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


Locality type:Cliff
Classification
Species:Goethite
Formula:α-Fe3+O(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Goethite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:736198
Long-form Identifier:1:3:736198:2
GUID (UUID V4):0ee367ba-55b8-4a1b-8ba4-7737cc5539c2
Nearest other occurrences of Goethite
24.0km (14.9 miles) Cosby's Creek meteorite, Cocke County, Tennessee, USA
27.8km (17.3 miles) Hazel Creek Mine (Everett Mine; Adams Mine; Adams-Westfelt Property), Swain County, North Carolina, USA
34.1km (21.2 miles) Fontana Mine, Swain County Copper Mining District (Fontana Mining District), Swain County, North Carolina, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) Webster-Balsam, Jackson County, North Carolina, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) Nantahala Talc and Limestone Mine, Hewitt, Swain County, North Carolina, USA
60.8km (37.8 miles) Williams Iron Bank (Williams bank), Roe Junction, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA
64.6km (40.2 miles) Otto, Macon County, North Carolina, USA
76.6km (47.6 miles) J.W. Cooper Prospect, Valley River Belt, Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
76.6km (47.6 miles) J. W. Cooper Prospect, Brasstown Belt, Murphy Marble Belt, Cherokee County, North Carolina, USA
81.7km (50.7 miles) Sixmile Creek Adit Occurrence, Coker Creek Mining District, Monroe County, Tennessee, USA
References
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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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Kentucky, and Tennessee); hence, they will all be investigated for this article. (Note: Tennessee was not deemed...soluble nitrate efflorescences from a shelter cave in Tennessee, and the most recent (2014/2015) are two ammoniabased...Nicajack Cave, Marion County, Tennessee Shepard 1835 1835 Nitromagnesite Nicajack Cave, Marion County...County, Tennessee Shepard 1835 1846 Schorlomite Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Shepard...distinguish from diadochite Alum Cave Bluff, Sevier County, Tennessee; cotype: Argenteau, Belgium Palache
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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....resemble feldspars. Goethite Fe3 O(OH) Brown crusts and coatings of what is probably goethite “limonite” are...National Laboratory Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6085 A lu m C ave Bluff, a D a n a locality fo r apjohnite
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CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND ROLE AS A SOlL MINERAL AT ALUM CAVE BLUFF, TENNESSEEt DONALD I R. PEACOR,I ROLAND ...Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA 26324 Sandchain Road, Columbia, Maryland 21045, USA Abstract-A new occurrence...is described from Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee, where it occurs in...unreported locality, Alum Cave Bluff, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (Coskren and Lauf...University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA. Copyright © 1999, The Clay Minerals Society The
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Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth...Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Weathering of metal-sulfide...the Copper Basin (Ducktown) mining district of Tennessee, and where sulfide-bearing metamorphic rocks undisturbed...Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee. Dissolution experiments on composite salt samples...minerals; Mineralogy; Acid rock drainage; Eastern USA 1. Introduction Secondary sulfate minerals play
Report (issue)
Prepared in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation Bibliography for Acid-Rock Drainage...staining caused by acid-rock drainage in Hickman County, Tennessee. Bibliography for Acid-Rock Drainage and...C. Worland Prepared in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation Open-File Report...Figure 1. Location of pyrite-bearing formations in Tennessee with the potential for acid-rock drainage.......S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Tennessee Department of Transportation, is conducting an
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December 2014 THE FENGJIASHAN WOLLASTONITE MINE, DAYE COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. B. Ottens, Klingenbrun-Banhof...visited the Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine in Daye County, and a huge number of well-developed minerals have...WISCONSIN MINERALS FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...ferberite-hübnerite from the Nine Mile pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Program notes. In 31st Rochester Mineralogical...THE BOWER POWERS FARM, PIERREPONT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. Chamberlain, Center for Mineralogy
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Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil...NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt...Catherine No. 1 Mine, Casper Mountain, Natrona County, Wyoming, N. Tilander, M. I. Jacobson, 3 3 9 4...Mining, 267-74 Carlton Quarry, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, R. Clements, D. Robinson, 23 1-35 Carnegie
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These sulfates are accompanied by halite, sulfur, goethite and a number of phases of uncertain identity,...similar mineral assemblage at the Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee, USA. Goethite [a-Fe3+O(OH)] is the only oxyhydroxide...6c) on the surfaces of magnesiocopiapite and/or goethite. Cubic crystals of up to 5 10 mm in size of a...mines and dumps, locations of volcanic activity and cave environments. The closest geochemical relationship...Saxony, Germany (Thalheim et al., 1991) with finds of alum-(K), aluminocopiapite, alunogen, blödite, copiapite
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Territory, Canada (Van Tassel 1972); and Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee (Coskren and Lauf 2000; Hammarstrom et...7 110.4 107.9 * Quartz, sericite, pyrite, and goethite. † After extracting of gypsum and pickeringite... R.J. (2000) Minerals of Alum Cave Bluff: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Mineralogical Record, 31
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crystalline destinezite that forms by weathering in cave soils and mine waste dumps. The structural refinements...polymorph destinezite is crystalline. They occur in cave soils, weathered gossans, and mine-waste dumps as...-SixOy Halides anion -F1– 861 Mineral name Goethite Hematite Maghemite Magnetite Mineral formula...are affected by a fracture filled of supergene goethite. (b) Aggregate of individual crystals of destinezite...the hematite crystals is replaced by colloform goethite, whereas the magnetite grains show evidences of
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2:45 R a r e - e a r t h mineralogy of the Mohave County pegmatites, NW Arizona byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falam;...Fremont County, CObyM. I. Jacobson,.1, W Nizamoff,A. U. Falster and IV. B. Simmons 4:30 A l u m Cave Bluff...10:30 T h e Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine, Daye County, Hubei Province, China by B. Opens 10:45 N e w...Wisconsin minerals from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T W BuchholzA. U. Falster and WB...District in the town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County,NewYork. Mike earned a bachelor's degree in geology
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Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA Geosciences, Museum...University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California...Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Pasaje San Agustin 4045, La Serena, Chile [Received...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA under catalogue...colours, such as in the Fe3+ minerals hematite, goethite, amarantite and jarosite (Rossman, 1976). Acknowledgements
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Germany, where eleonorite is associated with goethite, rockbridgeite, dufrénite, kidwellite, variscite...Campanian age marls of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, USA, 83% Fe2+ resides in the central M(l) site with mean...was also studied by us. Associated minerals are goethite, quartz, calcite, lepidocrocite, manganese oxides...oxides and cacoxenite (Eleonore mine); goethite, rockbridgeite, dufrénite, 62 ELEONORITE: VALIDATION...cacoxenite, strengite and wavellite (Rotläufchen mine); goethite, quartz, cacoxenite and rockbridgeite (Gutglück
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Germany, where eleonorite is associated with goethite, rockbridgeite, dufrénite, kidwellite, variscite...Campanian age marls of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, USA, 83% Fe2+ resides in the central M(l) site with mean...was also studied by us. Associated minerals are goethite, quartz, calcite, lepidocrocite, manganese oxides...oxides and cacoxenite (Eleonore mine); goethite, rockbridgeite, dufrénite, 62 ELEONORITE: VALIDATION...cacoxenite, strengite and wavellite (Rotläufchen mine); goethite, quartz, cacoxenite and rockbridgeite (Gutglück
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iron mine located in Aliseda, Cáceres, SW Spain. Goethite and hematite, from a gossan deposit, were the...R. J. (2000). Minerals of Alum Cave Bluff: Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee. Mineralogical Record, 31
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Z = 2, is a new mineral from the Akopan-Dal Cin cave system in the Chimanta massif (Guyana Shield, Venezuela)...species that has been found in the Akopan-Dal Cin cave system, located in the Chimanta massif, a sandstone...devoted to the study of minerals and, especially, of cave minerals. The new mineral and mineral name were...of the authors (F.S.) inside the Akopan-Dal Cin cave system in the Akopan Tepui, representing the southern...(5°10΄52΄΄N 61°57΄50΄΄W; Mecchia et al. 2009). The cave develops inside the quartz sandstone of the Roraima
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Hydroxides Anatase Cassiterite Chalcophanite Cuprite Goethite Hematite Ilmenite Lepidocrocite Litharge Magnesioferrite...in bismuth nodules from the Bor pit. Goethite FeO(OH) Goethite is a common constituent of the gossan...Publishing P.O. Box 37072 Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Tel: (520) 798-1513/(520) 297-4862 FAX: (520) 79...from Langesundfjord (southern Norway) and Colorado (USA). parts of the USSR to mine or buy material to sell
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aangeboden specimens Searles Lake, San Bernardino County, California in de Verenigde Staten van Amerika... zevende uitgave . Volume fl . Wiley. New York (USA), blz. 234-235. ■ Pemberton H.E. (1975) . "The crystal...Minerals. Van Nostran d Reinhold Company. New York (USA) . 1990. ISBN 0-442-27681- 8 Figuur 1 Gaylussiet...Talcville , N Y secondary sulfate s of Alum Cave Bluff, Tennessee ; cornputenzation of a large reference...(rhodochrosiet ) LAPIDARY JOURNAL 50(5), 08 .96 12 Goethite inclusions in amethys t GEODE 21(4), 09 .9 6
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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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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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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...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...was established in the mid-1980’s by the Wuling County government, which owned the mine until 1998. Since
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Council of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and was instrumental in the growth of the Museum’s...July–August, 2003 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Fax: (213) 749-4107 Website: http://nhm.org/minsci...oxide-coated matrix. Colorless crystals of potassium alum are not uncommon. Several other sulfates are also...Other fumarolic minerals present include potassium alum, as sharp, complex colorless crystals and as colorless
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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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