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Wurtzite from
Diabase quarry, Rachelshausen, Gladenbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Wurtzite
Formula:(Zn,Fe)S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite2 photos of Wurtzite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wurtzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diabase quarry, Rachelshausen, Gladenbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:114687
Long-form Identifier:1:3:114687:5
GUID (UUID V4):e009e6e3-1b3b-4d9c-9c29-b2df19882ceb
Nearest other occurrences of Wurtzite
58.5km (36.4 miles) Ramsbeck, Bestwig, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
67.8km (42.1 miles) Büschhof Quarry (Schretzmair Quarry), Wirtenbach, Nümbrecht, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
89.5km (55.6 miles) Genna zinc smelter slag locality, Helmke quarry nature reserve, Letmathe, Iserlohn, Märkischer Kreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
93.2km (57.9 miles) Lüderich Mine, Altenbrück, Steinenbrück, Overath, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (edition)
County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company quarry in York County, are...Zircon Crystal 50 Diagramatic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite 53 Geologic Cross-Section of West ...84 of Deweylite after Dolomite, Ceclar Hill Quarry 89 _ Limonite Pseudomorphs from Chestnut Hill...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...have been taken from topographic quadrangles. A quarry or mine symbol designates the exact mineral location
Report (edition)
“old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE...permission from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land...identified. To the members of Friends of Mineralogy, Region III, we are indebted or most of the new localities
Report (edition)
owners the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...Metamorphic rocks: Schist Gneiss Igneous rocks: Diabase Ultrabasic Pegmatite Granite Sedimentary rocks:...Chlorite Calcite Sandstone Igneous rocks: Basalt and Diabase Aragonite 13 MINERAL AND ROCK ASSOCIATIONS...Status of the Copper 17 ADAMS COUNTY Mountain Region, Pa. Geol. Survey, 3rd ser. Biennial Rept. Appendix...Location: There are several localities for wurtzite in Allegheny County, as well as in Indiana, Armstrong
Report (edition)
Crystal . . . . . . .. Diagra1natic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite Graphic Granite Geologic Cross-Section...Pseudomorphs of Deweylite after Aragonite. Cedar Hill Quarry . . . . . . . Calcite Crystal Forms "Picrolite"... Q t9 Diabase intrusions 225 er ...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...have been taken from topographic quadrangles. A quarry or mine symbol designates the exact mineral location
Report (Issue volume)
igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...sulfides as fracture fillings and veins in limestone. Wurtzite and other sulfides in nodules. Sandstone-type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and...deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments distant from diabase. Zn-Pb-Cu in quartz veins cutting Triassic and
Journal (issue)
............... p. 7 Field trip report: Vulcan quarry ................ p. 8 Humor: So you wanna be a...there was sufficient iron, it might have become wurtzite (Zn,Fe)S. There seems to be some debate about...Localities Along with specimens from the tristate region, the United States is known for stunning specimens...Hissong and me along for comic relief, to a limestone quarry in Danville, KY. For one short day, we collected...sphalerite and wurtzite, usually with galena or pyrite. It is sold in attractive polished slabs. Germany, Poland
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...3 /# l D ohrm ann G old collec­ tion, G illette quarry (CT), Spanish fluorite $12 H ouston M useum Catalog...r il, 1 9 9 4 Figure 9. M icrostalactites of wurtzite on etched calcite; field of view is 3 x 4 mm;...s s CS s s s 0 s s s s s s s s s s Wurtzite (Zn,Fe)S Wurtzite was identified on several specimens from...Material of both habits has been confirmed as wurtzite by X-ray diffraction analysis. It is deposited
Report (Issue volume)
Shale Brick Corp. Fenati Brick Co., Inc. Midland Quarry, McQuiston Coal Co. Veon Mines, Ralph A. Veon,...igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...sulfides as fracture fillings and veins in limestone. Wurtzite and other sulfides in nodules. Sandstone-type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrology, University of Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany 2Department of Mineralogy and Crystallography,...Avren-Madjarovo belt of the Rhodopian metallogenic region. The various Alpine magmatic events have caused...area consists of Proterozoic metamorphic rocks, diabase-phyllitoids of Mesozoic (?) age and Paleogene basic...main hypogene minerals are: galena, sphalerite, wurtzite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, gold, electrum and hematite...to the formation of greenockite. Members of the wurtzite-greenockite solid solution series have been studied
Report (Issue volume)
active mines, 1962 .. 2. Types of active mines (quarry andjor underground) 3. Number of months that mines...Hanover Name of Mine a11djor Mining Company Hanover Quarry 2 Adams Gettysburg Teeter Stone, Inc. 3 Adams...McCanna Lime Plant Beaver Run Limestone Co. Ashcom Quarry, New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co. 7 Bedford...Bedford County Stone and Lime Co. Hinter leiter Quarry, Eastern Lime Corp. Evansville Pit No. I, Allentown...Inc. Oley Quarry, Eastern Lime Corp. Oley Quarry No. I and Oley National Gypsum Co. Quarry No. 2, Allentown
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). Translation This book has book of but ...Heineck, the as aims text- Gottingen, and Marburg, the Natural Bonn, Liebisch, a text. advantage...Brothers in the of and science in the show to Giessen is not represented are figures to the of ...antimony Iron-pyrites Polariscope Crocoite Wurtzite 126. Hemimorphite 53 the 122. Pyromorphite... Zinc-spinel, crystals. Simple Zinc-blende, Wurtzite. II. Zinc-ores Native Senarmontite, mony
Book
patches-gabbro and its finer grained variant, diabase, can be found. Though recently the original, pre-metamorphic...3. Granite (migmatite), Moragy clod 4. Gabbro, diabase Biikk 3^, was pierced by the younger, eocene...important ones are perhaps the so-called old. community quarry on the eastern limits of Szekesfehervar, the surroundings...microclmic rocks can be collected in the big granite quarry of Erdosmecske (beside the railway station). Besides...them. Gabbro and its finer, crystalline variant, diabase, can be found in small patches in the Mecsek and
Report (issue)
skarn/replacement deposits in marble bordering tholeiitic diabase sheets. These deposits contain abundant magnetite...calcareous siltstone units bordering diabase and late-stage diabase differentiates, mainly ferrogabbro...igneous segregations and veins within and bordering diabase sheets. The segregations and veins are enriched...skarn/replacement deposits in marble bordering tholeiitic diabase sheets. Skarn consists of coarse-grained Ca-Fe-Mg-Mn...calcareous siltstone units bordering diabase and late-stage diabase differentiates, mainly ferrogabbro
Journal (issue)
mining system within the Pchhsy lvania anthracite region. Sine 185~, the year the Drake w ell, this Nation's...feature. An unusual example of weathering of a diabase "sheet" which crosses eight of the southeastern...configuration that resembles the head of a dinosaur. The diabase intrusion was once a molten mass of rock called...the overly ing rock laye rs and the hard, dense diabase forms ridges and hills that exh ibit a striking...is this unusual example of the weatheri ng of diabase 1 Dept. o f Educatoon 5 topographic contrast
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOTES ON SOME MINERAL OCCURRENCES IN THE GUFFEY REGION, COLORADO* Jeuos E. Bnven, []niversity of Michigan...mineralogy for the University of Michigan. The Guffey region is an area of about 125 square miles in north-central...the junction of a rhyolite breccia dike and a diabase dike, both of which have been intruded into injection...GeoLSwtt.,Bull,.74O. L. NOTE ON SPHALERITEAND WURTZITE* Arrcn S. Conov, Llniaersity of Michigan, Ann...of the University of Michigan. Commonly natural wurtzite occurs in the form referred to as 2H by the Ramsdell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the junction of a rhyolite breccia dike and a diabase dike, both of which have been intruded into injection...GeoLSwtt.,Bull,.74O. L. NOTE ON SPHALERITEAND WURTZITE* Arrcn S. Conov, Llniaersity of Michigan, Ann...of the University of Michigan. Commonly natural wurtzite occurs in the form referred to as 2H by the Ramsdell...Ramsdell (1947) nomenclature. In addition natural wurtzite was found by Frondel and Palache(1950) to occur...investigation was undertaken to see if synthetic wurtzite could be crystallized from aqueous solution in
Book
It was found in Blair County by a traveler from Germany named Schütz, who was exploring the wilds of south-central...Pennsylvania in 1791. He took a sample back to Germany, where it was studied, and the results were published...A magnesium-bearing mica found in a serpentine quarry near Easton in Northampton County was named eastonite...of this type of rock are granite, gabbro, and diabase. The mineral crystals that are found in igneous...rock basalt and the intrusive rocks gabbro and diabase. Many felsic rocks form from magma that originated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ball, Pennsylvania 17506 Introduction where a diabase dike of triassic age intruded calcar­ eous sedimentary...sedimentary rocks (limestones). This diabase Pennsylvania has a long history of prominence in caused an...Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 but not inating from the diabase. In some places, the lime­ long after in 1683 "minerals...which but due to the immense heat of the molten diabase, helped in the colonization of Pennsylvania. it...Revolution. Pennsylvania's during early cooling of the diabase. The zeolite min­ iron industry continued to grow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....................................... 627 Wurtzite 629 ..........................................description of someof the mineral depositsof the region. Fro. 1. Index map of Newfoundlandshowingpositionof...verticalfaults are numerousin the eastern part of the region (Fig. 21). GOODYEAR PROSPECT (SPIDERPOND). The...black sphalerite,which containsa small amountof wurtzite(Figs. 6, 7, 8). Fifteento thirty bandsper centimeter...containingsmallamountsof radially arrangedgalena (Figs. 10, 15). Wurtzite. The similarity between the delicately scalloped
Book (edition)
abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...hemispherical front-lens. Type Locality: H(lwenegg, Hegau, Germany Nomenclature: From its framework structure and...combination with {110} and {OIl} is found only at Hegau, Germany (Figs. 15,18,26,27) while {WI} and {OW} in combination...15 MODIFIED HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION HEGAU,GERMANY Fig. 18 COMMON HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION ALL
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...hemispherical front-lens. Type Locality: H(lwenegg, Hegau, Germany Nomenclature: From its framework structure and...combination with {110} and {OIl} is found only at Hegau, Germany (Figs. 15,18,26,27) while {WI} and {OW} in combination...15 MODIFIED HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION HEGAU,GERMANY Fig. 18 COMMON HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION ALL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This is in error, sinceno one has found that wurtzite is stableat all at the low temperatures underd•scussion...addition,the figure derivedfrom the data showsthat wurtzite can be crystallizedin alkaline solutionsbelow...1951. LATE MAGMATIC ORES AND THE PALISADE DIABASE SHEET. Sir: In his inferestingcontributionon...:• Walker, F., Differentiation of the Palisade diabase, New Jersey: Geol. Soe. America Bull., vol. 51
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence...may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R.6E.: potassium...orthopyroxene (Laybourn 1979). Quarry Road quarry. A water-filled quarry and nearby spoils heap are in...Grandview marble quarry. This quarry exposes Proterozoic dolomitic marble cross-cut by diabase dikes in the...(Grant 1901). Buffalo County County M quany. This quarry is on County Route M, approximately 1.5 miles north
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...new Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . ...Friedrich Ahlfeld was born on 6 October 1892 in Marburg, Germany, the son of Friedrich Ahlfeld and Elizabeth...his thesis on the minerals of the Hesse-Nassau Province in Germany. During the next two years Ahlfeld...(Puno) in 1926. After spending a year consulting in Germany, he participated in the German Andean Expedition
 
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