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Hillehorn (northeast slope), Chummibort, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

Sceptre Quartz
Hillehorn, Chummibort, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland

Photo: Christian Bracke
Latitude: 46°18'11"N
Longitude: 8°8'26"E
Hillehorn (Nordosthang), Chummibort, Binntal, Wallis (Valais), Schweiz (Suisse; Svizzera)

An area with REE and As minerals in gneisses (a microcline augengneiss, containing most of the As minerals, and a fine-grained two-mica gneiss). The mineralogy is similar to that of the nearby (1.5 km) Mätti valley.

The Hillehorn is 3170 m high peak, swiss coordinates 654´070 / 128´200.



Mineral List

Albite
Almandine
Anatase
Asbecasite
Beryl
Biotite
Bismutite
Cafarsite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
Chernovite-(Y)
Clinochlore
Epidote
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Gadolinite-(Y)
Galena
Gasparite-(Ce)
Gold
Hammarite ?
Hematite
Ilmenite
Jarosite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Limonite
Magnetite
Makovickyite ?
Malachite
Meta-autunite
Metatorbernite
Metazeunerite
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Pharmacosiderite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Amethyst
var: Sceptre Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rutile
Schorl
Synchysite-(Ce)
Titanite
Wulfenite
Xenotime-(Y)


48 entries listed. 41 valid minerals.

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References

- Cuchet, S., van der Burgt, A. und Meisser, N. (2005): Chummibort, eine neue Fundstelle für Arsenmineralien im Binntal. Schweizer Strahler, Nr. 2, 19-29. (in German/French)
- van der Burgt, A. & Cuchet, S. (2006): Neu: Gasparit und Chernovit vom Chummibort. Lapis 31 (4), 35. (in German)


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