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Marcasite from
Atkins mine, Henry County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Atkins mine, Henry County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:738245
Long-form Identifier:1:3:738245:1
GUID (UUID V4):9aa98ba6-b583-48af-a514-6339aea196df
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith...Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood...Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 3 (left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large and beautiful specimen of calcite. John D. Atkins, Jr. 502 Bellview Ave., Falls Church, Va. Western...July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the old...and Parlin, New Jersey, to collect Pyrite and Marcasite nodules. W e arrived at the Sayreville site and...Newark Museum for a collecting trip to the Siderite mine at Roxbury and the Kyanite diggings at Judd's bridge...and packs we climbed the long hill to the Siderite mine. By 4:00 P. M. holes three feet deep could be found
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Covellitc Violarite Stibnite Pyrite l .ocllingite Marcasite Arsenopyrite Molybdenite Sylvanite VVittichcnite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as native copper. For Glen Cove and Sayerville marcasite, concentrated sulphuric acid is an excellent means...decomposition. Mr. McKown found that placing marcasite in a jar of water and sealing was satisfactory...Committee. Speaker was Major General Julian S. Hatcher, USA (ret.), who spoke on his collecting experiences in...while vacationing in Maine. Maj. and Mrs. J. D. Atkins uncovered a vein of unusually fine prehnite, apophyllite...a large specimen of epistilbite at Mineral Hill Mine, north of Sykesville, Md. The first report of zeolite
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Mid-Coast Mineral Club of Southern San Luis Obispo County, met at the Pacific Museum. Shell Beach, Calif...to install signs along the major highways of the County pointing out the natural scenic attractions. Officers...Goldfield and its tales of enormous wealth. A friend of mine, Herbert Fritts, now of Boulder City, Nevada, was...wealthiest mining states in the Union. The great Ruth Mine produces 18,000 tons of copper daily and is one...other wild fowl and game, although I prefer to shoot mine with a camera. Las Vegas, the last colorful frontier
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volume 77, pages I166-I 17I, 1992 Kinetics of the marcasite-pyritetransformation:An infrared spectroscopicstudy...measurementsof infrared absorption intensity made on marcasite samples heated in the temperature range of 698-735...l0r5/min is calculated for the conversion from marcasite to pyrite. The transformation is modeled by a...formation of pyrite in the marcasite matrix. INrnooucrroN Pyrite and marcasite are naturally occurring...coordinated to three Fe atoms and one S atom. Marcasite has an orthorhombic unit cell (spacegroup Pnnm)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L. Gschwind; Corresponding Secretary, Frank P. Atkins Jr. Mr. James R. Clements our new president announced...Buford Payne. Publicity Committee: Chairman—Frank Atkins, Jr., Mrs. James Fox, Ralph Dury. So with this...chosen by two of our members, James Gibbs and Frank Atkins Jr. These men will each lecture on the mineral...Mineral Society (Passaic, N e w Jersey) The Passaic County Gemological and Mineral Society changed its name...procured material in abundance. The search was for marcasite, fossils, crystals and pebbles that proved to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in arsenopyrite are the same as those found in marcasite and liillingite. They difier from the values found...Huggins shows that the radius of iron in the marcasite packing is just what would be expected if the...in pyrite. The parameter values for sullur in marcasite which control the calculated sizes of the atoms...not correspond with the accepted values. The marcasite pararneters have therefore been completely redetermined...t}le earlier study of marcasite, and it can be confdently affirmed that marcasite has a small iron atom
Journal (issue)
Tungsten Mine Trumbull, Connecticut The Long Hill tungsten deposit at Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut...produced good crystals, is located in Trumbull’s Old Mine Park. Mining was never very prof­ itable and the...drinking water, a comfort station, and parking lot Old Mine Park is today an attractive and popular recrea­...tional facility for the town of Trumbull. As the mine dumps are in the wooded areas behind and above the...it is important that it continue to do so for Old Mine Park is one of the few localities in the vicinity
Journal (issue)
morning, comparing various samples with those of a mine he knows particularly well (which produces excellent...specimens, localised to town or village, perhaps to mine level but virtually never giving any more detail...parageneses of our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the position of the locality...spear-shaped twin marcasite crystal pointing in a sou th-easterly direction. Marcasite is one of the few...through .a series of excursions w hich included old mine sites, picturesque river valleys, volcanic areas
Book
PHILLIPS B.Sc. M.B.E. University of Durham N.F.M. HENRY M.A. Ph.D. University of Cambridge VAN NOSTRAND...the notes left by the late R. Phillips, N. F. M. Henry. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and...mineralogy. 3. Color. I. Phillips, R., B.Sc. II. Henry, N. F. M. (Norman Fordyce McKerron) III. Title............................................ 325 Marcasite group ............................................................. 322 Reflectance spectra: marcasite group ......................... 328 Reflectance
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PHILLIPS B.Sc. M.B.E. University of Durham N.F.M. HENRY M.A. Ph.D. University of Cambridge VAN NOSTRAND...the notes left by the late R. Phillips, N. F. M. Henry. p- cm. Includes bibliographical references and...Printed in Great Britain 2. Optical mineralogy. II. Henry, N. F. M. (Norman 90-44231 CIP Ole ~pld 144...one tener neetetstoe possi, sc cots sn ccm Marcasite Groups ero) de ois 312 tine re sscnctcetenei...structures in the pyrite group Reflectance spectra: marcasite group .... Reflectance spectra: léllingite group
Report (volume)
6 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Tennessee........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C...Watson, Charlottesville. Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Journal (issue)
by R.S.W. Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................assured that, with localities like the Ray mine and the Old Yuma mine still to go, we are not yet close to...tour of the mineral facilities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (where Tony is curator)...olo rado 80919 303-598-1233 Tourmaline Golconda mine, Brazil Stibnite Kisbanya, Romania Hydroxylherderite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
him some early collecting recollections. Frank Atkins covered beryl from "Collins Hill, Connecticut;...pyritohedron from Salt Lake City, Utah, calcite with marcasite and sphalerite from Joplin, Missouri. Mrs. James...Articles of organization were adopted and persons from Henry, Des Moines, Lee, Louisa and Jefferson counties...he had recently mined on his property in Morgan County. He had with him a particularly attractive specimen...Gary also won the junior award in the quiz, with Henry Boehm receiving the senior prize. New members introduced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Whole-RockCompositionsof VolcanicRocksnear Iron SkarnDeposits Mine Lake Lake Iron Hill Iron Hill Iron Hill Iron...estimatesof accuracyare describedin Hooper and Atkins (1969) than normaligneousrocks.Thus, it is not...quartz monzonite(Fig. 3; Hoadley, 1953), In the mine area,the igneousrockis extremelyvariablein both...otite-gold and (2) pyrite-magnetite-hematite-marcasite (Haug, 1976). The amountof cobaltpresentin pyrite...1946, ShastaandCaliforniairon-oredeposits,Shasta County, California:California Div. Mines Bull. 129, pt
Report (volume)
............................................ Tennessee.....................^........................... Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted...minerals of Tennessee, their nature, uses, occurrence, and literature: The resources of Tennessee, vol. 3...L. Watson, Charlottesville. Washington___Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia_.Dr. I. C. White...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (issue)
Worcestershire B60 2AH, U.K . EDITORIAL BOARD: F .B. Atkins, Oxford, U.K. T.F. Bridges, Ovington, U.K. S.c...D .H .M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES...N. Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper...copper minerals from the Knockmahon area , County Waterford, Republic of [i'eland S. Moreton 36 Book Reviews...Arthur made his first visit underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cubic symmetry of pyrite towards the orthorhombic marcasite-type structure of arsenopyrite. An estimate of...around Fe, causing the pH dependent formation of marcasite in preference to stable pyrite (Tossell et al...weathering phases, Mother Lode Gold District, Tuolumne County, California. Appl. Geochem. 15, 1219–1244. Schoonen...Barnes, H.L., 1991. Reactions forming pyrite and marcasite from solution: II. Via FeS precursors below 100...solution in pyrite, Clio Mine, Mother Lodge gold district, Tuolumne county. Abstr. Programs-Geol. Soc
Book
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...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...Jefferson, B e r k e l e y Kentucky: E l l i o t Tennessee: Unicoi, Greene, Cocke, Sevier, Blount, Monroe...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extraction in what could be the world’s first SMS mine at the Solwara 1 deposit in the national waters...stages [35]. Studies undertaken on the disposal of mine tailings in coastal and deep ocean can also provide...study of submarine tailings deposition from a Pb-Zn mine in Greenland by Josefson et al. (2008) [56] that...permit development of strategies for dealing with mine waste and remediation. Of course, a corollary to...primarily controlled by the abundance of pyrite/marcasite/pyrrhotite for Fe, chalcopyrite/isocubanite/b
Journal (issue)
(UK) Non UK £16.50 Equiv for 3 issues inc. р & р. USA $30 for 3 issues inc. p & p. Note: Non UK prices...Schmitt. 812 Imperial Court, Hartland, Wisconsin 53029 USA Tel: (0414) 3673674 Cyril Kovac Gemcraft Pty. Ltd...C. van Loon. Diary of Events 4 2 6 Llywernog Mine and Museum S.J.S. Hughes. ADVERTISING Peter Briscoe...Great Consols. Sculls in Devon Great Consols copper mine supporting the hanging wall of the lode. When copper...subsequent extraction of this sulphide from the mine, the lower levels remained untouched, since most
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrrhotite (e.g., Oberthur et al. 1997), and marcasite (e.g., Fleet and Mumin 1997). Jean and Bancroft...Au0 to Au3+ (–0.77 V and –1.4 V, respectively; Atkins 1994). Thus the AuCl–4 (aq) species in Equation...NSW, Australia. Mineralium Deposita, 35, 285–301. Atkins, P.W. (1994) Physical Chemistry, 5th ed. Oxford...C. (1999) The occurrence of gold at the Getchell mine, Nevada. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 67...Supergene mineralisation at the Kori Kollo gold Mine, Bolivia. Exploration and Mining Geology, 6, 209–221
Journal (issue)
from many working mines and ancient but untouched mine dumps. The metalliferous mining industry is now...office at South Crofty Mine, and later on, in the same capacity at Geevor Mine. In 1978, Richard and his...died. We were far undergound in a disused Cornish mine, and although he was very weak due to this illness...illness and the exertion required getting through the mine, followed by two hours hard work with hammer and...position in the Surveyor's Department at the Geevor Tin Mine, at Pendeen, in Cornwall, and later with Consolidated
Journal (issue)
Treolar and the High Raise vein, in the Nentsberry mine at Alston, Cumbria in January 1931, will depend...12 —2— Buder. I5ß Вrompton Rd. London FRANCIS HENRY BUTLER (1849-1935) was a qualified doctor, an Associate...well have been in the lower levels of some lead mine, now abandoned. Further information was obviously...in a field adjoining the mine on the Duke of Rutland's Estate adjoining mine [Bateman's] and I cannot...of cockscomb' type. It was probably from the Odin Mine (SK 134 835); but no further specimens from that
 
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