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Aegirine from
Railway tunnel, Slevolden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway


Locality type:Tunnel
Classification
Species:Aegirine
Formula:NaFe3+Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hambergite2 photos of Aegirine associated with Hambergite at this locality.
Analcime1 photo of Aegirine associated with Analcime at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Aegirine associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aegirine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Railway tunnel, Slevolden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:856613
Long-form Identifier:1:3:856613:3
GUID (UUID V4):bb994b05-9d9c-4c79-b8cc-313cdb48ed4e
Nearest other occurrences of Aegirine
0.2km (0.1 miles) E18 roadcuts, Slevolden, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
0.8km (0.5 miles) Rønningen E 18 roadcuts, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
1.5km (0.9 miles) Kjølsrød, Bjørkedalen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
3.2km (2.0 miles) Valleråsen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
4.6km (2.9 miles) Ramsåskollen, Skien, Telemark, Norway
4.7km (2.9 miles) Chiavennite dike, Blåfjell (E18 roadcuts), Kokkersvold - Blåfjell E18 roadcuts, Langangen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
4.8km (3.0 miles) Ferrochiavennite dike, Blåfjell (E18 roadcuts), Kokkersvold - Blåfjell E18 roadcuts, Langangen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
6.0km (3.7 miles) Buer, Bjørkedalen, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
7.9km (4.9 miles) Iglestjern Quarry, Kjose, Larvik, Vestfold, Norway
9.1km (5.6 miles) Hallingsås Quarry, Auenlandet, Porsgrunn, Telemark, Norway
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
McTavish Reservoir site and in the Mount Royal railway tunnel which runs under the McGill campus. Figure...end of the park. Mount Royal Tunnel In 1912–1913 a 4.8-km-long railway tunnel was driven through Mont Royal...Royal by the Canadian Northern Railway (Clegg, 2008). This gave geologists a unique opportunity to examine...1923; Chartrand, 63 Figure 15. The Mount Royal Tunnel and a geological cross-section of the mountain... East entrance of the Mount Royal Tunnel in 1913, when the tunnel was still being driven. Several occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nepheline Benmoreite Ph: FO70_80 Ph: Ti-augite Gin: Aegirine- Common in augite groundmass Phenocrysts abundant...Ti-augite Gm: Aegirine- Common in augite groundmass Ph: Fo 2 Gm: Fo2 Ph: Aegirine augite Gin: Aegirine common...augite groundmass Kaersutire Ph: Ti-augite Gm: Aegirine angite Gm Phenocrysts common Very Rare Common...with r e a c t i o n c o r o n a s o f aegirine o r aegirine-augite (Fig. 2a). Olivine p h e n o c r...(Fa86), where it is c o m m o n l y associated with aegirine a n d aenigmatite. Clinopyroxene. C l i n o p
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Libethen (L’ubietová), Slovakia; Langesundsfjord, Norway; Ytterby, Sweden; and Beresovsk, Russia. There...beautifully crystallized scapolite from Arendal, Norway; and a superb group of smoky quartz, beautifully...reptiles Figure 14. Serandite with albite and aegirine, 3.5 cm high, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire...photo. localities including the Mont Royal railway tunnel that runs below the museum, the extinct Corporation
Book (edition)
2-2.5. D = 7.22. In ref!. light gray 1.589. With aegirine. manganneptunite. and serandite. with greenish...colorless variety of elbaite or rossmanite. Acmite ➔ aegirine. Actinolite ♦ CaiMg,Fe 2+)5 f(OH)ISi4O 11h (9...Chaiiar.:illo.Atacamaregion. Chile. In Europe at Aegirine in charoite, xx I 5 111111,Munm massif, Russia...752. 8.85.5.85.Z = 4. d: 4.1(7)- 3.16(10)- 259(7) Norway, abundant at Norra Karr, Jonkoping prov., - 233(7)...712.1.721.1.730.2V = 70-90",(+). In Mn skam at aegirine in Mn skarn at Langban, Varmland prov., Llmgban
Journal (issue)
first described in 1840, from its occurrence in a railway cutting at Bishopton, Renfrewshire; but specimens...Thomas Brown since 1810. I (see fig. 2.) of a tunnel and its approach cuttings for the :-.J che later...are turned out." (Heddle, Glasgow to Greenock railway, an unusual mineral was of che zeolice family...this rare and beautiful mineral in the Bishopton Tunnel in 1842 [sic]." The Society's proceedings for...specimens having been found during the cutting of the tunnel, and from its great raricy is much prized by mineralogists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the railway tunnel, and on Tort Hill. The beds exposed at the northern entrance of the tunnel are coarse...Hilton Junction, at the southern extremity of the tunnel, a red micaceous and felspathic sandstone, with...zoned laths of labradorite, analcite, augite, and aegirine-augite. The felspars of the Moncreiffe Hill segregations
Book
island of Laven in the Langesundfjord District of Norway. Interestingly, and in contrast to its unusual...turning left onto Chemin Benoit, crossing the railway tracks and Boulevard Sir Wilfried Laurier (route...accessed from Montreal by P560.S2.Dl.P522 I Fonds railway. One of the attracJ.E. Livernois Ltee / Livernois...abundant mineral aegirine, at the time unknown (it was discovered in 1835 in Norway). The compact gray-black...confirmed by the reported occurrence of "acmite" (aegirine) and cancrinite by Harrington (1883), and sodalite
Book
.......................... 188 2.4. Eudialyte-aegirine-albite rocks ................................................................ 209 3.1.6. Aegirine, aegirine-augite ...................................... 230 3.2.3. Accessory minerals of eudialyte-aegirine-albite rocks ...................................... 253 3.2.3.17. Carbonates of the eudialyte-aegirine-albite rocks ...................................alkaline rocks of the Konder complex. Eudialyte-aegirine-albite alkaline rocks of the massif were chosen
Book (edition)
Museum, London, England. Rock H. Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park, California. Stanley Dyl:...Mineralogisk-Geologisk Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Richard J. Reeder: Dept. of Earth Sciences, State...localities in SON, DGO, and ZAC. Kongsberg(!), Norway (large specimens of crystallized and wire silver);...Greenland; Barrowdale, Cumbria, England; Kongsberg, Norway; St. Michel and Pargas, Finland; Passau, Bavaria...Pribram(*), Czech Republic; Kongsberg and Sulitjelma, Norway; Consols mine(*), Broken Hill, NSW, Australia,
Book
1982). The edges of the veins contain acicular aegirine, sheaf like pectolite, and vinogradovite while...diameter, are found with anatase in the Wolfsberg tunnel, near Spittal/Drau (Gernot Weissensteiner, pers...2.6 meters, lined with eudialyte, cancrinite, aegirine, and catapleiite covered by orange-pink serandite...1897). Analcime also occurs in the Scharfenstein Tunnel near Bensen and at Stabigt, near Tetschen (Hintze...Island (Alun Baines and Gordon Auton, pers. comm.). NORWAY Fine, opaque analcime trapezohedra, up to 3 cm
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1982). The edges of the veins contain acicular aegirine, sheaf like pectolite, and vinogradovite while...diameter, are found with anatase in the Wolfsberg tunnel, near Spittal/Drau (Gernot Weissensteiner, pers...2.6 meters, lined with eudialyte, cancrinite, aegirine, and catapleiite covered by orange-pink serandite...1897). Analcime also occurs in the Scharfenstein Tunnel near Bensen and at Stabigt, near Tetschen (Hintze...Island (Alun Baines and Gordon Auton, pers. comm.). NORWAY Fine, opaque analcime trapezohedra, up to 3 cm
Journal (issue)
Allenheads fluorite 17:4 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Annesley tunnel, Kirkby in Ashfield malachite 11:35 wulfenite...Inishturk gold 11:45 Killala Bay, Ross Strand aegirine 11:45 arfvedsonite 11:45 quartz 11:45 riebeckite...orthoclase 16:10 MALAWI ZOMBA PLATEAU Mount Malosa aegirine 14:37 MEXICO SONORA Huepec descloizite 12:31...Galway, Tynagh Mine 11:42 ADULARIA see ORTHOCLASE AEGIRINE Ireland, Co. Mayo, Ross Strand, Killala Bay 11:45...Nottinghamshire, Kirkby in Ashfield, Annesley railway tunnel 11:35 England, Staffordshire, Ecton Hill Mines
Book
Ullensvang Statsallmenning, Hordaland Fylke.] Norway (by W. L. Griffin. T. Garmo, H. Lovenskiold & A...ausumte and plumbian conicbalcite from [the Tuckers Tunnel prospect,] La Plata County. Colorado (by J. E Taggart...Boehmite from syenite pegmatites in the Oslo region, Norway (by A. 0. Larsen) 12:227-230 BOGGS, RUSSELL C....collectors (by R. P. McFall) 6:230-233 Guest editorial: tunnel-vision in mineral collecting (by P. J. Dunn) 9:2...Eidahl) 8:440-441 conichalcite from [the Tuckers Tunnel prosThe Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County,
Book
of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland 181 13 63 72...an exception is the mining museum of Kongsberg, Norway, showing only a single species (silver). We arrived...1 0234-51881 /2 About 1.3 km N. from the main railway station, landmark is a mine headframe. Tues.- Fri...Bonn 0228- 732766 about 1 km SW of Munsterplatz (Railway Station) Wed. 15-17 hrs, Sun. 10-12 hrs. Free....Bournonite Miargyrite Proustite Azurite 1-1 Kongsberg, Norway 1-2 Etiro mine, Namibia 1-5 Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland
Book
Saxony, Moravia, Transylvania, Siberia, Greenland, Norway, Brazil, Dauphine and Vesuvius. The remnants of...the 26 Two magnificent specimens of Kongsberg (Norway) silver were also displayed. \ arious sections...1825 and 1826 he visited, again with Haidinger, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. When in Stockholm...2000 specimens made up largely of minerals from Norway, the British Isles and Australian minerals, largely...completeness the geology of this country and also of Norway and Greenland, besides embracing specimens of the
Book
near Glasgow) and greenockite (Bishopton railwa) tunnel, near Renfrew, Strathclyde) occur in pockets and... acmite A synonym of aegirine. The term was reserved for a variety of aegirine, but is now used for the...Hawkes et al. 1975), is actually a calcium-poor aegirine containing significant amounts of niobium and...we~t Connemara, the metamorphic 20 ADAMITE AEGIRINE ADELITE GROUP Orthorhombic arsenates and vanadates...low-temperature variety of orthoclase, feldspar group. aegirine PYROXENE GROUP monoclinic NaFe3+Si2 O6 A relatively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
opposite side of the lake near Obertraun, a cable-railway ascends the north-east flank of the Dachstein....two-kilometre long lake formed; more than 100 metres of railway line was destroyed. 5(a) Where the road from Radstadt...Immediately north of Bischofshofen, close to the railway junction, lies the most southerly unit in the Werfen...east-south-east of Brinsauf station, a girder railway-bridge crosses the road obliquely; there are grey...Glockner facies. The path begins through a small tunnel, and at first crosses alternating zones of greenschists
Journal (issue)
Hydro-Electric Scheme, Northern Rhodesia. Plan of Tunnel Alignments and Power Stations . 284 '' Plate IX...Site . Plate XI 285 • '' Kafue: Geology of the Tunnel Alignment Areas . Plate XII ,, 286 Kaf ue: Inferred...surface of the ground, or to sinl< a shaft or drive a tunnel, he is faced with a geological problem. Where the...movements. When the designs for the Lower Zambezi railway bridge 264 COLONIAL GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES...reduction plant, the construction of Terna Harbour, a railway from the reduction plant to the harbour, and various
Journal (issue)
clambered aboard the bus that would take us to Tada railway station, we three college friends said nothing...exposed in the course of quarrying, as well as during tunnel and road construction. My job permitted me just...cultural milieu. 139 Figure 1. On the Indian Railway between Poona and Bombay, about to enter one of...enormous crystalcovered cavities encountered during tunnel excavation in the steeply inclined section known...between Khandala and Karjat, when the Bombay-Poona railway line was first constructed during the 1860’s. The
Book (volume)
Dum- at Boyleston, near Barrhead, at the Gryfe tunnel, near varieties of Erythrite bartonshire; Greenock...The structure is large (Aitken and H.). In the railway cutting a mile west of Inverlair station, in veins...Biotite. North Eona, HEBRIDES. at the mouth the Tunnel Cave, sap- of green, in the centre of crystalline...Imperfectly soluble in acids. NaFe(Si0 2 ) 2 Aegirine (326). [88. B.B. fuses easily. . Occurs in..., 6'5 to 7 m 3 ,4Si0 2 (110), perfect. ; Aegirine Porphyry."] . Chiefly occurs massive or lustre
Book (edition)
axes trend approximately eastwards. Between Orlock Tunnel and the 130° trending faults to the south, and...Orlock Point, Crawfordsburn foreshore, Craigavad railway cutting and the faulted inlier at Kittys Altar...che exposures at Cloghfin Port and vVhitehead railway cutting described. This is the first general reappraisal...is estimated that the thickness at White­ head railway cutting may be up to 10 m. An incomplete section...within this sheet, Y notably in the \. hitehead railway cutting and at Cloghfin (Figure 12). HEW,PJM 100m
Book
in the initial plotting of the course of a railway tunnel, for instance, before detailed survey work...hammer into shapes Notable locations ~ Kongsberg. Norway; Sanlct Andreasberg (Harz Mts), Fre1burg (Saxony)...Russia Langban, Varmland, Sweden Langesundfjord, Norway Leadhills, Lanarks, Scotland Lavrion, Greece Pribram...Chromite Hornblende Brookite Hypersthene Columbite Aegirine Rutile 3.4 2 3.1 4.5 3.8 7 6 2.9-3.3 6.8 6.7-7...Cuprotungstite Conichalcite Hornblende Hedenbergite Augite Aegirine 2.5-2.9 2.6 3 4.6 3.5 3.1 -3.2 3.3 3.9-4.4 5
Journal (volume)
examining a specimen of charoite, tinaksite and aegirine from the Charo River in Russia, there was a presence...permitted (specimen 3192, a silver from Kongsberg in Norway provides an extreme example, Jim acquired it in...4 mm crystal on prehnite from the Bishopton Railway Tunnel (Figure 23). As with most of his ‘old-time’...prehnite from the classic locality at Bishopton Railway Tunnel, west of Glasgow. Jim Knight specimen 1472...element, is represented by rich specimens from Norway and the USA. There are several hutchinsonite specimens
Journal (issue)
excavations (such as for wells, ditches, roads and railway tunnels). Because of the immense extent of the...when construction of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway passed through the Poona area. Whether this material...colonial administration completed construction of a railway line between Bombay and Poona, which had commenced...means a steep incline, when applied to a road or railway) had to be dug in the steeply inclined section...consequently the tunnels became known as the “Jewel Tunnel.” (Reports of the finds were published in a few
Report (issue)
boreholes to determine the final route of the Channel Tunnel. Work for the Water Resources Board on the geology...barium zirconium silicate - was identified in aegirine-granite from Rockall Island mainly by means of...and advisory work, on repayment, for the Channel Tunnel Project. Dr Shephard-Thorn and Dr W. A. Read also...near the line of the proposed Tyne-Tees aqueduct tunnel. In particular, the form of the north-south 'channel...investigations in the Moine inlier of Rosemarkie, that aegirine and albite also appear and thorough transformation
 
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