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Ettringite from
Basalt quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Ettringite
Formula:Ca6Al2(SO4)3(OH)12 · 26H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ettringite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:84910
Long-form Identifier:1:3:84910:8
GUID (UUID V4):5a540793-98d1-47a2-a09c-e9ae2d9e07b9
Nearest other occurrences of Ettringite
3.8km (2.4 miles) Winfeld, Kottenheim, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.1km (2.5 miles) Rothenberg Quarry, Bell, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.3km (2.7 miles) Caspar quarry, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.8km (3.0 miles) Hufnagel, Kottenheim, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.3km (3.3 miles) Ettringer Feld, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.6km (3.5 miles) Seekante, Mayen, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.7km (3.6 miles) Mayener Feld, Mayen, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
9.8km (6.1 miles) Schellkopf, Brenk, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
29.6km (18.4 miles) Lead and silver smelter slag locality, Braubach, Loreley, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
29.8km (18.5 miles) Friedrichssegen Mine, Friedrichssegen, Lahnstein, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite from Germany Pages 124-125: Wulfenite crys¬ tals with mimetite...area, although the closing of many of the local quarries during recent decades has done much to diminish...diminish opportunities. The still-active quarries include one in the small town of Oltrefiume, which has furnished...a strong poison. in Specimen of arsenic from Germany showing the char¬ acteristic mammillary form. ...salt or table salt. Halite crystal from Heringen, Germany. hedral crystals, or combina¬ tions of complex
Book
are harder than the streak plate material I Ettringite Magnetite Galena 1 Rhodochrosite • .-...on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2 inches...on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long. 6 ...with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size. They form an unbroken
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...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
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...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
Journal (issue)
of these specimens come from the industrial basalt quarries, but there are also small, and usually very...the lava flow cools, the magma solidifies to form basalt, and minerals begin crystallizing from the cooling...many quarries around virtually every city or large town in the state and, of course, these quarries are...simply insufficient. Drilling and blasting of the basalt is required to create a big enough well, and this...words, these Indian “wells” are more like small quarries. Furthermore, the harsh climate which includes
Journal (issue)
Ottens Klingenbrunn Bahnhof 24 D-94518 Spiegelau Germany The Mineralogical Record, volume 34, January–February................................ 65 Visiting the Quarries ................................................Shiva Temple in Elephanta Cave, carved from Deccan basalt in the sixth century on an island off the entrance...cavansite from Wagholi are the paragons of Indian basalt minerals. These and other fine minerals have been...measures fully 250,000 square kilometers. The quarries at Bombay, Nasik and Jalgaon have delivered far
Book (edition)
Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...France; Andreasberg, Freiberg(*), and Schneeberg(*), Germany; Pribram(*), Jachymov, and Schemnitz, Czech Republic;
Book
Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...1970s and early 1980s the Portland Harbor Trust basalt quarry (now inactive) produced unusual specimens...augite and ilmenite rest on matrix of fine-grained basalt. The ilmenite crystals are lustrous black plates...6 X 1.8 x 2.8 cm (Pekov, 1994a). Malad-Kurar quarries, Mumbai [Bombay], Maharashtra. Ilvaite occurs...in the 1960s (Birch, 1999). IMITERITE EUROPE GERMANY Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen [Sauerland]
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...passion for mineralogy began. He explored the quarries around Jadotville and, between 1967 and 1989,...about the nearly horizontal outpourings of ancient basalt lava flows, one atop another in layer-cake fashion...hoped to avoid, because it reduced the value of the basalt for purposes of filling and construction. My early...TUNNELS In less than a year my weekly forays to quarries, near and far, around Bombay had provided me with
Book
Bergemann in 1858 from Johanngcorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany, and named by G. J. Adams in 1869. They were considered...activity occurred in the region, and vesicular basalt flows, ashes and tuffs, together with a few vents...•Deganwy Conwy• Penmaenmawr• + Trecastell mines,quarries,elc. HOLY ISLAND • villages,smalltowns e • ...kilchoanite 13lanarkite 14 leadhillite + mines,quarries,etc. • • villages,smalltowns • •Glenfarg e...sites) and others are potrntially dangerous (mines, quarries and some coastal locations). The conscientious
Journal (entire run)
A., F.T.S. Chabazite or Gmelinite (or both) in Basalt From Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch Apophyllite...Zeolites and Other Minerals in Vesicles in the Newer Basalt of the Melbourne Area, Vic. - D.G. Vince _ Notes...Augite and Ilmenite in Vesicles in an Alkali Olivine Basalt from Portland, Vic. - W .D.Birch N. Smith, and...Issues No 21 to 37 Copper Chloride Minerals in Basalt from Flinders, Victoria - W.D. Birch and J.E. Pearson...W.D. Birch A Clay-Carbonate Association, Regal Basalt Quarry, Braybrook, Vic. - M J. Sandy & T. Sameshima
 
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