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Orthoclase from
Feldspar quarry, Wolfsberg, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Feldspar quarry, Wolfsberg, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:774531
Long-form Identifier:1:3:774531:7
GUID (UUID V4):2473fa22-2950-47a2-9212-3f08c2b853a2
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
8.6km (5.3 miles) Gusenscharte, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
28.5km (17.7 miles) Hochalmspitze, Malta, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
52.7km (32.7 miles) Erfurt way, Grieswies-Schafkar, Grieswies - Krumlkeeskopf area, Rauris, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
58.5km (36.3 miles) A2 Highway tunnel (Falkenberg tunnel), Falkenberg, Kreuzbergl massif, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Carinthia, Austria
85.6km (53.2 miles) Gertrusk, Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria
95.1km (59.1 miles) Staller Quarry, Kathal in Obdachegg, Obdachegg, Obdach, Murtal District, Styria, Austria
96.7km (60.1 miles) Oberleidenberg, Bad Weißenbach, Wolfsberg, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HUET Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria HEINRICH MALI AND PETER...Montanuniversität Leoben, Peter-Tunnerstraße 5, 8700 Leoben, Austria MONIKA HORSCHINEGG Department of Lithospheric...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ANDREAS ERTL AND GERALD GIESTER Institut für...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT In the Eastern Alps (Central Europe)...features. The magmatic assemblage consists of K-feldspar, quartz, plagioclase, muscovite, garnet, and tourmaline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Permian and early Triassic sandstones, Eastern Alps (Austria) KARL KRAINER 1 and CHRISTOPH SPOTL 2 1 Universitiit...und Paliiontologie, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck (Austria) 2 Universitiit Bern, lnstitutfiir Geologie, BaltzerstraBe...Permian and early Triassic sandstones, Eastern Alps (Austria). Sediment. Geol., 62: 59-77. Detrital and authigenic...Triassic (Scythian) sandstones of the Eastern Alps (Austria) have been investigated using thin section microscopy...alteration. Within early Permian sandstones detrital feldspar type is strongly dependent on the source rock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
albite (An10), with an exception of the feldspars in the marbles that are mainly orthoclase. Biotites can be...calcite and occasionally phlogopite platelets. Feldspar occurs rarely. Opaque phases like graphite, pyrite...Amphiboles coexisting with feldspar (albite) show a decrease in Ca and Al, and an increase in Na. Except...(Fe2+ + Mn) – R3+ (R3+ = AlIV + Ti4+ + Cr3+). Feldspar All analyzed feldspars (in garnet-micaschists...marbles are mainly orthoclase in character (Tab. 3 and Fig. 9). Fig. 9 Projection of feldspar chemical data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52 A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria CHRISTOPH HAUZENBERGER Department of Earth Sciences...University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria FRANK MELCHER Chair of Geology and Economic Geology...e, quartz-plagioclase-muscovite, and quartz-K-feldspar-plagioclase-muscovite) together with minor beryl...geochemical signature of the pegmatites is characterized by an enrichment in Be-Nb . Ta-Sn combined with very low...explained with a resetting of the U-Pb system during an Eoalpine § Corresponding author e-mail address:
Book
for within several months they asked me to render an opinion as to its suitability for translation and...neglecting the truly important European localities. As an amateur handbook, this one makes no pretense at being...method of indicating increasing quality by the use of an increasing number of exclamation points within parentheses...version are truly those intended in the original. As an outgrowth of this study a number of errors in the...renditions are all the more remarkable because he is an ardent amateur mineral collector and is therefore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
I56; see also alkali feldspar. ALIEV (R. M.), see KASHKAI(M.-A.), 929. Alkali feldspar, variation of ~o~...see Juddite, Magnesio-arfvedsonite. Arkansas, orthoclase, anal., d2o T, 489. Arsenolamprite, Chile, anal...BURCESS (A. S.), Computerized data processing from an X-ray texture goniometer, 428. Aucoa~r (J. W.) and...(abstr.), xliii. Black Hill, South Australia, orthoclase, anal., d2o T, 489. Black Hills, South Dakota...Zealand, grandidierite, 615. Blende, Algeria, Austria, Congo, France, Greece Spain, Yugoslavia, cathodoluminescence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism in the south-east Tauern Window, Austria: 1. P-T variations in space and time G . T . R...rocks exposed in the south-east Tauern Window, Austria, contain mineral assemblages which crystallized...'Middle Austro-Alpine' nappe) was itself buried beneath an 'Upper Austro-Alpine' nappe or nappe-pile which was...Albite component All Allanite Alm Almandine component An Anorthite component And Andalusite 37 1 G.T. R...Hornblende llmenite K-feldspar Kyanite Margari te Magnetite Muscovite Orthoclase component Unidentified
Book
Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...revival of interest. Collecting minerals has become an increasingly popular hobby among people from all...on display, representing 100-200 mineral species: an exception is the mining museum of Kongsberg, Norway
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associations and compositions. The Tanco Lower pegmatite is an isolated body beneath the main pegmatite body that...than hydrothermal in origin. Fluids are attributed an indirect role only, as they could have brought minor...hydrothermal fluid, that reacted with the blocky K-feldspar of the central zone. During the alteration event...evolution of columbite group minerals associated with an aplite-hosted style of mineralization, which was...crystallization from a melt or hydrothermal processes. M an On itob ta a rio 258 150 m mine openings pegmatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the garnet-biotite interface to the garnet-feldspar interface and transfer of the Ca component in...necessary chemical mass transfer. Reaction rims are thus an indication of transport controlled mineral reactions...from the biotite and the Ca component from the feldspar. 304 Rim growth was, hence, temperature and...Universität Berlin. Analyses were performed with an acceleration voltage of 15 kV, a beam current of...chromite (Cr), ilmenite (Ti), magnetite (Fe), orthoclase (K) and rhodonite (Mn) were used as standards
Catalog/List
Telemark Norway £ I 0 ✓10. LEPIDOLITE AND MUSCOVITE an interesting piece showing golden muscovite and mauve...SPESSARTINE on feldspar crystals about 1.5mm orange spessartine crystals scattered over Orthoclase and Albite...micro's on some galena in the matrix, Bleiberg Carinthia Austria ( one of the most famous European mines) £20...inch matrix with minor Hydrozincite Bleiberg Carinthia Austria £6 20. HUNTITE white chalky massive areas...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India 23. EUDIALYTE really excellent display
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An illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Rocks and Minerals L......- , 1-. r S INER.!. l • A...Dusan Slivka First published in 1986 by Spring Books an imprint of The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, a...; this is a product of chemical weathering of feldspar rocks. Other examples of residual deposits are...closely associated, which can be demonstrated by an example of certain ore concentrations. As a result...pyrolusite have originated. Living organisms also take an active part in the process of mineral weathering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Germany 3 Montanuniversität Leoben, 8700 Leoben, Austria 4 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural...shift the pegmatitic melt properties toward those of an aqueous fluid, sharply depressing solidus temperature...al. 1989). The presence of fluxes also results in an increase of the solubilities of high field strength...the concentrations determined in natural rocks. As an example, manganocolumbite and manganotantalite solubilities...saturation in these minerals. This paper presents an experimental investigation of the distribution of
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LSUAVEY Geology of the Haddington district Nor1h Berwick LAW • Gullane - • Longniddry GARLETON...TELEPEN 6 10 082434 8 Geology of the Haddington district 'fhe cl ist net described in this memoir includes...south-w('st part of the Lan1mermuir H ills. The district is covered bv Sheet 33W and part of Sheet 4 1...chapter outli nes the physical features of the district and the geological history. The Lower Palaeozoic...Carboniferous sediments underlie the major part of the district and successive chapters give the details of the
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DuSan Slivka First published in 1986 by Spring Books an imprint of The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, a...found; this is a product of chemical weathering of feldspar rocks. Other examples of residual deposits are...closely associated, which can be demonstrated by an example of certain ore concentrations. As a result...pyrolusite have originated. Living organisms also take an active part in the process of mineral weathering...individual grains in polycrystalline minerals plays an important part in the hardness determination. Considerable
Book
ROCKS AND MINERALS Michael O’Donoghue GALLERY BOOKS An Imprint of W. H. Smith Publishers Inc. 112 Madison...published in the United States 1990 by Gallery Books, an' imprint of W. H. Smith Publishers, Inc., 112 Madison...the field is the natural glass obsidian. This forms an amorphous material since cooling is too quick for...black rock, containing no quartz but rich in the feldspar minerals pyroxene and olivine. Old basalts with...intrusive rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
“character actors” are pyrite and members of the feldspar and the mica groups, providing aesthetic backgrounds...where the “glass” seemed to be chipping. Well, being an inquisitive child, I had to investigate this and...fine-grained varieties pinite and liebenerite is found as an alteration product of cordierite, nepheline, staurolite...muscovite with albite, 2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This...8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen
Book (edition)
increasingly interested in the growing acceptance of an association of these rocks with major epithermal...years, there has also been growing recognition of an association of such rocks with iron oxide copper-gold...Igneous Rocks . . . 2.2 Potassic Igneous Rocks as an Umbrella Term. . . . . . 2.3 Shoshonites . . . ..... . . . 4.2 Kreuzeck Mountains, Eastern Alps (Austria): Example from a Postcollisional Arc Setting ....Northern Mariana Arc (West Pacific): Example from an Initial Oceanic Arc Setting . . . . . . . . . .
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the third edition Introduction Australia ...... Austria ....... Azerbaijan Republic Belarus Republic ....Secretary. Both have fulfilled this formidable job in an excellent way. We are well aware that this first... city, and institution name. The English form of an institution's name, official or constructed for the...criterion for inclusion in the directory, even though an effort has been made to present information concerning...Minerals: 600. Rocks: 1,600. Specialties: Although mainly an Australia-wide collection, a significant part of
Report (chapter)
Ma), which intervenes between D2 and D3, provides an approximate age for migmatisation. This is significantly...480 Ma (Pankhurst & Pidgeon 1976), would provide an approximate age for the sillimanite-migmatite event...assemblage quartz-oligoclase predominate over potash feldspar-bearing types; these are intimately related and...pegmatitic textures. A suite of trondhjemitic and orthoclase-bearing pegmatite bodies occur extensively throughout...plagioclase and cotectic modal compositions, suggest an origin by in situ anatexis. However, Yardley (1978)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Review Lithium Occurrence in Italy—An Overview Andrea Dini 1 , Pierfranco Lattanzi 2 , Giovanni...Ruggieri, G.; Trumpy, E. Lithium Occurrence in Italy—An Overview. Keywords: lithium; Italy; geothermal fluids...Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and...partially corroded petalite (Pet) crystals. Kfs: orthoclase; Ab: albite; Qtz: quartz. The (Lpd); and colorless...partially corroded petalite (Pet) crystals. Kfs: orthoclase; Ab: albite; Qtz: quartz. The biggest elbaite
Book (edition)
Potassic Igneous Rocks Potassic Igneous Rocks as an Umbrella Term Shoshonites Shoshonitic and Alkaline...Igneous Rocks Kreuzeck Mountains, Eastern Alps (Austria): Example from a Postcollisional Arc Setting Introduction...Northern Mariana Arc (West Pacific): Example from an Initial Oceanic Arc Setting Introduction Regional...powder is heated at about l100°C in a furnace for an hour or more. It usually corresponds to the total...mineralization in northeast Scotland, formed during an arc-continent collision during the Grampian Orogeny
Journal (issue)
already. The occasional faceted stone will show up in an illustration here and there, but we are still the...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no...Lowell) [1982, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 19-28.] The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California (by F. DeVito and...three-dimensional model of a tourmaline crystal, an impossible tourmaline crystal that is, zoned with
Catalog/List
obtained, more Note. - Galena offer large the an "iron cap” small often crystals it was Diorite...sharp, transparent stock, including with notches an side. the get a (see figure,) both have which...to the third twinning plane. horizontally with an and in occasional law, In all some a received...with “feathers” white cleavage planes. Recently an extraordinarily large quartz twin was received from...distinctly ately with the reproduction exact an but simple crystals CHIASTOLITE FROM Chiastolite
Book (edition)
DispersioiL A TEXT-BOOK OF , MI NE RAL GY WITH AN EXTENDED TREATISE ON CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND PHYSICAL...M. DesCloizeaux. Descriptive part of the volume an abridgment of the System of Mineralogy, and to that...the student is referred for the history of each for an enumeration of obspecies and a complete list of its...localities and methods of occurrence, and also for an account of many species of uncertain character, not...formulas are edition of Rammelsberg's Handbuch der Mineralchemie has been often used in the preparation
 
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