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Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera

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Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Acanthite
Actinolite
'Actinolite-Tremolite Series'
Adamite
var: Cuprian Adamite
Aegirine
Aegirine-augite
'Aeschynite'
Aeschynite-(Ce)
Aeschynite-(Y)
Agardite-(La)
Agardite-(Y)
Aikinite
'Aikinite-Bismuthinite Series'
Alabandite
Albite
var: Andesine
var: Oligoclase-Albite
var: Pericline
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Algodonite
'Allanite'
Allanite-(Ce)
Alleghanyite
Allophane
var: Cupro-Allophane
Almandine
'Almandine-Pyrope Series'
'Almandine-Spessartine Series'
Altaite
Aluminocopiapite
'Amber
var: Plaffeiite'

'Ammonite'
Amphibole Supergroup
var: Byssolite
Analcime
Anatase
var: Niobian Anatase
Andalusite
var: Chiastolite
'Andorite'
Andradite
var: Demantoid
var: Hydroandradite
var: Melanite
var: Topazolite
Anglesite
Anhydrite
Anilite
Ankerite
Annabergite
Annite
Anorthite
var: Bytownite
Ansermetite (TL)
Anthophyllite
Antigorite (TL)
Antimony
Antlerite
'Apatite'
'var: Phosphorite'
'Apophyllite'
Apophyllite-(KF)
Aragonite
var: Flos Ferri
Ardennite-(As)
Argandite (TL)
Argentopentlandite
Argentopyrite
Armenite
Arsenic
'Arsenic Sulphide Glass No. 1'
Arseniopleite
Arseniosiderite
Arsenoflorencite-(Ce)
Arsenogoyazite
Arsenolamprite
Arsenolite
Arsenopyrite
Arsenuranospathite
Artinite
Asbecasite (TL)
'Asbestos'
'Asphaltum'
Atacamite
Atelestite
Augite
Aurichalcite
Auricupride
Autunite
Awaruite
Axinite-(Fe)
'Axinite Group'
Azurite
Babingtonite
Baileychlore
Bariopharmacosiderite
Barroisite
Baryte
var: Strontian Baryte
Bassanite
Bassetite
'Bastnäsite'
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Baumhauerite (TL)
Baumhauerite-2a (TL)
Bavenite
Bayldonite
Bayleyite
Baylissite (TL)
Bazzite
Bearthite (TL)
Beaverite-(Cu)
Becquerelite
'Beidellite-Montmorillonite Series'
'Bementite (of Dana)'
Beraunite
Bergslagite
Berlinite
Bernardite
Berthierite
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Emerald
Berzelianite
Berzeliite
β-Uranophane
Betekhtinite
Beudantite
Beyerite
Bieberite
Billietite
'Biotite'
'var: Manganophyllite'
'var: Titanian Biotite'
Birnessite
Bismite
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bohdanowiczite
Böhmite
Bonattite
Bornite
Boulangerite
Bournonite
Boyleite
Brandtite
Brannerite
Braunite
Brochantite
Brookite
Brucite
Brushite
'Bursaite'
Cabalzarite (TL)
Cadmoxite (TL)
Cafarsite (TL)
Calaverite
Calcioandyrobertsite
Calcite
var: Cobaltoan Calcite
var: Manganoan Calcite
Calderite
Caledonite
Camerolaite
Canfieldite
var: Tellurian Canfieldite

Cannizzarite
Carbonatecyanotrichite
Carminite
Carpholite
Carrollite
Caryinite
Caryopilite
Cassiterite
Cattierite
Celestine
var: Barian Celestine
Celsian
Cerussite
Cervandonite-(Ce)
Cervantite
Cervelleite
Cesàrolite
'Chabazite'
Chabazite-Ca
Chabazite-Sr
Chalcanthite
Chalcoalumite
Chalcocite
Chalconatronite
Chalcophyllite
Chalcopyrite
Chamosite (TL)
'Chamosite-Clinochlore Series'
Cheralite
Chernovite-(Y)
'Chernovite-(Y)-Xenotime-(Y) Series'
Chesterite
Chlorapatite
'Chlorite Group'
Chloritoid
Chondrodite
Chromite
Chrysoberyl
Chrysocolla
Chrysotile
Cinnabar
Claraite
Clausthalite
'Clay'
Cleusonite (TL)
Clinochlore
var: Pennine
var: Ripidolite
var: Sheridanite
Clinochrysotile
Clinoenstatite
Clinohumite
var: Titanclinohumite
'Clinopyroxene Subgroup'
'Clinotyrolite'
Clinozoisite
'Clinozoisite-Epidote Series'
'Coal
var: Anthracite'

Cobaltite
Coffinite
Coloradoite
'Columbite'
Columbite-(Fe)
Columbite-(Mn)
Colusite
Comblainite
Compreignacite
Conichalcite
Cookeite
Copiapite
Copper
Coquimbite
Coralloite
Cordierite
Cornubite
Cornwallite
Corundum
var: Ruby
var: Sapphire
Cosalite
Coulsonite
Covellite
Crednerite
Crichtonite
'Crichtonite-Senaite Series'
Cristobalite
Crookesite
'Crossite'
Cryptomelane
Cualstibite
'Cualstibite-1M'
Cubanite
Cummingtonite
Cuprite
Cuprobismutite
Cupropolybasite
Cuproroméite
Cuprosklodowskite
Cyanotrichite
Cymrite
Dalnegroite (TL)
Danburite
Datolite
Dawsonite
Debattistiite (TL)
Delafossite
Descloizite
Dessauite-(Y)
Devilline
Dewindtite
Diaspore
Dickite
Dietrichite
Digenite
Diopside
var: Chromian Diopside
Djerfisherite
Djurleite
Dolomite
var: Ferroan Dolomite
var: Taraspite
Domeykite
Dravite
'Dravite-Schorl Series'
Dufrénoysite (TL)
Duftite
Dumortierite
Dyscrasite
Eclarite
Edenharterite (TL)
Edenite
'Edenite-Pargasite Series'
Emplectite
Enargite
Enstatite
var: Bronzite
Epidote
Epistilbite
Epsomite
Erniggliite (TL)
Erythrite
Euchroite
Euclase
Eugsterite
Eulytine
Euxenite-(Y)
Fairfieldite
Fayalite
'Feldspar Group'
Felsőbányaite
Ferberite
Fergusonite-(Y)
Ferrarisite
Ferri-ghoseite
Ferrimolybdite
Ferrisicklerite
Ferrisymplesite
Ferri-taramite
Ferri-winchite
Ferro-Actinolite
'Ferro-Actinolite-Tremolite Series
var: Nephrite'

Ferro-pargasite
Ferro-tschermakite
Fetiasite (TL)
Fianelite (TL)
Fibroferrite
Flinkite
'Flint'
Florencite-(Ce)
Fluorapatite
var: Mn-bearing Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Forsterite
Fourmarierite
Fraipontite
Françoisite-(Ce) (TL)
Françoisite-(Nd)
Franklinphilite
Freibergite
'Freibergite-Tetrahedrite Series'
Freieslebenite
Friedelite
Friedrichite
Froodite
Gabrielite (TL)
'Gadolinite'
Gadolinite-(Y)
Gahnite
Galaxite
Galena
var: Argentiferous Galena
var: Bismuthiferous Galena
var: Selenian Galena
Galenobismutite
Ganterite (TL)
'Garnet'
Gasparite-(Ce)
Gaylussite
Gedrite
Geerite
Geigerite (TL)
'Geikielite-Ilmenite Series'
Geocronite
'Geocronite-Jordanite Series'
Gersdorffite
Giessenite (TL)
'Giessenite-Izoklakeite Series'
Gladite
'Glass'
Glauberite
Glauconite
Glaucophane
Glaukosphaerite
Goethite
Gold
var: Electrum
Gonnardite
Gorceixite
'Gorceixite-Goyazite Series'
Goslarite
Goyazite
Graeserite (TL)
Graftonite
Gramaccioliite-(Y)
Graphite
Greenalite
Greenockite
Greigite
Grimselite (TL)
Grischunite (TL)
Grossular
var: Hessonite
Guanajuatite
Gudmundite
Guérinite
Guettardite
Gunningite
Gypsum
var: Alabaster
Haidingerite
Halite
'Halloysite'
Halotrichite
Hatchite (TL)
Hausmannite
Haüyne
Hawleyite
Heazlewoodite
Hedenbergite
Hedleyite
Helvine
Hematite
var: Iron Rose
var: Martite
Hemimorphite
Hercynite
var: Picotite
Herzenbergite
Hessite
Hetaerolite
Heterogenite
'Heterogenite-3R'
Heterosite
'Heulandite'
Heulandite-Ca
Hexahydrite
Heyrovskýite
Hidalgoite
Hisingerite
Hodrušite
'Högbomite'
Hollandite
'Hornblende'
Hörnesite
Humite
Hureaulite
Hutchinsonite (TL)
'Hyalophane' (TL)
Hydrocerussite
Hydroglauberite
Hydrohetaerolite
Hydromagnesite
Hydroxylapatite
Hydrozincite
Idaite
Ilesite
Illite
Ilmenite
Ilvaite
Imhofite (TL)
Iron
var: Kamacite

Izoklakeite
Jáchymovite
Jacobsite
Jadeite
Jahnsite-(CaMnFe)
Jamesonite
Jarosite
Jentschite (TL)
Jimthompsonite
Johannite
Johninnesite
Jôkokuite
Jordanite (TL)
'Joséite'
'Joséite-B'
Kainosite-(Y)
Kalicinite (TL)
Kamotoite-(Y)
Kaolinite
Kasolite
Katophorite
Kemmlitzite
Kermesite
Kesterite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Klockmannite
Kobellite
Kolfanite
'Könleinite'
Koutekite
Krupkaite
Krutovite
Kryzhanovskite
Ktenasite
Kupčíkite
Kutnohorite
Kyanite
Laitakarite
Landesite
Langite
Lansfordite
Laumontite
Lautite
Lavendulan
Lazarenkoite
Lazulite
Leadhillite
Lengenbachite (TL)
Lepidocrocite
Leucite
Lillianite
'Limonite'
'var: Bean Ore'
Linarite
Lindbergite
Linnaeite
Lipscombite
Liveingite (TL)
Lizardite
Löllingite
Lorándite
Ludlamite
Mackinawite
Maghagendorfite
Maghemite
Magnesiocarpholite
Magnesiochloritoid (TL)
Magnesiocopiapite
Magnesio-hastingsite
'Magnesiohastingsite-Pargasite Series'
Magnesio-hornblende
Magnesio-riebeckite
Magnesite
var: Breunnerite
var: Ferroan Magnesite
var: Mesitine Spar
Magnetite
Malachite
Manganberzeliite
'Manganese Oxides'
Manganite
Manganlotharmeyerite (TL)
Manganocummingtonite
Manganohörnesite
Manganosite
Marcasite
Marécottite (TL)
Margarite
Marrite (TL)
Marthozite
Marumoite (TL)
Masuyite
Matildite
Mawsonite
Medaite
Meionite
Melanterite
'Melilite'
Meneghinite
Merrillite
Mesolite
Messelite
Meta-autunite
Metakahlerite
Metasideronatrite
Metastibnite
Metatorbernite
Metazeunerite
Miargyrite
'Mica Group'
Microcline
Microlite Group
Milarite (TL)
Millerite
Mimetite
Minium
Mirabilite
Mitridatite
Mixite
Moëloite
Molybdenite
'Molybdenite-2H'
'Molybdenite-3R'
Molybdofornacite
'Monazite'
Monazite-(Ce)
var: Turnerite
Monohydrocalcite
Montmorillonite
Montroseite
Morenosite
Mottramite
var: Duhamelite
Muscovite
var: Alurgite
var: Barian Muscovite
var: Fuchsite
var: Sericite
'Muscovite-Paragonite Series'
Nagyágite
Nahcolite
Natrojarosite
Natrolite
Natron
Naumannite
Nekrasovite
Neotocite
Nepheline
Nesquehonite
'Nickelalumite'
Nickelhexahydrite
Nickeline
'Nickel-iron'
Nickelskutterudite
Nolanite
Nontronite
Nosean
'Nováčekite '
Nováčekite-I
Nowackiite (TL)
Nsutite
Nuffieldite
'Oligoclase-Andesine'
Olivenite
'Olivine'
Omphacite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Orpiment
Orthochamosite
'Orthochrysotile'
Orthoclase
'Orthopyroxene Subgroup'
Orthoserpierite
Osarizawaite
Oxycalciobetafite
Oxyplumboroméite
Palenzonaite
Palygorskite
Paragonite (TL)
Paraniite-(Y)
Pararammelsbergite
Pararealgar
Parasymplesite
Paratacamite
Pargasite
Parisite-(Ce)
Parnauite
Parsettensite (TL)
Pearceite
'Pearceite-Polybasite Series'
'Pearceite-T2ac'
Pekoite
Pennantite
Pentlandite
Perovskite
'Perthite'
Pharmacolite
Pharmacosiderite
Phenakite
'Phengite'
Phillipsite-K
Phlogopite
Phosphosiderite
Pickeringite
var: Manganoan Pickeringite
Picropharmacolite
Piemontite
var: Strontian Piemontite
'Pinite'
'Pitticite'
Pizgrischite (TL)
Plattnerite
'Plessite'
Plumbojarosite
Posnjakite
Powellite
Prehnite
Preisingerite
Preiswerkite (TL)
Proustite
Pseudojohannite
'Psilomelane'
'Pumpellyite'
Pumpellyite-(Al)
Pumpellyite-(Mg)
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
var: Bravoite
Pyrobelonite
Pyrochlore Group
Pyrochroite
Pyrolusite
Pyromorphite
Pyrope
Pyrophanite
Pyrophyllite
Pyrosmalite-(Mn)
'Pyroxene Group'
Pyroxmangite
Pyrrhotite
Quadratite (TL)
Quartz
var: Agate
var: Amethyst
var: Blue Quartz
var: Carnelian
var: Chalcedony
var: Eisenkiesel
var: Gwindel
var: Milky Quartz
var: Oil Quartz
var: Rock Crystal
var: Rutilated Quartz
var: Sceptre Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rabejacite
Raberite (TL)
Rammelsbergite
Ramsdellite
Ranciéite
'Ranciéite-Takanelite Series'
Rathite (TL)
Realgar
Reevesite
Reppiaite
Retgersite
Retzian-(La)
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Rhomboclase
Ribbeite
Richelsdorfite
Richterite
Riebeckite
Riebeckite Group
var: Crocidolite

Robinsonite
Rockbridgeite
Romanèchite
'Roméite Group'
'var: Stibiconite'
Römerite
Rosasite
Roscoelite
Rosickýite
Rösslerite
Roxbyite
Rozenite
Rutile
var: Niobian Rutile
var: Sagenite (of Saussure)
Sabelliite
Safflorite
'Sagenite'
Sailaufite
Sainfeldite
Salammoniac
Samarskite-(Y)
Saneroite
Sanidine
Saponite
Sarkinite
Sartorite (TL)
Sauconite
'Saussurite'
'Scapolite'
Scarbroite
Scheelite
Scheuchzerite (TL)
Schoepite
Schorl
Schreibersite
Schröckingerite
Schulenbergite
Scolecite
Scorodite
Scorzalite
Segnitite
Seidozerite
Seligmannite (TL)
Senaite
Sénarmontite
Sepiolite
'Serpentine Group'
'var: Bastite'
Serpierite
Shandite
Sicherite (TL)
Siderite
var: Mg-rich Siderite
var: Pistomesite
Sideronatrite
Siderophyllite
Siderotil
Siegenite
Sillimanite
Silver
Simonkolleite
Sinnerite (TL)
Sklodowskite
Skutterudite
'Smectite Group'
Smithite (TL)
Smithsonite
Smolianinovite
Smythite
Sobolevskite
Sodalite
Sonolite
Sorosite
Sperrylite
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Spherocobaltite
Spinel
var: Ceylonite
var: Chromspinel
Spionkopite
Stalderite (TL)
Stanĕkite
Stannite
Stannoidite
Starkeyite
Staurolite
var: Zincian Staurolite
Stellerite
Stephanite
Stibiocolumbite
Stibnite
'Stilbite'
Stilbite-Ca
Stilpnomelane
Stolzite
Strashimirite
Stromeyerite
Strontianite
'Strontiopharmacosiderite'
Strunzite
Struvite-(K) (TL)
Sulphur
Sursassite (TL)
Sussexite
Symplesite
'Synchysite'
Synchysite-(Ce)
Synchysite-(Y)
Szmikite
Szomolnokite
Taenite
Takanelite
Talc
Talmessite
Tamarugite
'Tapiolite'
Tapiolite-(Fe)
'Tauriscite'
Tellurium
Tennantite
'Tennantite-Tetrahedrite Series'
Tenorite
Tephroite
Tetra-auricupride
Tetradymite
Tetrahedrite
var: Argentian Tetrahedrite
var: Bismuthian Tetrahedrite
Thalcusite
Theisite
Thenardite
Thermonatrite
'Thomsonite'
Thomsonite-Ca
Thorite
Thorogummite
Tilasite
Tinzenite (TL)
Tiragalloite
Titanite
Tochilinite
Todorokite
Tooeleite
Topaz
Torbernite
'Tourmaline'
Trechmannite (TL)
Tremolite (TL)
Triphylite
Triplite
Tripuhyite
Troilite
Trona
Tschermakite
Tschermigite
Tučekite
Turtmannite (TL)
Tyrolite
Ullmannite
'UM2000-05-E:AuSn'
'Unnamed (Mg-analogue of Smolianinovite)'
'Unnamed (Mn Oxalate Trihydrate)'
Uraninite
var: Pitchblende
Uranophane
Uranopilite
Uranopolycrase
Uranospinite
Valentinite
Valleriite
Vanadinite
Vandendriesscheite
Vermiculite
Vésigniéite
Vesuvianite
var: Californite
Violarite
Vivianite
Voltaite
Wallisite (TL)
'Wallkilldellite'
Wallkilldellite-(Fe)
Wallkilldellite-(Mn)
Weibullite
Weilite
Weissbergite
Whitmoreite
Wilcoxite
Willemseite
Winchite
Wiserite (TL)
Wittichenite
'Wittite'
Wollastonite
Woodruffite
Wroewolfeite
Wulfenite
Wurtzite
Xanthoconite
Xenotime-(Y)
Xilingolite
Yarrowite
Yingjiangite
Yukonite
Zálesíite
Zeunerite
Zincalstibite
Zincocopiapite
Zincolivenite
Zincostaurolite (TL)
'Zincowoodwardite-1T'
'Zincrosasite'
Zinkenite
Zippeite
Zircon
Zirconolite
Zoisite
var: Thulite


1020 entries listed. 762 valid minerals. 66 type localities (valid minerals). 1 type locality (other).

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References

Kenngott, G.A. (1866) Die Minerale der Schweiz. Leipzig, 460 pp. (in German)

Niggli, P., Koenigsberger, J., and Parker, R.L. (1940) Die Mineralien der Schweizeralpen. 2 Volumes, Basel, 661 pp. (in German)

Parker, R. L. (1973): Die Mineralfunde der Schweiz. Wepf Verlag, Basel, 433 pp. (in German)

Gramaccioli, C. M. (1978): Die Mineralien der Alpen. 2 volumes, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, 560 pp. (in German)

Weibel, M., Graeser, St., Oberholzer, W. F., Stalder, H. A. & Gabriel, W. (1990): Die Mineralien der Schweiz. 5th ed., Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 222 pp. (in German).

Stalder, H. A., Wagner, A., Graeser, S. und Stuker, P. (1998): Mineralienlexikon der Schweiz. Wepf Verlag, Basel, 579 pp. (in German)

Schweizerische Goldwäschervereinigung (Ed.) (2009): Faszination Schweizer Gold. SGV, 56 pp. (in German, partly in French)

Pfander, P. and Jans, V. (Eds.) (2004): Gold in der Schweiz. Ott Verlag, Thun, Switzerland. 4th ed., 188 pp. (in German).


External Links

http://www.bafu.admin.ch/?lang=de [Bundesamt für Umwelt]

http://www.mineralien-ch.ch/fundort_nach_kanton.html

http://www.mineralien-ch.ch/mineralien_der_schweiz.html

http://www.swissinfo-geo.org/

http://map.search.ch/

http://www.geologieviewer.ch/

http://alpenkarte.eu/ [search for Alpine mountains on topographic map]

http://map.geo.admin.ch/

http://www.sghb.ch/SGHB_Minaria.html [Link Broken? May 2013] [Minaria Helvetica - Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Historische Bergbauforschung]

http://www.silberberg-davos.ch/ [Bergknappe - Freunde des Bergbaus in Graubünden]

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Meteoriten_der_Schweiz [list of Swiss meteorites]

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