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Mordenite from
Basalt Quarry, Ambariomiambana, Ambohimalaza Commune, Sambava District, Sava, Madagascar


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Mordenite
Formula:(Na2,Ca,K2)4(Al8Si40)O96 · 28H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mordenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt Quarry, Ambariomiambana, Ambohimalaza Commune, Sambava District, Sava, Madagascar
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:842780
Long-form Identifier:1:3:842780:9
GUID (UUID V4):1ae32e85-a7ec-4014-9a0c-b485560eacba
References
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fluorapophyllite crystal, 4.6 cm, from Pashan Hills quarry no. 2 near Poona, Maharashtra state, India. Steve...Shiva Temple in Elephanta Cave, carved from Deccan basalt in the sixth century on an island off the entrance...cavansite from Wagholi are the paragons of Indian basalt minerals. These and other fine minerals have been...Buddhist temple of Karli was carved into the flow basalt of the Western Ghats during the second century...(the Golconda district in the princely state of Hyderabad, now Andhra Pradesh; a district located between
Book
levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite, mordenite, offretite, paulingite, perlialite, thomsonite...analcime, bikitaite, edingtonite, ferrierite, mordenite, natrolite, thomsonite, tschernichite, and wairakite...GMELINITE LEVYNE EPISTILBITE FAUJASlTE POLLUClTE MORDENITE OFFRETITE GONNARDITE WELLSlTE* ERIONITE DACHIARDITE...where it flows out of the system. . . . . mordenite are of major importance, with minor phillipsite...clinoptilolite) crystals (0.01 to 0.1 mOl long), mordenite, and phillipsite replacing 50 to 90 percent of
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levyne, mazzite, merlinoite, montesommaite, mordenite, offretite, paulingite, perlialite, thomsonite...analcime, bikitaite, edingtonite, ferrierite, mordenite, natrolite, thomsonite, tschernichite, and wairakite...GMELINITE LEVYNE EPISTILBITE FAUJASlTE POLLUClTE MORDENITE OFFRETITE GONNARDITE WELLSlTE* ERIONITE DACHIARDITE...where it flows out of the system. . . . . mordenite are of major importance, with minor phillipsite...clinoptilolite) crystals (0.01 to 0.1 mOl long), mordenite, and phillipsite replacing 50 to 90 percent of
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azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban...contact, xlvii; vaterite, 535; calcite, 609 Belshaw's quarry, White Mountain: laumontite, 516 Bengore Head:...Hill: apophyllite, 508 Black Cave, Islandmagee: mordenite, 5O9 Carnmoney Hill, Belfast: calcite, zeolites
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single analcime crystal on serandite from the Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. This 3.7-cm specimen...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington...also been collected at the Gainesville diabase quarry, Prince William County, and from an unusual analcime...Other Colorado localities include amygdaloidal basalt east of East Fork Campground along the San Juan...crystals to 3.5 mm associated with mordenite and laumontite; and similar basalt near Wolf Creek Pass where it
Journal (issue)
INTERGROWTH OF SCOLECITE AND MESOLITE AT THE BAIRD CREEK QUARRY, WOLF POINT, COWLITZ COUNTY, WASHINGTON by Rudy...98290 Zeolites are common in one flow exposed in a quarry at the headwaters of Baird Creek, southeast of...engineer for Weyerhaeuser. This section of road and quarry were probably made two years earlier but has been...heavy yellow gate (Fig. I) about 114 miles from the quarry. This area is closed to motorized vehicles although...the quarry. Figure I: Yellow gate 87 blocks the logging road 1/4 mile from the Baird Creek Quarry. Signs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Libraries] at 09:18 05 March 2015 Near Wagholi, Poona District, Maharashtra, India R are minerals are not supposed...mineral was found in vesicular basalt from the Charles W. Chapman quarry near Goble, Columbia County, Oregon...is known as the Main quarry, an operation that exploits a 10-meter-thick basalt flow of decidedly uninteresting...3). A vertical pipelike breccia zone within this basalt, however, contained cavansite-bearing pockets....downward to and beyond the contact between the basalt and the underlying andesite. Hundreds of fine specimens
Catalog/List
THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal...ofNcpheline) lxl £1 lx2£2.SO Zcolite 296 NATROLITE · Saga Quarry, Tvedalcn Norway · Rich creamy masses with possible
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£6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...colourless to white crystals , quite well covering Basalt. lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 Feldspar Ix I £1.50 lx2...ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...with minor calcite or matrix ½" £4 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...about 1cm size £4 FeAsS 1085 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall Small silvery crystals groups, Crystals
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-- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central...colourless to white crystals , quite well covering Basalt. ½" £4 ____ lx! _£_6_. __________ ____ 5_Na 5=u~~<...------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...rich variety) ½ x ½ £5 Ni AsO H/20 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...massive lx2 £1.50 2x2 £3 -------- - 68 APATITE Madagascar Terminated single brownish -grey crystal good
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Quebec Ix! £ 1.10 ,Canada Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Ix½ £3 Malawi Nandan Meteroite, Lihu,Nandan 3mm...New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,Eng land Madagascar ½ x½ £2.50 lins£4 I x½ £4 )x i £6 Fall owfield...l x l £3 l x2 £5 While crystals well covering Basalt Talisker Bay. Skye. Scotland l xl 70p Single...Arizona £2 Attractive green with white perthitic Madagascar 2x3 in ch inlergrowth. Cut and polished £5 Pu...paper available. Rich grey crystalline mass. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larv ik, Norway Ix I £1.50 Ix I
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
opal-CT and sanidine with minor quartz and locally mordenite. The Chios bentonites of Lower–Middle Miocene...beidellite (Sappes area) and with minor opal-CT, mordenite, quartz, plagioclase and, in places, illite. The...PliocenePleistocene in the South Aegean Volcanic Arc (SAVA) (Fytikas et al., 1984; Yanev et al., 1998; Pe-Piper...and in the Thera, Kimolos and Polyegos Islands in SAVA (Kanaris, 1981; Tsolis-Katagas & Katagas, 1989;...exploitation, occur in Milos and Kimolos Islands in the SAVA (Christidis, 1998, 2001; Christidis et al., 1995)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Creek, southeast of town in road cut, vesicles in basalt; calcite, chabazite, C O W L E S I T E , epistilbite...T E , L A U M O N T I T E , levyne, mesolite, mordenite, phillipsite, scolecite, stilbite, and thomsonite...near town and along Interstate 5, in vesicles in basalt; A N A L C I M E , CHABAZITE, HEULANDITE, M O R...Mount Solo, at edge of Longview, in vesicles in basalt; A N A L C I M E and N A T R O L I T E . South... aragonite, calcite, chabazite, heulandite, mordenite, S C O L E C I T E , and S T I L B I T E . Turn
Journal (issue)
Thirty-eight, Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . . . . . ....his two brothers on a remote farm in the Mallee district of western Victoria, Australia. His tertiary education...Record, volume 38, May–June, 2007 The Lonavala Quarry une Distri t Ma aras tra n ia Tomas Pras kier...diverse zeolites and associated minerals. he Lonavala quarry has produced fine specimens of green uorapophyllite...pentagonite, formerly known primarily from the agholi quarry complex. INTR D CTI N Among the most attractive
Catalog/List
lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...TaliskerBay, Skye, Scotland White crystals well covering Basalt. Zeolitc Ix! £1.50 lx2 £3 -----------'-----------------...£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...with minor calcite or matrix ½"£4 7 ANNITE Snga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...size £4 Fe As S 531 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,Englnnd Rich silvery masses with Chaleopyrite
Journal (issue)
article. John showed a beautiful selection of (Madagascar) Ocean Jasper cabochons. Facetting SMLS owns...Bixbite (red beryl from Utah); Grandidierite (Madagascar); Jeremejevite (Namibia) and Serendibite (good...Pezzottaite, Londonite, Blue Garnet (all from Madagascar), Poudretteite, Väyrynenite and Xenotime, amongst...in time, John once bought two tourmalines in Madagascar only to find one was glass. However, the price...Laurentthomasite (a new beryllium mineral from Madagascar)? A: No – price too high, and so far only two
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblage of calcite (I) and zeolite (I) (including mordenite, heulandite, and stilbite) as well as plagioclase...flows at certain localities. From the Savda/Jalgaon quarry complex, ages cluster at 44–48 Ma and 25–28 Ma...cavities of a huge quarry complex (20 secondary minerals in open cavities of a huge quarry complex (20°59′N...exceptional exceptional mineralization of large SFF The quarry complex of Savda is characterized encrusted by...have been extensively studied in several other basalt was undertaken for for the the basalts of Iceland
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6-Rings .............. The Frameworks of the Mordenite Group. . . . . The Frameworks of the Heulandite...2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Zeolites of the Mordenite Group ............ Mordenite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Epistilbite: Rose (1826) Faujasite: Damour (1842) Mordenite: How (1864) Offretite: Gonnard (1890) Gonnardite:... 4. Zeolites with 6-rings 5. Zeolites of the mordenite group 6. Zeolites of the heulandite group Different...Bennett (1981). 0.2.5 The Frameworks of the Mordenite Group To build these frameworks, one must start
Journal (issue)
green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...several small mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village...50 km north of the U.S. border. Activity in the district began with a small "gold rush" in the late 1880s...list, 1984). NORTHWEST TERRJTORJES Port Radium district, Great Bear Lake. A deposit of uraninite (variety...silver from the El Bonanza mine in the Port Radium district, and the specimens briefly appeared on the market
Catalog/List
shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar) 3 small crystals for £8 489 STRACZEKITE Ca K...CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...metallic fibrous on' 2cm white dolomite. ' (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 163 GALENA Lead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ity found at the surface of the Columbia River Basalt of eastern Washington is the type locality for...VOLCANICS OREGON Ffjyf] MIOCENE COLUMBIA RIVER BASALT UJ EOCENE VOLCANICS | | NON-VOLCANIC ROCK ... Rock Island, south of Wenatchee, where vesicular basalt that was dredged from the bottom of the Columbia...Because the zeolites are not found in the surrounding basalt flows or in any drill cores made during construction...and Tillson, 1968; Ames, 1980). Clinoptilolite, mordenite, harmotome, gmelinite, and laumonite are rarely
Catalog/List
squares arc new entry for this list ANALCIME Dean Quarry, Lizard ,Cornwall Achmclvich, near Lochinvcr, Scotbnd...Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal sections...colourless to white crystals. quite well covering Basalt. Pyroxene lxl £2 lx2 £4 2x2 !8 Zcolitc Ix½£3 lxl...ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland ANATASE Cuiba district, Gouveia Minas Gerais. Brazil 28 Quite rich black...ANATASE Lauvland, Frigstad, Evjc Norway 933 Hingston Quarry,Cornwall 16 Rich grey-white cleavages , some with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reported from unnoticed, other largealthough flood basalt So-called chalcedony-amethyst stalactites were...morphology are not reported from other large flood basalt provinces. So-called chalcedony-amethyst stalactites...crystallization of certain secondary minerals in the basalt cavities, relevant aspects are partly included...process. The abundance of fresh exposures created by basalt mining in one of the world’s best studied volcanic...continental flood basalt provinces (CFBs) [9,10], which are represented by voluminous basalt flows such as
Catalog/List
Laumontite from Mull, Tremolite crystals from Madagascar Moldavite.New stock of Chaoite.Talc from Egypt...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...FLUORESCENT Large brown well formed dodecahedral Madagascar 1 ins £4 ALMANDINE 1 Crystal I inch across garnet...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11 felspar group____________...group____________ Attractive green with white perthitic Madagascar AMAZONITE 60 2x3inch £5 Feldspar________________
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Acio::::ular zeol i t.P.s 1 ike me-sol; t• •nd mordenite were noticeably absent. With widening of the highway...near road level produced large pockets between basalt flows where pockets up to 3x3xl feet were found...discovered an unknown blue mineral at th• Chapman quarry, • half mil• furth•r up the Neer road from wher•...in 1967. In 1966 John Cowles found eKceptional mordenite specimens in veins running through a large fine...Eocene vesicular brownish basalt which is dark black when fresh. The basalt flows are nearly horizontal
 
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