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Orthoclase from
Blaue Kuppe, Eschwege, Werra-Meißner, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany


Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blaue Kuppe, Eschwege, Werra-Meißner, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:178194
Long-form Identifier:1:3:178194:6
GUID (UUID V4):56bcbf6c-5fb1-4957-8617-dd1aa35efd97
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
69.5km (43.2 miles) Manganese deposit, Ilfeld, Harztor, Nordhausen District, Thuringia, Germany
75.9km (47.2 miles) Königskopf Quarry, Harz (Landkreis Goslar), Goslar District, Lower Saxony, Germany
79.9km (49.6 miles) Meyersgrund, Manebach, Ilmenau, Ilm District, Thuringia, Germany
83.7km (52.0 miles) Huneberg Quarry, Harz (Landkreis Goslar), Goslar District, Lower Saxony, Germany
85.8km (53.3 miles) Gabbro Quarry, Radau valley, Bad Harzburg, Goslar District, Lower Saxony, Germany
88.0km (54.7 miles) St Georg Mine (Goslar'sche Gleie), Hasserode, Wernigerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
88.1km (54.7 miles) Christine Mine, Hasserode, Wernigerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
88.2km (54.8 miles) Schwengskopf, Hasserode, Wernigerode, Harz, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
88.3km (54.9 miles) Rabenklippe, Bad Harzburg, Goslar District, Lower Saxony, Germany
References
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of the sanidinite facies. Their samples from Blaue Kuppe contained up to 1.71 wt% K2O. Furthermore, Flood...difference in water solubilities in albite and orthoclase melts of 11.6 and 10.4 wt% H2O respectively at
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developed. 14 .inic L kyanite wolframite orthoclase olivine f struvite N hemimorphite | | ...the hardness tests is as follows: 1. talc 6. orthoclase felspar 2. gypsum 7. quartz 3. calcite 8. topaz...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) Harzgerode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey metallic opaque...Mountains, Germany ARSENOPYRITE FeAsS (Arsenical Py- rite, Mispickel) Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white... Gerinany CARNALLITE KMgCl; .6H,O Stassfurt, Germany INYOITE Ca[B;03(OH)s] . 4H Mount Blanco on Furnace
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a II o gypsum wolframite ntanite augne orthoclase barytes sulphur hemimorphite olivine g S...used as examples for the hardness tests is as 6. orthoclase felspar follows: 1. talc 2. gypsum 7. quartz...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) I Lu erode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey greyish black metallic...Py­ rite, Mispickel; Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white to grey greyishblack metallic opaque...NiAs, (White Nickel) Schneeberg, Orc Mountains, Germany Table 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 & ?-T
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562 Gem Notes Buchite from the Eifel Mountains, Germany|Fluorite from Myanmar|Malachiteazurite from Peru|Mosandrite... Pasadena, USA; Karl Schmetzer, Petershausen, Germany; Dietmar Schwarz, AIGS Lab Co. Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand;...Elisabeth Strack, Gemmologisches Institut Hamburg, Germany; Tay Thye Sun, Far East Gemological Laboratory...London; Bert Willems, Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany; Bear Williams, Stone Group Laboratories LLC, Jefferson...strong dichroism, ‘neon’ green synthetic sapphire, orthoclase feldspar with abundant hematite inclusions similar
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000 talc gypsum calcite fluorite -- apatite orthoclase - --=====------- quartz topaz corundum -...minerals are named by their typical cleavage. Orthoclase exhibits a cleavage along straight planes and...common in intrusive rocks (eg amphibole, augite, orthoclase and garnet), in argillaceous rocks (eg gypsum)...certain definite laws (eg gypsum, fluorite, rutile, orthoclase, cassiterite and staurolite, Fig. 9). Crystal...crystals in gypsum - a, fluorite - b, rutile - c, orthoclase - d, cassiterite - e, and staurolite - f 18
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minerals are named by their typical cleavage. Orthoclase exhibits a cleavage along straight planes and...common in intrusive rocks (eg amphibole, augite, orthoclase and garnet), in argillaceous rocks (eg ...certain definite laws (eg gypsum, fluorite, rutile, orthoclase, cassiterite and staurolite, Fig. 9). Crystal...crystals in gypsum — a, fluorite — b, rutile — c, orthoclase — d, cassiterite — e, and staurolite — f Fig...olivine enstatite chalcopyrite scapolite orthoclase baryte a=b#c tetragonal (7) a = B = 4 =>
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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... FIG. 2 y2 X , drawing Sohland on the Spree, Germany 6 RAMDOHR So-called "pipe ore". The drops of...("solutions", "melts", and " v a p o r s ' " in this region are not sharply distinguishable). However, this
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Nepheline Olivine Oligoclase Omphacite Orthopyroxene Orthoclase Periclase Paragonite Phengite Phlogopite Plagioclase...Studying the metamorphic rocks of the Orijärvi region in Finland and comparing them with hornfelses observed...observed by Goldschmidt in the Oslo region, Pentti Eelis Eskola (1883–1964) found significant differences...sillimanite-almandine-muscovite, and sillimanite-almandine-orthoclase (Turner and Verhoogen 1960). The first one is...14 Minimum of melting for H2O-saturated quartz-orthoclase-albite eutectic 12 40 Eclogite 4 0 100
 
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