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Hopffeldboden, Hopffeld area, Obersulzbach valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria

(Hopffeldboden, Hopffeldgebiet, Obersulzbachtal, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Österreich)

Rocksled material, consisting mainly of aplitic gneisses with small miarolitic cavities hosting some rare minerals.

NOTE: Milarite and Kainosite-(Y) are not reported from the Hopffeldboden. Their occurrence in this area is restricted to the nearby Hopffeldgraben, which is listed as a separate locality.

References: (in German):
- Poeverlein, R. (1986): "Erzmineralien vom Hopffeldboden", Lapis 11(4):19-20
- Schebesta, K. (1982): "Hopffeldboden/Obersulzbachtal: die Mineralien der alpinen Klüfte vom Hopffeldboden", Lapis 7 (1):9-20
- Schebesta, K. (1986): "Neue Mineralien vom Hopffeldboden im Obersulzbachtal", Lapis 11(4):9-18
- Schultz, G. (1986): Ein bemerkenswerter eigenfund. Japaner Zwilling vom Hopffeldboden, Obersulzbachtal. Lapis 11 (10), 38
- Strasser, A. (1989): Die Minerale Salzburgs.
- Zappel, A. (1986): Die Aeschynite der Ostalpen. Lapis 11 (4), 21-23
- Preite, D. (1986): Hopffeldboden (Salzburg,Austria). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 10(1), 1-11.







Mineral List:
  • Actinolite
  • Aeschynite-(Y)
  • Albite
  • Almandine
  • Anatase
  • 'Apatite'
  • Apatite-(CaF)
  • Aragonite
  • 'Axinite'
  • Bertrandite
  • Biotite
  • Brookite
  • Calcite
  • Cerussite
  • Chalcopyrite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Clinozoisite
  • 'Columbite'
  • Euxenite-(Y)
  • Fluorite
  • Fergusonite-(Y)
  • 'Gadolinite'
  • Galena
  • Hematite
       var: Specularite
  • Hemimorphite
  • Hydrozincite
  • Ilmenite
  • Limonite
  • Magnetite
  • Malachite
  • Molybdenite
  • 'Monazite'
  • Muscovite
  • Opal
    var: Opal-AN
  • Orthoclase
    var: Adularia
  • Phengite
  • Phlogopite
  • Polycrase-(Y)
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
       var: Rock Crystal
       var: Smoky Quartz
  • Rutile
  • Siderite
  • Smithsonite
  • Sphalerite
  • Synchysite-(Ce)
  • Tanteuxenite-(Y)
  • Thorite
  • Thortveitite
  • Titanite ?
  • Vaterite
  • Wulfenite
  • Xenotime-(Y)
  • Zircon
  • Zoisite


    57 entries listed. 43 valid minerals.

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