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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salt mine, Altaussee, Liezen District, Styria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:312810
Long-form Identifier:1:3:312810:7
GUID (UUID V4):a146cc2a-c466-41be-b97e-1a107170e774
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
11.9km (7.4 miles) Gypsum mine, Wienern, Grundlsee, Liezen District, Styria, Austria
12.4km (7.7 miles) Teltschen-Rötelstein (Teltschen-Röthelstein; Teltschengraben), Bad Mitterndorf, Liezen District, Styria, Austria
13.1km (8.1 miles) Dachstein mammoth cave, Obertraun, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
25.0km (15.5 miles) Brandriedel, Ramsau am Dachstein, Liezen District, Styria, Austria
25.6km (15.9 miles) Kasberg, Grünau, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
25.8km (16.1 miles) Gschwandt, Abtenau, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
26.6km (16.5 miles) Gschliefgraben, Gmunden, Gmunden District, Upper Austria, Austria
26.9km (16.7 miles) Zwieselbad, Abtenau, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
30.4km (18.9 miles) Gypsum mine (Moldan mine), Webing, Abtenau, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
30.5km (19.0 miles) Grub quarry, Grub, Abtenau, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)...Scolzite with wulfenite; Q X l s ; Smithsonite; Calcite Xls (very fine); Plombocalcite X l s ; Limonite;...and black). VII STYRIA (Steiermark) Alt/Ausee. In N W corner of province. Six salt Ms about H / Mi...to enter is difficult to se­ cure. Mountain and mine can be seen to the S of the village. Siderite X...Ankerite; Cinnabar; Hematite; Goeth­ ite; Vordernberg. Calcite. Kraubat or Kraubath. S of Donawitz. Diadochite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals, or they may specialize in just one species—calcite is a popular mineral for this. Other collectors...Pseudohexagonal twins of aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province...(1743–1822) who distinguished between aragonite and calcite based on cleavage, specific gravity, and crystallography...composition were responsible for the differences between calcite and aragonite. It wasn’t until 1822, when Eilhardt...time, that the relationship between aragonite and calcite was first understood (Gossner 1930; Palache, Berman
Report (issue)
00 (1) Yonaibata mine, Hukusima Prefecture, Japan; after deduction of CO2 as calcite, corresponds to Ca0...sedimentary evaporite deposits and in the cap rocks above salt domes, commonly formed by dehydration of gypsum;...Gypsum, halite, sylvite, polyhalite, dolomite, calcite, magnesite, celestine, sulfur. Distribution: Numerous...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
Book
You will be told that these are fragments of calcite crystals. Three minerals will be mentioned to you...consisting (apart from impurities) only of the mineral calcite. Granite is the bestknown example of a rock consisting...sodium and chlorine in combination form halite (rock salt). Several minerals consist of a large number of...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...already going on then. This trading also included rock salt, and the search for this valued mineral led early
Catalog/List
mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the... 'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high
anorthite 112, 1/3 cainite 62 calamine 40, 87 calcite 43, 45 antigorite 108 campylite 68 antimonides...consider the salt obtained from salt-works as a mineral, though it is chemically identical to rock-salt. The... Groups of sulphur crystals partially covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) look more different...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
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...(up to 4 " ) ; Beryl X l s with Epidote X l s : Calcite which contains the city of Salzburg. Many people...Approach via the village of A s the name states, salt was a major pro­ 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
Book
100 cabrerite 70, 73 cainite62 calamine 40, 87 calcite 43, 45 campylite 68 cannizzarite 18 carbonates...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 ·elements Chemical elernents found... Groups ofsulphur crystals partially covered with calcite. Casteltern1ini, Agrigento ( Italy) look more
Book
100 cabrerite 70, 73 cainite 62 calamine 40, 87 calcite 43, 45 campylite 68 cannizzarite 18 carbonates...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...kimberlite, which also contains pyrope covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) and diopsids...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to
Book
Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...nodules — named for their angular cavities — with calcite (see photo opposite). Crystal linings that survive...silicate minerals known collectively as zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA...means “changed form”). For instance, the small calcite crystals in the sedimentary rock limestone change
Report (issue)
constituent of sedimentary rocks, particularly marine salt deposits, and soils formed directly by evaporation...speleothems in caves. Association: Halite, celestine, calcite, aragonite, anhydrite, dolomite, sulfur. Distribution:...several mines in the Eisleben–Mansfeld–Sangershausen district, Saxony-Anhalt, and from near Königslutter, Lower...Saxony. At Bex, Valais, Switzerland. In Austria, from Aussee, Styria, and Hall, Tirol. At Zaragoza, Zaragoza...cave complex in the Naica Pb–Ag mine, and also in the San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua. Large
Book
in crystal form, e.g. the many crystal forms of calcite. Perfect models of crystals are only confusing...are some rocks (such as marble, composed only of calcite crystals) which are chemically homogeneous but...fissures. Well known minerals, such as quartz and calcite, originate at this stage and are known as /iydrothermal...is liberated, which may affect the neighbouring calcite, changing it into gypsum or into a whole series...change in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such as chamosite
Book
museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...Dolomite resembles limestone but contains magnesium. Salt, coal and oil are associated with sedimentary deposits...organic origin; the most prominent example is CaC03, calcite. The triangular C03 group gives threefold symmetry...sedimentary rocks and are often associated with salt deposits because they are precipitated from evaporating...‘perfect’ is used for -34- Twinned crystals Calcite Cassiterite Chrysoberyl Albite -35- cleavage
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 in­ which the best is the Natural History cluded...smaller collections in the mining duces salt, metals, calcite crystals. The towns and the cities near
Book
in crystal form, e.g. the many crystal forms of calcite. 7 a i ■ I II I g 1 I I3 . Perfect models...arc some rocks (such as marble, composed only of calcite crystals) which are chemically homogeneous but...fissures. Well known minerals, such as quartz and calcite, originate at this stage and arc known as hydrothermal...is liberated, which may affect the neighbouring calcite, changing it into gypsum or into a whole series...change in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such as chamosite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collection at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, and we were still in the first-hall we had entered...world: a salt mine in Wieliczka, Poland, a diamond mine in Kimberley, South Africa, a gold mine in California’s...Knappenwand locality in Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria. The specimen measures 15 by 6 cm. Figure 7 (below)...precious opal weighs 594 grams and stems from the opal mine of Czerwenitza, formerly Hungary, now Slovakia....exhibit, a block of salt weighing about 775 pounds. It was collected from a salt mine in Ronaszek, Bulgaria
Book
'41~ .'.~" ~. . ~ .~~ Salt miners at work in the Diirrnberg-Hallein mine (1756) (see also comment...Frontispiece: Salt miners at work in the Durrnberg-Hallein mine (1756). Oil painting in the ancient mine office...Werkstiitter (1708-1772) on the occasion of a visit to the mine by the Prince Bishop Sigmund III. of Salzburg on...At the top of the painting and on the steps are mine surveyors and a miner at work. Note the romantic...heldatBled/Yugoslavia 3-7, 1977, held at Leoben/ Austria 5-10,1981, held at Berchtesgaden/Bavaria, FRG
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
siderite mineralizations in the Eastern Alps of Austria Walter Prochaska University of Leoben, Department...Department of Geological Sciences, A-8700 Leoben, Austria 31-38 9 Figs. doi: 10.4154/gc.2016.03 ABSTRACT...various sizes can be observed in the Eastern Alps of Austria (Fig. 1), some of them were of considerable economic...minerogenetic map of Austria exhibits their locations. Today, only one siderite mine, the Erzberg siderite...siderite deposit, situated in the province of Styria, is in operation. The present Austrian iron production
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock...examples at the present time are from the Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, where it occurs...Colorado localities include the Silverton-Eureka district, San Juan County, where tetrahedrite is often
Book
Habsburg dynasty elite to the Lower Hungarian mining district around Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz, Slovakia):...Johannes Mattes, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, johannes.mattes@oeaw.ac.at, 0000-0002-8546-7149...if he had to either buy them from abroad […] or mine them at own expense in his own mines. Everybody...mining districts such as in Bohemia, Carinthia, Styria, and Tyrol were added towards the end of the catalog...first consisted of the Archduchy of Austria, the Duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, the County
Book (volume)
certain common and important series such as the calcite group. At the same time, the separate descriptions...89A, 468 (1914). HALITE [NaCl]. Common or Rock Salt. Muriate of Soda, Sodium Chloride. Kochsalz, Steinsalz...Southwest Africa. Enormous deposits are found in the Salt Range in the Punjab, sulfates of potassium, various... In the United States, large bedded deposits of salt occur in the Salina formation of the Upper Silurian...over a wide area in central and western New York. Salt also occurs near Cleveland, Ohio, and extensive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrites, mispickel and stibnite, in quartz and calcite veins in the ArchEan rocks a t Eule, Bohemia, gave...marialite molecules in the proportion 5 : 7). The calcite enclosures are often as elongated rods parallel...pulverulent substance from another point in the district ; with this material no purple coloration was...Bohemian limestones. L. J. S. Mineral Waters from Styria. By ANTON FRITZ REIBENSCHUH (Mitfh. 1893, 29, 262--274)...14'. Other waters from the same region in S.E. Styria are mentioned. L. J. S. Water from the Klebelsberg
Journal (issue)
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018 Articles Oberdorf an der Laming, Styria, Austria ................................ ............STRONTIANITE, 9 cm, from Oberdorf an der Laming, Styria, Austria. Fine Minerals International specimen, now...SHOWS TABULAR BLUE BERYL ON TOURMALINE DEO DARRAH MINE, NEAR PATTA GUZAR, BADAKSHAN, AFGHANISTAN 6CM TOM...STEPHANIE@STONETRUST.COM Obtrdorf an dtr Laming ~ tyria, austria Thomas P. Moore Peter Huber 2709 East Exeter...net Rohe-Wand-Gasse 18 A-2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria huber@mineral.at Just outside the village of Oberdorf
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...opaque mineral to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald
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crust. There are also rocks, such as limestone, calcite, marble and dolomite (which when pure are forms...For instance, calcite crystals occur in different, 11 Fig. 1. Different forms of calcite crystals. very...(quartz, calcite, corundum, haematite, tourmaline, dolomite) (6) cubic (fluorite, galena, rock salt, magnetite...centre, we speak of a geode (quartz, zeolites, calcite, etc.). Minerals forming druses or geodes are a...Minerals commonly found in druses are quartz, calcite, fluorite, barytes, etc. Excellent crystals of
 
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