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Chalcedony from
Virneberg Mine, Rheinbreitbach, Unkel, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pseudomalachite10 photos of Chalcedony associated with Pseudomalachite at this locality.
Quartz6 photos of Chalcedony associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chalcotrichite2 photos of Chalcedony associated with Chalcotrichite at this locality.
Malachite2 photos of Chalcedony associated with Malachite at this locality.
Aurichalcite1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Aurichalcite at this locality.
Langite1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Langite at this locality.
Rhodochrosite1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Virneberg Mine, Rheinbreitbach, Unkel, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:75561
Long-form Identifier:1:3:75561:4
GUID (UUID V4):642f2515-17f1-4375-be32-ee83af6df869
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
4.2km (2.6 miles) Venus Mine, Linz am Rhein, Linz am Rhein, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
7.5km (4.6 miles) Quegstein, Wintermühlenhof, Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
11.8km (7.4 miles) Rabenlay (Rabenley), Oberkassel (Obercassel), Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
38.2km (23.8 miles) Büschhof Quarry (Schretzmair Quarry), Wirtenbach, Nümbrecht, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
48.8km (30.3 miles) Radersberg quarry, Dreis-Brück, Daun, Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
53.8km (33.4 miles) Basalt quarry, Malscheid (Mahlscheid; Mahlscheiderkopf; Mahlscheider Kopf), Herdorf, Daaden-Herdorf, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
58.7km (36.5 miles) Maubacher Bleiberg, Hürtgenwald, Düren, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
67.5km (42.0 miles) Constanze Mine, Langenaubach, Haiger, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
68.2km (42.4 miles) Limestone quarry, Medenbach, Breitscheid, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
76.1km (47.3 miles) Heeg farm, Großlittgen, Wittlich-Land, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Catalog/List
limonitic gossan. 2x2". £3. 2. ANDREWSITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Light brownish yellow spherical...7. BEUDANTITE. ^. — 11 8. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. 1" group of large sharp tarnished...cubic crystals. £3- 9. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. A rich solid mass of tarnished...specimen. 2i-xli". £2.50. 13. CASSITERITE. Poldice Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Sharp black in size on. massive...Barytes matrix. 22ix2i". £5. 18. CHALCEDONY. Pedn-an-Drea Mine, Redruth, Cornwall. An unusual specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
green crystals and sub-parallel aggregates with chalcedony in white and rusty fraclured quartz. 4. Pseudomalachite...Coll., 537), Rheinbreitinbach, Rhine province, Germany; dark green aggregates and single crystals (0.5...stained chert. 5. "Dihydrite" (USNM, R5381), Virneberg, Linz, Germany; dark green aggregate of crystals in opening...cherty matrix. 8. Pseudomalachite (HMM, 61351), Virneberg; radiating aggregates of dark green to black crystals...white milky quartz. 9. "Lunnite" (HMM), Nassau, Germany; dark green radiating aggregate. 10. Pseudomalachite
Catalog/List
MAY 1975 1. ALLEMONTITE, st. _ndreasberg, Harz, Germany. Very rich, silveJY grey, oetallic mass associated...s-pecimen. 3x2~". £10. BAYLDONITE. Penberthy Crofts Mine, st. Hilary, Cornwall. Rich, light green, cellular...Quartz. 2xltxl-}". £1, 50. :ilORNITE. Ca rn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwa 11, Sma 11, tarnished, irridescent...in association. 2xltxl". £8. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Small, dark green, tabular crystals...encrusting a Basalt matrix. 2ix2". £3.25. CHALCEDONY. North Roskear Mine, Camborne, CornHall. Translucent waxy
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Siderite. 3xltxl~". £14-. ARTHURITE. Hingston Do"m Mine, Nr. '::a"llington, Cornwall. Rich apple green coloured...matrix. 3x2~". £3.50. AT CITE. Duke of Corn,mll Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Specimen AChoice, lustrous...rich matrix. 2xlt". £2.50. BARYTES. Settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Specimen A Very choice...for display. 4-x2hli". £13. " BARYTES. Hailemoor Mine, Nr. Egremont, Cumberland. Fine, lustrous, creamy...attractive specimen. 3~x3x2". £11. " BARYTES. Silverband Mine, Great Dun Fell, Westmoreland. An unusual sharp
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LONDON MADISON CARD STUTTGART AVENUE, NUMBER: GERMANY 1964 NEW 65-11372 YORK, N. Y. 10022 aaa M576...and Xenomorphic Crystals. Systems and dales. Chalcedony. Agate. Amethyst. Opal 84 Solfataras. Zeolites... 19 Natrolite Tetrahedrite Turquoise 20 Chalcedony Rhodochrosite Smithsonite 21 Sardonyx Barytes...word mineral is derived from the Latin minare, to mine, and was originally used to include all rocks which...minutely crystalline (cryptocrystalline) mineral chalcedony. A careful look at a well-formed crystal with
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hardness, color and occurrence. Printed in Germany Hippocrene Color Guides GEMS AND MINERALS IN...a HIPPOCRENE BOOKS, INC. First published in Germany by Chr. Belser Verlag, Stuttgart, under the title...Number: 74-8194 SNB: 0-88254-281-8 Printed in Germany STEINE, FOREWORD The book by R. Metz and A...CRYSTALS mineral comes from the Latin minare, to mine, and originally designated minerals and rocks so...a result of internal changes opal can become chalcedony. Merely by looking at a well-developed crystal
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Wm. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1973. Printed in Germany. FOREWORD The book by R. METZ and A. E. FANCK...The word mineral comes from the Latin minare, to mine, and originally designated minerals and rocks so...a result of internal changes opal can become chalcedony. Merely by looking at a well-developed crystal...raspberries, on encrusting honeycombed limonite. From Wolf mine, Herdorf, near Betzdorf in valley of the Sieg. Rhodochrosite...brown-coloured crystal edges. From Cecilia mine, WOlsendorf, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria. Fluorite from Latin fluor
Wm. Collins Sons and Co. Ltd, 1973. Printed in Germany. FOREWORD The book by r. Merz and a. £. FANCK...The word mineral comes from the Latin minare, to mine, and originally designated minerals and rocks so...result of internal changes opal _ can become chalcedony. Merely by looking at a well-developed crystal...raspberries, on encrusting honeycombed limonite. From Wolf mine, Herdorf, near Betzdorf in valley of the Sieg. Rhodochrosite...reddish coloured compact barytes. From Sophia mine, Wittichen, Black Forest. Calcite from Latin
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(420 tons); others localities include Mansfeld (Germany), Bisbee (Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra...native sliver include Kongsberg (Norway), Freiberg (Germany), Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode...Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)...silver and arsenic. It is found at St Andreasberg (Germany), Sala (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), Prlbram (Czech
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(420 tons); others localities include Mansfeld (Germany), Bisbee (Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra...native sliver include Kongsberg (Norway), Freiberg (Germany), Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode...Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)...silver and arsenic. It is found at St Andreasberg (Germany), Sala (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), Prlbram (Czech
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undoubtedly that of perThe superiority which France and Germany sonal instruction. have attained in mineralogical...Soda Ixiii Lithia Ammonia Of the Alkalies as mine The Metals Of the comparative ages .w a. stituents... be The colour of the formed chrysoprase of chalcedony. by some supposed to arise from an intimate mixture...state of decomposition, as some varieties of chalcedony and opal. Magnetism. xxxvtti Magnetism. This...consumed in the bleacheries of Britain, F ranee, and Germany. The violet colour employed in porcelain painting
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mineral’s name, which is occurs as a sulfides. ¢ Germany ; United States derived from akantha, the Greek...paradamite, which was first identified at the Ojuela Mine in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, and confirmed as a...coal deposits. Main Sources: ¢ Brazil ¢ England ¢ Germany ¢ Italy @ Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts...Main Sources: @ Czech Republic ¢ England ¢ France Germany ¢ Hungary ¢ India @ Italy @ Russia Spain @ Colorado...Denmark ¢ Dominican Republic @ England France @ Germany ¢ Italy ¢ Mexico @ Myanmar (Burma) ¢ Norway # Romania
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attitude to life. Marcasite. 100 mm. Misburg. Germany 7 i 1. Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK...Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...: Vie in) were found Silver. 52 mm. Freiberg. Germany Copper. 120 mm. Keweenaw Peninsula. U.S.A. in...have been found. Silver, 55 mm. Schwarzwald. Germany Beautiful specimens of wire silver with wires...from Freiberg, Schneeberg and St. Andreasberg, Germany. Wires several cm long were also found in Pribram
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peg1natites and T, \farcasite, I 00 mm, Mis burg, Germany meteorites); 2. sedimentary, when a mineral crystallizes...Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...('3/i6in) were found Silver, 52 mm, Freiberg, Germany Copper, 120 mm, Keweenaw Peninsula, US.A. in Dzhezkazgan...have been found . Silver, 55 mm. Schwarzwald, Germany 10 Beautiful specimens of wire silver with wires...from Freiberg, Schneeberg and St. Andreasberg, Germany. Wires several cm long were also found in Pribrarn
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Prof. of Mineralogy, University of Cologne, West Germany; Curator of The Mineralogical Museun1. A dear friend... Mineralogical Museum, University of Cologne, Germany Mineralogical Museum , University of Berne, Switzerland...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores
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Congress Catalog Card No. 66-17809 Printed in Germany 08 011635 3 PREFACE TO THE T H I R D (GERMAN)...N , Troy, New York, USA G. FRIEDRICH, Aachen, Germany H . FROHBERG, Toronto, Canada R. L A GANZA, North...Pullman, Washington R. A. ZIMMERMANN, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Bamdohr, Theorie Minerals XVÜ ABBREVIATIONS...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border
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Hartenstein Germany a.hiller@wismut.de Dr. Manfred Schauer Am Hexenberg 8 09224 Chemnitz Germany Günter...Florastraße 17 09131 Chemnitz Germany Udo Zimmermann Am See 16b 01796 Pirna Germany ISBN: 978-3-540-78553-8    ISBN...contributed during discussions, field trips, and mine visits. As cited in the text, many colleagues provided...(Hungary), H. J. Förster (Germany), R. Fritsche (Germany), A. Hiller (Germany), J. Hruby (Czech Republic)... Bojkov (Bulgaria), H. Schleicher (Germany), W. Schuppan (Germany), A. Steenfelt (Denmark/Greenland)
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Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Earth Science Department / College of Science,...Feld 236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Sodenstr. 19, D-12309 Berlin, Germany Graslitzer Str. 5, D-63791 Karlstein...Karlstein am Main, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften...Ressourcengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D80333 München, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe...Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr &
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Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...cubes. Bromyrite is found near Dernbach, Nassau, Germany (iodobromite) asA chlorian variety sociated with...probably also occurs in that state in the Hechman mine, near Globe, Gila County. Many other occurrences...reported from salt works at Hallein, Salzburg, Germany. Artificial NaCl-2H20 is probably monocUnic and...seams: at Duttweiler near Saarbriicken in the Saar, Germany; in mines of the Plauenschen Grund near Dresden;
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sufficiently ascertained. The characters of the mine- from their action upon light, will no doubt form...Robert Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mine, By William Phillips. Third edition. Lon- ralogy...crystallised and massive, in different parts of Germany, 4. countries. many particularly in Mansfeld...Saxony, England, and Norway. Several parts of Germany, France, Siberia, America, &c. produce likewise...R 1. R oc. Sim. Fig. 109. 1. Himmelsfiirst mine, Saxony. R 4- 2. Fig. 111. oo. 2. R R 3. R oo
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aggregation . - In respect to the mode of aggregation, mine rals, in the first place, are either solid or fluid...decomposition of copper pyrites. Hartz, Anglesea, Rio Tinto mine in Spain. Sp. 12. NICKEL Vitriol , Hunt. [ In capillary...] Hydrated sulphate of nickel. ( Hunt.) Wallace mine, Lake Huron . Sp. 13. Alum . [H.= 20 ...2:5. G...eye) occur at Ilfeld in the Hartz , in Northern Germany and at Matlock in Derbyshire. Compact white gypsum...beds in the trias and perinian red sandstones of Germany, France , Italy and England : and in Nova Scotia
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Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald...the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit, Herault dept.. France... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite
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inhabitants of Thuringia. The 2. Sylvaticus. Mulot. mine —M. Ger. Field-rat. die Waldmaus. le cauda... Gott. 1774. Svo. Tab. 1,2.) In many parts of Germany, Poland, Siberia, &c. Lives chiefly on corn and...and Siberia, and was formerly an inhabitant of Germany. It is not probable, however, on ac- still count...Europe. It builds in old walls, steeples, &c. in Germany. This exceedingly beautiful bird and lives in...capite cristato. (Frisch. Tab. 15. fig. 2.) In Germany, and the neighbouring countries. 28. Sturnus. Rostrum
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instances, as for Haematite, Chalcedony, Wavellite, Sac. in Chalcedony, the individuals become so delicate...Lime, in those productions called stalactites Chalcedony and Iron Pyrites. The coralloidal shapes : consist...examples in the reniform and stalactitic shapes of Chalcedony and Gibbsite, in whose specimens, in general...columnar particles ; and in Carbonate of Lime and in Chalcedony, columnar particles are observed consisting again...observable, as called Hornstone, Flint, and Chalcedony. in the varieties of Quartz This degree of lustre
 
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