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Malachite from
Altenberg, Pöllan, Paternion, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria


Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Duftite1 photo of Malachite associated with Duftite at this locality.
Copper1 photo of Malachite associated with Copper at this locality.
Cuprite1 photo of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Malachite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Mimetite1 photo of Malachite associated with Mimetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Altenberg, Pöllan, Paternion, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:201572
Long-form Identifier:1:3:201572:9
GUID (UUID V4):7f4995d0-7028-4bb2-a6c3-7eb4af9fdb6f
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Pöllaner Höhe, Pöllan, Paternion, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
3.4km (2.1 miles) Riednock (Aichach; "Schlund"), Ried, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
5.4km (3.3 miles) Feldspar quarry, Laas, Fresach, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
6.8km (4.2 miles) Gassen, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
8.2km (5.1 miles) Diabase quarry (Jakomini quarry), Bad Bleiberg, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
9.6km (5.9 miles) Tratten, Sankt Stefan im Gailtal, Hermagor District, Carinthia, Austria
10.9km (6.8 miles) Baldersdorf, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
13.7km (8.5 miles) Feldspar quarry, Wolfsberg, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
13.8km (8.6 miles) Kapeller Alp, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
14.3km (8.9 miles) Gusenscharte, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
live in Germany, the other 10% live in Holland, Austria, Switzerland and many other countries of Europe...Alabama, New York and Wyoming together. After 1945 the land east of the interrupted line came under Russian...Belgium and Holland. The most important places are Altenberg and Stolberg. Lead-zinc mines of metasomatic type...millerite xls, galena xls, rhodochrosite xls, malachite, native copper, psilomelane, tetrahedrite xls...many fossils. (11) Harz mountains. Famous mining district. Now divided. Mining carried on since early middle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derby, N . H., 0 3 0 4 1 ( P A R T III)...powder. Krasta Valley. Marble Qs six Mi. W of Villach nr Drautal. Raibl-Galena; Calamine; Sphalerite...(radiated xls in magnesite). ROCKS AND MINERALS Altenberg-Hematite. Wochein-Limonite (Geodes). General-Tourmaline...Tennantite Xls ( H N W ) ; Q Xls; Dolomite Xls; Azur-Malachite; Chalcopyrite; Siderite. Mixnitz-Variscite. >-N...16 Miles Do not scale. Uooer Austria Altaussee tsch# Lower Austria Yugoslav! VII STYR1A ROCKS AND
Report (issue)
0.07 (2) 35.10 64.90 Total 100.26 (1) Aachen district, Germany. (2) ZnCO3 . 100.00 CO2 ZnO MgO CaO...Hemimorphite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, aurichalcite, Distribution: Many localities...and Beuthen, Poland. From Moresnet, Belgium. At Altenberg, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany... near Lyon, Rhône, France. At Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. From Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy. Large crystals...Pennsylvania; in the Joplin district, Jasper Co., Missouri; from the Rush Creek district, Marion Co., Arkansas;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1822, vo]. 2, p. 287 ; 1824, vol. 4, p. 8.) Altenberg ( = Vieille-Montagne), s Moresnet, Lidge, Belgium...same outcrop of Devono-Carboniferous rocks as Altenberg. (V. Monheim, Verh. n a t u r h i s t . Ver. preuss...e e o t h e r spots in t h e district b e t w e e n here and Altenberg, namely, Brockenberg on t h e...side.) Musartut, Tunugdliarfik fjord, Julianehaab district, Greenland. (A. Des Cloizeaux, Man. de Min., 1862...Sci., 1904, s e r . 4~ vol. 18, p. 451.) Star district, Beaver Co., Utah. ~1~. W. Ctark, Amer. Min~,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization at Flatschach (Eastern Alps), Austria Johann G. Raith 1 & Thomas Leitner 3 & Werner H...mineralization in the historic Flatschach mining district (Styria, Austria) occurs in a NE–SW to NNE–WSW oriented...Leoben, Leoben, Austria 2 Pezoltgasse 46, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria 3 Salinen Austria AG, Bad Aussee...Aussee, Austria chalcopyrite with pyrite or arsenopyrite. Sericite-carbonate alteration is developed around...composition of gold. Unique about the Flatschach district is the lower-temperature overprint of copper arsenides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Belgium, the most known are lead-zinc deposits Altenberg and Stolberg, very good specimens so called Schalenblende...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...M1NERALS YAKUTIA, East Siberia, USSR, Verkhoyansk district, new discovered mineral localities; diamond, native... hausmanite, corundum, also rutile (Semiz Bug district), and other minerals. HAKKAIDO, Japan. This mineral
Book (volume)
178 .206 293 . . . 57 . *. . 27 II. . Malachite Gem 22 . . Baryte Kerate Spar 17 .21 ...neighbourhood of Aussee, Ischel, and Hallstadt in Austria, at Hallein in Salzburg, in Hun- gary, in Switzerland...Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Upper Austria, Salzburg, the Tyrol, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and...near Ocana in locality is New Aussee in Upper Austria. Castile. The RockAnother combinations described...variety. CLASS II. HALOIDE. BARYTE. KERATE. MALACHITE. MICA. GEM. ORE. METAL. PYRITES. SPAR. GLANCE
Catalog/List
'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high...Meteoric Stone, or Iron Moes, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. Meteorites, Canon Diablo, Arizona. Kiowa...the crystals sandstone allows cabinet are is Austria-Hungary, brown coal formation.” am cases and...sulphide, Altenberg, Saxony. 10. Keweenaw Copper, or Peacock Co., N. C. Malachite, copper Copper...zinc sulphide, Joplin, J. Mo. carbonate, Altenberg, Rhineland, Germany. Hill, Ga. corundum, Burma
Book
minerals can originate from one mineral, e.g. malachite, azurite, or limonite from chalcopyrite. Dripstone...which have their own and unchangeable colour, malachite is always green, graphite always black, and sulphur...Interesting mineral specimens are also found on arable land or in stone debris along the roadside. Collecting...10H,O (Glauber Salt) Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria colourless, white, yellow, grey, red, brown vitreous...botryoidal, reniform, earthy, powdery . 4H,O Altenberg near Aachen, Germany orthorhombic dull KAINITE
Book
derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...readily decomposes into limonite (see p. 92). Malachite imitating azurfre is a further example (p. 172)...sedimentary rocks are formed. Deposition may take place on land, in rivers, lakes, or in the sea. The majority of...and copper. The metals are carried away from the land mass in solution and deposited in the sea. There...striations (cp. Fig. 16, p. 93). Habachtal, Salzburg, Austria. Center left Iron cross twin of pyrite. Below left
Book
minerals can originate from one mineral, e.g. malachite, azurite, or limonite from chalcopyrite. Dripstone...which have their own and unchangeable colour, malachite is always green, graphite always black, and sulphur...Interesting mineral specimens are also found on arable land or in stone debris along the roadside. Collecting...10H-O (Glauber Salt) Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria very good soft, inelastic, flexible columnar...hemimorphite, vanadinite HOPEITE Zn,,(PO|).. 4H«O Altenberg near Aachen, Germany colourless, white, yellowish
Book
and sphalerite) c.:hange into oxygen salts (eg malachite, azurite, goethite, cerru site and smithsonite)...well-defined shade of colour; some familiar examples are malachite green, emerald green, turquoise blue. On the basis...erosion furrows originating after rain, and arable land. Minerals can be acquired from river beds by washing...Molybdenite - platycrystal (18 mm) em bayed in qua rtz; Altenberg (GDR) 2. Polybasite- black-grey plates (8 mm)...Occurrence: local; salt deposits in lschl, Hallstatt (Austria), (Egypt), Karabogaz Gulf in Caspian Sea (USSR)•
Book (volume)
Gertraud near Wolfsberg in the valley of Lavant in Carinthia. It is very nearly allied to the following species...the Prismatic Copper-Glance mines of Kupfer- district of Siegen, in the berg and Rudelstadt in Silesia...remarkable beds of hexahedral Lead-glance in. Carinthia, which occur in limestone, and are worked at ...also found in beds in older rocks, as in Stiria, Carinthia, &c. In veins it occurs in rocks of various ages...occurs at Freiberg in Saxony, in the Hartz, in Carinthia, and at Leadhills in Scotland. The localities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
conference of the ministers of Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia held later in 1830 to resolve...willemite came from Altenberg, near Moresnet, Liege, Belgium. The specimens from Altenberg in the Smithsonian...associated minerals include plancheite, quartz, malachite, calcite, and mimetite. Pseudomorphs of willemite...willemite have come from the Cedar Talisman mine, Star district, Beaver County, Utah. Those in the Smithsonian...have been collected from the Hasbrouck mine, Lodi district, Nye County, Nevada (Castor and Ferdock 2004)
Catalog/List
A~GLESITE. 8. ATACAMITE. Copiapo, Atacama District, Chile. Rich, very dark, blackish green, bladed...pale green Malachite in associat ion. If.xlt". f.l. 50. 9. AZURITE. Moldawa, Banat District, Hungary...Gossan with odd small green needly crystals of Malachite in places. Attractive old specimen. 2xltxl". f...matrix with minor thin crusts of light green Malachite. The reverse of the specimen also shows scattered...£13.00. 15. BROCHANTITE. Mammoth Mine, Tintic District, Utah, U.S.A. Bright, deep green, small sharp
Book
and sphalerite) change into oxygen salts (eg malachite, azurite, goethite, cerrusite and smithsonite)...well-defined shade of colour; some familiar examples are malachite green, emerald green, turquoise blue. On the basis...erosion furrows originating after rain, and arable land. Minerals can be acquired from river beds by washing...Molybdenite — platy crystal (18 mm) embayed in quartz; Altenberg (GDR) 2. Polybasite — black-grey plates (8 mm)...(125 local; salt deposits in Ischl, Hallstatt (Austria), (Egypt), Karabogaz Gulf in Caspian Sea (USSR)
Book (volume)
' This Kupferschiefer is cases. lean in this district, carrying only 1.4% of copper, and no silver,...fissures known as 'rucken' in the Mansfeld copper district also contain occasional nickelite, together with... known examples of this type is the cobalt district of Schneeberg, in Saxony, a mountainous region...present. Besides quartz-cobalt veins the Schneeberg district contains quite a 3 variety of vein types, which...Schneeberg, cally important deposits of the entire district. the veins are so crowded together in an area
Catalog/List
twin xl groups, minor muscovite PERICLINE Italy, Austria, Switzerland Alpine areas Fine large white twin...CUPRODESCLOIZITE South West Africa Tsumeb, Otavi-Bergland district Yellow green massive coating descloizite crystals...kasolite and renardite on and in cavities in malachite R. DYSANALYTE Calcium columbate titanate Germany........ Washington Skagit County, Twin Sis ters district Pure green vitreous mass with minor magnetite...germanium South West Africa Tsumeb, Otavi-Bergland district Reddish-brown metallic massive with tennantite
Book
colorful stones (turquoise, amethyst, rock crystal, malachite, and lapis lazuli) were fashioned into jewelry...act as a touchstone of her virtue, a piece of malachite attached to an infant’s cradle to ward off all...Helsinki; and Professor Heinz Meixner, Salzburg, Austria. Other important collections are those of Albert...finest crystallized specimens of azurite and malachite remaining today came from the fabulous Copper...oxide zones— azurite, rhodochrosite, smithsonite, malachite, mimetite, calcite, and fluorite—in deposits extending
Book
Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
supergene deposits: Mumbwa area (Zambia), and Altenberg-Vieille Montagne (Belgium). 32 Textures and...statistically 42 inhomogeneous, both at the district and at the deposit scale: high-T willemite from...58 9‰ V-SMOW). 59 The supposedly supergene Altenberg-Vieille Montaigne willemite, having low Mn+Mg...first formal description of the mineral from the Altenberg mine (Moresnet, 69 Belgium) and he named the... 2017; Kabwe, Zambia, Mondillo et al., 2018; Altenberg- 101 Vieille Montagne, Belgium, Choulet et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
type of occurrence. Tetrahedrite may alter to malachite, azurite, bindheimite, chrysocolla, cuprite, and...Colorado localities include the Silverton-Eureka district, San Juan County, where tetrahedrite is often...fluorite come from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (D. Bunk, pers. comm., 2010)...vugs from mines in the Lake City district, Hinsdale County, a district noted for the prevalence of argentiferous...edge. Although uncommon from the Tintic mining district, Juab County, Utah, some fine specimens have been
Book
colorful stones (turquoise, amethyst, rock crystal, malachite, and lapis lazuli) were fashioned into jewelry...act as a touchstone of her virtue, a piece of malachite attached to an infant’s cradle to ward off all...Helsinki; and Professor Heinz Meixner, Salzburg, Austria. Other important collections are those of Albert...finest crystallized specimens of azurite and malachite remaining today came from the fabulous Copper...oxide zones— azurite, rhodochrosite, smithsonite, malachite, mimetite, calcite, and fluorite—in deposits extending
Report (issue)
leucophoenicite (Franklin, New Jersey, USA); malachite, mimetite, rosasite, duftite, cerussite (Tsumeb...(Tsumeb, Namibia). Distribution: In Belgium, from Altenberg, near Moresnet. At Tsumeb and Guchab, Namibia...Cerro Gordo mines, Inyo Co.; in the Tres Hermanas district, Luna Co., New Mexico. From Mont Saint-Hilaire
Book (volume)
108. Dioptase 111. Ores Cleavage Gravity, Malachite 111. 115 Zinckenite Zinc Bor- Bournonite... the grow of structure limonite in and malachite a fig. 10), coarse, forms (plate concentric...octahedron with in (shown Dominion of the edges malachite France. Lyons, native to interior Iron-pyrites... A malachite. to France. Lyons, to malachite. altered the surface France. malachite: Chessy...carbonic and be converted cuprite that of to malachite fig. 3. In into has the fig. this acid
 
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