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Talc mine, Schellgaden, Murwinkel, Lungau, Salzburg, Austria

Talkbergbau, Schellgaden, Murwinkel, Lungau, Salzburg, Österreich

Ancient talc mine, explored by a single adit started in 1934. This adit cuts through rocks at the periphery of a serpentinite body (listvenite, talc-chlorite schists and actinolite schists) contacting aplite and aplitic granite. The minerals occur included in the schists, as well as in miarolitic cavities in the aplitic rocks. Some of them are known since 1853, when a now overgrown quarry was worked nearby. Located SW of Schellgaden.

Ref.:
A. Strasser: Die Minerale Salzburgs (1989)

Mineral List

Actinolite
var: Byssolite
'Aeschynite' ?
Albite
Anatase
'Apatite'
Biotite
Brookite
Calcite
'Chlorite Group'
Clinochlore
Cryptomelane ?
Dolomite
Galena
Hematite
Magnesite
var: Breunnerite

Magnetite
Molybdenite
'Monazite'
Muscovite
var: Fuchsite

Phengite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rutile
'Synchysite'
Talc
Titanite
Uraninite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


30 entries listed. 20 valid minerals.

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