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Le Coreux, Salm-Château, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium

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Located only 200/250 meters from Salm-Château.
Comprises the Le Coreux mine (250 meters from Salmchateau) and an outcrop of quartz veins (200 meters from Salmchateau), both to the west of the small road from Salm-Château to Vielsalm.

Late quartz veins in viridine/kanonaite-bearing phyllites of Ordovician age.



References:
- Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 141: 560-571 (2001)
- E.-J. Bernhardt et al.: Eur. J. Min. 17: 703–714 (2005)





Mineral List:
  		•  Albite
    Na[AlSi
     
    3
    		O
     
    8
    		]
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 141, Issue 5, 2001, pp. 560-571. ]
  		•  Andalusite
    var: Viridine
    (Al,Mn
    3+
     
    		)
     
    2
    		[O|SiO
     
    4
    		]
    Description: Small rounded crystals (0.5 mm) in dark violet banded shale.
    Reference: [http://www.dvminerals.com/uv.html]
  		•  Braunite
    Mn
    2+
     
    		Mn
    3+
    6
    		[O
     
    8
    		|SiO
     
    4
    		]
    Reference: []
  		•  Clinochlore
    (Mg,Fe
    2+
     
    		)
     
    5
    		Al[(OH)
     
    8
    		|AlSi
     
    3
    		O
     
    10
    		]
    Description: Fe-poor excess-Al clinochlore.
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 141, Issue 5, 2001, pp. 560-571. ]
  		•  Hematite
    Fe
     
    2
    		O
     
    3
    Reference: [E.-J. Bernhardt et al.: Eur. J. Min. 17(5):703–714 (2005)]
  		•  Hollandite
    Ba(Mn
    4+
     
    		,Mn
    2+
     
    		)
     
    8
    		O
     
    16
    Description: Hollandite Sr-end member up to 60%. Hollandite is intergrown with braunite.
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 141, Issue 5, 2001, pp. 560-571. ]
  		•  Kanonaite
    Mn
    3+
     
    		Al[O|SiO
     
    4
    		]
    Description: End-member ferrian kanonaite with formula (Mn3+ 3.69 Fe3+ 0.36) Al 3.95 Si 4.00 O 20 Mn is located in the Jahn-Teller dislocated octahedron of the andalusite-type structure. % Mn3+ increases with decreasing temperature (anticlockwise PTt path of extensional metamorphism).
    Reference: [Schreyer W., Bernhardt H.-J., Fransolet A.-M., Armbruster Th. (2004)]
    Site Photo
    Le Coreux, Salm-Château, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium
    © Knut Eldjarn
  		•  Kaolinite
    Al
     
    2
    		Si
     
    2
    		O
     
    5
    		(OH)
     
    4
    Description: Retrograde breakdown reaction of less Mn-rich kanonaite.
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 147, Issue 3, 2004, pp. 276-287. ]
  		•  'Manganese Oxides'
    Reference: [E.-J. Bernhardt et al.: Eur. J. Min. 17(5):703–714 (2005)]
  		•  Muscovite
    KAl
     
    2
    		[(OH)
     
    2
    		|AlSi
     
    3
    		O
     
    10
    		]
    Description: Replaces kanonaite (rims). Ca/Mg/Ba-bearing muscovite (W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 141, Issue 5, 2001, pp. 560-571. ).
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 147, Issue 3, 2004, pp. 276-287. ]
  		•  Quartz
    SiO
     
    2
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 147, Issue 3, 2004, pp. 276-287. ]
  		•  Stavelotite-(La) (TL)
    (La,Nd,Ca)
     
    3
    		Mn
    2+
    3
    		Cu(Mn
    3+
     
    		,Fe
    3+
     
    		,Mn
    4+
     
    		)
     
    26
    		[O
     
    5
    		|Si
     
    2
    		O
     
    7
    		]
     
    6
    Type Locality: Le Coreux, Salm-Château, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium
    Reference: [E.-J. Bernhardt et al.: Eur. J. Min. 17(5):703–714 (2005)]
  		•  Strontiomelane
    SrMn
    4+
    6
    		Mn
    3+
    2
    		O
     
    16
    Reference: [W. Schreyer et al. , Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Vol. 141, Issue 5, 2001, pp. 560-571. ]


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