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Limonite from
Gonzen Mine, Sargans, Sarganserland, St. Gallen, Switzerland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gonzen Mine, Sargans, Sarganserland, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:436770
Long-form Identifier:1:3:436770:3
GUID (UUID V4):34ceef2a-e958-4160-8657-e40348afd991
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
16.0km (10.0 miles) Drei Schwestern area (Three Sisters area), Planken, Liechtenstein
20.3km (12.6 miles) Grosses Chalttal, Chalttal area, Mürtschenalp, Glarus Nord, Glarus, Switzerland
23.4km (14.5 miles) Goldene Sonne Mine (Fliden Mine), Taminser Calanda, Calanda, Grisons, Switzerland
26.4km (16.4 miles) Sacktobel, Rells valley, Vandans, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
27.3km (16.9 miles) Zech quarry, Nüziders, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
28.5km (17.7 miles) Marktobel, Rells valley, Vandans, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
31.0km (19.2 miles) Venser Tobel, Vandans, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
31.0km (19.3 miles) Limestone quarry, Lorüns, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
34.7km (21.5 miles) Schafberg - Gargellner Köpfe area, Gargellen, Gargellen valley, Sankt Gallenkirch, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
40.1km (24.9 miles) Sennigrat-Kreuzjoch-Hochjoch area, Schruns, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
References
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Report (volume)
consumption........................................... Switzerland.............................................................................................. Gonzen................................................................................. Summary for Switzerland......................................... Production.......... 64 VIII. Outline map of Germany and Switzerland showing reserves of iron in ore.................Hematite. [Fe203.H2O.Goethite (crystalline), limonite (amorphous). Carbonate..... .FeO.C02.. .Siderite
Report (volume)
Mines Publications Distribution Section, 4800 Forbes St., Pittsburgh 13, Pa. SERIALS Acad. Colombiana...· Acad~ Sci. St. Louis Trans. -Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Lbuis. St. Louis, Mo. Accad...Mineria y Petroleo, Boleti'n. Caracas. Australasian In st. Mining and Metallurgy Proc.; Trans. :-Australasian...Geologia Argentina Bol.. - Direcci6n Nacional de Mine ria y Geolog:la [Argentina], Boletin. 192 CONTRIQ...Helvetiae-Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. Lucerne, Switzerland. Econ. Geography-Economic Geography. Worcester
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masses, or in a mass of granular calcite or fibrous limonite. They are produced whenever several individuals...are able, when it is necessary , to turn the part st back upon the other, which we restore again to its...distinct concretions, such as fibres and grains. ( Limonite and garnet. ) These concretions must be regarded...and iron pyrites and spathic iron crystals into limonite, -the change not being attended by any alteration...to reniform and botryoidal shapes. ( Calcedony, limonite .) In fruticose and dendritic shapes, we perceive
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catena alpina (St. Marcel in Val d'Aosta ; Monte Civillina presso Recoaro nel Vicentino ; Gonzen, Falotta e...alpino (Bex nel Vaud, Leissigen e Granges presso Sion, St. Jean de Maurienne presso Modane, e soprattutto diverse...pseudomorfosi sono nella nostra zona i cu bi di limonite pseudo­ morfi di pirite, da cui derivano appunto...soprattutto quando abbiamo a che fare con matrici di limonite o di ossidi ne­ rastri di manganese ed i cristalli...punto del Tirolo (Brixlegg) o dell'Isere (Pellancon e St. Arey vicino a La Mure). Tracee insignificanti se
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Composition. In a few cases, such as psilomelane and limonite, the exact composition of a mineral is uncertain...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...cobalt. Localities. Fine reniform masses occur at St Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains. Also from the
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...and several important mineral mixtures. (e.g. limonite and psilomelane) are included here to provide...common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint), Ste. (Sainte). Recent developments in many...tint. R = 35 %. VHN = 26-61. Rare at etc. at Mont St-Hilaire. Quebec. CM 32. 843-854, Georgetown, Clear
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in 1948 by the Verlag Birkhauser, of Basel, Switzerland, is devoted to a general survey of rocks and...exposed to our observation (artificial drill holes and mine shafts providing the only notable exceptions). On...calculated they read as follows: Granodiorite (Placer st al County): 241. 36°26; ie -¢ alk ak mg...TAUB Te Ene Number of atoms (general expressions) St Number of atoms (in calculated exam- 241 ple)...important rock-forming minerals} IDEAL COMPOSITION OF St al fm c 0 0 0) | 50 0 | 50 0 | 50 0 0 50 0
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the private Bally foundation at Schonenwerd, Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because...Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly because they..."Iron rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...Cassiterite Cassiterite Manganite Scheelite South Africa St Andreasberg, Harz, FRG Shikoku, Japan Grube Georg...Drygill, Cumberland, GB Vlb Nordmark, Sweden VI la St John's Island, Red Sea, Egypt Vllb Morawicza (Ocna
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with ~9% Mn coexisting with alabandite of the Sätra mine, see p. 69; and with 5.6% Mn coexisting with niningerite...as components of the Pb-Zn ores of the Huanzala mine, 250 km north of Lima, Peru, where Fe-Mn sphalerite...distribution for both sphalerite types within the mine [36]. Mn-containing sphalerite (with 19.8 to 1.8...greenish yellow in thin sections) from the Nebazawa mine epithermal Au-Ag ores, Gumma Prefecture, Japan,... see the original paper [22, pp. 221/3, 245/6]: mine and prefecture; n = number of analyses MnS lnakuraishi
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, London, S.W.1; 37 P eter Street, Manchester; 1 St. Andrew's Crescent . Cardiff; or 23 Forth Street...Spain • •• •• • ••• • •• Sweden • • • ••• • •• Switzerland ... •• • ••• •• • I O • I • I O 0 • I... ••• ••• • •• • AUSTRIA.* The siderite and limonite deposits at Erzberg in Styria and Hiit-tenbe1~g...compact masses together with the oxidation product, limonite. The associated minerals are 1nanganese oxide...Erzberg, where the ores mined are siderite and limonite containing n. .om. 43 to, 49 poc cent. of iron
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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...of name in Russian: Akademiia nauk des sciences, St. Petersburg. Bulletin: ser. 1 as Bulletin scientifique...1939-date. Ac. sc. St. P^tersbourg, Bull, (to 1917). See Ac. sc. Leningrad, Bull. Ac. sc. St. P6tersbourg,...geologique, Travaux. Latest name and title in Russian: St. P6tersbourg. Akademiia nauk, S.S.S.R. Leningrad
Journal (issue)
Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New... Feature articles Kammererite from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey .............................Record Inc. COVER: KAMMERERITE from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglari, Turkey. The crystals, from the collection...(Columbiana, Alabama). The owner o f the fine Old Yuma mine vanadinite pictured on page 195 is Ray DeMark; Ray...a m m e r e r i t c > from the Kop Krom mine, Kop Daglan, Turkey by Roland Dietrich Weinfeldstrasse
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Mineralogical Museum , University of Berne, Switzerland Mineralogical Museum , University of Copenhagen...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores... Also in Canada, Scotland, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and New Zealand (nephrite). BEST REF
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azurite crystals on a matrix of highly discoloured limonite. Minerals are almost infinitely varied in their... listed in an appendix to the Mineral Kingdom). ST ,UCTURES Solids, liquids and gases Youcertainly...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip ofa mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...azurite crystals on a matrix of highly discoloured limonite. Minerals are almost infinitely varied in their...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip of a mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for the
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double...MODE OF OCCURRENCE: Found in waste piles in a coal mine in the L'vov-Volynskii basin, USSR. It is found
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...relvvagigld .xteliliey? santa rowan leks ) Get « ryi St pewory sine toting bee eoetiine wll deatial wl bxyolovab...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...FEV i Sea _ 2 nee eaeee Si bre ed “ree ah ST gg ithe Detaridty ae 44 ia) ni a, wii was bp
Journal (volume)
Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be...tend to be very soft minerals, with bauxite and limonite being An example of two good examples. Bauxite...of mineral copper has taken aluminium , while limonite the shape of aragonite. is rich in iron. shape...available. The main source was once the Kongsberg Mine in Norway, but this closed in 1956. Man has, however...deposits have also been found in northern Italy, Switzerland , Kenya and Za ire. Demantoids are mainly found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lumped together with the output of a larger local mine. The locality registered in the literature is thus...of an orebody (or orebodies). At the old Crimora Mine in Virginia (Eilertsen and Feiss, 1946), "about...credited with 1045 Mn mines. This amounts to one mine per 362 km 2. Canada, on the other hand, has only...occurrences contain more than 100 t Mn (i.e., one Mn mine per 551,000 km2). Some small mineralized belts,...Co, have been mined from the lower part of the "limonite zone" in a polygenetic (humid, then arid) regolith
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with native silver, iodyrite, jarosite, wad, and limonite; also cerussite, atacamite, malachite, pyromorphite...Silver City district, Owyhee County, Idaho, Poorman mine, where masses weighing many pounds were especially...probably also occurs in that state in the Hechman mine, near Globe, Gila County. Many other occurrences...as paramorphs in iodyrite. Found cerussite, limonite, Artif Both . and miersite iodyrite are...with atacamite in limestone at the San Augustin mine, Huantajaya, near Iquique, Chile, as an alteration
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colourless varieties of Tourmaline. They are found at St. Gotthard, in Elba, and Siberia. AcicuLAR Akseniate... Saltzburg and Greiner in the Zillerthal, Tyrol. St. Gotthard. Sweden. Norway. Piedmont. Brit. Mus....Cornwall; the Lithe Cheesewring ; Cadgwith Point ; ; . St. . Gotthard . 65-69 17-97 trace 13-99 1-34 1-01...^girine of Si2 : I CO. | I Dovrn.— Foreign. St. Gotthard in Switand particularly on one of the ...Near Gallion, coating flint balls. Katisbon. Switzerland, where it is used for whitewashing houses.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as geosynclinal carbonate bodies (Gonzen, Switzerland; Cuba; U. S. A. Armenia; Maine), glauconitic...formation of an sikfter the Lispenskly Rudnik (a copper mine), Western Kazakhstan; Lower Carboniferous conglomerate...S. Yagovkin, is in the vicinity of the Uspenskiy Mine; its composition is as follows, from bottom to top:...siliceous shale. 7) Breccialike shale impregnated with limonite and manganese oxides. 8) Pale-gray and bluish-gray...Alpine, the Pennine Ophiolitic zone, both in Switzerland and in Italy [30]. In Praborna (Val di S. Marsel)
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in Great Britain by SI Edmundsbury Press Lid. Bury St Edmunds. Suffolk ISBN 0-l 12 39950 4 Aparr from any...of the mineral ; such mineral may be placed out of st rict periodic order in this classificat ion. Space...44. c 1 3 .50 A. A natural occurrence at a coal mine in the (TL) Lvov-Volynsk basin, USSR. Achates. syn...aegirine-augite. F. :Z.ambonini ( 1 9 10) Min. \lesuv., 1 st ed .. pp. 1 53. 1 5S (acmiteaugite). Acorite. syn...(actynolite); modified by J .D. Dana ( 1 837) Syst. Min., 1 st ed .. p. 309. Monoclinic. a 9.884. b 18. 145. c 5
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compelation of the American Geological Institute, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA, 22302-1502. However, without the...Hans A. Stalder: Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Hugo Strunz: Institute of Mineralogy, Technical...Scientia Geologica Sinica References SSC SSPN ST SUBBSC SWV xlv Solid State Communications Soil...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan
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edition of the work, aud to soeh additionB pre- on Mine- make to it as later discoveries might render... B 81^ O', F 81° 4/, O form 431, n 22° ST', r 16° 67', O = 32° 12'. In the fcxrm 481...when the globules appear to be embedded, and only st'«;in<'Mt8 i)f bphercji are seen above the surrac-e...pularization of the incident r.iy, and ihe light will l)e st upped in everr other position a portion of the W^ht...of the successiTe members of the scale, begianing st ^0. 1, if necessary but for most niinerab, not being
 
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