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

Photo: D. Preite
Hopffeldboden, Hopffeldgebiet, Obersulzbachtal, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Österreich

Rocksled material, consisting mainly of aplitic gneisses with small miarolitic cavities hosting some rare minerals.
The best finds in the (at that times) fresh material were made in the 1980s.

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.

Mineral List

Actinolite
Aeschynite-(Y)
Albite
Almandine
Anatase
'Apatite'
Aragonite
Aurichalcite
'Axinite Group'
Bertrandite
'Biotite'
Brookite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinozoisite
'Columbite'
Columbite-(Fe)
Euxenite-(Y)
Fergusonite-(Y)
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
'Gadolinite'
Galena
Hematite
var: Specularite
Hemimorphite
Hydrozincite
Ilmenite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

'Limonite'
Magnetite
Malachite
Molybdenite
'Monazite'
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

'Phengite'
Phlogopite
Polycrase-(Y)
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Rock Crystal
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Rutile
Siderite
Smithsonite
Sphalerite
Synchysite-(Ce)
Tanteuxenite-(Y)
Thorite
Thortveitite
Titanite ?
Vaterite
Wulfenite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon
Zoisite


60 entries listed. 45 valid minerals. 1 erroneous literature entry.

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References

- Schebesta, K. (1982): Hopffeldboden/Obersulzbachtal: die Mineralien der alpinen Klüfte vom Hopffeldboden. Lapis 7 (1), 9-20; 42.
- Schebesta, K. (1986): Neue Mineralien vom Hopffeldboden im Obersulzbachtal. Lapis 11 (4), 9-18; 42.
- Poeverlein, R. (1986): Erzmineralien vom Hopffeldboden. Lapis 11 (4), 19-20.
- 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.
- Kolitsch, U. (2011): 1688) „Vaterit“ vom Hopffeldboden, Obersulzbachtal: eine Fehlbestimmung. P. 155-156 in Niedermayr, G. et al. (2011): Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich LX. Carinthia II, 201./121., 135-186.

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