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Dolomite from
Granite quarries, Gänsgraben, Limberg, Maissau, Hollabrunn District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granite quarries, Gänsgraben, Limberg, Maissau, Hollabrunn District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1205391
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1205391:7
GUID (UUID V4):e288c02b-b7a0-40fb-b855-9f2326f14d7f
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
27.7km (17.2 miles) Marble quarries (incl. Renz Quarry; Bundesheer Quarry), Winkl, Röhrenbach, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
29.1km (18.1 miles) Serpentinite quarry, Pingendorf, Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
29.5km (18.3 miles) Töppenitzgraben (Töpenitzgraben; Töbernitzgraben; Töppenitzbach), Altpölla, Pölla, Zwettl District, Lower Austria, Austria
32.0km (19.9 miles) Serpentinite quarries, Dietmannsdorf an der Wild, Brunn an der Wild, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
33.0km (20.5 miles) Granulite quarry (Asamer quarry; Wanko gravel works), Meidling, Paudorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
33.8km (21.0 miles) Hengl quarry, Eibenstein an der Thaya, Raabs an der Thaya, Waidhofen an der Thaya District, Lower Austria, Austria
35.0km (21.7 miles) Malaschofsky Quarry, Lichtenau im Waldviertel, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
36.4km (22.6 miles) Lower serpentinite quarry, Zwettler Leiten, Felling, Gföhl, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
47.2km (29.3 miles) Graphite quarry, Amstall, Mühldorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
47.2km (29.4 miles) Marble quarry, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcite and dolomite, build entire mountain ranges; for instance, mountains of dolomite in Tyrol, but...crystalline, igneous rocks are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone...thalium. STRZEGOM (Strigov), Lower Silesia, Poland. In granite quarries occur large xIs of microcline...twins of gypsum crystals. BLEIBERG, Carnthia, Austria. Leadzinc deposit, here occur: galena, large xIs...greenockite, stolzite and srnithsonite. Near Salzburg Austria, well known mineral locality: wagnerite, lazurite
Book (edition)
Scotland (Fig. 2) .. 4 PART I. CRUSHED STONE QUARRIES .• PART II. GRAVEL PITS PART III. SLAG WORKS...INDEX OF OWNERS 82 •• ALPHABETICAL I NDEX OF QUARRIES, GRAVEL P I TS AND SLAG WORKS PART V I . 7 ...Norite Peridotite Picrite Serpentine GRANITE GROUP Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite...GROUP LIMESTONE GROUP Contact-altered rocks of Dolomite all kinds except marble Limestone Marble GRITSTONE...and the Wash, is lacking in" solid " roadstone quarries, the only exceptions being the workings on the
Book (edition)
PETROGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION 1 Crushed stone quarries 1 Gravel pits 2 Slag works 3 GEOLOGICAL...alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks are listed separately...classJ.fication of rock (quarries only) Colour or any other information (quarries and pits) Where any of...Norite Peridotite Picrite Serpentine Granite group Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite...rocks of all kinds except marble Limestone group Dolomite Limestone Marble Porphyry group Aplite Dacite
Book (edition)
PETROGRAPHICAL CLAssIFICATION 1 Crushed stone quarries 1 Gravel pits 3 Slag works 4 GEOLOGICAL...alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks are listed separately...classification of rock (quarries only) Colour or any other information (quarries and pits) Where any of... PETROGRAPHI CAL CLASSIFICATION CRUSHED STONE QUARRIES The Petrographical Department of the Institute...Norite Peridotite Picrite Serpentine Granite group Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sent R&M—it is an interesting specimen of gray granite showing specks of brassyyellow pyrite. A 4'á inch...Morrilton, Ark., for a beautiful pinkish, xled dolomite that comes from one of the old zinc mines at Rush...color) have been found in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M...octahedra in quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in...number of specimens from that famous Zinc-Lead District, which includes N. W. Arkansas, S. W. Missouri
as a volcano. An example of intrusive rock is granite while an extrusive example could be basalt. Sedimentary...along road cuts, river banks, cliffs, ridges, quarries, and excavations. Localities can be found in books...chemical composition in minerals such as calcite, dolomite, and aragonite, or rocks such as limestone, dolostone...cuprite, rutile, cassiterite, calcite, aragonite, dolomite, siderite, rhodochrosite, malachite, azurite...(grey, blue), p. 112 gypsum (white), p. 124 dolomite (grey, pink), p. 280 diamond (colourless), p
Report (issue)
was in common use in Winnipeg architecture. The quarries were barely 10 years old at the time, and Tyndall...provided the raw material for the northwest bastion of Lower Fort Garry. The fort, on the banks of the Red River...Tyndall stone, a few kilometres upstream from the Lower Fort. It is the oldest church still in use in western...Manitoba's first commercial stone quarry, in the Garson district, to serve Canada's booming construction industry...stuck to the final product to this day. Other quarries soon followed Garson's. At the height of Winnipeg's
Journal (issue)
JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2019 Articles The Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Spain ............................other young collectors, and visited some local quarries in search of specimens, though he initially found... Maharashtra, India 6 cm The Almade;n Mining District, Ciudad Real, Spain Borja Sainz de Baranda Graf...Alcala de Henares (Spain) The Almadén Mining District exploited the largest mercury deposit in the world...in 2012, the district was declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The Almadén District has yielded excellent
Book
rare-earth species found as small crystals in drusy dolomite-lined cavities. The extremely rare yttrium silicate-carbonate...transparent, tabular microcrystals on matrix of white dolomite, and rarely as doubly terminated crystals to I...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...cm thick have been found in veins of iron-rich dolomite (Mitchell and Bland, 1964a; Watson, Trimble and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
donated 3 interesting minerals from the Castle Dome District of Yuma Co., Ariz. The specimens are fluorite...marl near Delaware City, New Castle Co., Del. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—The following notes, dated Dec. 25...excellent goethite géodes I have found in the Oxon Run district. The goethite ranges from 1/8" to 1/2" thick as...with good crystals of quartz, calcite, selenite, dolomite, (with saddle shaped xls) and a few with good...of what he is offering col- mens were received: Dolomite: Dark brown saddle-shaped lectors in his unique
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Siltstonescloseto the contact with the North-West granite have been bleached,silicified,and dolomitized,...mineralization contains sphalerite and ferroan dolomite accompanied by lesser amounts of galena and chalcopyrite...Jersey, close to the granite quarries of L'Etacq. A contact between the North-West granite which is of Cadomian...they are brecciated and hornfelsed close to the granite contact (Henson, I956), and are extensively but...A fault trending 275 ~ extends from within the granite into the siltstones for approximately 5o m (Lode
Journal (issue)
···································· 471 BLEIBERG, AUSTRIA .................................................SPECIMEN FROM PENN. ........ 479 BRENNER PASS OF AUSTRIA ··············································...them. They are correctly known as the Harris Lime Quarries, Lime Rock (hamlet) , Lincoln (township) ; and...limestone" in commerce. Harris Quanies The Harris Quarries ( old books often used the terms beds or pits)...crystal~ of dolomite, quartz, and calcite. These three were often unusual pieces. The dolomite was used
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a friend's report on a dolomite cave. "Found surface xl coatings of dolomite on a hard gray limestone...scattered xls of pyrite (am I correct ? ) . The dolomite varies in shades of peach and pink but is hard...chalcopyrite on xled pale pink dolomite—very nice. No pyrite present. ALASKA—From Granite Creek, near Chickaloon...1959, a recent discovery of gold on lot 999, 12th district, of Lumpkin County, Ga., which is owned by the...road cut on Wheeler Road, near Oxen Run at the District of Columbia line in Prince Georges County, Maryland
Report (volume)
............................................. Dolomite.............................................................................................. Granite...............................................................:............ 30 Limestone and dolomite.......................................... Metamorphic......... Oneota dolomite.............................................. Shakopee dolomite................."St. Cloud red" granite.................................. 50 " St. Cloud gray" granite...............
Journal (issue)
section which may contain a number of mines or quarries is often listed apparently as a single oc­ currence...featuring two localities? At Oneco, Conn., are two granite quarries, Oneco and Marriot, which have produced a...These are but a few instances of how mines or quarries are often incorrectly, loosely or carelessly recorded...it really from Clay Center, or one o f the many quarries near several other Ohio towns? t ^ ra M sg s...Mineralogy-Petrology Burgring 7, A-1014 Vienna, Austria ustria has many small occurrences which are mineralogically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks in...and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the Middle...exposes banded iron formation: ankerite, chlorite, dolomite, garnet (almandine?), gnmerite, hematite, magnetite...orthopyroxene (Laybourn 1979). Loon Lake quarries.Active quarries near Mellen (NE,SW, and SE sec. 29 T.45N. R.2W...sec. 30 T. 19N. R. low.):calcite (fluorescent), dolomite, goethite, marcasite, quartz. Chippewa County
Report (Issue volume)
I LIST OF QUARRIES 1948 .. NORTHERN DIVISION • .,. I ' NORTHERN DIVISION MR. R. J . EDWARDS ... I LIST OF QUARRIES under the QUARRIES ACT in the NORTHERN DIVISION (A list of certain mineral works...being mines or quarries is shown on_pa~e 41. They are not included in the indices of quarries or owners.... 30. 31, 32. Limestone . ESKETT LIMESTONE QUARRIES LTD., Winder, Frizington, Cumberland. ESKETT;...Cottage , Thursby, Carlisl e. HOW MILL; HODGSON' S QUARRIES , Pro spe et CLINTZ ; BRIGGLE ; 28. 5, 40
Report (issue)
MINES DEPA RTMENT C: ... I LIST OF QUARRIES (under the Quarries Act, I 8 94) IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE...' ,<. \ .... c. f • ll List of Quarries under the Quarries Act in Great Britain and the · Isle of...of Man, for the Year 1937. The Quarries Act, 1894, applied to open workings for minerals, which were...vhen the Factories Act came into operation, all quarries, irrespective of depth, were brought under general...quarry law. This List, however, generally excludes quarries twenty feet or less in depth . For the purposes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits of zinc-lead ores in Silesian-Cracow district have been known for many centuries and the largest...Mexico. ROCKS AND MINERALS bearing layers of dolomite of triasic formation, contain the following minerals:...containing 9 % PbCO : i ). Jordanite occurs in district of Bytom, Sharley mine. According to W. Emmons...chromium, tin have been found in the Silesian district, near Swidnica. The arsenic bearing ore—arsenopyrite...ore—arsenopyrite has been discovered near Rowno, in Zabkowice, Lower Silesia. Arsenic ore contains about 7c/r arsenic
Report (issue)
among the States of the Union in the value of her granite and marble production but, in 1939, she yielded...of the Barre District (Plate 2) ..................................6-7 Granite Quarries (Plates 3 & 4)........................24-25 Monuments of Barre Granite ..............................................26-27...aol. 27 (1932), pp. 169 and 291. JKP,hc Cs/a/c Quarries 2 A metric ton weighs 2205 pounds. REPORT OF...City; mine manager, C. T. Limerick, Hyde Park, Vt. Quarries and mill at Eden, Vermont ; shipping point, Hyde
Book
rocks, such as limestone, calcite, marble and dolomite (which when pure are forms of limestone). These...(quartz, calcite, corundum, haematite, tourmaline, dolomite) (6) cubic (fluorite, galena, rock salt, magnetite...copper coin (muscovite), (4) and (5) by a knife (dolomite) — minerals of (5) correspond to the hardness...found in association with one rock type, e.g. granite, or may be found associated with both igneous and...or as the building component of the silicates.) Granite is the commonest type of rock on the Earth. It
Book
of Mt. Carroll (map location 7). Oregon Stone Quarries, Inc., has a stone quarry 1 mile east of Oregon...operations underground in the Calcium Carbonate Co. quarries, which are located 3 2 Ainites south of Quincy...HISTORICAL 40 SITES Ill. 89.—There is a gray granite monument on Ill. 89 southwest of Cherry commemorating...southwestern part of the State. Crushed limestone quarries and sand and gravel pits are widely scattered...State. The famous Salem Limestone dimension stone quarries are located in a narrow belt extending from Bloomington
Book
rocks, such as limestone, calcite, marble and dolomite (which when pure are forms of limestone). These...(quartz, calcite, corundum, haematite, tourmaline, dolomite) (6) cubic (fluorite, galena, rock salt, magnetite...copper coin (muscovite), (4) and (5) by a knife (dolomite)-minerals of (5) correspond to the hardness of...found in association with one rock type, e.g. granite, or may be found associated with both igneous and...or as the building component of the silicates.) Granite is the commonest type of rock on the Earth. It
Journal (issue)
from Van Arsdalen's Quarries. Stilbite, apatite, garnets and crystallized dolomite from Rose Glen, and...stilbite, fibrolite and chab- azite from Mr. Kinney's Quarries. Mr. Goodwin reports garnets and apatite from...DESCHONG'S, LEIPERS, LEIPER AND LOUIS' UPPER AND LOWER GRANITE QUARRIES, WITH THAT KNOWN AS THE SWARTHMORE QUARRY...said of the minerals fouud at these different quarries, but this paper is based wholly upon my own observations...has been found Graphic Granite and Chabazite. My first visit to these quarries was on the 25th of June
Book
as a volcano. An exan1ple of intrusive rock is granite while an extrusive example could be basa lt. Sedin1entary...along road cuts, river banks, cliffs, ridges, quarries, and excavations. Localities can be found i11...variable), p. 146 calcite (white, variable), p. 138 dolomite(grey, pink), p. 280 baryte (white, pale blue)...Rocks Colour Grain size Coarse Fine Light granite (p. 248) syenite {p. 254) rhyolite (p. 256) Medium...Medium conglomerate (p. 268) sandstone (p. 272) dolomite (p. 142) Dark breccia (p. 270) conglomerate
 
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