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Sphalerite from
Beinn an Dubhaich, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK


Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beinn an Dubhaich, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:858856
Long-form Identifier:1:3:858856:2
GUID (UUID V4):05aa2d63-43c3-4934-8898-6cbb907b6bfc
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.0km (1.2 miles) Iron-copper trial, Kilchrist, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
2.1km (1.3 miles) Marble quarries, Kilchrist, Broadford, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
9.7km (6.0 miles) Eas a Bradain, Luib, Isle of Skye, Eilean á Chèo, Highland, Scotland, UK
27.2km (16.9 miles) Strath a Chomair, Glen Beag, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
31.6km (19.6 miles) Loch Duich, Ratagain Intrusion, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
34.0km (21.1 miles) Loch Duich (2), Ratagain Intrusion, Glenelg, Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh, Highland, Scotland, UK
56.8km (35.3 miles) Corrantee Mine, Strontian, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
57.8km (35.9 miles) Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
58.4km (36.3 miles) Bellsgrove Quarry (Strontian Barytes Mine; Middleshop mine), Strontian, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
62.9km (39.1 miles) Clashgorm Mine, Strontian, Fort William and Ardnamurchan, Highland, Scotland, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cambro-Ordovician Skarns on Isle of Skye, Scotland Brian Jackson Location Skye is the largest of the Inner Hebridean...Hebridean islands. Its location in the north-west of Scotland is both remote and isolated. The coastline is...is hilly and much land lies above 150 metres. Most of its hills are below 450 metres, but the Black Cuillins...high and rugged with the peak of Sgurr Alasdair reaching 993 metres. Skye is about 80km from north to south...from the sea. This dramatic coastline surrounds some of the most exceptional and varied scenery to be found
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GLOSSARY OF SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 · H. ·G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology... GLOSSARY OF SCOTTISH MINERAL SPECIES 1981 H . G. MACPHERSON AND A. LIVINGSTONE Department of Geology...EDINBURGH & GLASGOW Copyright © Scottish Journal of Geology 1982 Printed by The Universities Press, (Belfast)...Compilation of the glossary . Style and guidelines Comments on the glossary . Statistical survey of Scottish...Scottish minerals 1901-1981 Number of species Increase by decades Value of mineral collections M. F. Heddle
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C J' -- .:t:.·: .. ;.• TITLES CLASSIC OF RELATED GEOLOGY INTEREST IN EUROPE SERIES l...Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George...Highlands of Scotland Con Gillen 9. The Inner Hebrides of Scotland Con Gillen 11. The Gulf of Corinth Mike...Neill, Clive Portman, Peter Rowe OTHER TITLES OF RELATED I"t\TEREST Co,zfi·onting catastrophe: nell'perspecrh·es...sters Da,·id Alexander Geology and landscapes of Scotland Con Gillen La catastrophe: A1ow11Pelee and the
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esfrom the Ballachulish aureole,Scotland JonN M. Frnnv Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,Johns...from the Ballachulish aureole on the basis of the formation of geikielite (MgTiOr), baddeleyite (ZrOr),...* periclase: qandilite. The (I, X.o,) conditions of reaction inferred from (l) mineral equilibria in...and baddeleyite isograds are the same within error of those independently estimated from rutile + dolomite...dolomites from at least two other contact aureolesin Scotland and Montana. Although the minerals occur in concentrations
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MINERALS OF SCOTLAND PAST AND PRESENT Alec Livingstone National Museums of Scotland Publishing Limited... Publishedby NMS PublishingLimited NationalMuseumsof Scotland ChambersStreet EdinburghEHl lJF © 1MS PublishingLimited...PublishingLimited 2002 Text: © AlecLivingstone Nopart of t!risp11blicatio11 may be reproduced, storedin a...tirepublislrer. The right of AlecLivingstoneto be identifiedas the author of this bookhas been assertedby...Cataloguing in Publication Data A cataloguerecord of this book is availablefrom the British Library.
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homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/lithos Origin of oscillatory zoned garnets from the Xieertala Fe–Zn...Jian-Ping Wang a, Li Su c, Xi-An Yang d, Sheng-Hua Wu d a State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and...Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana...Institute of Geological Research, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China d Institute of Mineral...Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China b c a r t i c l e i n
Report (issue)
Economic minerals of Scotland – bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Information Management and...INTERNAL REPORT IR/04/001 Economic minerals of Scotland bedrock of Scotland's economic development. R.P. McIntosh...F. MacTaggart, T. Cullen, J. Rayner Key words Scotland, mineral resources Bibliographical reference R...Cullen, J. Rayner. 2004 Economic minerals of Scotland - bedrock of Scotland's economic development. Internal...Survey 2004 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The full range of Survey publications is available from the BGS Sales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eur. J. Mineral. 2002, 14, III-VIII Contents of volume 14 Number 1 page Editorial. ................C.-c. LIN, T.P. MERNAGH, T. INOUE.– Raman spectra of phase C (superhydrous phase B) at various pressures...High-temperature metamorphism in marbles as a consequence of volatile release from crystallizing anatectic melts...37 J. FIEBIG, J. HOEFS.– Hydrothermal alteration of biotite and plagioclase as inferred from intragranular...ISACHSEN, U. ALTENBERGER , R. OBERHÄNSLI.– Behavior of zircon during high-pressure, low-temperature metamorphism:
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©2018 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 113, no. 3, pp. 769–778 SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATIONS...COMMUNICATIONS ANDRADITE GARNET U-Pb GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BIG GOSSAN SKARN, ERTSBERG-GRASBERG MINING DISTRICT...Cloos1 1 Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geoscience, University of Texas at Austin,...Abstract The Big Gossan skarn (71 million tonnes of 2.4 wt % Cu and 0.9 ppm Au at a 1% Cu cutoff) is...Ertsberg-Grasberg mining district, on the island of New Guinea in eastern Indonesia. The skarn formed
Book (edition)
WHITMAN f;OJ I l[ii • , GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND GEOLOGY OF • SECOND EDITION Edited by G. Y. CRAIG...Academic Press 1983 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced. stored in a retrieval...permission of the Scottish Academic Press Ltd., 33 Montgomery Street, Edinburgh EH7 5JX. Library of Congress...Geology of Scotland '' A Halsted Press book." Includes bibliographies and index. I. Geology-Scotland. I....ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I. THE GROWTH AND ST RUCTURE OF SCOTLAND The formation of the crystalline craton Hebridean craton
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ADDRESS Patterns of mineral occurrence in metamorphic rocks JOHN M. FERRY* Department of Earth and Planetary...21218, U.S.A. ABSTRACT Patterns in the occurrence of minerals in metamorphic rocks suggest additional...Examples include the distribution of allanite and monazite in pelitic rocks and of zircon and baddeleyite in...dolomites. Recognition of these isograds points to the potential for developing a chronology of specific chemical...defining the P-T conditions of those reactions. Second, the mineralogical products of retrograde metamorphism
AND B. BAGIŃSKI1 1 IGMiP Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089...4YQ, UK 3 U.S. Geological Survey, 956 National Center, Reston, VA 20192, USA 4 Camborne School of Mines...Mines, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus, Penryn...Penryn TR10 9EZ, UK 2 [Received 17 March 2009; Accepted 27 August 2009] ABSTR ACT Electron microprobe...are presented of chevkinite-group minerals from Canada, USA, Guatemala, Norway, Scotland, Italy and India
Book (edition)
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA LIBRARY . THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND • THE GEOLOGY OF SCOTLAND Edited by...Geology The University of Edinburgh OLIVER & BOYD EDINBURGH AND LONDON UNIVERSITY OF '/!CTORIA LIBRA.RV...1965 PREFACE The last book on the geology of Scotland was published 120 years ago. This may seem surpr...for long been one of the classical areas for geology and the home of leading pioneers of the science. Yet...Yet in spite of- perhaps because of - the appeara nce of a wealth of specialised papers, few general texts
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Vanadinite (Morocco) HandPrintedColour Photographs of Mineralsand CornishEngineHouses New Showroom now...7SU Tel: (0736) 788305 Wulfenite (Mexico) UK Journal of Mines and Minerals Issue No 5 SUMMER1988 ...Page No. The Re-opening of Clogau Gold Mine 1966 J. Hodgkins 2 The Minerals of Trimouns, Ariege, France...Decline of Mining in Mid Wales and Prospects of Revival S.J.S. Hughes 12 AUSTRALIA The Mines of Lindale...5091181 A$9 inc. p& pperissue Minerals of the Isle of Skye R. Starkey 18 ARTICLES Articles for inclusion
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element analysis of zoned skarn garnet: Implications for multi-stage fluxing and flow of magmatic fluid...element analysis of zoned skarn garnet: Implications for multi-stage fluxing and flow of magmatic fluid...PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover...readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting...are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controlling the crystal morphology and chemistry of garnet in skarn deposits: A case study from the Cuihongshan...State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing...Beijing 100083, China 2 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia...hydrothermal processes and physicochemical conditions of ore formation remain controversial. Here we investigate...polymetallic skarn deposit of NE China. The calcic skarn rocks contain three types of garnets. (1) Prograde
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Mineralogy, Fluid Inclusions, and Sulfur Isotopes of the Huanzala Deposits, Peru: Early Skarn and Late...HAYASHI Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan Abstract...narrow range of approximately 4 km in horizontal extent and less than 1 km in depth. The pathway of the early-stage...along a plot of log fS2 against 1000/T is best explained by the progressive dual decline of the fS2 value...progress through the stability field of pyrrhotite to reach that of pyrite and promoted a decrease in FeS
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and landscapes of Scotland Second Edition DUNEDIN Geology and landscapes of Scotland Iona, looking...looking toward the Ross of Mull granite (pink), with Ben More and lava flows behind. Rocky knolls on Iona are... Geology and landscapes of Scotland Second edition Con Gillen University of Edinburgh DUNEDIN EDINBURGH...published by Roger Jones, Terra Publishing, Harpenden, UK in 2003 Second edition first published in 2013 by...Cornelius Gillen The right of Con Gillen to be identified as the author of this book has been asserted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/gca REE in skarn systems: A LA-ICP-MS study of garnets from the Crown Jewel gold deposit Miguel...Sala 6.4.48, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal b Department of Geology, Washington State University, P.O. Box. 642812...642812, Pullman, WA 99164-2812, USA c Department of Geology, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA...controlling incorporation of REE into garnets, and strengthens the potential of garnet REE geochemistry...geochemistry as a tool to help understand the evolution of metasomatic fluids. Garnets from the Crown Jewel deposit
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and Ashley Slattery 3 School of Chemical Engineering, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, S.A. 5005...Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing...100029, China Adelaide Microscopy, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, S.A. 5005, Australia; ashley...series. Micron- to nanoscale investigation of a specimen of skarnoid from Zhibula, Gangdese Belt, Tibet...Tibet, China, was carried out to assess the identity of the phases within a broad scheelite-powellite (Sch-Pow)
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minerals Article Geochemical Characteristics of the Mineral Assemblages from the Niukutou Pb-Zn Skarn...Wang, Xinyou Zhu and Xing Yang Beijing Institute of Geology for Mineral Resources Co., Ltd., Beijing...Y.; Zhu, X.; Yang, X. Geochemical Characteristics of the Mineral Assemblages from the Niukutou Pb-Zn Skarn... Abstract: The Niukutou Pb-Zn deposit is typical of skarn deposits in the Qimantagh metallogenic belt...we report the major and trace element compositions of the typical skarn mineral assemblages (garnet, pyroxene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev Metallogeny of the Ergu Fe-Zn polymetallic deposit, central Lesser...a College of Earth Science, Jilin University, Changchun 130061, China Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources...Northeast Asia, Ministry of Natural Resources, Changchun 130061, China c Institute of Geology and Geophysics...Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China d School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China...China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China b A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:
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minerals Article In Situ LA-ICP-MS of Zoned Garnets from the Huanggang Skarn Iron–Tin Polymetallic Deposit...Citation: Mei, W.; Ruan, B.; Liu, H. In Situ LA-ICP-MS of Zoned Garnets from the Huanggang Skarn Iron–Tin Polymetallic...December 2022 The Institute of Geological Survey of China, University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China;...China; meiwei09@cug.edu.cn School of Earth Resources of China, University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China;...polymetallic deposit in the Southern Great Xing’an Range of Northeast China. Cassiterite, magnetite, and other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3273 RESEARCH ARTICLE Garnet composition as an indicator of skarn formation: LA‐ ICP‐MS and EPMA studies...Faculty of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China 2 Wuhan Center of Geological...State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan...record garnet growing process in the early stages of metallogenesis. In order to investigate the skarn‐forming...evolution of the Haobugao deposit, major, trace, and rare earth element (REE) contents of oscillatory
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2689–2700, 2016 Growth of hydrothermal baddeleyite and zircon in different stages of skarnization Wen Winston...Wei Terry Chen2 2 1 Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong...Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang...and subdued flattening of HREE chondrite-normalized patterns, similar to those of zircon crystallized from...baddeleyite rimed by zircon, which record a period of low Si activity during prograde skarnization relative
 
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