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Scawtite from
Inishcrone, Killala Bay, Sligo County, Connacht, Ireland


Classification
Species:Scawtite
Formula:Ca7(Si3O9)2CO3 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scawtite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Inishcrone, Killala Bay, Sligo County, Connacht, Ireland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:316619
Long-form Identifier:1:3:316619:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Co. Sligo, Ireland R. N A W A Z Dept. of Geology, Ulster Museum, Belfast BT9 5AB, N. Ireland s u MMARY...thermally metamorphosed limestone at Killala Bay, near Inishcrone, Co. Sligo. It is a secondary mineral and...mineral is named after the name of the locality, Killala Bay, and should be pronounced as killalahite. Type...metamorphosed limestone near Inishcrone, along the eastern shore of Killala Bay, Co. Sligo. The limestone is traversed...of the geology of the Inishcrone area is given in the Geological Survey of Ireland Memoirs (Symes a n d
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite, xonotlite, prehnite, 82o Bowman Hillock, Huntly... titanian magnetite, rutile, titanaugite, 514 IRELAND Ulster Tieveragh, Antrim, osumilite-(K,Mg), 189...granite, biotite, 498 Inishcrone, Killala Bay, Sligo, killalaite, afwillite, scawtite, cuspidine, 544 Leinster...river), Labrador, anhydrite, 488 Eganville, Renfrew County, Ontario, zircon, 587 Fran9ois Lake, British Columbia...Ontario, ferrotschermakite, 36 Grand Manan Island, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, basalt, plagioclase, 867
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Okayama Prefecture, Japan, and Carneal, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Mineral..t. (Tokyo) 7, 24j_ 251. The...and calcite, also in skarns at Carneal, Northern Ireland, associatedwith hydrogrossular and melilite in...Newez (1974) Killalaite, a new mineral from Co. Sligo, Ireland. Minerol. Mag. 39, 544-548. Electron microprobe...ZAc - 16'. The mineral occurs near Inishcrone, Killala Bay, Ireland, in a limestone thermally metamorphosed...and replacing tilleyite, in spurrite-rich rocks; scawtite, cuspidine, and xonotlite are also present. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tantal-aeschynite from Borborema, Brazil, 57I Afwillite, Ireland, stability of, decomposition to kilchoanite, 544...Aphthitalite, Western Australia, 467 Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland, staurolite, 672 Arsenopalladinite, Brazil, anal... Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite, xonotlite, prehnite, 82o Biotite, Andhra Pradesh...paragenesis, opt., anal., 8i i Bray Head, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, gypsum, 818 BRIDGE (P. J.), Urea and phosphammite...titanaugite, a2I Bunnahowna, Renoyle Point, Connemara, Ireland, quartz-muscovite-chlorite-chloritoid-garnet schist
Book
of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM specimen...Holotype) BM 1983,00070 Salmon River, Goodnews Bay, Alaska, USA G.A. Desborough & A.J. Criddle (1984)...00385 Scawt Hill, Lame, co, Antrim, Northern Ireland C.E. Tilley & A.E. Vincent (1 948) Min. Mag. 28...(Cotype) BM 1986,00482 Dekalb township, St. Lawrence County, New York, USA R.J. Goble & G. Robinson (1980)...lalaite (Cotype) BM 1973,00484 lnishcrone, Co. Sligo, Eire R. A. Nawaz (1 974) Min. Mag. 39, p. 544
Book (edition)
Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland Paul Lyle 6. Leinster Chris Stillman & George SeYastopulo...& Jean-Claude Tanguy Minerals of Britain and Ireland A. G. Tindle The Open University T: 'XI 'Jo ~6...stage of MB! that focusing only on Britain and Ireland might be too restrictive, and that what was really...personally discovered new species to Britain and Ireland, and colleagues permitted me to record their unpublished...producers of b th tin and copp ·r. and. more recently. Ireland became a major player in world zinc produ.:tion
Book (edition)
'Manual of the Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland' by R.P. Greg and W.G. Lettsom, published in 1858...of· Great Britain & Ireland Manual of the. MINERALOGY of Great Britain & Ireland by· Greg & Lettsom...'Manual of the mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland' has stood the test of time, and remains a valued...the collection of Philip Rashleigh, now in the County Museum and Art Gallery, Truro, Cornwall, for which...pursuing them in newspaper files, public records, and county archives can be endless. To save space in giving
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double Header lode, Summit County, and in
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...29. 17 AFGHANITE River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. Henderson molybdenum mine...565, 1984. rhyolites, and their lavas in Sonoma County, Califor- Aeschynite-(Y) (Y,Ca,Fe,Th)(Ti,Nb)z(O...inclusions in In Ca-rich basic eruptive rocks in Ireland and Italy, etc. quartzcrystalsfrom the Messinamine
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
Book
W. G. Lettsom, Mineralogy of Great Britain and Ireland, 1858, p. 354. Pseudomorph of wolframite after...[2Mn0.Si02]. Named from the locality, Alleghany County, North Carolina. [M.A., 5, 50.] 13th List [Wales;... Alumyte. G. H. Kinahan, Journ. R. Geol. Soc. Ireland, 1889, VIII, 66; Trans. Manchester Geol. Soc. 1895...Name for ‘a type of ore, discovered in Yavapai county ... on a claim known at the time as the Sumner’...six-sided plates. Named from the locality, Beaver County, Utah. 6th List 32 Beckelite. J. Morozewicz,
 
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