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Alpeiner Scharte, Vals valley, Sill valley (Wipp valley), North Tyrol, Tyrol, Austria

(Alpeiner Scharte, Valser Tal, Silltal (Wipptal), Nordtirol, Tirol, Österreich)

Molybdenite-bearing quartz veins, hosted by gneisses. The deposit was worked for some time during the second world war, but failed to be profitable and therefore, the mine was soon abandoned. Located near the Alpeiner Scharte, in the upper Vals valley.

Ref.:
- Exel, R. (1993): Die Mineralien und Erzlagerstätten Österreichs. Eigenverlag, Vienna, 447 pp.





Mineral List:
'Adularia'
Albite
Anatase
Apatite-(CaF)
Brookite
Chalcopyrite
Diopside
Epidote
Ferrimolybdite
Fluorite
Galena
Hematite
'Hornblende'
Malachite
Molybdenite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Sphalerite
Wroewolfeite


20 entries listed. 18 valid minerals.

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