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Covellite from
Landsberg, Obermoschel, Nordpfälzer Land, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Landsberg, Obermoschel, Nordpfälzer Land, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:92777
Long-form Identifier:1:3:92777:0
GUID (UUID V4):22309aa2-5941-42c1-a217-1b51f592eb37
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
7.5km (4.7 miles) Karlsglück adit, Schmittenzug mine, Niederhausen, Rüdesheim, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
16.0km (10.0 miles) Katharina II Mine, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
16.1km (10.0 miles) Katharina I Mine, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
16.4km (10.2 miles) Grüner Löwe Mine, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
16.8km (10.4 miles) Reich Geschiebe Mine, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
17.1km (10.6 miles) Weiße Grube, Imsbach, Winnweiler, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
22.2km (13.8 miles) Hohe Buche, Hinzweiler, Lauterecken-Wolfstein, Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
47.2km (29.3 miles) Bühlskopf U deposit, Ellweiler, Birkenfeld, Birkenfeld, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
48.4km (30.1 miles) Werlau, Sankt Goar, Hunsrück-Mittelrhein, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
49.9km (31.0 miles) Raidelberg (Grubenberg; Schlitzloch), Walhausen, Nohfelden, Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
Polarite Sobolevskite Cherepanovite Millerite Covellite Klockmannite Idaite Valleriite Tochilinite Vyalsovite...Affiliation/Address Luzerner Str. 10-12, D-12205 Berlin, Germany – Freie Universität Berlin, FB Geowissenschaften...Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank...Stilleweg 2, D-30655 HanDr. Thomas Oberthür nover, Germany Dr. Thomas Kenkmann Museum für Naturkunde der ... zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik & Ludwig-Maximilians
Book (edition)
Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Earth Science Department / College of Science,...Feld 236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Sodenstr. 19, D-12309 Berlin, Germany Graslitzer Str. 5, D-63791 Karlstein...Karlstein am Main, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften...Ressourcengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D80333 München, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe...Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr &
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spectroscopy has been applied to minerals (e.g., Landsberg and Mandelstam, 1928) since its discovery in 1928...to be a progression from bornite (Cu5FeS4) to covellite (CuS) to chalcocite (Cu2S) to digenite (Cu9S5)...decrease in intensity. The Raman spectrum of covellite (Cu–S) is characterized by a dominant band at...spectra from bornite, chalcocite and digenite. The covellite band positions correspond to the Cu–S bands of...suggests that it is a pure CuS mineral (i.e., covellite, chalcocite, or digenite). Fig. 9. Scan of spectra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
element under consideration. $ 4 5 6 chalcocite covellite bornitc malachite 0.799 0.665 0.603 0.575 7... mineral deposits. Singer, Lawrence J. Drew, Landsberg, H. H., Fischman, L. L., and Fisher, J. L., 1963...zinc in the Cana1969, Mineral resources from the land, in Cloud, P., dian Appalachianregion:ECON.GEOL
Book (edition)
Rosenzwcig (deceased) (USA). Jochen Schlilter (Germany), J. Sejkora (Czcch Republic), Masaaki Shimizu...Bellerberg Moun Ettringen, Mayen, Eifcl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Gennany, NJMA 179, 265-29 f str.) Ali/arit...Antarcticite, CaCl2·6Hp, trig., Don Juan Pond, Victoria Land, Antarctica, 50, 2098, AC 42C, 141 (sir.) D Anthoinite...A/rmite-Jarositegroup BlackForest,Baden-W!lrttembcrg, Germany,67, 854 Arsenoftonnclte-(Ce),CeAl1(AsO,)z(OH,HiO)...compareWellerite,Clara mine, near Oberwolfach,BlackForest,Germany,New Mins.(1997),Auf 44, 250-254 Alunile-Jarosite1
Book (edition)
there are questions concerning the use and misuse of land that is laid open during mining operations. Questions...absurd indeed; that mass is equal to all of the land standing above sea level. Exponential growth cannot...mountain ranges, both on the ocean floor and on the land. An end to the search came during the 1960’s when...700 square kilometer area. The earliest fossils of land and freshwater plants are in rocks about 410 million...underground mining, causes serious disruptions ofthe land surface. Furthermore, only about 4 percent of all
Book
31 32 CINABRE MILLÉRITE LoRANDlTE CYLINDRITE CoVELLITE 33 34 35, 36 37 38 PROUSTITE CoB.U.TINE 39... 57, rue de l'Université, Paris 7• Printcd in Germany ARGE T Eléments PLANCHE 2 ARGENT Ag Les... 57, rue de l'Université, Paris 7~ Printed in Germany Eléments PLANCHE4 FER· Fe Dans la croûte... 57, rue de l'Université, Paris 7c Printcd in Germany Eléments LANDSBERGITE PLANCHE6 Moschellands...trouvent dans leur voisinage immédiat. Au Landsberg, près de Obermoschel, des couches, des veines et des pics
Report (issue)
.......................................... · Covellite .......... ·.·..................................a quartz-pyrite vein that has been filled by covellite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...15. Veinlet of enargite penetrated by later· covellite seam ............................. :............The growth of the city northward is limited by the land owned by the n1ining companies, and the abrupt transition...batholith and allied rocks. Hornblende Quartz Quartz Landsberg granite of monzonite monzonite b. Barr, b!lli~8K
Book (volume)
Commissionem for Ledelsen af de Geol. og Geogr. land. Undersogelser Mem. i Gr0nland." min. Mineralogicheskoe...Ekaterinburg and near Nizhne Tagilsk. In Germany at Rheinbreitbach in the Rhineland, at Friedrichssegen, near Ems...with amalgam at Moschellandsberg (Landsberg near Ober-Moschel) Palatinate, Bavaria; in Spain at Almaden,...Dissolves HNO3. Occur. At Moschellandsberg (Landsberg, near Ober-Moschel), Bavaria, in fine crystals...Bohemia; at Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains, Germany; Allemont, Isere, France; near Sarrabus, Sardinia;
Journal (issue)
worldwide: Jachymov (Czech Republic); Freiberg (Germany); Chihuahua and Zacatecas (Mexico). In the USA...n's edge from Alaska (USA), via Japan, to New Zea land; it probably also fo llows the west coasts of North...found all over the Earth, especially in continental land masses. \iVith the closely related dacite, andesite...(Canada and USA); Yorkshire (England); Hanover (Germany); Siberia (Russia); Florida, New Mexico, Texas...source (type locality) at Annaberg in Saxony (Germany). Although annabergite is almost never found in
Book
(DRC), the Kupferschiefer province of Poland and Germany, Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan, and Udokan in Russia...Kupferschiefer black shale (Upper Permian) at Sangerhausen, Germany: Mineralium Deposita, v. 46, p. 137–152. Takada...section in plane-polarized reflected light of covellite (blue) and pyrite (nearly white) formed by sulfidation...such as bornite-pyrite, chalcocite-pyrite, and covellite-pyrite, with this overprinting (Fig. 10F-H). Although...combination of chalcopyrite, bornite, digenite, and/or covellite. Chalcopyrite occurs with pyrite, pyrrhotite,
Book
dependent on the generosity of aristo¬ crats, as in Germany or Russia. Povarennykh would like to see a rational...Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria...and chemist; assisted R. W. Bun¬ sen in Marburg, Germany; opened chemical laboratory in Philadelphia (1848);...Moon), and Michael Co/lins (who did not actually land). armstrongite, Neil Alden Armstrong, American astronaut...specified. arnimite, von Amim family of Zwickau, Germany, kimzeyite, Kimzey family of Magnet Cove, Arkansas
Book
sometimes as fine, large speci¬ mens; at Freiberg, E. Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South...'branches' form a mesh. From the Harz Mountains, Germany 11 ELEMENTS AND ALLOYS and some may luminesce...Idrija and Mount Avala, Yugoslavia and near Landsberg, W. Germany. It also occurs in the United States, in...crystals. Localities. Fine crystals from Landsberg, W. Germany; and Coquimbo, Chile. Diamond C The transparent...Paz; also found in E. Germany. There are important deposits in North Queens¬ land and New South Wales.
Journal (issue)
1.2 cm on a 7.5-cm matrix, from Landsberg, Obermoschel, Pfalz, Germany. Mim #672, acquired in 2005; mined...probably resulting from surficial alteration to covellite. James Elliott (Fine Minerals International) photo...miners from Sicily migrated to northern Italy or to Germany, Switzerland, France, or—most numerously—to the...wooden beams was a huge expense that neither the land owners nor the gabellotti wanted to pay for, mine...following payment of a small gift by the owner of the land or the “opening permits of sulfur mines.” According
Book (edition)
Bay); Bob Gait and Joe Mandarino (Toronto); from Germany, Gunter Griintmann (Munich);.from Switzerland,...(from those used in QDF2), ¢.g., covelline to covellite, and adjustment to some spellings, ¢.g., zinckenite...A good example of the latter is provided by covellite, CuS, where the dispersions of Ro and "R, are...pleochroic. This both vibration directions in air, covellite appears pleochroism, together with the bireflectance... “‘blaubleibender’ covellite, was widely used to indicate a variety of covellite which, for both Reflectance
Book
Series Editors Günther A. Wagner, Hirschhorn, Germany Christopher E. Miller, Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche...Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany Holger Schutkowski, School of Applied Sciences...Deutsches Bergbau-Museum / Ruhr University Bochum, Germany ISSN 1613-9712 Natural Science in Archaeology...University Bochum. He was one of the few scholars in Germany who established Archaeometry and Archaeometallurgy...Mitterberg (Austria) or in the Harz Mountains (Germany)? Do the host rocks consist of soft sandstone,
Book
sediments on the floors of ancient seas. Then the land was raised by geological forces and the river cut...and mineral fragments scattered over grazing land can be a hazard to livestock, to say nothing of...many mineral-collecting localities are on private land, so that permission must be obtained to visit them;...pieces that are thrown out onto the surrounding land surface. Rocks formed from lava fragments are known...valuable. With time erosion will gradually lower the land surface, together with the water table and the zone
Book (edition)
Prof. of Mineralogy, University of Cologne, West Germany; Curator of The Mineralogical Museun1. A dear friend... Mineralogical Museum, University of Cologne, Germany Mineralogical Museum , University of Berne, Switzerland...also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is stable below 179°C. (Argentite is...occurrences are found in Chile, Italy , France, Germany, Turkey , and Algeria. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Palache...England; also found at Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Davis, R. J ., Hey, M. H
Journal (issue)
exploring and/or prospecting, but can only throw land open to public prospecting in the Tribal Territories...individuals or mining concerns is allowed in either Crown Land or the Tribal Territories unless a Crown Grant or...and mining for petroleum. In both cases, if the land has not been opened for public prospecting for either...of bornite are also present on the dumps, and covellite has been observed. Secondary ore minerals include...at Tshukutswane itself, where chalcopyrite and covellite occur over 475 ft. of strike (van Straten, 1953b)
Journal (volume)
deposits of rose quartz can also be found in parts of Germany, Italy, Ireland and Scotland. History Many ancient...your prospecting takes you on to privately owned land, it is absolutely essential that you seek prior...is also found in the Rum Jungle, Australia , in Germany and in England. Wherever it is found in large deposits...states of the USA, and in Australia , France. Germany, Hungary, Russia , Democratic Republic of the Congo...Antarctica - were once all joi ned t ogether in one great land mass that has been given t he name Gondwanaland
Book (edition)
Bay); Bob Gait and Joe Mandarino (Toronto); from Germany, Gunter Grlintmann (Munich); from Switzerland,...(from those used in QDF2), e.g., covelline to covellite, and adjustment to some spellings, e.g., zinckenite... A good example of the latter is provided ~y covellite, CuS, where the dispersions of Ro and ImRo ar~...Qualitatively, for both vibration directions in air, covellite appears whitish blue, Ro, and a darker, saturated...Ramdohr, 'blaubleibender' covellite, was widely used to indicate a variety of covellite which, for both vibration
Book
sediments on the floors of ancient seas. Then the land was raised by geological forces and the river cut...rock and mineral fragments scattered over grazing land can be a hazard to livestock, to say nothing of...many mineral-collecting localities are on private land, so that permission must be obtained to visit them;...pieces that are thrown out onto the surrounding land surface. Rocks formed from lava fragments are known...valuable. With time erosion will gradually lower the land surface, together with the water table and the zone
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). Translation This book has book of but ...11. Copper-ores Copper. I. Copper-glance, Covellite, Copper-pyrites, Copper-ores II. Bornite. Tetrahedrite...Co. prism faces Germany. Cube crystal-form. Weardale, 5. of Harz, The Germany. (bright crystals...crystals growth crystal. rock-crystal Mountains, Germany. Welkenraedt, Bologna, Rosette-like Fibbia...hammered out it as account of its Greeks to land of his been free the variable amounts of contained
Book
England and/or Johanngeorgenstadt, Sachsen (Saxony), Germany. H=?, Dij4=5.85, Dc= 5.772, VHB 06. Adam, 1869...colorless. Grafenthal, Saalfeld (near), Thiiringen, Germany. H=3, Dj4j=1.9, Dc=?, VHIE 08d. Stromeyer, 1816...Earthy white. Garden of the Paedogogium, Halle, Germany. H= 1-2, Djj4= 1.7, D(.= 1.794, VID 03. Haberle...B Mon. Translucent colorless. Howenegg, Hegau, Germany. H=?, Dj44= 2.06, D(,= 2.146, VHIF 14. Alberti...(1975), 289. Anhydrokainite, KMgS04Cl, B Syst=? Germany (N). H=?, Dm=?, 0^=?, VIB 02. Janecke, 1913. Dana
Book (edition)
Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; Czechoslovakia; Norway; Germany; Tsumeb; Namibia; Chanarcillo, Chile; and Broken...occurrences are found in Chile, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, and Algeria. SELECTED REFERENCES: Palache...also found at Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, East Germany. SELECTED REFERENCE: Davis, R. J., Hey, M. H.,...Ireland; and in the Laacher See District, West Germany. SELECTED REFERENCE: Switzer, G., and Bailey, E...England; and the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden, West Germany. SELECTED REFERENCE: Am. Min., 55:1447- 1448 (1970)
 
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