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| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA
By P H I L I P M O R R I L L
EastDerry, N. H. 03041
This data was accumulated...These operations are on leased land and
trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to the general...two or more
until a more rounded text results.
Austria is defined here as what is localities.
presently...mineral museums of
torically, within recent times, Austria in which the best is the Natural History
cluded...and the South Museum in Vienna. Unfortunately the
Tyrol which was given to Italy. It is now lack of funds | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria Present address: Geoscience Center, Georg-August-University...5020 Salzburg, Austria 4 Department of Hard Rock Geology, Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38...Vienna, Austria 5 NAWI Graz Geocenter, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 26, 8010 Graz, Austria e-mail:...of the Armorican terrane, a detrital zircon study revealed zircon ages at ~1.2 Ga, ~1.5 Ga and ~1.8 Ga...unit (SORGER et al., 2020). The youngest detrital zircon generation suggests a Neoproterozoic deposition | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | nature when observed under XPL; the matrix is pyrrhotite.
Left (bottom): Polysynthetic hematite twinning...Bireflectance
light brown,
light brown
similar to pyrrhotite; 40.00
brownish tints; weak to
39.24
missing...bluish grey
strong, brown to
blue grey
yes
Pyrrhotite
yes
Stibnite
moderate, light
lamellar
and...greys
strong
pressure
twins
Duftite
Mimetite
Zircon
Hübnerite
Graphite
clear to
milky
Anglesite... Mineral Descriptions
Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka
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Copper, native
Synonym(s):
Cuivre | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | times.
OCTOBER 1'n7
1.
ACTI~ULITE. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria.
Choice oliv~ green very rich lustrous
bladed...3x2~xl". 1:3.25.
3.
ALMANDINE GARNET. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. Select lustrous well formed deep
raspberry...rix. -rixl-t".£3.25.
7.
APATITE. Etiro Mine Karibab District, S.W. Africa. Unusual turquoise blue pure...
£1.25.
8.
APATITE variety FRANCOLITE. Clitters Mine, Gunnislake, Cornwall. Rich crusts of
sparkling...matrix.
2xli". £2.75.
ARSE~UPYRITE. Devon Friendship Mine, Mary Tavy, Devon.
Slightly tarnished sharp
silvery | 👁 Image
| | Book | | seen in
Mother-of-pearl and greasy lustres are
zircon and sphene, where double refrac-
mostly found...in: Harz
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mountains, Thuringia/Germany; Tyrol/Austria; Alsace, region around Paris/France;
Tunisia;...dolomite, natrolite, serpentine. Found in: Steiermark/Austria; Lombardy/Italy; California, Nevada, Pennsylvama/USA;...periclase, serpentine, talc.
Found in: Steiermark/Austria; Trient/Italy; Sweden; Quebec/Canada; California...Lower
Saxony, Magdeburg/Germany; Salzkammergut/Austria; Alsace/France; Caspian Sea;
Turkey; Iran; Utah | 👁 Image
| | Book | | refraction
especially clearly. It is also easily seen in
zircon and sphene, where double refraction at the lower...periclase, serpentine, talc.
- Found in: Steiermark/Austria; Trient/ltaly; Swed.en; Quebec/Canada; California...Lower
Saxony, Magdeburg/Germany; Salzkammergut/Austria; Alsace/France; Caspian Sea;
Turkey; Iran; Utah...
Germany
1 : 1h
(1) Hi.ittenberg, Carinthia/Austria
(Mg,Alh[OH I Si4 0 1o) •2 H20 + 2 H20
-
Streak... tremolite. Found in: Tessin/
Switzerland; Tyrol/Austria; Piemonte/ltaly; Urals/USSR; Colorado, Virginia/USA | 👁 Image
| | Book | | refraction
especially clearly. It is also easily seen in
zircon and sphene, where double refraction at the lower...Found in: Harz
mountains, Thi.iringia/Germany; Tyrol/Austria; Alsace, region around Paris/France;
Tunisia;...dolomite, natrolite, serpentine. Found in: Steiermark/Austria; Lombardy/Italy; California, Nevada, Pennsylvania/USA;...periclase, serpentine, talc.
- Found in: Steiermark/Austria; Trient/ltaly; Sweden; Quebec/Canada; California...Lower
Saxony, Magdeburg/Germany; Salzkammergut/Austria; Alsace/France; Caspian Sea;
Turkey; Iran; Utah | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ranges; for
instance, mountains of dolomite in Tyrol, but other minerals are found only
in one or few... covered in lImen locality. Large xls of
ilmenite, zircon, monazite, blomstrandite,
altaite, pyrochlor, phenakite...name.
WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland,
oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large
halite xls, anhydrate...twins of gypsum
crystals.
BLEIBERG, Carnthia, Austria. Leadzinc deposit, here occur: galena, large
xIs...greenockite, stolzite and srnithsonite. Near
Salzburg Austria, well known mineral
locality: wagnerite, lazurite | 👁 Image
| | Book | | refraction
especially clearly. It is also easily seen in
zircon and sphene, where double refraction at the lower...Found in: Harz
mountains, Thi.\ringia/Germany; Tyrol/Austria; Alsace, region around Paris/France;
Tunisia;...natrolite, serpengra~ 1 ◄ tine. Found in : Steiermark/Austria; Lombardy/Italy; California, Nevada, Pennsyl- vania/USA;...hardness
1 Saxony, Magdeburg!Germany; Salzkammergut/Austria; Alsace/France; Caspian Sea;
Turkey; Iran; Utah...-3
1
Palygorskite
@ Hiittenberg, Carinthia/Austria
(Mg,Alh[OH I Si40rnJ • 2 H20 + 2 H20
4◄
-
5◄ | 👁 Image
| | Book | | Tricl
cassiterite
zircon
rhombohedron
scalenohedron
The
HexagonalHI
ery]
pyrrhotite
|
scheelite
vesuvianite...distinguished from other minerals. Magnetite and pyrrhotite being themselves
magnetic, attract iron dust...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine
refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...10H,O
(Glauber Salt)
Hallstatt,
Salzkammergut,
Austria
colourless,
white,
yellow,
grey, red,
brown
vitreous...HYDROZINCITE
Zn[(OH)3COs;].
(Zinc Bloom)
San Giovanni
Mine, Laorca,
Sardinia
eliminated from
soda lakes, in | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phosphate beds, sulfide-rich black shale (with mainly pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite), massive sulfide lenses...à phosphates, des schistes noirs à sulfures (pyrrhotite surtout, avec chalcopyrite), des sulfures massifs...Pyrenées, the Iberian Massif and the Montagne Noire district in southern France. Most of the reported occurrences...Ba–F–Pb–Zn–Cu–Ni–Co–Ag veins, as at the Atrevida mine, the largest Ba deposit in the southwestern Catalonian...lamination, 6. disseminated pyrite, 7. disseminated pyrrhotite, 8. PGE mineralization, 9. graptolites, 10. cross-lamination | 👁 Image
| | Book | | distinguished from other minerals. Magnetite and pyrrhotite being themselves
magnetic, attract iron dust...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine
refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...10H-O
(Glauber Salt)
Hallstatt,
Salzkammergut,
Austria
very good
soft,
inelastic,
flexible
columnar...HYDRO
ZINCITE
ZnKOHhCOj.
(Zinc Bloom)
San Giovanni
Mine, Laorca,
Sardinia
colourless,
white,
yellowish...PLUMBO
CALCITE
(Pb,Ca)CO.t
Blciberg,
Carinthia,
Austria
WITHERITE
BaCO3
Alston Moor,
Westmorland,
England | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA
By P H I L I P M O R R I L L
East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1
IV S A L Z...e old emerald
Venediger and Hohe Tauern form the Mine is about 7 M i from Habach. T h e
trail leaves the...Alpenrose going E and then N . The
crystalline Alps.
Mine is a few hundred yards beyond the
I f we come in...Across the valley is an old
foot of cliff.
copper mine, 2 M i S from the main
Kapruntal. Extensive work...Xls; Rutile Xls;
Albite; Chlorite; Sphalerite; Pyrrhotite;
Galena; Arsenopyrite; Marcasite; Calcite
Xls; | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | 2. Unisilicates
Chrysolite Group
Garnet Group
Zircon Group
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Vesuvianite, Epidote, etc
Axinite
...direction, because the ordinary ray is absorbed.
Zircon,
which in a transverse direction is asparagus-green...with very thin sections. On examining a plate of zircon cut parallel to a face of the vertical
square prism...Boulder Co., Colorado, at the Red Cloud Mine; in Magnolia
District at the Keystone, Dun River, and other...in
the Ballerat District at Smuggler Mine; in Central District at the John Jay Mine, where masses of | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of black,
crystallized ferberite from the Conger
Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co.,
Colo. It is good to...Can anyone supply information
on the occurrence?
District oí Columbia—On a recent visit
to Washington, the...Hampden Co., Mass. The
best specimens occur at the Old Mine.
Michigan—A nice dark grayish cephalopod from the...quartzite have been collected in the Pilot Mountain district,
Mineral Co., Nev.
New Hampshire—A nice specimen...massive milky quartz, from the abandoned Dodge gold mine, at Lyman, Grafton Co., N . H., was donated to R | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | s-pecimen. 3x2~". £10.
BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich,
light green, cellular...Quartz. 2xltxl-}". £1, 50.
:ilORNITE. Ca rn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwa 11, Sma 11, tarnished,
irridescent...in
association. 2xltxl". £8.
BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Small, dark
green, tabular crystals...matrix. 2ix2". £3.25.
CHALCEDONY. North Roskear Mine, Camborne, CornHall. Translucent
waxy gum coloured...mineraL 3x2xH·". £12.
CBAL~OPYRITE. Fowey ~onsols Mine, Tywardreath, Corn"~ll. Select,
pure, bronzey slightly | 👁 Image
| | Book | | distinguished from other minerals. Magnetite and pyrrhotite being themselves
magnetic, attract iron dust...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine
refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...glauberite, glaserite Hallstatt,
Salzkammergut,
Austria
- -
GYPS U M
CaSO 4 • 2H ,O
.
Duchcov,
Czecho~lovakia...sphalerite
San Giovanni
~noclin ic
smithso nite
Mine, Laorca,
Sardinia
very good
conchoidal,
brittle...:;J~
,. . I'.
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OF NON-METALLIC LUST RE
No.
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Name | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nenadkevichite, nepheline, opal, pectolite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, rhabdophane, rhodochrosite, quartz, serandite...strontianite, terskite, tetranatrolite, zakharovite, and zircon. X-ray powder
diffraction and electron microprobe...Graphite in ore: An unusual occurrence at
the Sterling mine. The Picking Table 3ql):ll-13.
Kvasnitsa, V. N....“gummite” pseudomorphs of uraninite (to 1 cm). Zircon can be replaced by uranophane.
REFERENCES
Francis...A. 1987. Minerals of Topsham, Maine, pegmatite district. Rocks & Minerals 62:407-15.
King, V. T. 1977 | 👁 Image
| | Book (edition) | | development of mineralogy as a science (15001912).
9
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Zircon crystal resulting from
the combination of several...molybdenite
dihexagonal prism
hexagonal prism (first
pyrrhotite
beryl
and second order)
basal pinacoid
dihexagonal...2AJ'.P.2P'.2P'
;
rutile
cassiterite
anatase
zircon
vesuvianite
apophyllite
=?
IF
ditetragonal
i...rutile with hematite, kyanite with straurolite and zircon with xenotime. However, the most significant are...others repelled (diamagnetic).
Magnetite and pyrrhotite are the only common
minerals of the first type | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALUMINO-FLUORIDE MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE MOREFIELD MINE, AMELIA, VIRGINIA. L. E. Keam, James Madison University...Amelia
Volume 69, MarcWApril1994
133
Courthouse district; the other is the Rutherford pegmatite.
In July...hurmno-fluoride minerals found are very rare. The
Morefield mine is the second known occurrence of these
minerals...thomsenolite.
Figure 2.
Elpasolite
Crystal,
Morefield
mine, Amelia,
Virginia.
ngure 3.
Prismatic
pachnolte...Russia. The pocket of crystals found at the Morefield mine may represent the finest
known examples for several | 👁 Image
| | Book | | periods of stability
PLANET
|
114
San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om
are uncommon...mineral
pigments.
LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa
Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia *
22 x 26x 16 cm
22...* 20 x 18 x 14. cm
Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1x 1 om
Acicular...hematite with iridescent limonite coating, Parcocha Mine, Bilbao, Spain * 19 x 19 x 16 cm
Goethite, Tintic...Brazil + 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm
Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaragu, Minas Gerais, Brazil + 12 x 19 x 6 em | 👁 Image
| | Catalog/List | | few
a
developement.
to be
peculiar
back
by
Mine.
It
years
Silver-Lead
bunches
colour,
and...TASMANIA.
Crocoisite is chromate
or
soft
of
the
Mine
it
decomposed
fractures
mineral
Rarely patches...overcaps the
ferro-manganese gossan
workings of this mine some extremely fine and beautiful specimens
have...solid
more
—
pene-
and
portions;
Heazlewood.”
Mine,
an
"iron
cap”
and
gangue rock
now used
During...’
which, though
forged either cold
are
it
district:
from
the
the
met with
and
1772,
year
which | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | other exhalative seheelite
deposits of the Ost Tyrol (HSII, 1971,
1977). Many stratiform tungsten deposits...associated with pyrrhotite ! carbonate rocks
or quartz-tourmaline
rocks.
Pyrrhotite
+ Carbonate
+ Cassiterite...Western
Tasmania
(Australia),
a numb e r o f pyrrhotite +_ cassiterite ore bodies
Plimer
are hosted...the origin of the Western
Tasmanian
cassiterite-pyrrhotite
deposits. Recently, Hutchinson
(1979) has suggested...increase in
Mn/Fe
from massive
ore~ the presence
of pyrrhotite recrystallisation textures,
a metamorphic
fabric | 👁 Image
| | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET
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Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm
Mineral Species...mineral
pigments.
LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa
Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia *
22 x 26 x 16 cm
22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm
Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om
Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm
Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm
Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5 | 👁 Image
| | Book | | LUSTRE MINERAL FORMULA SYSTEM HABIT COLOUR Pyrrhotite FeS Hexagonal Tabular or platy crystals |...crystals Pale violet, yellow or brown Pearly Zircon Z1Si0, Tetragonal Prismatic crystals Colourless...ia Saxony (Him (Joachimstal). Germany melfurst Mine near Freiberg). Chihuahua. With argentite. Mexico—...ples are England—Westmorland Fell) and Austria—the Complex). Tyrol exam (Shap (Adamello Above and left:...France— Chafiarcillo. Mexico—Durango (Ojuela Mine). Usually lining cavities in limonite. ADAMSITE |
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