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Sinnerite from
Lengenbach Quarry, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Sinnerite
Formula:Cu6As4S9
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Realgarⓘ6 photos of Sinnerite associated with Realgar at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ5 photos of Sinnerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Dolomiteⓘ4 photos of Sinnerite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Pararealgarⓘ3 photos of Sinnerite associated with Pararealgar at this locality.
Sartorite Group3 photos of Sinnerite associated with Sartorite Group at this locality.
Liveingiteⓘ2 photos of Sinnerite associated with Liveingite at this locality.
Tennantite Subgroupⓘ2 photos of Sinnerite associated with Tennantite Subgroup at this locality.
Sartoriteⓘ1 photo of Sinnerite associated with Sartorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sinnerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (13 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:10159
Long-form Identifier:1:3:10159:4
GUID (UUID V4):132669ed-6c5d-4284-90eb-910a22756bb5
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3749/canmin.51.6.851 SINNERITE, Cu6As4S9, FROM THE LENGENBACH QUARRY, BINN VALLEY, SWITZERLAND: DESCRIPTION AND...Luca DE BATTISTI FGL (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach), Via dello Storno 18, I-20147 Milano, Italy...structure of sinnerite, Cu6As4S9, a rare sulfosalt mineral from the ores of the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley...Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland, by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and chemical analysis. We found sinnerite...sinnerite to be structurally identical to synthetic Cu6As4S9. It is triclinic, space group P1, with cell
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new Cu-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...Universität Basel, Bernoullistrasse 30, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University...Innsbruck, Austria FGL (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach), Edith-Stein-Strasse 9, D-79110 Freiburg, Germany...new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. It occurs as very rare...up to 300 mm across associated with realgar, sinnerite, hatchite, trechmannite and yellow, ïŹbrous smithite
Report (issue)
Sinnerite Cu6As4S9 Crystal Data: Triclinic, pseudocubic. Point Group: 1. Flattened to columnar crystals...= 90.27(2)° X-ray Powder Pattern: Binntal, Switzerland. 3.02 (100), 1.852 (80), 1.581 (70), 1.205 (30)... (3) 39.32 30.91 29.77 100.00 (1) Binntal, Switzerland; by electron microprobe, corresponding to Cu6...sphalerite. Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland [TL]. Name: Honors Rudolph...Commission of the Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Type Material: Mineralogical-Petrographical
Report (issue)
Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. 2.941 (100), 2.776 (80)...16.63 21.36 100.00 (1) Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland; average of 5 electron microprobe...Realgar, sinnerite, hatchite, trechmannite, smithite, dolomite. Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry...quarry, Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Name: Honors Markus Ecker (b. 1966), an expert on the minerals of...of Lengenbach quarry. Type Material: Natural History Museum, University of Florence, Italy (3144/I) and
Report (issue)
23.78 100.00 (1) Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland; average electron...within metadolostone. Association: Sinnerite, realgar (Lengenbach); gold, bismuth, covellite, hessite...Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland [TL]. From the Nibao...deposit, Guizhou, China, and Chandolin Alp, Valais, Switzerland. Name: Honors the English chemist Smithson...tetrahedrite-group mineral from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn, Switzerland. Mineral. Mag., 85, 744-751. (2)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
entries of new data for cannonite, magbasite, and sinnerite. Adranosite-(Fe)* D. Mitolo, F. Demartin, A....Langangen, Telemark, and (2) the AS Granit larvikite quarry, Tvedalen, Vestfold. In locality 1, ferrochiavennite...NaMn2[Si3BO9](OH)2, is a new mineral found at the Poudrette quarry, La VallĂ©e-du-Richelieu, MontĂ©rĂ©gie (formerly Rouville... 34–40. Sinnerite L. Bindi, E. Makovicky, F. Nestola, and L. De Battisti (2013) Sinnerite, Cu6As4S9...Cu6As4S9, from the Lengenbach quarry Binn Valley, Switzerland: description and re-investigation on the crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TlPbAsS3, a new sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland NICOLAS MEISSER1,*, PHILIPPE...discovered in the Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland, intimately associated...knowledge of the Lengenbach mineralogy during the ïŹrst ïŹ‚ourishing period of Lengenbach investigations,...thallium; arsenic; crystal structure; Lengenbach; Binn Valley; Switzerland. un 10 MusĂ©e cantonal de gĂ©ologie...Lausanne, Anthropole, Dorigny, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland *Corresponding author, e-mail: nicolas.meisser@unil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures were discovered...in particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding...mineral locality in the Alps, namely, the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal. In 1958, due to the initiative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Berne, Switzerland Werner Nowacki, one of the leading crystallographers in Switzerland, died in a...Therefore in the fall of 1932 he returned to Switzerland as an assistantto Paul Niggli at the ETH. In...cooperation in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lengenbach (working community of Lengenbach)to investigate the sulfosalt...of the Lengenbachdeposit in the valley of Binn, Switzerland. During this time 122 publications resulted...discoveredin the Lengenbachdeposit: rathiteIV, sinnerite, wallisite, imhofite, and nowackiite. On the basis
Report (issue)
557(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. 3.927 (100), 2.850 (70), 2.929...20.36 21.38 26.16 101.94 (1) Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland; average of 11 electron microprobe...Sb-rich seligmanite, sinnerite. Distribution: Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. Name: Honors Alberto...a new thallium sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Switzerland. Mineral. Mag., 73, 1027–1032.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER. II. THE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF SINNERITE, Cu6AsaSe. Eurl, MerovrcKy ANDBnreNJ. SrruNnn...Uniuersity,New Hauen,Conn.06520 .Asstnect Synthetic sinnerite has the composition CuoAs*Se;it is triclinic,...application of the two primary ones. INrnopucrrox Sinnerite was described as a new mineral by Marumo and...diffraction patterns and composition,they identifiedas sinnerite. Coruposruor Marumo and Nowacki reported analysesof...evidencewas found in &4 SINNERITE Table 1. of Composition the Lengenbach Synthetic cryslal marerlal
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211JAHRIGEN BESTF.I-IF.!'-! DER ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT LENGENBACH DIE MINERALIEN DES BINNTALES ZUM 20JÄHRIGEN...20JÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT LENGENBACH Von H.A. STALDER (Bern) P. EMBREY (London) S. GRAESER...Binntal, nĂ€mlich am Lengenbach, seit 195 8 durch die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lengenbach bewerkstelligt, an...2.ojĂ€hrigen Bestehen der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lengenbach zusammen und ergĂ€nzt die vor neun Jahren erschienene...nicht lang entdeckt 1797>> Somit gelangten also Lengenbach-Proben in die Basler Sammlung, lange bevor die
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new Cu-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Eckerite is associated...associated with realgar, sinnerite, hatchite, trechmannite and yellow, fibrous smithite. It occurs as very rare...growing on dolomite (sometimes on smithite or sinnerite), subhedral to anhedral grains up to 300 ÎŒm with...(b. 1966), a well-known mineral expert on the Lengenbach minerals. The holotype is in the Museo di Storia
Journal (issue)
and A. Palmstrom The Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland......................Joseph Imhof Famous Mineral Localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland 275 by Stefan Graeser Rare Earth Minerals...Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...g e n b a c h q u a rry , B in n a V a lle y , Valais, S w itz e rla n d (see a rtic le s in th is issue...KELLER-WILDI, W yhlenweg 40 CH 4 1 2 6 Bettingen, Switzerland ★ Cabinet specimens ★ Miniatures ★ Thumbnails
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Brscnn'n Sinnerite F. Manulro eNo W. Nowacrr, The crystal structure of lautite and of sinnerite, a new...new mineral from the Lengenbach Quarry: Schweiz. Mineral. Petrog. Mitt. M,439-54 (1964) A "smal.l crystal...was found with binnite in the Lengenbach quarry, Binnatal, Switzerland. Electron microprobe analyses...considerably different. It is therefore not certain that sinnerite is not twinned luzonite or possibly an oriented
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bonazzi et al. 1987, Hybler & Ďurovič 2013), sinnerite (Makovicky & Skinner 1975, Bindi et al. 2013)...BATTISTI, L. (2013) Sinnerite, Cu6As4S9, from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: description and...sulphosalts of copper IV. Structure and twinning of sinnerite, Cu6As4S9. American Mineralogist 60, 998–1012
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
luzonite, enargite, tennantite,lautite (CuAsS), sinnerite(Cu0As4S9)and a new compound A (Cu24As‱2Sa‱).The...sinnerire compared to natural sinnerire from the Lengenbach quarry, Binnental (Marualo arid Nowackf, 1964)....is evident in tennantite is also obvious in sinnerite and must meanthat sinneritealsohasa sphalerite-type...prepare a pure yield of sinnerite,we is preferable. amazingLengenbach Quarry at Binnenthal. Speci- believeour...suggestit deviatessignificantlyfrom this value at sinnerite is distinctive, and from it we have been able
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...deposit of Einfisch or Anniviers valley (Wallis, Switzerland) corresponds to a Birich (∌ 5 wt.%) variety of... (1980). Gruzdevite, Cu6 Hg3 Sb4 S12 Related Sinnerite, Cu6 As4 S9 STR: Makovicky & Skinner (1975). Watanabeite
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the private Bally foundation at Schonenwerd, Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because...Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly because they...rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...contain minerals and rocks from the famous pegmatite quarry at Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. A further 600...FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento
Crystallography, University * Contribution (Switzerland). - Part 29 on sulfides. 1 Present address: University...an old collection of minerals from Lengenbach, Binnatal, Switzerland (MARUMOand BURRI, 1965). There were...with the suggestion of Mr. J. IMHOF, prospector in Binn, who gave us the specimen for investigation. Recently...Nowackiite, a new copper zinc arsenosulfosalt from Lengenbach. Chimia 19,500-501. 368 F. MARUMO F. MARUMO...structure of lautite and of sinnerite, a new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry. Schweiz. Min. Petro Mitt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crystallography, University * Contribution (Switzerland). - Part 29 on sulfides. 1 Present address: University...an old collection of minerals from Lengenbach, Binnatal, Switzerland (MARUMOand BURRI, 1965). There were...with the suggestion of Mr. J. IMHOF, prospector in Binn, who gave us the specimen for investigation. Recently...Nowackiite, a new copper zinc arsenosulfosalt from Lengenbach. Chimia 19,500-501. 368 F. MARUMO F. MARUMO...structure of lautite and of sinnerite, a new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry. Schweiz. Min. Petro Mitt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
different from maletoyvayamite. The structure of sinnerite [Cu6As4S9] (Bindi et al., 2013) is metrically...Makovicky E. (2013) Sinnerite, Cu6As4S9, from the lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: Description and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
translucent copper-red plates from Lengenbach, Binn, Valais, Switzerland, are monoclinic, composition near...honey-yellow blende from Lengenbaeh, Binn, Valais, Switzerland, are rhombohedral, composition near CusZn3As4S12_13...manganoan and possibly silicatian Berzeliite. Sinnerite. F. Marumo and W. Nowacki, 1964. Schweiz. Min...crystal found with temlaatite in the Lengenbach quarry near Binn, Switzerland, is pseudocubic with a pseudocell...overgrowth on rathite (rathite-I) from Lengenbach, Binn, Valais, Switzerland. The material is anorthic, with
 
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