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Fassaite from
Marble quarry, Twimberg, Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Augite var: Fassaite
Formula:(Ca,Na)(Mg,Fe2+,Al,Fe3+,Ti)[(Si,Al)2O6]
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fassaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Twimberg, Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:268051
Long-form Identifier:1:3:268051:4
GUID (UUID V4):1b03e903-1d23-4812-b1bf-a2299836da96
References
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Book
minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first case,...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...minerals are concerned. Opal is still thought to bring bad luck, and similar stories are told about certain...volcanic rocks ; M, near-surface magma reservoirs; Im, liciuid magmatic ore bodies; r, residual crystallization;...Garnet-rock, hornfels, calc-silicate rock, slate or marble may be formed with beautiful large crystals of
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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
Catalog/List
crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...with short wave, UV large Ix2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 70. HYDROXYL-HERDERJTE two or three pale...pinkish crystal about half inch size (Linopolis district, Divina das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Journal (issue)
Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...Zodac, jade expert Louis Zara, Doris Biggs, Francon quarry specialist Don Doell, mineral dealer Hugh Ford...Hodrusa-Hamre (in the Banska Stiavnica mining district) is also the type locality for hodrusite. V INTRODUCTION...historical events before 1920, we will use the older district name of Schemnitz in accordance with the literature...time, whereas for events after 1920 the modem district name of Banska Stiavnica will be used, bearing
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nacré, Lucas, p. 50 .-- Opali sirender Feldspath, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 17.- Feldspath Adu laire, Brong. t...opalin , Lucas, p. 50. Labradorischer Feldspath, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 18.- Feldspath opalin, Brong. t . i...spath compacte, Lucas, p. 50. - Dichter Feldspath, Leonhard, Tabel. s. 19.--Petrosilex, Brong. t. i. p. 351...Id . Mohs, b. i. s. 509. Id . Hab . s. 16. Id . Leonhard, Tabel. s. 26. - Feldspath compacte sonoré, Lucas...Id . Mohs, b. i. s. 431. Id. Hab. s. 38. Id. Leonhard , Tabel. s. 21. - Argil Kaolin, Brong. t. i. p
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dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...near Sobotfn, Moravia, Czech Rep., in skarn at the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany...Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the metasomatic aureole exposed in the Crestmore quarry (modified after [4]). (1) Carbonate rocks (dolomite...quartzfree syenodiorite; (4) brucitized periclase marble (pre dazzite); (5) mineral calciphyre and skarn;...believe that the car bonates were transformed into marble during the pre liminary heating of the rocks by...the aureoles preserved thereby zones of periclase marble and forsterite calciphyres, which were generated...quar ries) and leucocratic pegmatites (Jensen quarry) was not associated with the contamination of these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 tion on this ore deposit. Kondoma iron ore district is situated in the zone of a large abyssal rift...noted in the skarns (in different combinations): fassaite and salite-augite, pleonaste, calcite, forsterite... II-Rudnoye, and to a degree Vostochnoye, has fassaite for its leading mineral and as a rule appreciable...granulated mass, parts of which consist of calcite, fassaite, and spinel; any one of them may predominate absolutely...occupies the core parts of the ore-free spots; fassaite lies on the periphery of such spots, as a fringe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
calcium and alumina (5–12 wt% Al2 O3 ) and has a fassaite composition. The Tazheran pyroxenite may originate...produced carbonate and carbonatesilicate melts. The fassaite-bearing pyroxenite crystallized from a silicate-carbonate...Zaccarini Received: 10 May 2021 Keywords: pyroxenite; marble; gabbro dolerite; mafic melt; carbonate melt; silicate-carbonate...Ca-Al-rich pyroxene almost free from alkalis, called fassaite. Note that the latest classification of pyroxenes...pyroxenes by Morimoto et al. [9] does not list fassaite as a separate mineral species but rather names it
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73 eudialite 90 euxenite 36, 36 falcon's eye 31 fassaite 97, 98 fayalite 75 feldspars 111 feldspathoid...found at Butte, Montana, and the Copper Rjver district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite,...obtained in crystal form at Pragratten in the Tyrol (Austria), Redruth in Cornwall (England), and Brist'ol,...Saxony, Cavnic in Romania, Schwaz in the Tyrol (Austria), and Cornwall, England. In the United States good...among them the celebrated Bleiberg mines in Carinthia (Austria), Freiberg in Saxony (Germany), Alson Moor
Catalog/List
limonitic matrix, (Herrnitage, 13814 Steiermark, Austria) An unusual Scandium Fhosph::1te. About iins to...Schwaz, B) this rnicro's 1x1 i2.00 9 i~ greenish Fassaite. 1x2 ~4.00 A W blue green micro crystals or...by XRD nnd energy Dispersive analysis. Tirol, Austria) : Jns -?,- size piece 9 showinc; 1 or 2 micro'...4H o ) white, 2 2 4 2 3 tins matrix. (Koralpe, Carinthia, ,\ustria) B836 VANTASSELITE, (new mineral in...Yorkshire) (Saga Quarry, Tvedalen B840 .DrQPSIDE-CALCITE i:r.. yellow-green SerY)entine Marble. The Calci
Journal (issue)
IRVINEBOWL highway M alachiteTsum eb s p e c im e n s s u b je c t to p rio r sale FOatESCAVETillB...re s 14 x 14 x 12 cm . S m ith s o n ia n s p e c im e n # C 6 6 4 9 . Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...92700 Colombes, France T OCATION I # The mining district of Bou-Azzer is located approximately 30 km south...Morocco showing the location of the Bou-Azzer district and the map area at right. Figure 2. (right) A...is present in most of the veins in the BouAzzer district, although the best specimens supposedly come from
eudialite 90 euxenite 36, 36 falcon’s eye 31 fassaite 97, 98 fayalite 75 feldspars 111 feldspathoid...found at Butte, Montana, and the Copper River district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite,...obtained in crystal form at Pragratten in the Tyrol (Austria), Redruth in Cornwall (England), and Bristol,...Saxony, Cavnic in Romania, Schwaz in the Tyrol (Austria), and Cornwall, England. In the United States good...among them the celebrated Bleiberg mines in Carinthia (Austria), Freiberg in Saxony (Germany), Alson Moor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aluminium- and ferric iron-rich calcic clinopyroxene (fassaite) associated with wollastonite, since the stable...with a CO 2-rich fluid) and (c) the presence in fassaite and wollastonite of fluid inclusions which are...fresh surfaces and composed of coarse equigranular fassaite with minor chrome spinel. They have polished and...one place a few centimetres of brecciated fassaite-marble separates the clinopyroxenite from the serpentinite...by a centimetre or so of sheared marble and serpentinite. The marble fragments are composed of coarse
Book
earth’s crust. Although there are some rocks (such as marble, composed only of calcite crystals) which are chemically...identification. Nobody should be discouraged by initial bad luck, it is sometimes difficult even for an expert...should preferably be more detailed, e.g. walls of a quarry, or refuse heap specimen, so that one could find...10H,O (Glauber Salt) Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria colourless, white, yellow, grey, red, brown vitreous...quartz PLUMBOCALCITE (Pb,Ca)COx, Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria WITHERITE BaCO; Alston Moor, Westmorland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
23:44:45. 99.94 At John Jay Mine, in the Central District, Boulder County, granular masses of tellurium...eruptive masses which occur in the mesozoic sandstone district ; they consist of felspathic basalt and olivine-diabsse...paper (this JournuZ, 1876, i, 877). Analyses of fassaite : I, crystallised ; 11,crystalline from Toal della...15 2.70 Prom these analyses it is clear that fassaite-at all events that of View Article Online ...lzera1s7the Ma,lgola in the Travigtzolotha2.-The fassaite, hitherto known only from Monzoni, has been found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spinel and geikielite in a periclase-forsterite marble that has been thermally metamorphosed against an...is in several places a discontinuous screen of marble and occasional quartzite Copyright the Mineralogical...East Greenland. The grade of metamorphism in this marble unit ranges from only slightly recrystallized,...pinel-calcite). Erratically distributed in the marble are areas of skarn composed dominantly of garnet...of zoned nodules in the marble are composed of zones of fassaitespinel, fassaite-garnet, diopside, wollastonite
Book
hydrargillite 37 hydromagnesite 53 hydrotalcite 51 fassaite 97, 98 hydroxides 23 epsomite 60 erubescite...found at Butte, Montana, and the Copper River district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite,... Wales r, at Pragratten in the Tyrol and (Austria), Bristol, C Redruth cticut. in Cornwali...Saxony, Cavnic in Romania, Schwaz in the Tyrol (Austria), and Cornwall, England. In the United States good...among them the celebrated Bleiberg mines in Carinthia (Austria), Freiberg in Saxony (Germany), Alson Moor
Catalog/List
64 BOULANGERITE silvery grey mass on dolomitic marble. (International Hine1 Kaladar, Ontario,Canada)... 73 BRUCITE grey grains r.ichly distributed in Marble. ...micro crystals on l"C'ck. (Weitendorf,Steiermark,Austria) ~ x ~ ins !2.80 101 CLINOZOISITE pink radiating...f~wnareas in and on crystallised quartz. (Benet Quarry,BuckfieldNaine U.S.A 1x~ tl.30 107 NATIVE COPPER...DIDPSIDE-CALCITE pale blue in yellow Green Serpentine marble. (Kilchrist, Skye Scotland) 1x1 tl 1x2 f2.50 125
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INTRODUCTION. The following Is a list of metals arranged im the order of their magnetic powers, as approximatively...Ammoniac. Lumachello, or Fire Marble. Gotham, Ruin, or Landscape Marble. Stinkstone, or Swinestone. Agaric...Wohlerite. Pyrrhite. Ceria. Calcareous Tufa. Marble. Lasionite, Fischerite. Schaumkalk. Dreelite...Magnesia, and Iron. Polylite. Green Coccolite, Fassaite. Sahlite. Anhydrous. Bronzite. Serpentine ...„ Calc Spar, Marble, Stalagmite, or Oriental Alabaster, gonite, Dolomite, Fii'c Marble, §"c. Selenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pyroxenes, amphibole, and mica from the Tiree marble. 1 (With Plate XIV.) By A. F. HALLIMOND,M.A., Sc...[Read March 27, 1947.] I. INTRODUCTION. Tiree pink marble, a fine-grained, severely crushed limestone T HE...evenly throughout the carbonate groundmass of the marble are numerous dark green crystalline patches which...HALLIMOND ON P Y R O X E N E , ETC., FROM T I R E E MARBLE 231 has been confined to two hand-specimens of...Eyles; one representing the typical groundmass marble, with small scattered grains and groups of pyroxene
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mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11 felspar group____________...£3 7 Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near ANNITE Mica__________ paper available...Chrysotile, pale grey-green Ixl £1 County Bridge Quarry,Lizard Mg Fe SiO_______ massive. _________ .Cornwall...1x2 £5 1x1 £2 2x2 £5.00 2x2 £2 Hingston Down Quarry,Comwall,England Grey massive in matrix South Crofty
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Scandium minerals.(Klausen Qry.Gleichenberg Styria Austria) 1mm sphere on 1cm £3. b) with 3 or 4 spheres £15...with Azurite. Rare. (Grabanz,Neufinkenstein,Carinthia Austria) 2x2cm £4 452 TENORITE Copper Oxide. Rich...CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Lyadzhvardara and others), Ukraine (Delavetskii quarry in the Rakhov Massif, Carpathians), in Afghanistan...assemblages in handspecimens from the southern quarry [1] is as follows (Fig. 3): (I) leucocratic microcline–perthite...lazurite deposits in Russia occur in the Slyudyanka district, Irkutsk oblast, southwestern Baikal area, and...lazurite–forsterite vein located in the middle quarry of the Slyudyanka diopside–lazurite metasomatic...disseminated pyrite, grading into coarse-grained calcite marble. Korzhinskii [1] noted that lazurite and phlogopite
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earth’s crust. Although there arc some rocks (such as marble, composed only of calcite crystals) which are chemically...identification. Nobody should be discouraged by initial bad luck, it is sometimes difficult even for an expert...should preferably be more detailed, e.g. walls of a quarry, or refuse heap specimen, so that one could find...10H-O (Glauber Salt) Hallstatt, Salzkammergut, Austria very good soft, inelastic, flexible columnar...calcite PLUMBO­ CALCITE (Pb,Ca)CO.t Blciberg, Carinthia, Austria WITHERITE BaCO3 Alston Moor, Westmorland
 
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