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Peridotite from
American Mine (Kimberlite Mine), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Peridotite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Peridotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view American Mine (Kimberlite Mine), Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1516756
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1516756:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Peridotite
4.4km (2.7 miles) ā“˜Twin Knobs No. 1 Mine, Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
DIAMOND-BEARING PERIDOTITE IN PIKE COUNTY, ARKANSAS. By HUGH D. MISEK and CLARENCE S. Ross. LOCATION...AREA. Peridotite is exposed in four places near Murfreesboro, Pike County, in southwestern Arkansas, and...related igneous rocks FIOUKE 65. Map of parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and adjacent States, showing the area...rectangle) that contains the diamond-bearing peridotite of Pike County, Ark. was first discovered, which has...since 1842, lies 2Ā£ miles south-southeast of Murfreesboro, near the confluence of Prairie Creek with Little
Report (issue)
observations of composite peridotite xenoliths . 61 Jane E. Nielson and Jay S. Noller Kimberlite-transported nodules...relationship . 91 James K. Meen Magma mixing and kimberlite genesis; Mineralogic, petrologic, and trace element...Breccia, southeast Kalimantan, Indonesia: Intrusive kimberlite breccia or sedimentary conglomerate? . S. C....A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF THE DE QUEEN AND CADDO GAP QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS BY HUGH D. MISER AND A. H. PURDUE *"**Ā» Ā» ..._______ General geography and geology of the Arkansas Valley _________ ____ 12 General geography...system_________________ __________.____________ Arkansas novaculite.___---____-_-___-__-_--____-_-_-__..._________________________________________ Prairie Creek peridotite area______________________________ Location and..._____________________________ Rocks associated with the peridotite-____________________ Character of the perido
Book
Inc. (SME) 8307 Shaffer Parkway Littleton, CO, USA 80127 (303) 973-9550/(800) 763-3132 www.smenet.org...Xenoliths and Mantle Nodules Kimberlite Facies 90 Origin of Kimberlite 109 Origin of Diamond 116 References...Lamproite 139 Genesis of Lamproite in Comparison with Kimberlite 142 References 143 CHAPTER 8 PLACERS 147 Pleistocene...325 Introduction 325 Diamond Contribution of Peridotite 326 Diamond Contribution of Eclogite 327 Diamond...localities of India 4 1.2 Kimberlite and lamproite fields in Brazil 7 1.3 Kimberlite fields in South Africa
Book
Extended Abstracts SPONSORS American Geophysical Union The San Carlos Apache Tribe The Navajo Tribe...ABSTRACTS contributed to THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE Bishop's Lodge, Santa Fe, October...■•A- V\ f I ' , A. DIAMONDIFEROUS SOUTHERN KIMBERLITE OF THE WAJRAKHARUR AREA, INDIA. Jagannadham...known in India from antiquity the presence of kimberlite has been the subject of much specu¬ lation and...were described, but were discounted as being kimberlite (Foote, 1889; Lake, 1890). Subsequently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/epsl Continent-scale linearity of kimberlite–carbonatite magmatism, mid-continent North America...Frost c , B.C. Hearn Jr. d , G. Nelson Eby e a Arkansas Tech University, United States Department of Terrestrial...Keywords: kimberlite carbonatite Sr–Nd–Hf–Pb isotope geochemistry mantle reservoirs Arkansas a b s t...t r a c t Cretaceous–Tertiary kimberlite–carbonatite magmatism in mid-continent North America extends...to the western subduction margin of the North American plate, suggest that this linear zone is the surface
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/lithos Lithosphere mapping beneath the North American plate $ W.L. Griffin a,b,*, Suzanne Y. O’Reilly...Diamond Co., PO Box 1916, Fort Collins, CO 80522, USA e Kennecott Canada Exploration Inc., Thunder Bay...Saskatchewan. Outside the Slave Province, most North American Archon SCLM sections are less depleted than similar...core (W. Greenland, Colorado – Wyoming district, Arkansas) show discontinuities and gaps that are interpreted...less refractory. The SCLM beneath the Kansas kimberlite field is highly melt-metasomatised, reflecting
Book (edition)
Wimmenauer. Special thanks are due The Anglo-American Corporation, who made possible visits to African...Geological Survey and B. C. King (1949) : The American Mineralogist and A. Holmes (1950) : Tanzania Geological...Society of America and W. T. Pecora (1962) 7-4 : The American Mineralogist and A. H. van der Veen (1965B) Figure...Figure 7-5 : The American Mineralogist and A. H. van der Veen (1965B) 7-6 : The American Mineralogist and...Society of South Africa and S.J. Shand (1921A) 10-5: American Journal of Science and J. Gittins and O. F. Tuttle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Archean North American Mantle and Its Relationship to Diamondiferous Kimberlite Fields STƉPHANE FAURE...xenolith barometric studies. In particular, the kimberlite magma source regions at the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere...reused by widespread and sporadic carbonatite and kimberlite magmatic events spanning from the Early Proterozoic...platforms. From the present-day distribution of kimberlite fields, two major questions can be asked. First...Archean cratons, and second, are there other kimberlite fields that can be found elsewhere, perhaps off-craton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The timing of kimberlite magmatism in North America: implications for global kimberlite genesis and diamond...compilation of more than 100 kimberlite age determinations, four broad kimberlite emplacement patterns can...Saskatchewan, central USA), and (4) a western mixed (Cambrian-Eocene) Type 3 kimberlite province (Alberta...Within the Type 3 Slave craton, at least four kimberlite age domains exist: I-a southwestern Siluro-Ordovician...mixed domain consisting of Jurassic and Permian kimberlite fields. New U – Pb perovskite results for the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA New York State Museum, Albany, NY, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article...November 2014 Keywords: New York Mesozoic magmatism Kimberlite Mineralogy Geochemistry Continental rifting ...North America related to passage of the North American plate over the Great Meteor hot spot (Heaman and...the cities of Ithaca and Syracuse. The Montgomery County and Ogdensburg dikes are the only occurrences outside...Group in Montgomery County to the Upper Devonian Genesee Group in Tompkins County. The one instance of
Report (article/chapter)
gdpearso@ualberta.ca Johann Stiefenhofer Anglo American Johannesburg South Africa Johann.Stiefenhofer@angloamerican...diamonds are found in primary magmatic deposits of kimberlite and olivine lamproite, or secondary deposits...has been on lithospheric diamonds, sourced from kimberlite mines; however, some of the first and most important...Diamond Mines and Deposits Table 1. Mineralogy of kimberlite, carbonate-rich olivine lamproite (CROL), and...and olivine lamproite. Minerals present Kimberlite Carbonate-rich olivine lamproite (CROL) Olivine lamproite
Book
ETERNITY A diamond is rarely found embedded in kimberlite rock. This picture at right suggests a genetic...former public relations head of DeBeers (and Anglo-American Corporation as well). The work received from Arthur...the Ancient Past . 357 Part IV: The Magic of Kimberlite . 379 Part V: Genesis. 413 Index . 449 i\ ...Plate). 91 Cecil John Rhodes . 94 Diamond in kimberlite (Color Plate). 95 Dr Edna Plumstead . 97 Reconstruction...Map of South Africa . 133 Distribution of known kimberlite occurrences within the Kaapvaal Craton . 134
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
advocating an origin of eclogite xenoliths in kimberlite by subduction of altered sea-floor basalts and...eelogites. 1. Introduction Together with alpine-type peridotite and eclogite bodies and abyssal peridotites,...kyanite ( = A) for 65 eclogites from the Bobbejaan mine at Bellsbank [5]. The two samples containing the...exsolution. Fig. 3. A photomicrograph (Bobbejaan Mine). texture of garnet from clinopyroxene in an eclogite...that there is no contamination of the samples by kimberlite fluids. The bimineralic samples are generally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/gca Fluid inclusions in diamonds from the Diavik mine, Canada and the evolution of diamond-forming fluids...5241 Broad Branch Road, N.W., Washington, DC 20015, USA b Received 9 February 2006; accepted in revised...micro-inclusions in fibrous diamonds from the Diavik mine, Canada revealed the presence of high density fluids...micro-inclusions in 11 diamonds from the Diavik mine in Lac de Gras, Slave Craton, Canada. The composition...composition of an additional diamond from the Diavik mine, ON-DVK-294, was published earlier (Klein-BenDavid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@muohio.edu Kimberlite Downloaded by [Florida International University]...of mineral collectors who recognize the term kimberlite is far out of proportion to the abundance of...treasure found in many kimberlites: diamonds! Kimberlite is an igneous rock that is chemically rich in...of partial melting of a mantle rock known as peridotite, which is mineralogically composed of olivine...to Earth’s surface, eventually erupting as a kimberlite volcano, they often entrain pieces of unmelted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diamond-producing area on the Superior craton. The T1 kimberlite sampled diamonds from the lithospheric mantle...Attawapiskat, including Victor—the first diamond mine on the Superior craton— were emplaced during the...Percival et al. 2006, and references therein), with kimberlite localities indicated. Surface expression of the...selected Attawapiskat and Kyle Lake kimberlites. Kimberlite coordinates from Sage (2000) and the Ontario...indicate that T1 belongs to the Kyle Lake (1.1 Ga) kimberlite field and U2 to the Attawapiskat field (180–156
Book
org/details/seventhinternati07inte SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE Cape Town, April 1998 EXTENDED ABSTRACTS...Organising Committee of the 7th International Kimberlite Conference takes no responsibility for authors’...omissions. SOUTH AFRICA SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL KIMBERLITE CONFERENCE SPONSORS The 7IKC Organising Committee...recently discovered kimberlites of the Siberian kimberlite province. 9 K - rich clinopyroxenes as mantle...Chromite Macrocrysts and their Inclusions, Guaniamo Kimberlite Field, Venezuela. Primary and related diamond
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
perovskite from the newly discovered Jurassic Chidliak kimberlite field, Baffin Island, Canada Larry M. Heaman a,āˆ—...Editor: T. Elliott Keywords: U–Pb Sr–Nd perovskite kimberlite Chidliak Baffin Island a b s t r a c t We report...composition for perovskite isolated from forty six kimberlite samples located in the newly discovered Chidliak...Baffin Island, Canada. The minimum duration of kimberlite magmatism in this field was 17.9 m.y. from 157...represents a new Jurassic kimberlite field in NE Canada. The most prolific period of kimberlite magmatism occurred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral and a major cartier of U, Th, Sr and Nd in kimberlite/lamproite magmas. A combined U-Pb age and Sr...two perovskite populations from the Elliott County kimberlite, Kentucky (0.70403, 0.51266 and 0.70485, 0...51248, respectively) provide evidence that some kimberlite magmas experience substantial isotopic modification...the other hand, leaching experiments on North American kimberlites [17] indicate that there is almost...diatreme facies (abundant crustal xenoliths) kimberlite samples so, in most cases, crystallizes prior
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, 6100 Main Street, MS 126, Houston, TX 77005, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...geothermobarometry silica-undersaturated melt kimberlite lithosphere thickness cratonic evolution deep...a global kimberlite dataset, we show that the equilibration depths between primary kimberlite melts and...Together with the temporal coupling between global kimberlite frequency and cold subduction flux since ∼2 Gyr...et al., 2011). As an independent validation, peridotite xenoliths have been widely used 2 C. Sun,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00710-018-0574-y ORIGINAL PAPER The Victor Mine (Superior Craton, Canada): Neoproterozoic lherzolitic...Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The Jurassic Victor kimberlite (Attawapiskat Field) was emplaced into an area...of America, 50 W 47th Street, New York, NY 10036, USA 5 De Beers Group Services (Pty) Ltd, Private Bag...the Archean Superior Craton (Fig. 1), the Victor Mine represents an unusual diamond deposit. The area... northern Ontario, experienced two phases of kimberlite magmatism, one in the late Mesoproterozoic (Kyle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
US xenocrysts from the Jurassic Kirkland Lake kimberlite field, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada. We specifically...alteration (Ba-Sr), which likely occurred during kimberlite emplacement, represents the largest source of...Se ± Sn ± Mo) within CE equilibrated, garnet peridotite at depth (70–190 km). Statistical analysis of...direct sampling of precious metal-modified mantle peridotite beneath the Abitibi. Mid-PT olivine xenocrysts...document a highly melt-depleted segment of mantle peridotite coincident with and below a shallow-dipping,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusion is an alnoite (Streckeisen, 1973) and not a kimberlite (Raeside and Helmstaedt, 1982, 1983). Accordingly...1922); 9=nepheline-hauynite alnoite, Winnett, Fergus County, U.S.A. (Ross, 1926); 10= alnoite, Maimecha-Koti...various / ~ "~ locations / ~ Vy/~/~+' k [ ] North American t v ~ y ~ ~ v Y ~ v TiO2 Fig. 3. K20-A1203-TiO2(wt...other alnoites: analyses8-12 from Table II; North American kimberlites:see Table II). trum of typical alnoites...rocks have a greater A1203 content than North American kimberlites (Table II); however, their compositional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
100 Ma) diamondiferous Fort Ć  la Corne (FALC) kimberlite RI P T field in the Saskatchewan (Sask) craton...craton, Canada, is one of the largest known kimberlite fields on Earth comprising essentially pyroclastic...data on MA drill-hole samples of five major kimberlite bodies. Petrography of the studied samples reveals...primary kimberlite melt composition indistinguishable from global estimates of primary kimberlite melt,... and highlight the dominance of a kimberlite magma component in the pyroclastic variants. The lack of
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