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Fayalite-Forsterite Series from
Yellowknife, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:'Fayalite-Forsterite Series' (not an IMA approved species)
Comments:Spinifex texture of Olivine altering to Serpentine.
Habit:Spinifex Texture
Colour:dark green
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fayalite-Forsterite Series data
Locality Data:Click here to view Yellowknife, North Slave Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:936008
Long-form Identifier:1:3:936008:2
GUID (UUID V4):2a67bd79-97be-4bca-94c8-bf417607f933
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 Cobalt – Belleterre –...Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2000 Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR...in Right of Canada, 2000 Catalogue No. M41-8-57E ISBN 0-660-17726-9 Available in Canada from Geological...Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd Street N.W. Calgary...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
Book (edition)
Australia Nelson Canada 1120 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario MIK 5G4, Canada GQiefd4 Gi 1S ie...Menezes Les Presmyk Wallace Mann National Museum of Canada Martin Jensen Michael P. Cooper Mark Rogers Marshall...could be resolved, we are now prepared for a long series (welcome for the next edition) of letters pointing...Mineralogist, Journal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada. Clay Mineralogy, by R. E. Grim (McGraw-Hill, 1968)...such substances may form a continuous isomorphous series. isotropic In crystal optics the characteristic
Book (edition)
TING—A GEMSTONES PROSPECTING OF Lapidary’s NORTH FOR Manual, 2nd ed. AMERICA GEMSTONES AND...(18531918), for whom the emerald-green spodumene from North Carolina, hiddenite, is named; George Frederick...clearly describes the sheet structure formed by a series of connected rings linked at all corners in a hexagonal...substitution, as for example between fayalite, an iron silicate, and forsterite, a magnesium silicate. Both...species called an isomorphous series. The pure species, fayalite and forsterite, are called the end members
Book (edition)
CUTTING-A Lapidary's Manual, 2nd Ed. GEMSTONES OF NORTH AMERICA GEMSTONES AND MINERALSHow and Where to Find... VAN NosTRAND COMPANY (Canada), LTD. 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto 16, Canada @ 1964, BY JOHN SINKANKAS... Published simultaneously in Canada by D. VAN NosTRAND COMPANY (Canada), LTD. No reproduction in any...8), for whom the emerald-green spodumen e from North Carolina, hicldenite) is named; George Frederick...clearly describes the sheet structure formed by a series of connected rings linked at all corners in a hexagonal
Book (edition)
Australia Nelson Canada I 120 Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario MIK 5G4, Canada 4I-1'-lq 16 15 ...Presmyk MA = Wallace Mann MC National Museum of Canada MJ Martin Jensen ~ """ . MP Michael P. Cooper MR...could be resolved, we are now prepared for a long series (welcome for the next edition) of letters pointing... Journal of the J\1ineralogical Association of Canada. Clay Mineralogy, by R. E. Grim (NlcGrav1-H ill...such substances may form a continuous isomorphous series. isotropic In crystal optics the characteristic
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(SiO4) group in the mineral forsterite. The chemical shorthand for forsterite is Mg,SiO4. This is known...bracket group would around the dis- result in forsterite symbolized thus: (Mg2)**(SiO4)*~. It is an interesting...as olivines. These are called forsterite, Mg2SiO., and fayalite, Fe,SiO4. these minerals Above:...consisting entirely of membersiof the olivine series another pair of strikingly different polymorphs...the crystals that form are no longer of forsterite and fayalite but of a single olivine containing both
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(Si04) group in the mineral forsterite. The chemical short¬ hand for forsterite is Mg2Si04. This is known...the dis¬ tinctive (Si04) group would result in forsterite symbolized thus: (Mg2)4 + (Si04)4_. It is an...rock consisting entirely of members of the olivine series phosphate because it contains the tetrahedrally...known as olivines. These are called forsterite, Mg2Si04, and fayalite, Fe2Si04. If we melt a mixture of...are no longer of forsterite and Both are composed entirely of the element fayalite but of a single olivine
Book (edition)
NOSTRAND Co1v1PANY, LTD., D. VAN NOSTRAND Col\fPANY (Canada), LTD., Copyright Toronto ©1964, 1966, by JOHN...Published simultaneously in Canada by D. VAN NosTRAND Col\1PANY (Canada), LTD. No reproduction in any...N icolaus Steno (1638-1686), discovered that a series of measure1nents 1nade on quartz crystals from...clearly describes the sheet structure formed by a series of connected rings linked at all corners in a hexag·onal...substitution, as for example between fayalite, an iron silicate, and forsterite, a magnesium silicate. Both species
 
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