The Mineralogical Record articles from September 2001

The Mineralogical Record archives from September 2001

THE VAL GRAVEGLIA MANGANESE DISTRICT, LIGURIA, ITALY.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... Val Graveglia is the type locality for eight minerals (gravegliaite, medaite, palenzonaite, reppiaite, saneroite, strontiopiemontite, tiragalloite and vanadomalayaite), and is one of the few reported localities for several other rare species...

THE SHIRLEY ANN CLAIM, INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
September 1, 2001... The Shirley Ann lead-copper deposit, recently incorporated into the new Death Valley National Park, has produced a suite of well-formed oxidation-zone minerals including a new species:ferrisurite. INTRODUCTION While a graduate student...

Microminerals.
September 1, 2001... Sunday, July 12, 1970, was a hot, clear day in the quarries on Mont Saint-Hilaire. There had been a blast in what was then the De-Mix quarry (the center one of the three) on the preceding Friday, and there was a large fan of rubble stretching...

Arakiite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic Chairman Emeritus of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association and Curator Emeritus Department of Mineralogy Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto,...

Bakhchisaraitsevite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic Chairman Emeritus of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association and Curator Emeritus Department of Mineralogy Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen's Park Toronto,...

Chabazite-Sr.
September 1, 2001... Trigonal (Sr,Ca)[[Al.sub.2][Si.sub.4][O.sub.12]]*6[H.sub.2]O Locality: Suoluaiv Mountain, Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Occurrence: In a thin aegirine-potassic-feldspar pegmatite crosscutting nepheline and...

Dukeite.
September 1, 2001... Trigonal [[Bi.sup.3+].sub.24][[Cr.sup.6+].sub.8][O.sub.57][(OH).sub.6]*3[H.sub .2]O Locality: Lavra da Posse, Sao Jose de Brejauba, Conceicao do Mato Dentro County, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Occurrence: Associated minerals are:...

Ercitite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic [NaMn.sup.3+][PO.sub.4](OH)*2[H.sub.2]O Locality: The Tanco pegmatite, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada, Occurrence: In a lithiophilite nodule embedded in a quartzspodumene pseudomorph after petalite in the upper...

Gottlobite.
September 1, 2001... Orthorhombic CaMg([VO.sub.4],[AsO.sub.4])(OH) Locality: On the dump of the long abandoned Gluckesstern mine at Gottlob hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringia (Thuringn, Germany. Occurrence: In hydrothermal barite veins which cut...

Manganonaujakasite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic [Na.sub.6](Mn,Fe)[Al.sub.4][Si.sub.8][O.sub.26] Locality: Lovozero alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Occurrence: In lovozerite-lomonosovite lujavrites. Associated minerals are: feldspar, sodalite, nepheline,...

Paganoite.
September 1, 2001... Triclinic [NiBi.sup.3+][As.sup.5+][O.sub.5] Locality: Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany. Occurrence: Associated minerals are: quartz, nickeline, bismuth, bunsenite, aerugite, xanthiosite, rooseveltite and two probably new...

Protofero-anthophyllite.
September 1, 2001... Orthorhombic [([Fe.sup.2+],[Mn.sup.2+]).sub.2][([Fe.sup.2+],Mg).sub.5][([Si.sub.4] [O.sub.11]).sub.2][(OH).sub.2] Locality: At Hirukawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, and in the Cheyenne Mountain area, El Paso County, Colorado, U.S.A. ...

Protomangano-ferro-anthophyllite.
September 1, 2001... Orthorhombic [([Mn.sup.2+],[Fe.sup.2+]).sub.2][([Fe.sup.2+],Mg).sub.5][([Si.sub.4] [O.sub.11]).sub.2][(OH).sub.2] Locality: In pegmatites in Suishoyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, and in a manganese mine in Yokoneyama, Tochigi...

Rappoldite.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... Triclinic Pb[(Co,Ni).sub.2][([AsO.sub.4]).sub.2]*2[H.sub.2]O Locality: The dumps of the Rappold mine near Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Occurrence: On quartz with cobaltiotharmeycrite. Other minerals in the dump material are:...

Tamaite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic [(Ca,K,Ba,Na).sub.3-4] [Mn.sub.24][(Si,Al).sub.40][(O,OH).sub.112]*21[H.sub.2]O Locality: The Shiromaru mine, Okutama, Tama district, Tokyo, Japan (Lat.35[degrees]48'30" N, Long. 139[degrees]7'30" E), about 60 km WNW of the...

Tegengrenite.
September 1, 2001... Trigonal [(Mg,Mn).sub.2][[Sb.sup.5+].sub.0.5][([Mn.sup.3+],Si,Ti).sub.0.5][O.s ub.4] Locality: Jakobsberg, Filipstad district, Varmland, Sweden (Lat. 59.83[degrees] N, Long. 14.11[degrees] E). Occurrence: In a manganese-iron...

Tumchaite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic [Na.sub.2](Zr,Sn)[Si.sub.4][O.sub.11]*2[H.sub.2]O Locality: The Vuoriyarvi massif on the north shore of Vuoriyarvi Lake, North Karelia, Murmansk Region, Russia. Occurrence: In a sample from a bore hole which crosscuts...

Urusovite.
September 1, 2001... Monoclinic Cu[[AlAsO.sub.5]] Locality: The North Breach of the great fissure Tolbachik eruption (1975-1976), Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Occurrence: A product of fumarolic activity in the second cinder cone of the North Breach....

Vergasovaite.
September 1, 2001... Orthorhombic [Cu.sub.3]O[(Mo,S)[O.sub.4]]([SO.sub.4]) Locality: The fumarole "Treschina" in the northern part of the central fumarole field of cone II of the Northern Break of the Large Tolbachik Fissure Eruption, Kamchatka Peninsula,...

Wadalite.
September 1, 2001... Cubic [Ca.sub.6][Al.sub.5][Si.sub.2][O.sub.16][Cl.sub.3] Locality: The type locality is at Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, but the complete description of material from that locality has not been published yet. A second locality...