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Augite from
Basalt quarry, Klöch, Südoststeiermark District, Styria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarry, Klöch, Südoststeiermark District, Styria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:305202
Long-form Identifier:1:3:305202:0
GUID (UUID V4):339a082b-8e7e-40cc-ad46-20454454d53c
Nearest other occurrences of Augite
8.2km (5.1 miles) Stradner Kogel, Wilhelmsdorf, Bad Gleichenberg, Südoststeiermark District, Styria, Austria
18.8km (11.7 miles) Steinberg, Mühldorf bei Feldbach, Feldbach, Südoststeiermark District, Styria, Austria
43.6km (27.1 miles) Tobaj, Güssing District, Burgenland, Austria
74.5km (46.3 miles) Kleinalpl, Sankt Georgen im Lavanttal, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria
93.7km (58.2 miles) Kovácsi Hill, Zalaszántó, Keszthely district, Zala County, Hungary
95.1km (59.1 miles) Basalt quarry, Pauliberg, Markt Sankt Martin, Oberpullendorf District, Burgenland, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universität Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria 2Landesmuseum Joanneum, Abteilung für Geologie...und Paläontologie Raubergasse 10, 8010 Graz, Austria Volcanism in the Styrian Basin The historical...that extends from Pohorje in Slovenia, through SE Austria and into the Balaton area of Hungary (Fig. 1),...Pannonian area and the alkali basalts and tuffs of Styria, Burgenland, Kisalföld and the Balaton regions...volcanic activity is in the Balaton area rather than Styria. It was therefore proposed that this term be replaced
Journal (issue)
missed. Donald Howard 6 Is it Diopside or is it Augite? Don Howard In the last issue, we announced that...involved are as follows: Diopside Ca Mg Si2 O6 Augite (Ca,Na) (Mg,Fe,Al,Ti) (Si,Al)2 O6 Judging from...valid species: Pigeonite (Mg,Fe,Ca) (Mg,Fe) Si2 O6 Augite (Ca,Na) (Mg,Fe,Al,Ti) (Si,Al)2 O6 As all these...lower occupancyof that site would lead to the name augite. Etienne Medard reports the following analyses:...color. The mineral easily falls into the range of augite. But for the yellow crystals from Lemolo Lake,
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of quartz and mica, and eclogite of garnet and augite. There are also rocks which consist of fragments...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...monoclinic Pl. 39 augite, Pl. 40 hornblende, Pl. 44 orthoclase, Pl. 45 adularia, Fig. 23 augite and hornblende...apatite (Pl. 30, p. 142), idocrase (Pl. 36, p. 164), augite and hornblende (Fig. 23, p. 223). If several forms...epidote, zircon, tourmaline, cordierite, sillimanite, augite, hornblende, talc, muscovite, blotite, chlorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
California. Dreiser Weiher, Eifel, Germany Kapfenstein, Austria. . Alaska..... AJrica Localities of Earlier Studies...Foshag, and represent materials from Kapfenstein, Austria; Dreiser Weiher, Germany; Peridot Cove,Arizona;..."knollen," have long been known in Germany and Austria, and many occurrenceshave been mentioned in the...Koloa volcanic seriesanquarry near the road southwest of Lihue. The nodules are...they are surrounded by a thin shell of vesicular basalt. . . . The surface of the bombs is rather smooth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Names of the Authors in capital letters. Page Austria, STEINDACHER on the Fossil Fishes of . . . . ....Congerian and Cerithian Strata in t I u n g a r y and Austria, STVI~ and II. WOLF on some sections of the . ...12 40 35 30 21 38 Dachsteln Mountains, Upper Austria~ E. S v E s s on some E r u p t i v e P h e n o...n a seen in the Dachstein Mountains, U p p e r Austria, E. S c E s s on some . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Fossil Fishes of Austria, STEINDACHFR on the -Saurian from Com~n, Istria
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silicon], apaneite [apatite + nepheline], auganite [augite + andesite], coralgal [coral + algae], criquina...prthopyroxene rather than clinopyroxene by International (augite). [Norge (Norway), original locality) Union of...and augite but no feldspar, in a groundmass of labradorite with orthoclase rims, olivine, augite, and...chondrule] achondrite, augite meteor. Stony meteorite consisting of more than 90% augite with traces of olivine...Carbonatite consisting of about equal amounts of aegirine-augite and apatite (30% each), calcite (22%), feldspars
Report (volume)
_________--____-_---_-------___-_--------_----_______ Ajo district.-_--_.____---------______--_-_--__---_______ Oatman...____________________________________________________ 11 Austria._____________________________________________________...______--__-__---_____----_____-__-___-___________ Bonanza district._________________________________________ Breckenridge...region___________________________________________ Spanish Peaks district.____________________________________ Summitville...________________________________________ Edwardsburg district._____________________________________ 11 11 12
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in Austria Pyroxene Chemistry and Evolution of Alkali Basaltic Rocks from Burgenland and Styria, Austria...Paulo, Brazil 3 Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien, Austria 4Department of Earth Sciences, Iowa State University...alkali basaltic rocks from Burgenland and Styria (Eastern Austria) have been investigated in order to determine...determine the evolution path of the basalt magmas prior to eruption. With their wide range of substitutions...geomorphology of the southeastern part of Styria and Burgenland, Austria, near the Yugoslavian and Hungarian
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inclined top and bottom faces gypsum muscovite augite triclinic pairs of faces albite anorthite kyanite... Acmite, actinolite, andalusite, arfvedsonite, augite, beryl, bronzite, chlorite, cordierite, diallage...constituents of igneous rocks feldspathoids, mica, augite, hornblende and Accessory minerals are magnetite...muscovite (No. 13). Rare. Specimen from the Tyrol (Austria). 10 Biotite is the most common mica, named after...tablets. Occurrence: Eifel (Germany), Carinthia (Austria), Norway (No. 10). 11 Zinnwaldite (lithium mica)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
97 Bratteggdalen, Vestspitsbergen, granogabbro, augite, biotite, epidote, hornblende, ilmenite, sphene...striJverite, 605 British Isles ENGLAND Bosahan quarry, Carnmenellis, Cornwall, granite (weathered), kaolinite...fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...Swinden Limeworks quarry, Linton, fluorite, 4oi WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite...CO2metamorphosed lavas, ankerite, chalybite, 119 Binhill quarry, Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, tacharanite, scawtite
Catalog/List
chlorophosphate New Ham.12shire Graf ton Center, Ruggles quarry ...... Olive green masses in pegmatite ...... ARAGONITE...$1. 50. New Mexico Socorro County, Hansonberg district Large white crystal sections, select ....... ...................... . Southern Rhodesia Miami district Yellow-green hexagonal crystal prisms from l"...to l½" thick ........................ • EMERALD Austria or Russia Bright green single hexagonal crystal...aluminosilicate New Jersey Phillipsburg, Royal Green quarry Olive green coarse micaceous plates with serpentine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upnor, Kent. Cornwall Bosahan quarry, Falmoath, biotite, 21o. Dean quarry, Coverack, The Lizard, analcime...group, 935. Loch Feith an Leothaid, Loehinver, augite, bronzitc, t ~5Loyne, Borolan, magnesio-arfvedsonite...orthoclase, 489. Schyn-Schhtcht, Grisons, albite, I56. Austria (Osterreich) Burgstein, Oetztal, omphacite, 61...Meidling im Tal, Lower Austria, omphacite, 6I. Mitterbachgraben, Lower Austria, omphacite, 6i. Mitterburg...province, cuprian sericite, 945. Israel Golani, basalt, 568. Pakistan Naranji Sar, Malakand, rodingite
Catalog/List
acite,Vlasovite, Foittite,Perhamite,Ludwigite, Augite crystals. I , '1' Also available, list of basic...mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...P0/4 £1.20 ANALCITE White crystals well covering Basalt Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland lxl 70p lx2 -=Zeo=l:...with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive. Minas Gerias
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A. J.), 447. Aegirine, Nigeria, 37o. Aegirine-augite, Uganda, anal., opt., zI6; in system CaMgSi~O6...256. AUCOTT (J. W.) see ATrEWELL (P. B.), 428. Augite, India, anal., opt., cell-dimensions, 417; Scotland...I45. Baryte, synthetic, growth spirals on, 296. Basalt, electroylsis of, 568. Basaluminite, Wales, opt...Zealand, grandidierite, 615. Blende, Algeria, Austria, Congo, France, Greece Spain, Yugoslavia, cathodoluminescence...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)
rocks are the silicates: quartz, feldspars, micas, augite, horn¬ blende, and olivine. In sedimentary rocks... Also with native copper as cavity-fillings in basalt at Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Found in Colorado...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan
Book (edition)
rocks are the silicates: quartz, feldspars, micas, augite, hornblende, and olivine. In sedimentary rocks... Also with native copper as cavity-fillings in basalt at Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Found in Colorado...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan
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cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets...river) contains highly altered vesicular blocks of basalt (containing phillipsite and tiny rhombohedra of...the heated fluids. Zeolites in the Eocene olivine basalt flows in the Cairns Bay and Little Bird Rock areas
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cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets...river) contains highly altered vesicular blocks of basalt (containing phillipsite and tiny rhombohedra of...the heated fluids. Zeolites in the Eocene olivine basalt flows in the Cairns Bay and Little Bird Rock areas
Catalog/List
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____________...PO/4___________ £2.40 £1.20 White crystals well covering Basalt. 17 ANALCITE Taliskcr Bay, Skye, Scotland 1x1 70p...£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
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than fluorite, and shows a different cleavage. Augite, amphibole and tourmaline occur frequently in the...predominantly in acid igneous rocks. On the other hand, augite and amphibole often occur in basic igneous rocks...the angle and quality of their cleavage planes. Augite has good cleavage at 90° angle, amphibole perfect...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
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A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...collectors and often used as decorative items. Basalt is the most abundant volcanic rock on Earth’s surface...rock, created when hot gases were trapped in the basalt lava as it a specimen. The minerals may have grown...solidify into an extrusive igneous rock such as basalt. Magma may also solidify very slowly beneath Earth’s...such as Porcupine and Hemlo districts; Noranda district, Quebec. USA: Mother Lode belt and others in
Catalog/List
Scandium minerals.(Klausen Qry.Gleichenberg Styria Austria) 1mm sphere on 1cm £3. b) with 3 or 4 spheres...Azurite. Rare. (Grabanz,Neufinkenstein,Carinthia Austria) 2x2cm £4 452 TENORITE Copper Oxide. Rich black...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)
pure, water-clear adularia, from the St. Gothard district: SiO,. Al,O,. Fe,03. BaO. K,O. Na,O. Total. I...542--543).-Material from the original locality i n Styria is coinpact to fine grained, with pale yellowish-green...in Styrian Basalt-tuffs. Jos. SCHADLER (Tsch. Nin. M i t t . , 1914, 32, 485-507) -Basalt-tuffs containing...various rocks foreign to the basalt occur a t several places in southern Styria. The olivine-bombs (bulk...14-29 mol. %. Other bombs consist of hornblende and augite, either alone or with biotite and olivine. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
XXIV.—The Igneous Geology of the Burntisland District. By Douglas A. Allan, B.Sc, Ph.D., Falconer Fellow...497 498 499 500 501 496 I. INTRODUCTION. The district examined in the course of the research embodied...are abundant bombs and fragments of compact blue basalt carrying small olivine phenocrysts. Associated...vicinity are several intrusions of a compact olivine basalt. Among the sediments they appear as sills, but...with ash carrying basalt bombs and some THE IGNEOUS GEOLOGY OF TJIE BURNTISLAND DISTRICT. 481 fragments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
361 ) XVIII.—The Igneous Geology of the Dalmeny District. By Frederick Walker, B.A., Ph.D. Communicated...These ridges, which form conspicuous AN DALMENY DISTRICT X>OLCRIT£ TC&CHEMITE, ANAUCITE DOULRlTE LTC....height of 387 ft., which is the maximum for the district. Other conspicuous ridges occur at Craigie, Dundas...cultivation. At the west edge of the road-metal quarry at Dickson's Craigs the thin covering of boulder-clay...FREDERICK WALKER ON The southern portion of the district is drained by the river Almond, which reaches
 
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