Raglan, New Zealand

[Jim Ferraiolo]

Has anything been published about the minerals from Raglan? I have a
specimen of vivianite from there, and Steve has posted a photo of
vivianite on one of the websites.

thanks.

[steve]

Hi Jim

I have had a look through what I have and cannot find any reference. Also had a trawl online.

With the latter, although no Raglan vivianite results, I did find that the Royal Society of New Zealand now has a lot of its Transactions online, both in html and pdf format. For instance, an early description of tuhualite at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_66/rsnz_66_00_003800.html

Regards
Steve

Check out Steve's Spot at http://crocoite.blogspot.com/

[Mike]

Hi Steve and Jim,

Until one of the Kiwis replies (namely Rod M) - as far as I can remember,
there are no articles as yet on Raglan in the NZ Micro Group newsletter
"Microscope". There may be a mention in "Railton & Watters" if you have a
copy. If not, we need someone to do a proper write-up on the locality.

Also, I believe that vivianite is the only mineral be collected at Raglan.

Cheers,
Michael

[steve]

Hi Michael

No mention in Railton & Watters, that's the first thing that I checked.

[Rod Martin]

Hi Jim
Sorry about the delay but have been tied up on a few other things.
Kerry Rodgers published a paper on this, unfortunately the programme of
scanning NZJGG papers hasn't got back this far yet so it is not
available online http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php . Have been
searching for one of my copies with no luck yet but will let you know if
I find it.
/Rodgers, K. A. 1977: Some occurrences of vivianite in the Auckland
area. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics 20: 363-367./
My recollection is that it occurred in isolation and that few if any
other minerals are found nearby. This is unusual as there are a few
large volcanic centres in the area and the lack of minerals may actually
be a lack of people looking!!!

A couple of follow up papers on the vivianite are available online
http://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_49/49-350-81.pdf
http://202.28.94.202/chanaiporn/jounal/vivianite%20no%2010.pdf

I think that the original research was done by Grant Henderson (
http://webcan.geology.utoronto.ca/Members/henderson) in his PhD work at
Auckland Uni
Hope this is of some help

Regards
Rod

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[Jim Ferraiolo]

Thanks, Rod. I did forget about the metavivianite/vivianite artivle in
Min.Mag.

Cheers,
Jim

On Apr 10, 12:55 am, Rod Martin <pin...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi Jim
> Sorry about the delay but have been tied up on a few other things.
> Kerry Rodgers published a paper on this, unfortunately  the programme of
> scanning NZJGG papers hasn't got back this far yet so it is not

> available onlinehttp://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php. Have been

> searching for one of my copies with no luck yet but will let you know if
> I find it.
> /Rodgers, K. A. 1977: Some occurrences of vivianite in the Auckland
> area. New Zealand journal of geology and geophysics 20: 363-367./
> My recollection is that it occurred in isolation and that few if any
> other minerals are found nearby. This is unusual as there are a few
> large volcanic centres in the area and the lack of minerals may actually
> be a lack of people looking!!!
>

> A couple of follow up papers on the vivianite are available onlinehttp://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_49/49-350-81.pdfhttp://202.28.94.202/chanaiporn/jounal/vivianite%20no%2010.pdf
>
> I think that the original research was done by Grant Henderson (http://webcan.geology.utoronto.ca/Members/henderson) in his PhD work at

> Auckland Uni
> Hope this is of some help
>
> Regards
> Rod
>
> Jim Ferraiolo wrote:
> > Has anything been published about the minerals from Raglan? I have a
> > specimen of vivianite from there, and Steve has posted a photo of
> > vivianite on one of the websites.
>
> > thanks.
>

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