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Zeunerite from
Uranium deposit, Rudolfstein, Weißenstadt, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Zeunerite
Formula:Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2 · 12H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zeunerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Uranium deposit, Rudolfstein, Weißenstadt, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:667214
Long-form Identifier:1:3:667214:0
GUID (UUID V4):6409af0d-cb3f-480c-bcba-f92db153050f
Nearest other occurrences of Zeunerite
51.0km (31.7 miles) Streuberg Quarry, Bergen, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
54.7km (34.0 miles) Horní Rotava, Rotava, Sokolov District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
65.1km (40.5 miles) Horní Slavkov uranium ore district, Horní Slavkov, Sokolov District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
70.7km (43.9 miles) Himmelfahrt Mine, Steinbach, Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.9km (44.0 miles) Schaar Shaft, Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
73.3km (45.6 miles) Roter Berg mining district, Zschorlau, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
75.1km (46.7 miles) Wald Shaft, Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
75.3km (46.8 miles) Pucher Shaft, Wolfgangmaßen mines (Wolfgangmaaßen mines), Wolfgangmaßen, Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
75.6km (47.0 miles) Adam Heber Mine, Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
77.9km (48.4 miles) Walpurgis Flacher vein, Weißer Hirsch Mine (shaft 3), Neustädtel, Schneeberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Zeunerite Cu(UO2)2(AsO4)2·12H2O Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group: 4/m 2/m 2/m. Crystals, to 4...oxidized zone of arsenic-bearing hydrothermal uranium deposits. Association: Olivenite, mansfieldite...although most meta-zeunerite is a dehydration product of pre-existing zeunerite. In Germany, from the Walpurgis...Saxony; at Sailauf, northeast of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; in the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach...Compreignac, Haute-Vienne; in the Rabéjac uranium deposit, seven km south-southeast of Lodève, Hérault
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tübingen, Germany 2 Earth and Space Science Program, Jacobs University Bremen, D-28759 Bremen, Germany 1 ... Abstract The hydrothermal uranium vein-type deposits of Menzenschwand and Wittichen in the Schwarzwald...Schwarzwald in southwestern Germany have been investigated with regards to their primary and secondary mineralization...(torbernite and uranocircite), and uranyl arsenates (zeunerite, heinrichite, nováčekite, walpurgite, and uranospinite)...sulfide-rich (pyrite, chalcopyrite) Menzenschwand deposit, we conducted thermodynamic reaction modeling using
Book
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Responsible Series Editor: F. Pirajno ISSN 1876-1682...rocks in the Bohemian Massif, which is shared by Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria, has been...Hagendorf has been mined for feldspar and the deposit is not yet exhausted as far as the high-purity...the region are not very promising and mining in Germany is obviously a profession of the past, but learning...pegmatites. The geochemical atlas of the F.R. of Germany, albeit not covering all rare elements of relevance
Report (issue)
IAEA-TECDOC-361 VEIN TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP ON URANIUM GEOLOGY ORGANIZED BY THE...ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, VIENNA, 1986 VEIN TYPE URANIUM DEPOSITS IAEA, VIENNA, 1986 IAEA-TECDOC-361 Printed...exploration for uranium deposits over the last decade has added significantly to our knowledge of uranium geology...geology and the nature of uranium deposits. Much of the information that has been developed by government...and publication. With the current cut-back in uranium exploration and research efforts there is a real
Book
1: Introduction • Discovery and Exploitation of Uranium and Thorium ......... ......... ..... ...........Characteristics of Radioactive Deposits • Geochemistry of Uranium and Thorium ........................ 11 • Classification............................................. 30 Germany .................................................intended to serve as an introduction to the world of uranium and thorium minerals for the serious student or...of radioactive elements and the development of uranium and thorium ore deposits. Next, the geochemical
Report (issue)
Plateau-type uranium deposit (Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Utah, USA). Association: Scorodite, zeunerite, heinrichite...France. At Sailauf, northeast of Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany. Name: To honor Jess Abernathy, Moab, Utah...Ingram and E.B. Gross (1956) Abernathyite, a new uranium mineral of the metatorbernite group. Amer. Mineral...(2) Frondel, C. (1958) Systematic mineralogy of uranium and thorium. U.S. Geol. Surv. Bull. 1064, 220–222
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collection of uranium minerals. Uraninite (Cook 2004) and several of the most common secondary uranium minerals...most attractive and certainly collectible of all uranium minerals, cuprosklodowskite, has been suggested...widespread though generally rare mineral found in uranium occurrences in which copper minerals are intimately...partial oxidation either by alteration of earlier uranium minerals or from transport in solution. Associated...in western states, generally in sediment-hosted uranium deposits, have been described. Small crystals,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
marcinsyczewski@uw.edu.pl Abstract: The Podgórze uranium deposit is located near Kowary in the Sudetes Mountains...of uranyl minerals from the abandoned Podgórze uranium mine and reconstruct the physicochemical crystallization...water circulating in the subsurface part of the deposit. Parafiniuk, J. Uranyl Minerals from Abandoned...creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 1. Introduction Uranium can be easily released into the environment during...uraninite is unstable and uranium is easily leached. During the oxidation process, uranium changes the oxidation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
colored yellow, orange, red, or green secondary uranium minerals, including hydrated oxides, silicates...brownish or grayish black oxide of uranium and is the chief ore of uranium. Much uraninite is massive to earthy...00 The greatest share of the world's supply of uranium has come from uraninite found in hydrothermal veins...formation than the pitchblende. The Shinkolobwe deposit in Zaire produced a few very large, to 1 Vi inches...uraninite is associated with cobalt, nickel, Uranium-Bearing Minerals Figure 3: Becquerelite and rutherfordine
Report (volume)
Systematic Mineralogy Of Uranium And Thorium By CLIFFORD FRONDEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1064...Frondel, Clifford, 1907Systematic mineralogy of uranium and thorium. Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off..." Bibliography: p. 361-396. 1. Uranium ores. 2. Thorium. 3. Uranium ores-Bib!. 4. Thorium-Bib!. I. Title...Title. II. Title: Mineralogy of uranium and thorium. (Series) QE75.B9 no. 1064 549.74 -----Copy 2...broad and intensive study of the mineralogy of uranium and thorium as part of its program of investigation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergene Uranyl Mineralization of the Rabejac Deposit, Lodève, France Fabrice Dal Bo 1, *, Frédéric Hatert...  Abstract: The Rabejac uranium deposit that is located in the Lodève region, France...(fontanite, seelite, and rabejacite). In addition, this deposit shows an extraordinary supergene uranyl mineralization...and crystallographic data are reported on (meta)zeunerite, (meta)nováčekite, (meta)uranospinite, heinrichite...date, more than 250 mineral species containing uranium as a main structural element are reported in nature
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Sandstone-Hosted Uranium Deposits as a Possible Source for Critical Elements: The Eureka...Abstract: The Eureka deposit in Castell-estaó in the Catalan Pyrenees is a Cu–U–V deposit, hosted by Triassic...low-temperature, sandstone-hosted stratabound metamorphite U deposit. The main mineralisation is stratabound, related...shales of the Silurian sediments underlying the deposit and the nearby Carboniferous volcanoclastic rocks...elements can be expected in other similar large uranium deposits, which could be a source of these elements
Book
n ce Franz J. Dahlkamp Uranium Deposits of the World Europe 123 Uranium Deposits of the World Europe...Europe Franz J. Dahlkamp Uranium Deposits of the World Europe With 327 Figures and 94 Tables Author:...Hartenstein Germany a.hiller@wismut.de Dr. Manfred Schauer Am Hexenberg 8 09224 Chemnitz Germany Günter...Florastraße 17 09131 Chemnitz Germany Udo Zimmermann Am See 16b 01796 Pirna Germany ISBN: 978-3-540-78553-8    ISBN...the contributions of his many associates in the uranium industry, national and international institutions
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 214 THE OCCURRENCE OF ZEUNERITE AT BROOKS MOUNTAIN SEWARD PENINSULA ALASKA By...SURV W. E. Wrathe;r, Direct r THE OCCURRENCE OF ZEUNERITE ~ SEWARD PENINSULA, BROOKS MOUNTAIN SKA By...Survey, Washington 25, D. C. THE OCCURRENCE OF ZEUNERITE AT BROOKS MOUNTAIN SEWARD PENINSULA, ALASKA CONTENTS.... . . . . . . . . . . . Minor occurrences of zeunerite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...oxidation at the Foggy Day prospect. ABSTRACT Zeunerite occurs near the surface of a granite stock on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
149 Supergene minerals in the Horní Slavkov uranium ore district, Czech Republic Supergenní minerály...information on supergene minerals of the Horní Slavkov uranium ore district. Mineralogical studies confirmed occurrences...schultenite, siderite, torbernite, uranophane, zeunerite, and unnamed phase UNK5. The present study did...district. Key words: Horní Slavkov uranium district; supergene minerals; uranium; uranyl minerals Review of...geological conditions of the Horní Slavkov uranium district The uranium ore accumulations around Horní Slavkov
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
50, JULY_AUGUST, 1965 A UNIQUE OCCURRENCE OF URANIUM MINERALS, MARSHALL PASS, SAGUACHE COUNTY, COLORADO...Calif ornta. AssrnA.cr rn 1956 several unusual uranium deposits were uncovered in the Marshall pass district...about five tons of high-grade uranium ore. The bedrock at the deposit is a quartzbiotite-feldspar-schist...of the schist have been completely replaced by uranium and suifide minerals, producing "rich" ore bodies...Geochemical sampling of soils surrounding the deposit indicate that uranium has migrated less than 100 feet downslope
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 1031-1049 The Krunkelbach Uranium Deposit, Schwarzwald,Germany: Correlationof RadiometricAges(U-Pb...om the Krunkelbachvein-typeuranium deposit in southwest Germany wereinvestigated by theU-Xe-Kr,U-Pb...deposits,depositionof the primary uranium THE Krunkelbach deposit near Menzenschwand, mineralization...occurredduringthe late Carboniferous Schwarzwald,Germany (47ø50•25•' N, 8øff50•'E, aland the Permian. titude...Armorican massifsin France, the Bohemian massifin Germany and Czechoslovakia,and indicatesthat someare of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
complexes. The organic matter contained up to 4.8 wt.% uranium, as uraninite grains. Elements associated with...feature attributed to the radiolytic effects of uranium. Amorphous bitumens, alternating with various forms...to the presence of other inorganic components. Uranium concentration was the main factor controlling the...covers partially altered residues enriched in uranium minerals that derive from complex organic substances...have been used to describe the association of uranium with organic matter in bituminous coal [11–13]
Book
, ... , .. 11 Discovery and Exploitation of Uranium and Thorium ......... ...........................CHARACTERISTICS OF R -E - - ... .. . Geochemistry of Uranium and Thorium ............ 18 Classification of Radioactive....................................... ..... 48 Germany .................................................be geoche1nical processes that have led to rich uranium deposits converted to a great deal of energy, by...geographic areas of the vvorld. Understanding uranium (fissi le) nuclei interacting with a neutron, catapulted
Book
Minerals ■ k’ J ■ Text by Pierre Bariand ! iM Conservateur de la Collection des Mineraux de la...Editions Minerva S. A. Gendve, 1976 Printed in West-Germany 4 I I Preface Rather than a manual of mineralogy...carbonates, sulphates, etc., of copper, lead, uranium, etc. Unlike the organic compounds, of which there...Iron 106 Hematite 106 Tin 108 Cassiterite 108 Uranium 110 Becquerelite 110 Billietite 112 < I Curite....... 116 Torbernite (Chalcolite) . 118 Meta-zeunerite and Novacekite .... Francevellite and Vanuralite
Report (issue)
Total 98.21 99.70 100.00 (1) Weisser Hirsch mine, Germany. (2) Do.; by electron microprobe, after drying...rare mineral formed in the oxidation zone of some uranium deposits. Association: Walpurgite, uranospinite...asselbornite, zeunerite, uranosphaerite, erythrite, cobaltian wad (Weisser Hirsch mine, Germany); realgar...uranophane, arsenopyrite, pyrite, galena (Bota-Burum deposit, Kazakhstan). Distribution: From the Walpurgis...the Daniel mine, Neustädtel-Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. From Marbruie, near Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbrightshire
Report (issue)
16–20.22 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Schneeberg, Germany. 10.2 (10), 3.58 (9), 5.06 (8), 3.35 (5), 6.80...12 18.41 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Schneeberg, Germany; H2 O by difference. (2) Mg(UO2 )2 [(As, P)O4 ]2...oxidized zone of uranium-bearing polymetallic hydrothermal mineral Association: Zeunerite, uranophane (Schneeberg...(Schneeberg, Germany); schoepite, paraschoepite, arsenuranylite, metazeunerite, uranospinite (Cherkasar...(Cherkasar deposit, Uzbekistan); chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite (Wheal Owles, England). Distribution:
Report (issue)
14.50(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Menzenschwand, Germany. 7.92 (10), 7.25 (9), 3.27 (9), 3.57(7), 5.96 (4)...31 0.17 0.13 [9.81] 100.00 (1) Menzenschwand, Germany; average of 15 electron microprobe analyses, H2O...(Sherana mine); uraninite, richetite, antlerite, zeunerite, metazeunerite, nováčekite, langite (Joachimsthal)...Menzenschwand, Southern Black Forest, Baden Württemberg, Germany, from the El Sherana Mine, South-Alligator-River-District...Stuttgart, Germany. References: (1) Walenta, K. and T. Theye (2012) Heisenbergite, a new uranium mineral
Report (issue)
37 Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Menzenschwand, Germany. 14.62 (10), 7.62 (10), 3.49 (9), 5.03 (8), 3.59...24 (4), 2.25 (3) Chemistry: (1) Menzenschwand, Germany; Al, As, and U confirmed by microchemical and spectrochemical...very rare secondary mineral in uranium deposits. Association: Zeunerite, uranophane, studtite, uranospinite...“uranocircite”–heinrichite, barite, “limonite”. Distribution: In Germany, in the Black Forest, at Menzenschwand and on the...Sophia mine, near Wittichen. From the Rabéjac uranium deposit, seven km south-southeast of Lodève, Hérault
Report (issue)
Austria; qualitative analysis confirms a ferrous uranium arsenate hydrate. Mineral Group: Autunite group...the oxidized zone of a uraninite-bearing iron deposit (Hüttenberg, Austria). Association: Arsenosiderite...löllingite (Hüttenberg, Austria); lavendulan, zeunerite, metazeunerite, malachite, cornubite, mixite,...Menzenschwand, Black Forest, Germany. From the Mas-d’Alary uranium deposit, three km south-southeast of...(3) Frondel, C. (1958) Systematic mineralogy of uranium and thorium. U.S. Geol. Sur. Bull. 1064, 204–205
 
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