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Wurtzite from
Limestone quarries, Auenstein, Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Wurtzite
Formula:(Zn,Fe)S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wurtzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Limestone quarries, Auenstein, Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:889588
Long-form Identifier:1:3:889588:2
GUID (UUID V4):65a85544-8d84-4d7c-b509-404fe46b143c
Nearest other occurrences of Wurtzite
72.9km (45.3 miles) La Reuchenette quarry, Péry-La Heutte, Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois), Bern, Switzerland
74.3km (46.2 miles) Hornbühl, Suggental, Waldkirch, Emmendingen, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Keller discoveredwhat he thought was dickite in a limestone quarry south of Columbia, and a few days later...the same mineral was found by Tarr in another limestone quarry southwest of Columbia. Microscopic studies...mineral in geodes and geodial cavities in several quarries and cuts but, altho some of the material possessedthe...nodule containing the dickitewas residual from limestone and occurred at the bottom of a white clay deposit...dickite in chert, searched for and found it in a limestone quarry (Fellow's quarry) south oI Columbia. Some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
between the outer geode wall and the enclosing limestone, which helps explain the ease with which it separates...cuts (see fig. 1), commercial digs, and active quarries. This article focuses on three important geode...Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri where streams, rock quarries, and even commercial geode dig sites have for...(fig. 6). The hexagonal polymorph of sphalerite, wurtzite, is also encountered but rarely. One exceptional... but they are not common. Figure 7. A 4.1-cm wurtzite crystal on gray botryoidal chalcedony inside a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...chalcedony as “coldwater agate”). Shellsburg area, most quarries, road cuts, and natural outcrops; Devonian-age...quarry = Moscow quarry, Muscatine Co. West Chester limestone quarry, Washington Co. Westfield, Plymouth Co...Pints quarry, N of U.S. 20 in Raymond, large limestone quarry now closed and flooded; Devonian-age Little...cubes), quartz (drusy, in nodules), sphalerite, wurtzite (Anderson and Stinchfield 1989). Waterloo South
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tiemannite. Sphalerite is trimorphous with matraite and wurtzite. Pseudomorphs of sphalerite after galena, tetrahedrite...diverse array of deposit types that include skarns, limestone replacements, Mississippi Valleytype, volcanogenic...2 cm from the Bull Run and Virginia Trap Rock quarries, Loudoun County; the Manassas quarry in Prince...widespread as a sparse accessory mineral in Iowa’s limestone quarries and was an important mineral in its historical...10 cm have been found in the quarries at Mont Saint-Hilaire. Limestone-hosted base-metal deposits of
Report (edition)
urge you to take every safety precaution in the quarries, pits and road cuts; always ask permission to...Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite Bedford County New locality 31 31 locality...Graphite locality State line district feldspar quarries Clinton County Salona calcite-dolomite locality...110 110 112 114 117 117 119 119 121 Shelocta wurtzite locality 121 x Page Jefferson County Sugar...Pike limonite pseudomorph locality H. R. Miller limestone quarry 128 ... 128 134 ... 137 139 142 147
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomite, pyrite, sphalerite Augusta County Belmont limestone quarry—Staunton calcite crystals (some with pyrite...cryptomelane, psilomelane, pyrolusite Simons limestone quarry (Valley stone quarry)—Staunton aragonite...inclusions) Bedford County James River Hydrate quarries—(two sites) near Buchanan aragonite, barite, calcite...okenite, prehnite, quartz, stilbite, thaumasite, wurtzite Theodora Copper mine near Herndon azurite, chrysocolla...minerals, wavellite Rosenberger and Stodler limestone quarries—near Hayfield anhydrite, celestite, gypsum
Book
walls are covered with pale pink, fine grained limestone slabs of a drab shade and with vivid red veins...pegmatite-hunt, then there is a whole series of old quarries to be carefully investigated; among these the...this, very interesting rocks can be found in the quarries of Moragy and Feked. It is interesting to compare... CHALCOPYRITE on quartz, Gyongyosoroszi. 24. WURTZITE, Gyongyosoroszi. 25. QUARTZ (amethyst variant)...sulphid minerals stibnite, galena, sphalerite, wurtzite, pyrite and chalcopyrite are especially worthy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i c h supplied the rock for the...­ stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...mining in Connecti­ cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand and gravel, gran­ ite, and crushed stone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(38-40-23N 092-13-54W), an agricultural and road limestone quarry between Ashland and Jefferson City on U...chalcopy- Butler County Williamsville quarry, a limestone quarry northwest of Poplar Bluff CALCITE as yellow...MARCASITE, polydymite, PYRITE, siegen38W), a limestone outcrop: DOLOMITE, GOETHITE (after ite, SPHALERITE...093-19-50W), a small, buttelike exposure of Compton Limestone on a hilltop 3 miles south of Brighton: GOETHITE...as sharp crystals to 6 mm, SPHALERITE, vaesite, wurtzite mixed with sphalerite (schalenblende) (Rogers
Book (volume)
are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...Blue Springs):  all regional gravel pits and quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals;  SE 3 mi., quarry on...petrified wood. STEELE CITY, area gravel pits, quarries, and stream gravelsagate, chalcedony, jasper...abandoned mine dumpfluorescent moss opal nodules (in limestone coated with white Calcite), opal arrowheads. BAYARD:
Report (Issue volume)
Appalachian-type Zn-Pb deposits in Cambro-Ordovician limestone. Zn-Pb sulfides in Helderberg-Tonoloway limestones...Barite in limestone. Zn-Pb-Cu sulfides as fracture fillings and veins in limestone. Wurtzite and other...mine Herr's mine Flory's Mill quarry Billmeyer quarries and Haldeman Riffles Lancaster Pequea mine Near...Appalachian-Type Zn-Pb Deposits in Cambro-Ordovician Limestone Friedensville is the most productive mine in this...present. 2. The host rock is lower Paleozoic limestone and dolomite. 3. The deposits are bedding replacements
Report (issue)
8.4, Highway 38 Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38 Limestone quarry, west of Highway 38 Freebern mica mine...Shore occurrences Paul Viau quarry Melochville quarries Rivermont quarry Goyer quarry Dulude quarry Mont...quarry St- Vincent-de-Paul quarry Cap-St-Martin quarries Terrebonne quarry St-Lin fossil locality Road-cut...Shawinigan-Sud quarry Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries Grand'Mere quarry Black Creek bog Ste- Thecle...occurrence Red Mill ochre deposit St-Marc-des-Carrieres quarries Tetreault mine Montauban mine Portneuf molybdenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
field The Rock and Gem Society cussed the limestone quarries of Pennsyl­ of North Jersey, Wharton, is...t e d the C e n t e r wald, Craft Shop for wurtzite near Pittsburgh. to v i e w a demonstration...showed slides o f the roads to the quarry, the quarries a n d the minerals to be found. T h i s was f...through the microscopes, minerals f r o m these quarries. and Mineral Club, Marietta, went to B a l l
Report (issue)
calcite crystals on brown calcite in vugs in dark limestone .... B. Yellow dolomite crystals intergrown with...Pink and white barite and white calcite in black limestone Phantom of scalenohedral calcite in rhombohedral...iridescent, on calcite and limestone. D. Quartz druses on calcite and limestone. 11) A. B. C. D. Cluster...in crevice fillings and veins in the magnesian limestone that formed the bedrock around the village. ...into the state during the 1830's and 1840's. Limestone and dolomite and a small amount of sandstone were
Book (edition)
WOLLASTONITE-Calcium silicate WULFENITE-Lead molybdate WURTZITE-Zinc sulfide - XXANTHOXENITE-Calcium iron phosphate...crystals in schists, granites, and crystalline limestone associated with chlorite, calcite, quartz, and...masses of tremolite occur in the dolomitic limestone at the quarries outside of the village of Canaan. Tremolite...Mountain leather and mountain cork occur at the limestone quarries in the Beaver Brook District of Danbury,...Mountain paper has been found at the lime­ stone quarries in Canaan. MONOCLINIC URALITE Uralite, a white
Book (volume)
ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply
Book (volume)
ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply
Book (volume)
sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite
Book (volume)
sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite
Book (volume)
Stone Mt.), areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA:  area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline...Feldspar, Quartz. STONE MOUNTAIN:  two area granite quarriesBeryl, Feldspar, Hyalite opal;  area granite...halfway to Refuge ChurchKyanite. TATE:  area quarries in the Tate-Marble Hill dist.Almandite garnet...any of the islands are sands, some gravel, and limestone, including deposits of calcareous algae and the...Sec. 8, T. 15 N, R. 2 E Muscovite. CUPRUM, in limestone in contact zone where copper is mined in the Seven
Report (issue)
to 8.4, Highway Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38 Limestone quarry, west of Highway Freebern mica mine 8...Queen Baby mine 26 Ly, 7, 27 28 29 ey) 30 3] BZ Quarries Limited mines Rogers mine Byrnes mine Hanlon...Shawinigan-Sud quarry Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries Grand'Mere quarry Black Creek bog Ste-Thecle...‘Red Mill ochre deposit St-Marc-des-Carrieres quarries Tetreault mine Montauban mine Portneuf molybdenite... Cap-Santé fossil occurrence Riviere-a-Pierre quarries Neuville quarry and shoreline exposures Escoumins
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the pore and fracture fluid residing in the limestone aquifer, which had a pH between 8 and 9 in equilibrium...due to the presence of organic matter in the limestone. Mixing between these two fluids resulted in a...Wiesloch MVT deposit occurs in Middle Triassic limestone (Muschelkalk: Figs. 1a, b, and 2), in a carbonate...246 to 229 Ma ago (Hagdorn and Simon 2005). The limestone is dominated by tempestites and highenergy sedimentation...“Trochitenkalk” of the upper Middle Triassic limestone (Upper Muschelkalk (mo)), which consists of 650
Report (Issue volume)
Section I-Active limestone and dolomite mines 3 Section Il-Crushed and broken limestone and dolomite (Quantity...broken limestone and dolomite (Value of products) 19 41 Section IV-Crushed and broken limestone and dolomite...the year 8. Quarries with no benches: average height of working face in feet 9. Quarries with one bench:...face in feet 10. Quarries with one bench: average width of bench in feet 11. Quarries with multiple benches:...faces 12. Quarries with multiple benches: average height of working faces in feet 13. Quarries with multiple
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Limestone quarry, west of Highway 38 . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontenac Quarries Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melochville quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . St-Marc -des -Carrieres quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
things, good quartz and calcite specimens from limestone quarries in the Beekmantown Formation of southern...“Broken Hill” ones, e.g. inesite, pyrite, gahnite, wurtzite-coated galena, wire silver and more. Of the three
 
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