Matter
- Name
- Pigment Bordezac facies D (PIG_0160_D), hematite-rich vein
- Family
- mineral
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from laboratory repository
- Origins
- natural terrestrial
- Provider
- Pigmenthothèque - EDYTEM
- Provider reference code
- Bordezac – PIG_0160_D (2016-027)
- Local reference code
- Pig_0160_D_Bordezac
- Body name
- Earth
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- Road D51, SE Bordezac (Gard) , Occitanie , France
Coordinates
- System
- WGS84
- Position type
- point
- Geolocation
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Point Latitude Longitude Altitude #1 44.3104° 4.0761°
- Preparation
- raw
- Storage condition
- room temperature and conditions
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- superficial deposit (chemical deposit)
- Comments
- Hematite-rich vein - Hydrothermal mineralization in an arkosic sandstone bank - Era: Mesozoic, Trias, Trias series, inferior (?) and middle trias level
- Shape
- Irregular shaped red-bordeaux block with grey-red patinated faces and the other are light brown inlaid sides
- Texture
- compact fine grained
- Type of porosity
- without pores
- Texture
- compact
- Grain sizes
-
Grains Size min Size max Size median Size width Size mass fraction Grain shape #1 0.0 ${\mu}m$ 200.0 ${\mu}m$ None - Size distribution
- hematite (>50%): < ? µm, muscovite (5%): 100-200µm platelet; quartz (5%): < 100µm, Xenotime (<1%): 5µm, Baryte (< 1%): 20µm)
- Comments
- types of shape: equant/spherical, tabular (muscovite)
- Oxides
-
Formula $SiO_{2}$ $Al_{2}O_{3}$ $Fe_{2}O_{3}$ $MnO$ $MgO$ $CaO$ $Na_{2}O$ $K_{2}O$ $TiO_{2}$ $P_{2}O_{5}$ Mass fraction (%) 13.56 6.73 74.79 0.083 0.34 0.07 0.015 1.96 0.18 0.14 - Oxides comments
- Contain K (1.96% in oxide) and small impurity of P, Ti, Na, Ca, Mg, Mn (0.83% in oxides), fire loss: 2.3%
- Number
- 5
- Mode of mixing
- homogeneous mixing
- Materials