Matter
- Name
- Pigment Pierrerue (PIG_0176_A), bauxite
- Family
- mineral
- Database
- Experimentalists
- Level
- from laboratory repository
- Origins
- natural terrestrial
- Provider
- Pigmenthothèque - EDYTEM
- Provider reference code
- Pierrerue – PIG_0176_A (2016-025)
- Local reference code
- PIG_0176_A_Pierrerue
- Body name
- Earth
- Terrain type
- mineral surface
- Place
- Pierrerue, Hérault , Occitanie , France
Coordinates
- System
- WGS84
- Position type
- point
- Geolocation
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Point Latitude Longitude Altitude #1 43.42654° 2.97959° - Comments
- in road cut
- Preparation
- raw
- Storage condition
- room temperature and conditions
- Phase type
- solid
- Component type (group)
- sedimentary rock (iron-sediment or ironstone)
- Comments
- Ferruginous pisoliths formed within ferruginous clay - Era: Mesozoic, Middle Jurassic
- Shape
- small irregular red block with some concave faces (faces #1 and #2). Two other faces with white fractured surficial layer
- Texture
- compact poor grained
- Type of porosity
- without pores
- Texture
- compact
- Size distribution
- no visible grain
- Comments
- large (> 2mm) pisoliths visible with naked eye
- 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 (%) 24.79 21.12 41.99 0.022 0.06 0.21 0.02 0.09 1.03 0.1 - Oxides comments
- Contain Ti (1.03% in oxide) and small impurity of Mn, Mg, Ca, Na, K, P (0.5% in oxides), fire loss: 9.2%