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Polyhalite from
Salt mine, Altaussee, Liezen District, Styria, Austria


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Polyhalite
Formula:K2Ca2Mg(SO4)4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Polyhalite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salt mine, Altaussee, Liezen District, Styria, Austria
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:269298
Long-form Identifier:1:3:269298:2
GUID (UUID V4):cd59fc01-66f9-430c-baef-a58a51f2317a
Nearest other occurrences of Polyhalite
8.1km (5.0 miles) ā“˜Ischler Salzberg, Perneck, Bad Ischl, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
12.4km (7.7 miles) ā“˜Salt mine, Hallstatt, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
48.6km (30.2 miles) ā“˜Hallein - Bad DĆ¼rrnberg salt mine, Hallein, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
54.1km (33.6 miles) ā“˜Salt Mine, Berchtesgadener Salzberg, Berchtesgaden, Berchtesgadener Land District, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
References
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Report (chapter)
crystallization and recrystallization of rock-forming polyhalite in Alpine rocksalt deposits C. LEITNER1*, F....Salzburg, Hellbrunner StraƟe 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria 2 Faculty of Mining Geology and Petroleum Engineering...Leoben, Austria *Corresponding author (e-mail: christoph.leitner@sbg.ac.at) Abstract: Polyhalite rocks...Calcareous Alps (Eastern Alps). To test the mineral polyhalite [K2Ca2Mg(SO4)4.2H2O] as a useful geochronometer...analysis. Vein infills, polyhalite intergrown with anhydrite and polyhalite within mudrock, crystallized
Report (issue)
Polyhalite K2 Ca2 Mg(SO4 )4 ā€¢ 2H2 O c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Triclinic...Mg(SO4 )4 ā€¢ 2H2 O. Occurrence: Common in marine salt deposits, where it may constitute the major component...Distribution: In Austria, from Ischl, Bad AusseĢe, and AltausseĢe, Upper Austria; at Hallstatt, Styria; and from...Tirol. In Germany, from the Stassfurt-Westeregeln district, Saxony-Anhalt, and at Berchtesgaden, Bavaria...Campania, Italy. In England, in the Boulby potash mine, northwest of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. From Maman
Report (issue)
02 (2) 41.19 Total 99.75 100.00 (1) Yonaibata mine, Hukusima Prefecture, Japan; after deduction of...sedimentary evaporite deposits and in the cap rocks above salt domes, commonly formed by dehydration of gypsum;...deposits. Association: Gypsum, halite, sylvite, polyhalite, dolomite, calcite, magnesite, celestine, sulfur...worldwide. In Austria, from Hall, Tirol, at Ischl and Hallein, Salzburg, and Aussee, Styria. In Germany...Campiano mine, Boccheggiano district, Tuscany; on Vesuvius, Campania. From the Faraday mine, Bancroft
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoinformatics, SchillerstraƟe 30, 5020 Salzburg, Austria art ic l e i nf o a b s t r a c t Article history:...unsuitable objects like halite crystal clusters, polyhalite-coated crystals and spherical halite crystals...Similar halite hopper crystals occur in Alpine rock salt deposits. Their shapes comprise tetragonal bodies...in a mudrock matrix are abundant in Alpine rock salt deposits. Mudrock with halite cubes is traditionally...ā€œTonwĆ¼rfelsalzā€ (also: ā€œKropfsalzā€) in the Alpine salt mining literature. The halite crystals appear deformed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z...Approach via the village of A s the name states, salt was a major proĀ­ Habach in the Pinzgau between Neukirduct...e old emerald Venediger and Hohe Tauern form the Mine is about 7 M i from Habach. T h e trail leaves the...Alpenrose going E and then N . The crystalline Alps. Mine is a few hundred yards beyond the I f we come in...Across the valley is an old foot of cliff. copper mine, 2 M i S from the main Kapruntal. Extensive work
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Permo-Triassic evaporites in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria Christoph Spi3tl a,* Edwin Pak b a lnstitutfiir...Universitiit Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria b Institutf~r Radiumforschung und Kernphysik, Universitiit...Universitiit Wien, Boltzmanngasse 3, A-f090 Vienna, Austria Received 29 August 1995; accepted 9 February 1996...Geology 131 (1996) 219-234 221 Fig. 1. Map of Austria and the NorthernCalcareousAlps (in gray) showingthe...thin shales, dark-gray carbonates a n d / o r polyhalite. In contrast to the white anhydrite characteristic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to the general...two or more until a more rounded text results. Austria is defined here as what is localities. presently...mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria inĀ­ which the best is the Natural History cluded...proĀ­ many smaller collections in the mining duces salt, metals, calcite crystals. The towns and the cities
Report (chapter)
0ā€°). Potash minerals related to the deposits (polyhalite, anhydrite, kainite, langbeinite and kieserite)...depletion of sulphur isotopic composition of the salt minerals of potash deposits (and their weathering...of three members: a lower salt-bearing, a middle terrigenous and an upper salt-bearing one, with a total...new interpretation assumes that upper and lower salt-bearing members belong to the same, Vorotyshcha...kainiteā€“langbeinite (with sylvite and kieserite). Polyhalite beds (5ā€“15 cm thick) occur at the base and the
Report (issue)
The later calcium salts. ______ ____ Theoretical salt successions from sea water _-__''Dynamic-polythermal"...-______________ 22 11. Map showing the distribution of Permian salt deposits in northwest Europe and the British Isles...Analyses, in weight percent, of anhydrite rock, polyhalite rock, and associated sedimentary rocks of the...__________________ Analyses of potash zones and salt clays of marine evaporites-_-__________________...formed initially by the evaporation of sea water in salt pans, marine salinas, lagoons, and relict seas.
Report (issue)
HOLE LOGGING IN POTASH DEPOSITS OP THE CABLSBAD DISTRICT, HEW MEXICO By C. L. Jones, C. G. Bovles, and...HOLE LOGGING Iff POTASH DEPOSITS OP THE CARISBAD DISTRICT, HEW MEXICO By C. L. Jones, C. G. Bowles, and...drilled through potash deposits in the Carlsbad district, southeastern Hew Mexico, demonstrate the considerable...distinguish them from clay stone, sandstone, and polyhalite beds and from potash deposits containing carnallite...deposits and polyhalite beds on electrical resistivity logs of holes drilled with fresh-water and salt-base muds
Report (issue)
Bromine in the Salado Formation, Carlsbad Potash District, New Mexico By SAMUEL S. ADAMS 1969 STATE BUREAU...Minerals and Chemical Corporation mine in the Carlsbad potash district, southeast New Mexico. The bromine...first ore zone, the principal potash bed in the district, suggest that the initial precipitation of a halite-sylvite...The bromine content of halite aids in identifying salt horses in drill cores. Bromine distributions are...about 155,000 square miles. The Carlsbad potash district may be considered as belonging to the west Texasā€”southeastern
Report (issue)
mineralogy 18 Resources 21 Deposits containing polyhalite 30 Appraisal of resource situation 32 Re...area (in pocket) 4. Map of the Carlsbad mining district showing location of potential waste-disposal facility...(in pocket) 29 Polyhalite and potash content of selected marker beds of polyhalite-anhydrite rock, borehole...experimental studies of nuclear-waste emplacement in salt beds of the Salado Formation of Permian age. The...metres). The Salado Formation, which is the main salt-bearing unit of the area, lies at a depth of 1,000
Report (issue)
=-====-==-===-=======-------~-- 28 Geology of salt deposits-=Ochoan Series========--==-=========-==...-------------------.------------- 70 Extent of mine Stability of mine Caving and Gnom~ shaft Solution mining...contours of contact between gypsiferous residue and salt=bearing rock in Salado Formation, and water table...above Ā· contact between gypsiferous residue and salt-bearing rock in Salado Formation--------14.--Map...ormation---------------16.--Map of mine workings, Carlsbad potash district-- 58 (in pocket) 17.--Map showing
Report (volume)
Evaporite Geology of Fifth Ore Zone Carlsbad District Southeastern New Mexico GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN... Evaporite Geology of Fifth Ore Zone Carlsbad District Southeastern New Mexico By CHARLES L. JONES and... EVAPORITE GEOLOGY OF FIFTH ORE ZONE CARLSBAD DISTRICT, SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO By CHARLES L. JONES...shows that the Fifth ore zone of the Carlsbad district is a laterally persistent unit of halite, argillaceous... INTRODUCTION PURPOSE AND SCOPE The Carlsbad district, in the southeastern part of New Mexico, is widely
Report (issue)
Kieserite group. Occurrence: Typically in marine salt deposits; rarely as a volcanic sublimate or efflorescence...Association: celestine. Halite, carnallite, polyhalite, anhydrite, boracite, sulfoborite, leonite, epsomite...Stassfurt-Westeregeln district, with large crystals from the Bartensleben mine, Saxony-Anhalt; in the Hildesia mine, near...Saxony, and many other places. From Hallstatt, Austria. At Stebnyk and Kalusz, Ukraine. From Klodawa,...In the Mayo mine, Salt Range, Punjab, India. In the USA, from the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co.,
4 pleonaste 24 plumbojarosite 58 polianite 34 polyhalite 62 powellite 63 prehnite /0/, 102 proustite 17...consider the salt obtained from salt-works as a mineral, though it is chemically identical to rock-salt. The...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...found at Butte, Montana, and the Copper River district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite,
Book
4 pleonaste 24 plumbojarosite 58 polianite 34 polyhalite 62 powellite 63 prehnite 101, 102 proustite 17...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...the salt obtained fron1 salt-works as a mineral, though it is chemically identical to rock-salt. The...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native Ā·elements Chemical elernents found...especially near Ki1nberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimber/ite
Book
plumbojarosite 58 polianite 34 mizzonite 114 polyhalite 62 powellite 63 molybdenite /6, 17 proustite...the salt obtained from salt-works as a mineral, though it is chemically identical to rock-salt. The...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...found at Butte, Montana, and the Copper River district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlandsā€”Implications for the Development of Salt Caverns Alexandre Pichat SEDISOR, Place Copernic...rich evaporitic sequences including Kā€“Mg salts (polyhalite, kieserite, sylvite, carnallite and bischofite)...important for the development of salt caverns which require a salt as pure as possible in halite. By...assessing the risk of encountering Kā€“Mg salts in salt pillows or salt diapirs eligible in term of depth and thickness...thickness for the development of salt caverns. Keywords: Zechstein; Permian; the Netherlands; evaporite;
Report (issue)
Association: Halite, kieserite, kainite, carnallite, polyhalite, gypsum, anhydrite. Distribution: On Vesuvius...Vesuvius, Campania, Italy. At Hallein, Salzburg, Austria. In Germany, from Westeregeln and Stassfurt, 34 km...in the Permian salt basin of southeastern New Mexico, in the Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co. with...large crystals in the Potash Corporation of America mine, and adjacent parts of Texas. From the Smoky Hills...alchemical Sal digestivus Sylvii or Salt of Sylvius, the digestive salt of FrancĢ§ois Sylvius de le BoeĢˆ (1614ā€“1672)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Potash Basin Carlsbad, New Mexico Philip Simmons Mine Engineer, Intrepid Potashā€”New Mexico, LLC 2422 Mountain...blue and purple halite in the Intrepid Potash East mine near Carlsbad, New Mexico has produced world-class...aphthitalite, have elevated the Carlsbad Potash District to the status of a contemporary classic locality...locality. INTRODUCTION The Carlsbad Potash District (more commonly known as the Carlsbad Potash Basin) is...operations for Intrepid Potash, the East mine and West mine, are connected underground and sit at elevations
Report (issue)
intermediate-grade metamorphism. Association: Sylvite, polyhalite, kieserite, carnallite, gypsum, anhydrite, dolomite...occurrence. Well-studied deposits include: in Austria, around Hallstadt, Salzburg, and Hall, near Innsbruck...At Girgenti and Racalmuto, Sicily, Italy. In the Salt Range, Punjab, India. In the USA, in the Michigan...underlying Ohio, Michigan, and New York; as numerous salt domes along the Gulf Coast; and in the Permian Basin...America mine, Carlsbad potash district, Eddy Co., New Mexico. Name: From the Greek for salt. References:
Book
eretasb Teitatecpseeese teste bit reihih: Salt Deposits The Origin, Metamorphism and Deformation...of the Past Borchert, Hermann and Muir, Richardā€”Salt Deposits Additional titles will be listed and announced...Chelsea College of Science and Technology, London Salt The Origin, Deposits Metamorphism and Deformation...indispensable to us all. Yet no comprehensive text on salt deposits has previously been available in English...present, of salt deposits are followed by a detailed account of the precipitation of salt minerals from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has been studied in brine seeps of a German potash mine. The observed chemical trends and phase equilibria...IP1(gy), with the mineral assemblage carnallite ā«¹ polyhalite ā«¹ sylvite ā«¹ halite ā«¹ gypsum, where gypsum takes...formation of polyhalite effectively buffer the solutions along the metastable polyhalite phase boundary...during stages II and III. Eventually, in stage IV, polyhalite becomes depleted and admixture of more NaCl brine...modified seawater. Similar magnesium chloride brines of salt lakes (e.g., Dead Sea, Dabusun Lake) show subtle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grades. QXRD analysis has consistently identified polyhalite (K2Ca2Mg(SO4)4ā‹…2(H2O) in the Fordon (Evaporite)...empirical model for the deposits, including the polyhalite-bearing Shelf and Basin seams and two, newly...newly discovered sylvite-bearing bittern salt horizons, the Pasture Beck and Gough seams. The characterization...characterization program has enabled a polyhalite mineral inventory in excess of 2.5 billion metric tons (Bt) to...possesses the worldā€™s largest known resource of polyhalite. Introduction Potash is a generic term which
 
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