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Tobermorite from
Ballycraigy, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Tobermorite
Formula:Ca4Si6O17(H2O)2 · (Ca · 3H2O)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tobermorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ballycraigy, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:960392
Long-form Identifier:1:3:960392:9
GUID (UUID V4):9ad84ed2-9807-4341-9be1-588917105f6c
Nearest other occurrences of Tobermorite
23.6km (14.6 miles) Carneal, Glenoe, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
28.1km (17.4 miles) Scawt Hill, Larne, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The hydrated calcium, silicates riversideite, tobermorite, and plombierite. By J. D. C. McCoNNELL,M.Sc...from a dolerite-chalk contact at Ballycraigy, Larne, County Antrim, a mineral was examined and subsequently...photographs of a gelatinous material collected at Ballycraigy showed that this m~tteria] could also be identified...shown, from X-ray powder data, that the mineral tobermorite as described by Heddle (1880) may be identified...hydration state. Accordingly the mineral name tobermorite will be used in the present account to describe
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OPTICAL AND X-RAY STUDY OF SCAWTITE FROM BALLYCRAIGY, LARNE, N. IRELAND J. D. C. McCoNNBrr., Department of...hydrate. The scawtite examined was collected at Ballycraigy, Larne, N. frehnd, where it occurs in a vesicle...with the mineral tobermorite, Proof of the identity of the material from Ballycraigy and scawtite from...following data were obtained for scawtite from Ballycraigy: O p t i c a l c o n s t a n t s :a : 1 . 5 9...OccunnrNcn The occurrenceof scawtite at Ballycraigy, Larne, N. Ireland, has already been noted (N{cConnell1954
Report (issue)
11.2 b = 7.3 c = 56 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ballycraigy, Ireland. 3.17 (msb), 3.01 (msb), 2.81 (ms), 1.83...100.00 100.00 (1) Plombières, France. (2) Ballycraigy, Ireland. (3) Hatrurim Formation, Israel; by electron...Series: 2M and 4O polytypes. Mineral Group: Tobermorite supergroup. Occurrence: A gelatinous substance...and larnite at a diabase-chalk contact (Ballycraigy, Ireland). Association: Zeolites (Plombières, France)...Puy-de-Dôme, France. At Ballycraigy and Scawt Hill, near Larne, and Carneal, Co. Antrim, Ireland. From Klöch, Styria
Report (issue)
silicate hydrogel complex formed from larnite (Ballycraigy, Ireland); a rock-forming mineral formed at low temperatures...aragonite, tobermorite, hydrogarnet, kaolinite (Hatrurim Formation, Distribution: From Ballycraigy, Larne...Larne, Co. Antrim, Ireland. At the Bellerberg and Emmelberg volcanoes, Eifel district, Germany. From Hopffeldboden...McConnell, J.D.C. (1960) Vaterite from Ballycraigy, Larne, Northern Ireland. Mineral. Mag., 32, 535–545. (3)
Report (issue)
California, USA; total Fe as Fe2O 3 : (2) Ballycraigy, Ireland; remainder is trivalent metal oxides. (3)...limestone. Association: Melilite, spurrite, tobermorite, thomsonite, larnite, grossular, bultfonteinite...Distribution: At Scawt Hill and Ballycraigy, near Larne, Co. Antrim, Ireland. On the Zeilberg, near Maroldsweisach...USA, at Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, and near Neihart, Cascade Co., Montana. From Kushiro, Hiroshima...For the locality where ¯rst found, Scawt Hill, Ireland. Type Material: The Natural History Museum, London
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2) a late hydrothermal one that includes 11 Å tobermorite, riversideite, thomsonite, gismondine, aragonite...document the first occurrence of plombièrite, tobermorite, riversideite, portlandite and allophane in Romania... tilleyite, hibschite, scawtite, xonotlite, tobermorite, riversideite, plombièrite, Cornet Hill, Romania...paragenèse hydrothermale tardive, comprenant tobermorite-11 Å, riversideïte, thomsonite, gismondine, arago-...donnons les premières descriptions de plombièrite, tobermorite, riversideïte, portlandite et allophane sur le
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ture, Japan. Oyelite, previously called 10A tobermorite, was revealed to be a new mineral of approximate...have reported several rare minerals such as tobermorite, perovskite, bicchulite, giwa-roto in Fuka....which had been previ ously described as 10A tobermorite Taylor, 1956; Kusachi et al., (Heller and 1980)...was revealed to be a new species different tobermorite for its having a high Ca/Si and containing boron...Oyelite The mineral has properties same of tobermorite, and may be belonged to the same mineral group
Report (issue)
California, USA; from 9.3 º A product of dehydrated tobermorite. 3.03 (vs), 2.33 (s), 1.83 (s), 9.3 (m), 3.59...Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA. At Ballycraigy, near Larne, Co. Antrim, Ireland. In the Hatrurim...Name: For the ¯rst-noted occurrence in Riverside Co., California, USA. Type Material: National Museum...The hydrated calcium silicates riversideite, tobermorite, and plombierite. Mineral. Mag., 30, 293{305...(5) Taylor, H.F.W. (1957) The dehydration of tobermorite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 6, 101{109. (6) Mamedov
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
M. F. REDEFINITION Riversideite, OF NAMES Tobermorite, Plombierite J. D. C McCoNNnr.l, The hydrated...hydrated calcium silicates riversideite, tobermorite, and plombierite. M inerolog. M ag., 30, 293-305 (1954)...(Abst. in Am. Mineral.,39,407 (1954)) showed tobermorite (Heddle, 1880) to be a valid species,probably...crestmoreite and riversideite were mixtures of tobermorite and wilkeite. In a recent study of artificial...preserved in the unhydrated state. The name tobermorite is to be used for B, the 11.3 A. hydrate. New
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
plagioclase, 347 57o TOPOGRAPHICAL Syke, tobermorite, 229 Tyndrum, Perthshire, cadmian tetrahedrite...Inverness-shire Loch Eynort and Portree, Skye, tobermorite, 229 Rockall, bazirite, elpidite, ~-cristobalite...monazite, eudialyte, pyrochlore, xenotime, 35 IRELAND Gortdrum mine, Tipperary, amalgam, cinnabar, I7O...biotite, almandine, 237 Antrim Ballyclare, cowlesite, I7I Ballycraigy, Lame, tobermorite, zz9 Dunseverick,...Olgiasco, Como, tapiolite, 477 Pra de la Stua, tobermorite, 229 Val di Fassa, celadonite, 373 Vulsini volcano
Report (issue)
Tobermorite Ca5Si6(O; OH)18 ² 5H2 O ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic... Morvern, Argyllshire. From Ballycraigy, near Larne, Co. Antrim, Ireland. In Germany, on the Zeilberg...New Zealand. In the USA, from Crestmore, Riverside Co., California. At Concepci¶o n del Oro, and in the...30{45. (3) Livingstone, A. (1988) Reyerite, tobermorite, calcian analcime and bytownite from amygdales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metamorphosed bole, lithomarge, & bauxite from Antrim, xlvi Alabandine, Cornwall, 921 Albite, synthetic...garnet-plagioelase, Sutherland, anal., petr., 848 Analcime: Antrim, distribution, morphology, paragenesis, 202, 503;...susceptibility of, 573 Anglesite : Co. Tipperary, 136 ; morphology of, 63 Ankerite, Co. Tipperary, 128 Anorthoc]ase:...Durham, 172 Apophyllite, Antrim, opt., morphology, distribution, 507 Aragonite, Antrim, 505, distribution,...petr., metamorphism by dolerite, 866 Arsenopyrite: Co. Tipperary, 128, 136; Cumberland, 428, 429 ; ( ?)Durham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Magazine, April 2015, Vol. 79(2), pp. 485–495 The tobermorite supergroup: a new nomenclature CRISTIAN BIAGIONI*...is reported. The tobermorite supergroup is defined. It is formed by the tobermorite group and the unclassified...clinotobermorite and riversideite. Plombièrite (‘14 Å tobermorite’) is redefined as a crystalline mineral having...Crestmore, Riverside County, California, USA. The tobermorite group consists of species having a basal spacing...y·5H2O. Its endmember compositions correspond to tobermorite Ca5Si6O17·5H2O (x = 1 and y = 0) and the new
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral. 2001, 13, 577–590 The real structure of tobermorite 11Å: normal and anomalous forms, OD character...Specimens of tobermorite 11Å from Wessels mine, South Africa, an ‘anomalous’ tobermorite, and from Bašcenov...Bašcenov, Urals, Russia, a ‘normal’ tobermorite, have been studied through X-ray diffraction. Their structural...details of the two specimens. The MDO1 polytype of tobermorite 11Å from Wessels mine [orthorhombic, space group...behaviour of the two types of tobermorite 11Å is indicated. Key-words: tobermorite 11Å, crystal structure,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K. SUMMARY. Tobermorite minerals vary in some properlies, notably in...discussed in the light of synthetic evidence. TOBERMORITE minerals vary in some properties, most notably...(Taylor, I953; Farmer et al., 1966), Ballycraigy, Northern Ireland (McConnell, 1954), and Fuka, Japan (Mitsuda...Specimens. These are described as 14/~ or I I/~ tobermorite according to the approximate value of the layer...of them. (l) Crestmore, California: the r4 A tobermorite originally described by M urdoch (196 I) as 'Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cell dimensions: oo : 1 0 . 2 2A , aibic bo: co : 1 5 . 4 2A , 0.6628:1:0.4345 A: 6.70 A 100"29'...Scawt Hill, County Antrim, Ireland, Tilley (1930), and Ballycraigy, Larne, N. Ireland, McConnell (1954)...a study of scawtite from the Scawt Hill and Ballycraigy occurrences.Our results are in close agreement...(1930),Scawtite,a new mineral from Scawt Hili, Co. Antrim: Mineral" Mog.,22,223124. TAyt-oR,J. H. (1935)...(1954),The hydrated calcium silicatesriversideite,tobermorite and plombierite:Mineral. Mag., 3O,293-305. Jul'y
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sgurr of Eigg: pitchstone, sanidine, 587 Skye: tobermorite, xonotlite, lxvii Echoing Rock, Fir Breugach...thomsonite), 457 Portree, Skye: tacharanite, tobermorite, xonotlite, mesolite, calcite, saponite, thomsonite...rare-earth mineral, 389 IRELAND Flush Hall, Newtownards, Co. Down: thaumasite, 416 Antrim Plinthite, red zeolites...Rouyhfort: calcite, 609 Ballyclore: calcite, 609 Ballycraigy, Lame: dolerite-chalk contact, xlvii; vaterite...(Jugoslavija) Grade~nica, Macedonia: kaolin, 39 S]co~aj, Croatia: kaolin, 39 ASIA Ceylon Fergusonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collected at the dolerite-chalk contacts at Ballycraigy and Scawt Hill, both of which 673 I:[YDRATION...are near Larne, County Antrim. In a previous paper the natural gel from Ballycraigy was briefly described.../ / account of the dolerite-chalk contact at Ballycraigy is in 1 f I "; course of preparation. Larnite...a w t through the metasomatic reaction Hill, Co. Antrim. of flint nodules with the surrounding chalk...pseudomorphs after Iarnite in a larnite-spinelrock from Ballycraigy is illustrated in pl. XVII, and the relationships
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
), The Inishdawros metaperidotite, Connemara, Ireland, 69 AHMED (Z.), Chromite from Sakhakot-Qila, Pakistan...369 BaUyclare, Co. Antrim, cowlesite, 171 Ballycraigy, Larne, Co. Antrim, tobermorite, 229 Bambollita...rocks from Pembrokeshire, 8 I Bingham, Utah, tobermorite, 229 Binny mine, Kondapalli, Andhra Pradesh,...Buchite, see Cordierite-buchite Buckeye Mtn., Polk Co., Arkansas, kidwellite, 137 Buffaure, Val di Fassa...Henbury, Somerset, wulfenite, 298 Coon Creek, Polk Co., Arkansas, kidwellite, 137 Copper, ferroan, Sierra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Thomas Armbruster Thermal behaviour of Al-rich tobermorite CRISTIAN BIAGIONI, ELENA BONACCORSI*, MARCO LEZZERINI...e-mail: elena.bonaccorsi@unipi.it Abstract: The tobermorite supergroup is composed by a number of calcium-silicate-hydrate...phases having a 14 Å (plombièrite), 11 Å (tobermorite, kenotobermorite, and clinotobermorite), and...been described. Tobermorite and kenotobermorite belong to the so-called tobermorite group and differ...basal spacing at 300  C). Specimens of Al-rich tobermorite from Montalto di Castro and Vallerano, Latium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
real structures of clinotobermorite, tobermorite 9 Å, and tobermorite 11 Å were determined through the application...11.468 Å, α = 99.18°, β = 97.19°, γ = 90.03°; tobermorite 9 Å, triclinic – polytype C1, a = 11.156, b =...566 Å, α = 101.08°, β = 92.83°, γ = 89.98°; tobermorite 11 Å, monoclinic polytype B11m, a = 6.735, b...adjacent calcium layers in clinotobermorite and tobermorite 11 Å, whereas single tetrahedral chains connect...layers in tobermorite 9 Å. The relatively wide channels of clinotobermorite and tobermorite 11 Å host
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chrysotile, dickite, thaumasite, okenite and tobermorite. A weathering paragenesis includes allophane...“hibschite”, dickite, clinochlore, lizardite, okenite, tobermorite and allophane also occur, as late hydrothermal...gun (manufactured by Technosyn Limited, Cambridge, UK mounted on a polarizing microscope. The electron...polars. (H) Aggregates of okenite (Okn) and tobermorite (Tob) on a fissure affecting the gehlenite (Gh)...reddish-brown in thin sections; it is apparently co-crystallized with wollastonite and its occurrence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE DEHYDRATION OF TOBERMORITE by I-I. F . W . TAYLOR Deparl~ment of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen...Aberdeen, Scotland ABSTRACT Tobermorite [Ca 4 (Si6018H2)Ca.4I-IaO ] is a hydrated calcimn silicate mineral...studied using single crystals from Ballyeraigy, N. Ireland. The three most frequently encountered hych'ation...remaining relatively undisturbed. INTRODUCTION Tobermorite [Ca4(Si6OlsHe)Ca.41-120 ] is hydrated a calcium...Howison,1957), which also reviewed previous work tobermorite. on The closest similarity is perhaps to vermiculite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
110 The transformation of tobermorite into xonotlite. By H. F. W. TAYLOR, D.Sc., Ph.D. D e p a r t m...using single crystal X-ray methods. A crystal of tobermorite (CasSi60~H10),treated with water at 380 ~ C....occurs without intermediate dehydration of the tobermorite to the 9.35 ~. state. The structural basis of...stage either tobermorite, or badly crystallized material structurally related to tobermorite. The main object...study the mechanism of the transformation of tobermorite into xonotlite, using single crystal methods
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tennantite in limestone, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary, Ireland. BM(NH) specimens, collected by A. J. Criddle...uraniferous hydrocarbon at Wheal Speed, Cornwall, contain co-precipitated radium. Other localities for radium... in thermally altered chalk at Carneal, Co. Antrim, Ireland. A new species. C. Henmi, I. Kusachi, K....S. Haughton (I856), from the Mourne Mountains, Ireland, lacked confirmatory detail.] Cinnabar HgS Rhombohedral...xlii. From Ireland, crystalline on muddy limestone with calcite, at Gortdrum mine, Oola, Co. Tipperary
 
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