| Locality type: | Prospect |
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| Species: | Zircon |
| Formula: | Zr(SiO4) |
| Comments: | Crystals up to 10 cm across |
| Habit: | Dominated by prism {100}, pyramids {101} and {301} |
| Colour: | deep red |
| Quality for species: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
| Confirmation |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Biotite | ⓘ16 photos of Zircon associated with Biotite at this locality. |
| Plagioclase | ⓘ4 photos of Zircon associated with Plagioclase at this locality. |
| Hornblende Root Name Group | ⓘ4 photos of Zircon associated with Hornblende Root Name Group at this locality. |
| Magnetite | ⓘ3 photos of Zircon associated with Magnetite at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Zircon data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Store Kufjord, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (68 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 170828 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:170828:8 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 64673ca9-6e8e-4196-b678-3d1757ceaa5b |
| Nearest other occurrences of Zircon |
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| 7.4km (4.6 miles) | ⓘSkarvevann Pegmatite, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 7.4km (4.6 miles) | ⓘSkarvbergbukten Pegmatite, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 7.9km (4.9 miles) | ⓘØrnetind, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 10.0km (6.2 miles) | ⓘBekkarfjordnes, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 22.0km (13.7 miles) | ⓘLillebukt Nepheline Mine, Stjernøya Island, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 37.3km (23.2 miles) | ⓘHasfjordvann, Sørøya, Hasvik, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 37.6km (23.4 miles) | ⓘBrennhaugan, Sørøya, Hasvik, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 38.1km (23.7 miles) | ⓘBårvikaksla, Bårvik, Sørøya, Hasvik, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 39.3km (24.4 miles) | ⓘHaraldseng, Sørøya, Hasvik, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
| 91.1km (56.6 miles) | ⓘDoaresgaissa, Vaddas-Rieppe ore field, Nordreisa, Troms og Finnmark, Norway |
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 | | Journal (issue) | | minerals. Figure 4: Native silver from Kongsberg, Norway; sample on right is 15 cm tall. December Mineral...Revelations Collecting on the Island of Seiland, Norway Precious Opal Pseudomorphs after Gaylussite The...Germany India Mozambique Myanmar Namibia Norway Norway Norway South Africa South Africa South Africa Switzerland... Mogok Namib Desert Northern Norway Troms og Finnmark Troms og Finnmark Alpstein massif, Canton of St...Island of Seiland Alta Alta Klein Spitzkopje Mica Quarry Ornetind Zircon store Kufjord Jagersfontein Witwatersrand |  | | Journal (issue) | | Page 3 Collecting on the Island of Seiland, Norway Raymond Grant Florence, Arizona In 1959, I was...collecting corundum in Norway. On his trip, he went to the Island of Seiland in northern Norway. Montgomery said...Mineral News —————————————————Page Page Seiland, Norway (Continued from page 3) This story stayed with...not tell us much about Seiland. We drove north to Alta on the coast and inquired at the visitor’s center...the core. (Continued on page 10) Minerals from Norway Over 50 different species in stock—inquire for |  | | Journal (issue) | | barium-zeolitter i Kongsberg av Fred Steinar Nordrum og Henrik Sundland 19 20 En enkelt zirkonkrystall...STEIN 3-2017 Redaksjonens hjørne Sommeren er på hell og med den så vel steintreffet på Eidsfoss som andre...opprører mange og vi er blitt spurt om vi ønsker innlegg om hva enkelte har opplevd og Kanskje kommer...grunneiere og andre ser at vi som organisasjon og de organiserte steinsamlere ønsker å opptre korrekt og følge...ble avholdt i slutten av mai i Langesund, og reaksjonene og oppsummeringene var så positive at vi håper |  | | Journal (issue) | | Figure 43. Zircon crystals to 4.4 cm in matrix (11.5 cm), from Store Kufjord, Seiland Island, Alta, Finnmark...Finnmark, Norway. Mim #1882, mined in 1985 and acquired in 2016. Roberto Appiani photo. Figure 44. Cafarsite...Academy was established, and soon opened a school store for selling specimens to students. Among the earliest...field-collecting travels. He wrote: I have a private Store House of [minerals and fossils] besides those which...disposition of any specimens remaining in Lhuyd’s “store house” remains unknown. Lhuyd died in debt, so all |  | | Book | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zircon and Dalyite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...coeval with the Fen carbonatite complex in southern Norway (583–615 Ma) determined via 40Ar/39Ar dating (Meert...Stjernöy–Pollen (c), as well as Seiland-Store Kufjord (ac) in Norway. Various rocks from the Alnö Complex...contact facies (fenites) for which Alnö, after Fen in Norway, is famous (e.g. Morogan and Woolley 1988; Morogan...is named “fenitization” after the Fen complex in Norway. This fenitization can be seen hundreds of meters |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the 1980s. Roger and Sandy lived in the old store/gas station in Washington Camp. They had found one...4.6 cm, from western Hardangervidda, Hordaland, Norway; collected in the 2000s. One pyramid face on the...7.5 cm, from western Hardangervidda, Hordaland, Norway; collected in 2005 from a small pocket yielding...collecting amazonite crystals a few days before in Norway. 126 The Mineralogical Record, Eureka Supplement...cm), from Dyrafonn, Hardangervidda, Hordaland, Norway; collected in the 2000s. Anatase, 2.3 cm, from |
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Store Kufjord, Alta, Troms og Finnmark, Norway