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Opal from
Ober-Ostern, Reichelsheim, Odenwaldkreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ober-Ostern, Reichelsheim, Odenwaldkreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:165300
Long-form Identifier:1:3:165300:7
GUID (UUID V4):c22c6ec2-4ef6-442f-8b37-602d2c9aef66
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
14.7km (9.2 miles) Linck marble works, Auerbach, Bensheim, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
17.1km (10.6 miles) Hering, Otzberg, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
17.3km (10.8 miles) Goldloch Shaft, Gorxheim, Gorxheimertal, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
20.8km (12.9 miles) Roßberg Quarry, Roßdorf, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
21.4km (13.3 miles) Ursenbach Mine, Ursenbach, Schriesheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
43.8km (27.2 miles) Schwetzinger Straße slag locality, Wiesloch, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
49.4km (30.7 miles) Basalt quarries, Dietesheim, Mühlheim am Main, Offenbach, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
50.5km (31.4 miles) Fuchs Quarry, Hartkoppe, Sailauf, Aschaffenburg District, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
59.9km (37.2 miles) Rüdigheim, Neuberg, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
68.9km (42.8 miles) Weiße Grube, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
References
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Juragebirges. - Aufschluß 3, 34- 36, Roßdorf b. Darmstadt 1952. W ENK , H. R. : Baryt und Ankerit aus Ammoniten...Nieder-Ramstadt, Reichenbach, Roßdorf, Gorxheim , Ober-Ostern , Ober-Kainsbach, Weschnitz. Folgende Fundorte waren..., Groß-Bieberau , Mackcnheim, Nieder-Beerbach , Ober-Mengelbach, Sonderbach, Ursenbach, Waschenbach....Wiesbaden wurden herausgegeben : BI. Nr.6118 Darmstadt-Ost (Nieder-Ramstadt, Roßdorl). BI. Nr. 6119 Groß-Umstadt...81. Nr. 6219 Bren sbach (Forste!, Groß-Biebera u, Ober-K a insbach). BI. Nr. 6318 Lindenfels (Sonderbach
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a. ob. Ob.-Öst. okt. OT OW oben angeführt oben Ober-Österreich oktaedrisch Ortsteil Obwalden (Unterwalden)...Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Oberharz. Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. Natur-Museum Senckenberg, Senckenberg-Anlage...Albit, Beryll, Bleiglanz. Diopsid, Epidot, Granat, Opal, Prchnit, Quarzzwill. (Ja­ paner Gesetz!) (84/11/21-25)...Linck: Grossular (18/205). Benzenböhlskopf: (Darmstadt-Dieburg/Hess.) Groß Bieberau. Berchtesgaden: (Berchtesgadener...Blofeld: (Wetteraukrs./Hess.) (DGK 13/C/5) (OT v. Reichelsheim) SSW v. B. u. am N-Hang d. Hohenberges eh. Basalt-Stbr
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...in igneous and contact metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz...and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South Wales...Valley area. Nice crystals at Sieger, Westphal, Germany; at KladnoRodna, Czechoslovakia. Very unusual but...Botes, Rumania, and at Pribram, Czechoslovakia. In Germany, very excellent crystals at several places in Harz
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Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits...and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South Wales...Valley area. Nice crystals at Sieger, Westphal, Germany; at KladnoRodna, Czechoslovakia. Very unusual but...Botés, Rumania, and at Pribram, Czechoslovakia. In Germany, very excellent crystals at several places in Harz
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reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). PRECIOUS The Precious Stones. Precious others...and 195 included under minerals of bright a opal, cat’s-eye or much that transparent have occurrence...bands with the ancients precious are when opal, is for precious stones in differ dichroic...hollowed out The vacant. man form the on left Germany with to be have posture greater a window... example, as of being and lower refractive opal artificial yellowish stone he artificial For
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Most minerals are crystalline but a few are not. Opal, for example, is silica (SiOz) with a little water;...whole are far from crystalline. It is known that opal is porous and relatively lighter than an equal mass...of which together form the rock mass. Obsidian, opal, and window glass all lack a continuous crystal...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits
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Most minerals are crystalline but a few are not. Opal, for example, is silica (Si02) with a little water;...whole are far from crystalline. It is kno"vn that opal is porous and relatively lighter than an equal mass...of \vhich together form the rock mass. Obsidian, opal, and window glass all lack a continuous crystal...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits
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(chalcedony replacing wood, shell, coral, or bone), opal replacing wood. R eplacements of O ther Minerals...AND CLEAVAGE SU ITE Conchoidal Fracture Co1nmon opal, obsidian, quartz. Granular Fracture Marble, granite...with a small hammer. Very brittle minerals include opal, sulfur, halite, calcite, and galena, MINERALOGY...chalcedony, agate or jasper after wood, aventurine), opal (common), orthoclase (twin), rnicrocline (perthite)...Most minerals are crystalline but a fe,.v are not. Opal , for example, is silica (SiO2) vvith a little water;
 
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