 | | Catalog/List | | ecimens as half phosphatic geodes from the Hiocene clay vith lmm,yellow-green,tabular xtls in aggregates...xtls. LC,t.20. 15. APATITE. Goonbarrow China Clay Pit,St Austell,Cornwa11. Granite fragment with upper...3mmxtls of Apatite on Feldspar. SC,.tlO. 16. ARAGONITE/ROCK CRYSTAL. Greystones Quarry,Launceston,Cornwall...by grey,well terminated,chisel-shaped xtls of Aragonite to 10mm. LC ,.tlO. 17. ARAGONITE.Kamareza Mine...developments of globular to botryoidal snow white Aragonite. LC,tl2. Attractive. 18. ARSENOPYRITE.Hingsten |  | | Catalog/List | | (blue?) tabular xls to 1.5mm. 20x15x15mm. £25. 4) ARAGONITE. Hopes Nose, Torquay, Devon. A group of creamy...brownish matrix here and there. 40x25x30mm. £18. 5) ARAGONITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A shallow...galena/quartz matrix lined with sharp needly greyish aragonite xls to 10mm. 50x30x35mm. £20. 6) ARGENTITE, PROUSTITE...PROUSTITE and FLUORITE. Annaberg, Hartz, Germany. A thin piece of matrix showing areas of crystalline... Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. Four jet black cassiterite xls to 7mm and about |  | | Catalog/List | | (blue?) tabular xls to 1.5mm. 20x15x15mm. £25. 4) ARAGONITE. Hopes Nose, Torquay, Devon. A group of creamy...brownish matrix here and there. 40x25x30mm. £18. 5) ARAGONITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A shallow...galena/quartz matrix lined with sharp needly greyish aragonite xls to 10mm. 50x30x35mm. £20. 6) ARGENTITE, PROUSTITE...PROUSTITE and FLUORITE. Annaberg, Hartz, Germany. A thin piece of matrix showing areas of crystalline... Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. Four jet black cassiterite xls to 7mm and about |  | | Catalog/List | | £95. 4) ARAGONITE. Kamariza, Larion, Greece. A nice clean off white mass of"coral" like aragonite without...ARGENTITE, PROUSTJTE and FLUORITE. Annaberg, Saxony, Germany. A small piece of matrix with mixed ores. German...colour. 80x60x30mm. £45. 23)DUFRENJTE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Granitic matrix with small |  | | Journal (issue) | | well as a number of solution cavities filled with clay or sandy sediment. The vugs generally contain quartz...tiny rosettes of aragonite. All of these minerals, with the exception of aragonite, are often found in...the notable minerals of the road cut follow. Aragonite is a late groundwater precipitate, that occasionally...sprays of acicular crystals on the quartz. The aragonite fluoresces and phosphoresces blue in both long...quartz an interior iris effect. The calcite and aragonite coatings may obscure the underlying quartz. When |  | | Journal (issue) | | J.G. WEISS, S. (1994) The Minerals of the China Clay pits in Cornwall 14:21-33 WOOD, M. (1993) Strontianite...HACKER, C.M. (1997) Rutile from Wheal Remfrey china clay pit, Indian Queens, St. Enoder Cornwall 18:16 LAWTON...RUST, S. (1998) Bismuth minerals from Wheal Remfrey pit, Cornwall 19:11 RUST, S. (1996) Susannite and caledonite...19:28 Iron Knob Mine variscite 16:7 Iron Monarch Pit, Iron Knob namibite 11:12 Mt. Gunson Mine atacamite...magnesite 14:4-7 sylvinite 17:4 CORNWALL Boldelva Pit, St Blazey Gate cassiterite 14:32 orthoclase 14:32 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gnathostome otoliths results in the postulation of aragonite as the basic mineral of otoliths for all gnathostomes...found by Lloyd Gunther, Brigham City, Utah, in a clay pit 5 miles west ofLehi, north of Highway 73 on the...preserved in Acanthodes sp. from the Permian of West Germany (U. Heidtke, pers. comm.), where specimens occur...(Acanthodes sp. in the Permian gray shales of West Germany, and scaumenellized Triazeugacanthus in the Upper...carbonate in different mineralogical form (calcite, aragonite, vaterite), calcium-carbonate monohydrate, and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | )YV^U*V\U[` Clay pit, Ripley, just to the W, exposure of Pennsylvanianage Chelten Clay in pit: gypsum (crystals...*HSOV\U*V\U[` Gilead, Maquoketa Shale outcrop: illite (clay mineral group, type locality) (Grim, Bray, and Bradley...dolomitic limestone, cavities and geodes: acanthite, aragonite, calcite (fine scalenohedra at Stony Island and...Bridge), galena, glauconite, gypsum (clay beds), hematite (balls in clay), illite, kaolinite, marcasite (more... groups to 5 cm), sphalerite (with marcasite in clay-filled solution cavities) (Fleener and Caraveta |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of fluorite, and a large piece of crystalline aragonite from Sicily were demonstrated with other specimens...NODULE AND UNUSUAL MASS OF SERPULAE FROM LONDON CLAY, WOKINGHAM, 6. ECONOMIC MINERALS FROM CORNWALL...the top of the lowest espley rock, at the above clay pit. These thin grey shales appear to pass laterally...a depth of 9 ft. on blue clay (proved to 14 ft. and presumably Oxford Clay), at Sutton Benger, 4 miles...clays and ironstones were examined in a neighbouring pit; where samples of ochre, ironstone, bituminous shale |  | | Journal (issue) | | minerals, unusual calcites, or copper minerals from Germany. Her interest in educating all levels of collectors...seen only the famous copper pseudomorphs after aragonite twins, of which he had several. The native crystallized...deep brown, large pseudomorphs of quartz after aragonite twins, forming fist-size groups, spectacular!... 14-8: 1.4,5: New York, sand pit al Hunl Dairy. 14-11:7-9 Gold Germany. Niederschlema, near Schneeberg...Santa Monica Mountains. 14-9: 1.5-10 Hechtsbergite Germany, Hcchtsberg Quarry. 14-6:10 Hemalile Arkansas, |  | | Catalog/List | | 50. r 4. APATITE. Ehrenfriedersdorf, saxony, Germany. Light, lavenuer purple he~gonal crystals covering...2x2". £4-. Cll.SSITEhITE. Old Imperial Goonbarrow Clay Pit, Bugle, Nr. St. austell, CormJall. Sharp dark...Tour::-:Jnline. lxl". £2. 27. CASSITEhITE. &vath Clay Pit, Luxulyan, Cormlall. Drusy mass of resinous Cassiterite...matrix, uno nssociated ~ith rounded spherules of aragonite. J~-x2". £1.50. CO?PH'l. Gnostcroft HLrle, Nullion |  | | Catalog/List | | xls of annabergite to 3mm. 35x30x8mm. £12. 3) ARAGONITE. Reedy Cliff, St Endellion,. Cornwall. Cellular...gossan matrix intergrown with sharp colourless aragonite xls to 5mm. 50x40x30mm. £15. (a) 40x20xl2mm. £6...£85. -12) CASSITERITE. Old Beam Mine, Goonbarrow Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. An approx. 10mm intergrown... £175. 25) DJURLEITE on GYPSUM. St Ives Brick Pit, St Ives Road, Leicester. A few small b.lack spherical...there. 30x20xl5mm. £10. 36) OPAL. West Carclaze Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Pale yellowish transleucent |  | | Catalog/List | | to 3mm. Nice 3D specimen. 50x40x40mm. £95. 3) ARAGONITE. Frizington, Cumberland. A n intergrown group...protruding from nicely contrasting pale yellowish clay. All in massive magnetite matrix. 50x30x30mm. £65... ACANTHITE and ERYTHRITE. Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Quartz matrix with cavities at either end showing...£125. 46) TURQUOISE and VARLAMOFFITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Pale blue turquoise and |  | | Catalog/List | | the base. Displays well. 35x30x40nun. £125. 5) ARAGONITE. Frizington, Cumberland. A nice clean mass of...included clay. l l 0x30x30mm. £8. 32) LINNAEITE and CHALCOPYRITE. (Musen) Siegen, Westphalia, Germany. Nice..."Roman Sword" shaped xls attached to a little greyish clay and roughly radiating from a central point. The...£95. 49) TURQUOISE and VARLAMOFFITE. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Quartz/granite matrix with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | will like them. They come from the great open borax pit of the Pacific Coast Borax Co., in Boron, Kern Co...specimen for our examination. It was a buff colored aragonite with a nodular surface. It was found in a cavity...4th St., Burlington, Iowa. "I have some of this aragonite to trade."—Mr. Snider informs us. KANSAS—Larry...inch grayish white cycad (tree) was dug out of a clay bank at road level by Ken Kyte, Box 161, Co567 ...from Calais, Maine. Spent a few hours in a gravel pit in Woodland, Washington Co., Me., where jasper pebbles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bajocian–Bathonian ammonite shells, which are built of aragonite. The data are derived from stratigraphically well-dated...which form a so-called “Ore-bearing Częstochowa Clay Formation” and Callovian marls and limestones. Upper...strongest reflections of the calcite MA and aragonite phases. Quantitative estimation of the mineral...Rosales et al., 2004). The preservation of pristine aragonite is uncommon within Mesozoic deposits. Diagenetic...2. Rubidium decay The larger cation site in aragonite, when compared to calcite, may result in much |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................................... Clay minerals..........................................author, and the Clay Pit and Mammoth drillholes, completed by Unocal 1 . The Clay Pit drillhole (C in...summarized in Table 1. Drilling information about the Clay Pit and Mammoth drillholes was provided to the U.S...welded Bishop Tuff is well delineated. In the Clay Pit drillhole, the depth to the base of the 1 Use...- LVCH - 1; 2 - Republic drillhole 66-29; 3 - Clay Pit drillhole; and 4 - Mammoth drillhole. Figure |  | | Journal (issue) | | group, chalcoalumite, aurichalcite, serpierite, aragonite Lanthanite-(Cc) The Old Copper Mines of Snowdonia...malachite, dolomite, hemimorphite, hydro zincite, aragonite, smithsonite, quartz Brochantite, linarite, serpierite...Rarely Unusual Key Ref: Quartz, albite, anatase, aragonite, calcite, brookite, chlorite, chalcopyrite Apatite...During a Russell Society Field Meeting to Gunheath Clay Pit in Cornwall, BMS member Frank Ince turned up excellent...During a Russell Society Field Meeting to Gunheath Clay Pit in Cornwall, BMS member Frank Ince turned up excellent |  | | Book | | even though they do contain fibrous crystals of aragonite secreted by the organisms. But there are exceptions...tightly packed spheres, there are layers of platy aragonite crystals in fossil ammonites, and the feldspar...manganese oxide on limestone, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany * 11.5 x 24 x 0.5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A...weight of the cation. Mineral Formula Density aragonite strontianite CaCO, SrCO, 2.930 g/cm3 3.785 g/cm... Europe: Cornwall, England; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Asia: Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Ural Mountains |  | | Catalog/List | | griesen matrix. Sawn base. 60x60x22mm. £45. 4) ARAGONITE. West Mary Ann Mine, Menheniot, Cornwall. A nice...nice clean white floss ferri like mass of aragonite on a little killas matrix. 60x40x30mm. £35. 5) BABINGTONITE...50x30x20mm. £95. • "4. • 44) TOPAZ. Gunheath Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. Cavities in veinstone matrix |  | | Book (volume) | | left side of US 27N, on the Roland Hancock farm, a pitgemmy chert. CHEROKEE COUNTY BALL GROUND: area:...minesMica, Beryl, Quartz; SE 4 mi.: (a) area of the Germany Mt.; (b) at Wilson farmAmethyst (gem quality);...Quartz crystals. TOWNS COUNTY AREA: extending into Clay Co., NC, a region of mica schist exposures reaching...This mineralization zone extends to Tusquitee in Clay Co., NC. Regional stream beds, banks, adjoining...Tourmaline; SW 10 mi. on the Gabbetville rd., pit on the Hugh Allen placegem Beryl, Quartz (rose, |  | | Report (edition) | | Sandstone Tour maline Beryl Mica Limestone Aragonite Dolomite Pyrite Siderite Igneous rocks: Pegmatite...Sandstone Igneous rocks: Basalt and Diabase Aragonite 13 MINERAL AND ROCK ASSOCIATIONS Mineral Garnets...one for mine this mile. road The an open pit next to the town dump along the south side of the...quartz (massive); amphibole asbestos; serpentine; aragonite; deweylite; magnesite; calcite rosettes (rare);...serpentine. . Similar Occurrences: The Line Pit and Low's Pit (see "Lancaster County, Chromite Locality") |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2002 405 Locality Cross-Reference Acme gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Downloaded by [University of Saskatchewan...Clinton Co. Guttenberg, Clayton Co. Hahn’s gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Harper quarry, Kcokuk Co. Harvey...Buren Co. Iron Hill, Waukon, Allamakee Co. Johnson Clay Company plant, Fort Dodge, Webster Co. Jude coal...(crystals). Shell Rock, N of Shell Rock at gravel pit: quartz (Lake Superior agate); geodes in outcrops...reclaimed: anglesite (coatings), ankerite(?), aragonite, azurite, barite, calcite* (crystals, twins, iceland |  | | Report (issue) | | Seymour S. Greenberg, Petrographer Jack L. Harrison, Clay Mineralogist Ned M. Smith, Geologist Jack A. Sunderman...GARNET (Dodecahedron) I I I I I I I I I I ARAGONITE (Prism) DOLOMITE (Rhombohedron) CALCITE (Scolenohedron)... It has t he same c h e m ic al fo r mula as aragonite, but its a toms ar e arrange d in a diffe rent...igneous and in this form. metamorphic rocks. ARAGONITE - CaC03 (Calcium carbonate) Hardness 3.5 to 4;...needlelike; cleavage very poor in two direc• tions. Aragonite is distinguished from most minerals by its strong |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large dump. 'Here we made a real find. #1, an aragonite specimen on yellow waxy fluorite 3 " x 2 " x 8...with a gravel company who was just opening up a new pit. Now isn't that a tough job for a rock hound to have...tourmaline. This comes from the gravel pit. "The owner of the gravel pit doesn't mind an occasional rock hound...want a mob like at Muscatine, Iowa. I live at the pit in a trailer house and collectors who wish to do...County close to the Hamilton County line; the gravel pit is close by, just over the line in Hamilton County |
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