretionary ridge IGEOLI A beach ridge located inland from the modern beach, ind icating that the coast...{ ;}1kre·sh;}n ,van 1 accretion zone IGEOL) Any beach area undergoing accretion { ;}'kre·sh;;¡n ,zon l...thaws in summer. Also known as frost zone. { 'ak·tiv 'la·.ir) active margin IGEOLI A continental margin that...associated with argentite and silver in Mexico. { ,ag·.>'la,rTt J ahlfeldite IMINERALI (Ni,Co)Se0 3 ·2H 20 A
Book
it is usually a heavy mineral. of time, as on a beach by the washing up of sand from the accessory muscle...metamorphic rock by plotting the accretion ridge A beach ridge located inland from the modern character...rock according to the molecular beach, representing an ancient beach deposit and showing quantities...A syn. of accretion, as in the development of a beach, age of reptiles An informal designation of the...closed since e.g. mineral aggregate, (b) Sand, gravel, or any clastic mate¬ solidification, rial in
Report (volume)
uranmm, and potasstum m Gulf and Atlanttc Coast beach sands [abs 1 Geol Soc Amenca Spec Paper 76,p 1,1964...Geologtcal Soctety of Amenca, annual meetmg, Mtamt Beach, Nov 1964 [New York, Geol Soc Amenca] 68 p, tllus...Noble, D C 8585 4188 Anderson, R1chard C Sand and gravel resources of De Kalb County Geol Survey Ctrc 367...Petrafeso, Frank A Aeromagnettc map of the Long Beach-Santa Ana area, Los Angeles and Orange Counttes...Index to geologtc mappmg m Oklahoma, supplement 1-Map lA, Surface mappmg, 1961-1963 [Norman, Okla] Oklahoma
Report (volume)
be indexed only under CANADA and not under each province discussed in the paper. Similarly, "Feldspar and...specific mineral resource from a specific State, province, or country, it should be found under the following...Academia de Ciencias MSdicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana Anales. Havana. Acad. Nac. Cienc. Mem. Rev...Institution of Oceanography Submarine Geology Report La Jolla, Calif. 10 SERIALS Calif. U,niv. Water Res...Chronica Botanica. New York. Chronique Mines Coloniales La Chronique des Mines Coloniales. Paris. Ciencia. Mexico
Report (volume)
William Shirley Bayley, with a chapter on the Republic trough, by Henry Lloyd Smyth, pp. 477-650, pis...and condition of the district to 1897, by Harold Beach Goodrich, pp. 87-392, pis. xxxii-li. Some coal fields...William Shirley Bayley, including a chapter on the Republic trough, by Henry Lloyd Smyth. 1897. xxvii, 608... Experiments relative to the constitution of pectolite, pyrophyllite, calamine, and analcite, by F. W...1 : 125000 25,50,100 25 1 : 125000 1 : 62500 100 La Sal (Utah-Colo. )................. 250 1 : 250000
 
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