Latitude: 50°11'8"N
Longitude: 14°5'44"E
Vinařická hora
Vinařická hora (Vinarice hill) is a Tertiary stratovolcano. A quarry was open from the 19th century until the 1980s. The profile in the quarry shows layers of effusive nephelinite, layers of tuff and pyroclastic metamorphosed Cretaceous sediments.
The locality is famous for well-formed paulingite crystals.
Located N of Kladno (coal mining).
References
- Zacek, V., Oplustil, S., Mayova, A. & Meyer, F. R. (1995): Die Mineralien von Kladno in Mittelböhmen, Tschechische Republik. Mineralien-Welt 6 (1), 13-30 (in German). [includes section on Vinarice]
- Lengauer, C. L., Giester, G. & Tillmanns, E. (1997): Mineralogical characterization of paulingite from Vinaricka Hora, Czech Republic. Mineralogical Magazine 61, 591-606.
- Passaglia, E., Gualtieri, A., Marchi, E. (2001): The crystal chemistry of Paulingite. European Journal of Mineralogy. 13, 113-119.
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