Aschamalmite © Click here for a list of articles that are not under construction but have had at least their first drafts finished. This article is a place holder and needs someone to take it in hand and finish the first draft. If you would like to take this article in hand, leave a reply message below or contact Rock Currier via private message by clicking on the PM button next to my name at the top of the article. Click here to view Best Minerals A and here for Best Minerals A to Z and here for Fast Navigation of completed Best Minerals articles. This article is in a pre-construction phase.Someone is needed to work on this article which contains a few preliminary notes. 1. The localities need to be brought into conformity with mindat locality strings if necessary, reversed and made bold. 2. If image links appear below they need to be embedded in the article. If none are present the Mindat image bank needs to be searched for images of this mineral and the better ones and their localities need to be placed in the article. 3. The captions for the images need to be added. 4. The images need to be tweaked so that they look nice. This last bit is tedious and requires some little artistry. Aschamalmite Pb6Bi2S9 Monoclinic Aschamalmite on Quartz, Rio del Castello, Santa Maria Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy ~8mm© D: Preite Aschamalmite Italy Piedmont, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Ossola Valley, Vigezzo Valley, Santa Maria Maggiore, Cedo Alp, Basso Valley, Rio del Castello Aschamalmite Display collections? Pb6Bi2S9 By far the largest crystals are from Austria but aschamalmite also is found at Granite Gap, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA. Austria Salzburg, Untersulzbach Valley, Ascham Alm. “The mineral occurs as lead-gray, lath-like crystals to 5 cm in length or thick, slightly bent plates up to 1 cm2. Most crystals are heavily altered to a mixture of bismutite and other as yet unidentified phases. Exsolution lamellae of galena and cosalite are commonly present. Luster metallic, cleavage (001) perfect… Aschamalmite is found in mineralized, alpine-cleft veins cutting through gneiss near Ascham Alm in the Untersulzbach Valley associated with quartz, albite, adularia, calcite, chlorite and galena.”1 1 American Mineralogist, Vol.69, p.810. Click here to view Best Minerals A and here for Best Minerals A to Z and here for Fast Navigation of completed Best Minerals articles. http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139362#msg-139362 Mon, 20 May 2013 16:58:15 +0000 Phorum 5.2.15a http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139469#msg-139469 Re: Aschamalmite http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139469#msg-139469 Rock Currier Best Minerals A Wed, 27 May 2009 11:39:50 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139467#msg-139467 Re: Aschamalmite http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139467#msg-139467 Peter Haas Best Minerals A Wed, 27 May 2009 11:28:09 +0000 http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139362#msg-139362 Aschamalmite http://www.mindat.org/forum.php?read,66,139362,139362#msg-139362
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This article is in a pre-construction phase.
Someone is needed to work on this article which contains a few preliminary notes.

1. The localities need to be brought into conformity with mindat locality strings if necessary, reversed and made bold.
2. If image links appear below they need to be embedded in the article. If none are present the Mindat image bank needs to be searched for images of this mineral and the better ones and their localities need to be placed in the article.
3. The captions for the images need to be added.
4. The images need to be tweaked so that they look nice. This last bit is tedious and requires some little artistry.



Aschamalmite
Pb6Bi2S9 Monoclinic
Aschamalmite on Quartz, Rio del Castello, Santa Maria Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy ~8mm© D: Preite



Aschamalmite
Italy
Piedmont, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Ossola Valley, Vigezzo Valley, Santa Maria Maggiore, Cedo Alp, Basso Valley, Rio del Castello


Aschamalmite Display collections?
Pb6Bi2S9
By far the largest crystals are from Austria but aschamalmite also is found at Granite Gap, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA.
Austria
Salzburg, Untersulzbach Valley, Ascham Alm. “The mineral occurs as lead-gray, lath-like crystals to 5 cm in length or thick, slightly bent plates up to 1 cm2. Most crystals are heavily altered to a mixture of bismutite and other as yet unidentified phases. Exsolution lamellae of galena and cosalite are commonly present. Luster metallic, cleavage (001) perfect… Aschamalmite is found in mineralized, alpine-cleft veins cutting through gneiss near Ascham Alm in the Untersulzbach Valley associated with quartz, albite, adularia, calcite, chlorite and galena.”1
1 American Mineralogist, Vol.69, p.810.



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