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Luftenberg, St Georgen an der Gusen, Perg, Mühlviertel, Upper Austria, Austria

Fluorapatite
Luftenberg, St Georgen an der Gusen, Perg, Mühlviertel, Upper Austria, Austria

Photo: hamster@aon.at
Latitude: 48°15'46"N
Longitude: 14°24'40"E
Luftenberg (Steiningerbruch), St. Georgen an der Gusen, Perg, Mühlviertel, Oberösterreich, Österreich

Several abandoned and strongly overgrown quarries in granite on the southern slope of Luftenberg mountain.
A large pegmatite in the uppermost quarry yielded, in the 1970s, multicoloured apatite (the majority being bluish) and nice colourless hydroxylherderite crystals.
The pegmatite is also known for pale yellow to pale bluish beryl crystals.

The quarry is long abandoned.

Mineral List

Albite
Almandine
Anatase ?
'Apatite'
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
'Biotite'
Calcite
Cassiterite
'Chlorite Group'
Columbite-(Fe)
Fluorapatite
Gahnite ?
Hercynite
Herderite ?
'Hydromuscovite'
Hydroxylherderite
Kaolinite
'Limonite'
Microcline
Milarite ?
'Monazite Group'
Muscovite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Amethyst
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile
Spinel ?
var: Pleonaste ?
'Tourmaline'
'Varlamoffite' ?
Xenotime-(Y) ?
Zircon


36 entries listed. 23 valid minerals.

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References

- Meixner, H. (1977): 406. Herderit, Columbit, Beryll, und blaue Apatit-xx im Pegmatit von Luftenberg bei Linz, Oberösterreich (vorläufige Mitteilung). P. 23 in MEIXNER, H. (1977): Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich XXVII. Carinthia II, 167./87., 7-30.
- Pfaffl, F.(1978): Übersicht der Beryllvorkommen im Moldanubikum Ostbayerns und Oberösterreichs. Der Karinthin, 78, p.11-15.
- R. Exel: Die Mineralien und Erzlagerstätten Österreichs (1993)
- Linzner, F. (1994): Amethyst vom Luftenberg bei Steining O.Ö. OÖ. Geonachr. 9, 11-12.
- Brandstätter, F. & G. Niedermayr (1995): 982. Zum Granat vom Luftenberg bei Linz, Oberösterreich. Pp. 157-158 in: NIEDERMAYR G. et al.: Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich XIVI. Carinthia II 185/105, 145-168.
- Brandstetter, G. & M. Reich (1998): Luftenberg - eine bedeutende Pegmatitmineralisation in Oberösterreich. OÖ. Geonachr. 13, 11-25. [http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/OOE_GEO_13_0011-0025.pdf]
- Brandstetter, G. & Reich, M. (1999): Luftenberg - eine bedeutende Pegmatitmineralisation in Oberösterreich. Mineralien-Welt 10 (3), 12-18.
- Reiter, E. (2012): Kurzberichte zu einigen altbekannten und neuen Mineralfunden aus Oberösterreich. Pp. 7-28 in: Steinerne Schätze - Zur Mineralogie und Gesteinskunde der näheren Heimat. Ausstellungsbroschüre, Stadtgemeinde Leonding, 41 pp.

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