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Fuchs Quarry, Hartkoppe, Sailauf, Hösbach, Spessart, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

Latitude: 50°2'1"N
Longitude: 9°16'23"E
Steinbruch Fuchs, Hartkoppe, Sailauf, Hösbach, Spessart, Franken, Bayern, Deutschland

Quarry in altered rhyolite with vein-type Mn-Fe-U-As mineralisations contacting biotite schists.
Located on Hartkoppe mountain near Sailauf, about 7 km NE of Hösbach.

Mineral List

Abernathyite
Anhydrite
Aragonite
Arsenic
Arseniosiderite
Arsenolamprite
Arsenolite
Arsenopyrite
Autunite
Azurite
Bariopharmacosiderite
Baryte
Bergslagite
Bertrandite
'Biotite'
Brandtite
Braunite
Brookite
Calcite
Celadonite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chernovite-(Y)
Chrysocolla
Coffinite
Cornwallite
Covellite
Cryptomelane
Cuprosklodowskite
Dolomite
Domeykite
Ferrarisite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
'Garnet'
Goethite
Gypsum
Hausmannite
Hematite
Humboldtine
Illite
Jordisite
Kaolinite
Kutnohorite
Liebigite
'Limonite'
Löllingite
Malachite
Manganite
Meta-autunite
Metauranocircite
Metauranospinite
Metazeunerite
Mixite
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Natrolite
Opal
Orpiment
Orthoclase
Pharmacolite
'Pitticite'
Powellite
'Psilomelane'
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Quartz
var: Agate
var: Chalcedony
Realgar
Rhodochrosite
Romanèchite
Sailaufite (TL)
Scheelite
Siderite
Staurolite
'Stilbite'
Tilasite
Todorokite
'Tourmaline'
Tyrolite
Tyuyamunite
Uraninite
var: Pitchblende
Uranospinite
'Wad'
Xenotime-(Y)
Yukonite
Zeunerite


89 entries listed. 78 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

- Der Aufschluss 38(8/9), 275-277 (1987)
- Der Aufschluss 38(10), 317-329 (1987)
- Lorenz, J. (1991): Die Mineralien im Rhyolithsteinbruch von Sailauf, - Der Aufschluss, 42, 1-38
- Der Aufschluss, 46, 105-122 (1995)
- Mineralien-Welt 7(5), 33
- U. Kolitsch (1996): Bergslagite from the rhyolite quarry near Sailauf, Spessart. Mineralien-Welt 7 (5), 45-46. (in German)
- Lorenz, J. (2002): Brandtit-Fundstelle von Weltrang: Sailauf/Spessart. Mineralien-Welt 13 (4), 12-25.
- Tobias Fusswinkel, Thomas Wagner, Thomas Wenzel, Markus Wälle, Joachim Lorenz (2013): Evolution of unconformity-related Mn-Fe-As vein mineralization, Sailauf (Germany): Insight from major and trace elements in oxide and carbonate minerals. Ore Geology Reviews 50, 28-51.



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