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Sicherite from
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sicherite
Formula:TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hatchite1 photo of Sicherite associated with Hatchite at this locality.
Hutchinsonite1 photo of Sicherite associated with Hutchinsonite at this locality.
Tennantite Subgroup1 photo of Sicherite associated with Tennantite Subgroup at this locality.
Seligmannite1 photo of Sicherite associated with Seligmannite at this locality.
Pararealgar1 photo of Sicherite associated with Pararealgar at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sicherite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:87325
Long-form Identifier:1:3:87325:7
GUID (UUID V4):72740e06-8637-42e3-b33e-bdea2955f7fa
References
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new Tl-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...is a new mineral from Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. It occurs very rarely...2012-017) and is named for Thomas Raber, an expert on Lengenbach minerals. K EY WORDS : raberite, new mineral...mineral, Tl-sulfosalts, crystal structure, Lengenbach, Switzerland. * E-mail: luca.bindi@unifi.it DOI: 10.1180/minmag...Society Introduction LENGENBACH quarry in the Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland is one of the world’s
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Tl-bearing sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: Philrothite, TlAs3S5 L. BINDI1...I-35122, Padua, Italy FGL (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach), Via dello Storno 18, I-20147 Milan, Italy [Received...new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. It occurs as very rare...geophysicist and well known mineral expert on the Lengenbach minerals for more than 25 years. K EY WORDS :...Tl-sulfosalt, Lengenbach, Switzerland. Introduction THE Lengenbach quarry located in the Binn Valley, Canton
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SPECIES OF THALLIUM SULFOSALT FROM LENGENBACH, BINNTAL, SWITZERLAND Stefan GRAESER§ Natural History Museum...Institute, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Dan TOPA Department of Geology and Mineralogy...occurring in the famous Lengenbach locality, at Binntal, Canton Valais, Switzerland. It was discovered in...Gabriel, of Basel, Switzerland, well-known mineral photographer and expert of Lengenbach minerals. Keywords:...mineral species, sulfosalt, thallium, Lengenbach, Switzerland. Sommaire La gabrielite, Tl2AgCu2As3S7
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minerals Review The Lengenbach Quarry in Switzerland: Classic Locality for Rare Thallium Sulfosalts... * † Lengenbach Research Association (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach, FGL), Gemeinde Binn, Dorfstr...Dorfstr. 11, 3996 Binn, Switzerland Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstr. 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;...Switzerland; phroth@sunrise.ch Correspondence: thomas.raber@kabelbw.de Anniversary publication—60 years...years of continuous mineral search at Lengenbach and 15 years of FGL. Received: 11 July 2018; Accepted:
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new Te-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...(IMA-CNMNC 2011-098) from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. It occurs as very rare...of Lengenbach quarry. K EY WORDS : debattistiite, new mineral, sulfosalts, tellurium, Lengenbach, Switzerland...Switzerland. Introduction LENGENBACH quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, is one of the most famous mineral...hutchinsonite, imhofite, jentschite, rathite, sartorite, sicherite, stalderite and wallisite (Hofmann et al., 1993;
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2001 Sicherite, TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6, a new sulfosalt mineral from Lengenbach (Binntal, Switzerland): Description... and Natural History Museum, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland 2 Department of Mineralogy, Institute of Geology...Voldgade 10, DK-1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark ABSTRACT Sicherite, TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6, is a new mineral species from...from the famous sulfosalt locality at Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. It occurs in small cavities in a...such as hutchinsonite, hatchite, and jentschite. Sicherite is orthorhombic, space group Pmnb, Z = 4, a =
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routhierite isotypic series from Lengenbach, Binn Valley, Switzerland LUCA BINDI1,*, CRISTIAN BIAGIONI2...I-56126 Pisa, Italy FGL (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach), Edith-Stein-Str. 9, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany...(Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach), Ilanzhofweg 2, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland Dipartimento di Geoscienze...AgZn2TlAs2S6, was discovered in the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland. It occurs as metallic black...silver, arsenic, crystal structure, Lengenbach, Binn Valley, Switzerland. Introduction AMONG the world-class
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Sicherite TlAg2(As, Sb)3S6 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic. Point Group: 2/m 2/m 2/m. Crystals to ~0.4 mm...719(4) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. 2.822 (100), 3.363 (50), 3.118...18.85 11.14 21.99 100.00 (1) Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland; average electron microprobe analysis;...jentschite. Distribution: From Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais Canton, Switzerland. Name: Honors Valentin...Valentin Sicher (b. 1925), active member in the Lengenbach syndicates since 1963 who contributed greatly to specimen
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a new thallium sulphosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland F. NESTOLA1,*, A. GUASTONI1, L...Tl4Pb2(As12Sb8)S20S34, is a new mineral from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. It occurs as anhedral to subhedral...sulphosalt, Lengenbach, Switzerland. Introduction SINCE the late eighteenth century the Lengenbach quarry, in...in Binntal, Switzerland, has been a unique source of a number of exclusive arsenic sulphosalts with additional...additional elements including Tl, Pb, Ag and Cu. The quarry is the type locality for 27 new mineral species
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= 5.8876(5) X-ray Powder Pattern: Binntal, Switzerland. 2.823 (100), 3.587 (86), 2.778 (84), 3.998 (74)...97 Total 99.47 [100.05] 100.00 (1) Binntal, Switzerland; by electron microprobe, average of 15 analyses;...hydrothermal deposit in dolostone. Association: sicherite. Realgar, orpiment, hutchinsonite, hatchite,... Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland [TL]. Name: In honor of Franz...early prolific collector of Lengenbach minerals. Type Material: Switzerland. Natural History Museum; Mineralogical
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new Te-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...Pb-Cu-Ag-As-Tl bearing sulfosalts Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Debattistiite has been...identified in two specimens from zone 1 of the quarry in cavities in dolomitic marble with realgar, rutile...>330 °C similar to those reported for the other Lengenbach sulfosalts. The mineral was named for Luca De...mineralogist and expert on the minerals of Lengenbach quarry who collected the specimens of debattistiite
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c = 8.06(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Binntal, Switzerland. 3.314 (100), 2.863 (90), 3.401 (80), 3.569 (40)...18.06 Total 99.9 100.65 100.00 (1) Binntal, Switzerland; by electron microprobe, corresponds to (Pb0...Association: Wallisite, hutchinsonite, jentschite, sicherite, edenharterite, bernardite, stalderite, lorandite...orpiment. Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland [TL]. Name: To honor Dr. Frederick...Marumo (1967) Über einige Mineralstufen aus dem Lengenbach (Binnatal) II. Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh
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Universität Bern, Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland Geological Institute, Department of Mineralogy...from a sartorite crystal from Lengenbach (Binntal, Valais, Switzerland), yielded a ninefold superstructure:...known to occur only at the Lengenbach deposit, Binntal (Valais, Switzerland), where it is the most common...the Zuni mine (Colorado) and the Pitone marble quarry (Apuane Alps, Italy). The mineral sartorite was...given below. During routine investigations of Lengenbach minerals found in 1993 we discovered sartorite
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© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed...mineralization, and is distributed in North Macedonia, Switzerland, and France [8–12]. The third one is related...include Apuan Alps; Tuscany in Italy [35], Lengenbach in Switzerland; and Yunfu in Guangdong, China [12,36]...remobilization of Tl [37]. Both Apuan Alps and Lengenbach are well known for the Tl-bearing sulfosalts...are [12,36]. associated with low[35], Lengenbach in Switzerland; Yunfu in Guangdong, China This type of
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Dezember 2002 Structural relationships between sicherite, marrite, freieslebenite, and diaphorite – analysis... T. (2002): Structural relationships between sicherite, marrite, freieslebenite, and diaphorite – analysis...Stuttgart. Abstract: The crystal structures of sicherite TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6, freieslebenite PbAgSbS 3, marrite...words: sicherite, marrite, freieslebenite, diaphorite, structure refinement. Introduction Sicherite, TlAg2(As...Sb)3S6, is a Tl sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry (Binntal, Switzerland) and has been described by Graeser
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167(3) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Binntal, Switzerland. 2.74 (100), 3.79 (70), 3.05 (60), 4.44 (50)...26.85 Total 103.0 98.9 100.00 (1) Binntal, Switzerland. (2) Quiruvilca, Peru; by electron microprobe...getchellite, pyrite, sphalerite, hatchite, jentschite, sicherite, edenharterite, bernardite, stalderite, ernigglite...chabournite. Distribution: In Switzerland, from the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais [TL]. At the Segen Gottes
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happens at the famous locality of Lengenbach (Wallis, Switzerland), where this cocktail upkeeps the local...baumauerite Argentobaum-hauerite écrinsite boscardinite Sicherite Andreadinite synth. synth. Gillulyite Routhierite...(TlPbAs3 S6 )–jentschite (TlPbAs2 SbS6 ) from Lengenbach, Binntal The structure-derived chemical formula...imhofite, given by [30] is Tl5.6As15S25.3. The (Switzerland) [32–34]. order-disorder model with full occupancies...096 23.917 5.888 108.063 P21 /n [32] Lengenbach, Binntal (Switzerland) [32–34]. Minerals 2018, 8, x FOR
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NaY(CO3)2•6H2O T RICLINIC Locality: Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada...Ca3Ge(OH)6(SO4)(CO3)•12H2O H EXAGONAL Locality: Gioia quarry, Colonnata valley, Carrara basin, Apuan Alps, northern...CO3)(CO3)(OH)6•12H2O H EXAGONAL Locality: The Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada...MINERALS Sicherite TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6 O RTHORHOMBIC Locality: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Canton Valais, Switzerland...Valentin Sicher (b. 1925), an active member of the Lengenbach syndicates since 1963 who contributed greatly
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écrinsite, gillulyite, parapierrotite, routhierite, sicherite, vrbaite, etc.). The general geological and geochemical...© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed...province [14]. 2.2. Local Geological Setting A quarry in the Vorontsovskoe deposit has exposed a wedge...(b) the photograph of the northern wall of the quarry with a tectonic contact between marmorized limestone...realgar-orpiment cement (sample 2016/2), exposed in one of the quarry layers. The white dotted line shows the boundary
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raberite Tl5Ag4As6SbS15 (Bindi et al., 2012), sicherite TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6 (Graeser et al., 2001) and in...new species of thallium sulfosalt from Lengenbach, Switzerland. The Canadian Mineralogist, 44, 141–158...new Tl-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...T. (2001) Sicherite, TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6 – a new sulfosalt from Lengenbach (Binntal, Switzerland): Description
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Naturhistorisches Museum, Augustinerstraße 2, 4001 Basel, Switzerland 10 Institute of Mineral Industry, Danish Technical...in distinct sites, or in distinct sulfosalts (Lengenbach deposit) jamesonite−benavidesite (e) Fe2+ ↔ Mn2+...rathite varieties from the deposit of Lengenbach, Switzerland, have been described. A critical review...Libowitsky et al. (1995). 5.3. Single type: sicherite Sicherite, Ag2 Tl(As, Sb)3 S6 Definition and STR: Graeser...deposit of Einfisch or Anniviers valley (Wallis, Switzerland) corresponds to a Birich (∼ 5 wt.%) variety of
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in veins in an altered diorite, New Cliffe Hill quarry, Stanton-upon-Bardon, Leicestershire, U.K. Hawthorne...region. Found in cavities within marble, Gioia quarry, Colonnata Valley, Carrara region, Apuan Alps,...Found in a nepheline syenite dyke in the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec. Johnsen...P1̄ Named after the discovery locality, the Gold Quarry mine. Found as a supergene mineral between fragments...fragments in a sample of jasperoid breccia, Gold Quarry Au mine, near Carlin, Eureka County, Nevada. Roberts
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Hautes-Alps, France (Nagl, 1979); [4] Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland (Nestola et al., 2009); [5] Monte...Abuta [Tl2PbSb]S4.(Sb3As6)S17 [Tl2PbSb]S4.Sb9S17 Binn Monte Arsiccio LEAD-ANTIMONY SULFOSALTS FROM TUSCANY...routhierite (Harris 1989). In the Lengenbach quarry (Binntal, Switzerland), the type deposit of dalnegroite...hutchinsonite, imhofite, jentschite, lorándite, rathite, sicherite, stalderite, and wallisite (Graeser et al. 2008)...Raber, T., & Roth, P., Eds. (2008) Faszination Lengenbach. Abbau – Forschung – Mineralien 1958-2008. Christian
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and jentschite (TlPbAs2SbS6) from Lengenbach, Binntal (Switzerland). Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt...Tl-bearing sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn valley, Switzerland: Philrothite, TlAs3S5. Mineral...(2001) Sicherite, TlAg2(As,Sb)3S6, a new sulfosalt mineral from Lengenbach (Binntal, Switzerland): Description...al., 2014 (philrothite); Graeser et al., 2001 (sicherite); Wilson et al., 1983 (fangite); Gostojić, 1980
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dalnegroite [4], parapierrotite [5], picotpaulite [6], sicherite [7], etc., but also yielded three new Tl-bearing...a new thallium sulphosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. Mineral. Mag. 2009, 73, 1027–1032... T. Sicherite, TlAg2 (As,Sb)3 S6 , a new sulfosalt mineral from Lengenbach (Binntal, Switzerland): Description...© 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed
 
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