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Anna Mine, Alsdorf, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Grube Anna, Alsdorf, Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
A coal mine. The mineral list refers to both species identified in the coal seams and accompanying veins and to various anthropogenic "minerals" formed on a burning coal dump (Anna I dump).
Located 2 km SW of Alsdorf and about 13 km NE of Aachen.
NOTE: A detailed account of the mineralogy of the burning coal dump will be published by Witzke, de Wit, Blass & Kolitsch in Vol. 3 ("Case Studies - Coal Fires") of "Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective."
Mineral List
59 entries listed. 55 valid minerals.
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References
- Maas, H.H. (1977): Neuere Mineralienfunde im Aachener Steinkohlenrevier. Der Aufschluss 28(2), 69-73.
- Blaß, G. and Strehler, H. (1993): Mineralbildungen in einer durch Selbstentzündung brennenden Bergehalde des Aachener Steinkohlenreviers. Mineralien-Welt 4 (4), 35-42. (in German)
- Blaß, G. and Graf, H.-W. (1996): Neue mineralogische Erkenntnisse und neue Funde aus Eifel, Schwarzwald und Siegerland. Mineralien-Welt 7 (2), 55-64. (in German)
- Sindern, S., Warnsloh, J. M., Witzke, T., Havenith, V., Neef, R. & Etoundi, Y. (2005): Mineralogy and geochemistry of vents formed on the burning coal mining waste dump Anna I, Alsdorf, Germany. Eur. J. Mineral. 17, Beih. 1, 130.
- U. Kolitsch and F. Brandstätter (2007): A new salt-inclusion sulphate phase from a burning coal dump: crystal-structural, chemical and Raman-spectroscopic characterisation. 16th Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting, Petrčane, Croatia, June 13-17, 2007; Book of Abstracts, 12.
- F. de Wit, T. Witzke, U. Kolitsch and G. Blaß (2011): The Burning Anna-I Coal Dump. Chapter 10 in: Stracher, G. B., Prakash, A. and Sokol, E. V.: Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2: Photographs and Multimedia Tours (CD-ROM), Elsevier.
- Blaß, G. and Strehler, H. (1993): Mineralbildungen in einer durch Selbstentzündung brennenden Bergehalde des Aachener Steinkohlenreviers. Mineralien-Welt 4 (4), 35-42. (in German)
- Blaß, G. and Graf, H.-W. (1996): Neue mineralogische Erkenntnisse und neue Funde aus Eifel, Schwarzwald und Siegerland. Mineralien-Welt 7 (2), 55-64. (in German)
- Sindern, S., Warnsloh, J. M., Witzke, T., Havenith, V., Neef, R. & Etoundi, Y. (2005): Mineralogy and geochemistry of vents formed on the burning coal mining waste dump Anna I, Alsdorf, Germany. Eur. J. Mineral. 17, Beih. 1, 130.
- U. Kolitsch and F. Brandstätter (2007): A new salt-inclusion sulphate phase from a burning coal dump: crystal-structural, chemical and Raman-spectroscopic characterisation. 16th Croatian-Slovenian Crystallographic Meeting, Petrčane, Croatia, June 13-17, 2007; Book of Abstracts, 12.
- F. de Wit, T. Witzke, U. Kolitsch and G. Blaß (2011): The Burning Anna-I Coal Dump. Chapter 10 in: Stracher, G. B., Prakash, A. and Sokol, E. V.: Coal and Peat Fires: A Global Perspective, Volume 2: Photographs and Multimedia Tours (CD-ROM), Elsevier.
External Links
- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grube_Anna
- http://www.gessen.de/bergbau/halden/annahalde.html
- http://www.nabu-aachen-land.de/AKTUELL/halde.htm [Link Broken? May 2013]
- http://www.gessen.de/bergbau/halden/annahalde.html
- http://www.nabu-aachen-land.de/AKTUELL/halde.htm [Link Broken? May 2013]
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