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Spessartine from
Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Spessartine
Formula:Mn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spessartine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:736197
Long-form Identifier:1:3:736197:5
GUID (UUID V4):f676c305-2b90-44e1-ae5e-e871b4c8eba5
Nearest other occurrences of Spessartine
57.7km (35.8 miles) NW Thorn Mountain Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) SW Thorn Mountain Mine, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
58.4km (36.3 miles) Winding Stair Gap Roadcut, Franklin, Ellijay Mining District, Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Uher, S. Michal & J. Vitdlos The minerals of Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains, T ennessee...........Sodalite, elongated, twinned crystal, 2.8 mm long, from Cave San Vito, Monte Somma, Napoli, Campania, Italy....National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6085 A lu m C ave Bluff, a D a n a locality fo r apjohnite...apjohnite, epsomite, melanterite and potash alum , has yielded good microcrystals o f several rare sulfate
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Tennessee Mineral Locality Index 300 T ennessee covers an area of 41,220 square miles in the southeastern...part of the state. Just prior to crossing the Tennessee River and continuing through the middle of the...TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite...Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo.
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Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, 298–308 Bornite, Michigan, 302 Brachiopods...Plant Fossils from the Cahaba Coal Field, Jefferson County, Alabama, 227–29 Beraunite, Alabama, 235 Beryl
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Zircon —» Monazite —> Ilmenite —» Magnetite —» Spessartine —> Biotite —> Muscovite —> Oligoclase —> Orthoclase...of the Natural History Mu­ seum of Los Angeles County (gift of Ed Harrison in 1983, from the Sol Shalevitz...Collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (#15440; purchased from Martin Fhrmann in 1962);...came later into the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. The mottled, cream-colored
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Publishing P.O. Box 37072 Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Tel: (520) 798-1513/(520) 297-4862 FAX: (520) 79...alexandrite twins, phenakite crystals, apatite and spessartine. And located just a couple of miles south of...from Langesundfjord (southern Norway) and Colorado (USA). parts of the USSR to mine or buy material to sell...striiverite, bismuthinite, bismutite, topaz, spessartine, cesian beryl, biotite, amazonite and fluorite
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Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _...t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because t h e a l t i t u d e o f Mt. M i t c...e l e y Kentucky: E l l i o t Tennessee: Unicoi, Greene, Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Monroe, Polk N o r t...e c e n t u r y f o u r w e r e f o u n d i n Tennessee. O n e was f o u n d i n K e n t u c k y w h e...r g i n i a : M o n r o e Kentucky: A d a i r Tennessee: Roane, U n i o n N o r t h Carolina: L i n c
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Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...accessed through an impressive manmade "natural cave:' Portions of the collection are often displayed...were designed by a team from the NMNH. A natural cave display is a great educational tool. This collection...on the market. The mines at Bisbee, in Cochise County, have produced large quantities of gem-quality
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may also account for the widespread formation of cave calcite, aragonite and other stalactitic minerals...kilometers from the city of Gongcheng, in Gongcheng County. The other, smaller workings are known as the Yangshuo...the mountain ridge, northeast of Yangshuo, in the county of the same name. Both of these mines produce massive...Daoping mine is by Gongcheng, capital of Gongcheng County, which is reached by a good road from Yangshuo...Location of the Daoping and Yangshuo mines. Note the county line passing between the mines. HISTORY Mining
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abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite...phonolites, rhyolites, and their lavas in Sonoma County, California, in the Picture Gorge basalt, Wheeler
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles , CA Joseph A. Mandarino...the "Crystal Lode pegmatite" near Fulford, Eagle County, Colorado, where about 200 good crystals were dug...Creek, inside the city limits of Austin, Travis County. These are quite beautiful celestine specimens:...orange-red, gemmy, heavily etched crystals of spessartine to 5 cm, and very sharp, isolated, silvery greenish...unpacked. The first new minerals we saw were the spessartine garnets which have been found recently in Brazil
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...include names such as Salgadinho, the Pedra Bonita spessartine occurrence near Carnaúba dos Dantas, Cajazeiros...found. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has an interesting specimen consisting of fractured...Anthony Kampf (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) for reviewing the manuscript, and for graciously...largest of which is the Xikuangshan mine in Xinhua County. Other deposits are found in the provinces of Guangdong
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...9/#3 Kalahari rhodochrosite, Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya... 2001 Natural History Museum o f Los Angeles County Fax: (213) 749-4107 Website: http://nhm .org/m...www.wmtucson.com COPPER - Phoenix Mine Keweenaw County, Michigan W hen in Tucson, call for an app oin...swing. In the neighboring town of Drammen, cheap cave climbing equipment was offered for sale, and climbing
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mining engineer for the Good Hope mine in Gunnison County, Colorado. ◆ 8 ◆ Foshag have not been present...Marjorie tunnel dump is visible at the foot of the bluff, just right of center, and the opening representing...of what was called the Cueva Escondido (“Hidden Cave”), which extended for about 75 meters. Adjacent...Candelaria (“Candlemas Cave”) and the Cueva San Felipe (“Saint Philip’s Cave”). Ore discovered there...mining. The Hojas de Plata (“Leaves of Silver”) Cave he named after the silver-gray crystal plates of
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(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Marchesini & R. Pagano The Shirley Ann claim, Inyo County, C a lifo r n ia ................................Publishing P.O . B ox 37072 T ucson, Arizona 85740 USA Tel: (520) 798-1513/(520) 297-4862 FAX: (520) 79...Mn3+)10Si,,V 0 34(0H )4 R Saneroite Mn2+Al2(S i04)3 Spessartine (?) (?) R Strontiopiemontite CaSr( Al,Mn3+,Fe3+)3Si30...Cassagna mine (Palenzona, 1996). Spessartine (?) Mn;;+Al2(Si04)3 Spessartine, a Mn-bearing member of the garnet
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abbreviations are used in this chapter: Mt. mountain Co. county IR infrared D density Dmeas measured density Dcalc...Locality: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA. Description: Colourless crystal from the association...Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (type locality). Description: Pink massive aggregate...Locality: Billie mine, Death Valley, California, USA. Description: White platelets with pearly lustre...CaB6O10·5H2O Locality: Death Valley, California, USA. Description: White fibrous aggregate. Specimen No
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are important sources of Li and Cs (Bessemer City, USA, Greenbushes, Australia, and Bikita, Zimbabwe). Normally...D) The pegmatite at Crystal Mountain in Montana, USA is one of the few fluorite-bearing pegmatites. In...high-purity quartz as at Drag, Norway, and Spruce Pine, USA. Quartz of pegmatites may gain a high to ultra-high...India, Australia, China, Norway, Russia and the USA, there are numerous sites where pegmatitic quartz...are Italy, Turkey, China, Japan, Thailand and the USA. Quartz In the Earth’s crust, quartz is second in
 
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