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Quartz quarry, Wolfsgruben (Wolfgruben), Seiz, Liesing - Palten valley, Styria, Austria

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Quarzbruch, Wolfsgruben (Wolfgruben), Seiz, Liesing-Paltental, Steiermark, Österreich

Ancient, small quartz quarry with subordinate copper mineralization in a quartz layer.
Located southwest of Wolfgruben at an elevation of ca. 770 m asl.

A Sb-bearing mineral of the cyanotrichite-group is also reported (Kolitsch et al., 2011).

Also minerals in the Carboniferous schists of the „Wolfsgrubenkarbon" (old works on alum-schists) hosting the quarz layer.

References

- FREYN, R. (1902): Über einige neue Mineralfunde und Fundorte in Steiermark. Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereines für Steiermark 38, 177-185.
- METZ, K. (1938): Die Geologie der Grauwackenzone von Leoben bis Mautern. Jb. geol. B.-A., 87, 165-193.
- WENINGER, H. (1968): Das Cu-Erzvorkommen der Wolfsgruben bei Seiz im Liesingtal (Steiermark), seine Tektonik und Mineralisation. Archiv für Lagerstättenforschung in den Ostalpen, 7, 88-100.
- TAUCHER, J. & C. HOLLERER (1995): Jamesonit, Cerussit, Markasit, Ranciéit, Todorokit und Jarosit von Wölch bei St. Gertraud im Lavanttal, Kärnten, sowie über "Wölchit" von Kärnten und der Steiermark. MATRIXX, Mineralogische Nachrichten aus Österreich, Bd. 4, 39-51, Graz. [includes section on Wolfsgruben]
- Leikauf, B. & Bernhard, F. (2005): 1423: Dundasit vom Steinbruch Wolfsgruben bei Seiz (Liesingtal). In: Niedermayr, G. et al. (2005): Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich LIV. Carinthia II, 195./115., 306.
- Kolitsch, U., Postl, W., Brandstätter, F., Bernhard, F., Leikauf, B. & Auer, Ch. (2011): 1713) Beaverit-(Cu), Brochantit, Carbonat-Cyanotrichit, Chalkoalumit und Schwefel aus dem Kupfer-Vorkommen der Wolfsgruben bei Seiz, Liesing-Paltental, Steiermark. Pp. 179-181 in Niedermayr, G. et al. (2011): Neue Mineralfunde aus Österreich LX. Carinthia II, 201./121., 135-186.

Mineral List

Anglesite
Azurite
Beaverite-(Cu)
Bournonite
Brochantite
Carbonatecyanotrichite
Cerussite
Chalcoalumite
Chalcopyrite
Covellite
'Cyanotrichite Group'
Dundasite
Galena
Gypsum
Halotrichite
Hexahydrite
'Kupferpecherz'
Linarite ?
Malachite
Melanterite
Muscovite
Pickeringite
Pyrite
Quartz
Sulphur
Tetrahedrite


26 entries listed. 24 valid minerals.

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