Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Chalcopyrite from
Diabase quarry, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diabase quarry, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:98416
Long-form Identifier:1:3:98416:4
GUID (UUID V4):c328099a-c4c5-4438-8777-2889a4ae0e33
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
13.1km (8.1 miles) Johannes der Täufer Mine, Schmölz, Wallenfels, Kronach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
16.3km (10.1 miles) Silberne Rose Mine, Goldkronach, Bayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
17.7km (11.0 miles) Karlszeche, Wallenfels, Kronach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
23.7km (14.7 miles) Uranium deposit, Rudolfstein, Weißenstadt, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
25.9km (16.1 miles) Epprechtstein, Kirchenlamitz, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
26.8km (16.7 miles) Fuchsbau quarry, Tröstauer Forst-West, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
27.1km (16.8 miles) Christa Mine, Großschloppen, Kirchenlamitz, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
28.0km (17.4 miles) Zufurt quarry, Tröstauer Forst-West, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
29.0km (18.0 miles) Eleonore adit, Lichtenberg, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
29.2km (18.2 miles) Friedensgrube, Lichtenberg, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...thick, are found. The formation consists of an upper zone (200 to 500 meters thick) containing fresh...easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, the base of the...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...contain black, sooty ore composed of pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena that formed at 2500
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...thick, are found. The formation consists of an upper zone (200 to 500 meters thick) containing fresh...easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, the base of the...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...contain black, sooty ore composed of pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena that formed at 2500
Book
immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds...ditetragonal prism e, also shown at D (only the upper part of the whole crystal is shown). identification...the fifteen most abundant elements present in the upper ten miles or so of the crust, which account for...characteristics 3 The 15 most abundant elements in the upper 10 miles of the Earth's crust given as weight percentages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ladick Trucking and Excavating weathered granite quarry is located approximately 1 mile east of State Highway...include ilmenite, rutile, anatase, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, arsenopyrite or marcasite (now represented...and hafnium-rich zircons. The highly weathered upper-level pegmatites locally contain acicular crystals...BISMUTH, AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS FROM THE WATERLOO QUARRY, SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2...Orleans, LA 70148. The Michels Materials Waterloo quarry exposes Baraboo Interval quartzites and metapelites
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale...in igneous and contact metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz...Sphalerite 23 SULFIDES AND SULFOSALTS name: Chalcopyrite formula: CuFeS2 physical properties: Color:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tain-makingmovementsin Carboniferoustimes. Probablyin Upper Carboniferoustimes the Archeozoicrocks of the w...Oligocene but in Upper Cretaceousconglomerates. 4 The younger veins are therefore older than Upper Cretaceousand...Schumacher, Friedrich: The genesis of the Freiberg ore district. XVI. Int. Geol. Cong. Rept., I: 399-4o5, •933...Cornwall. The striking analogiesof the Cornwall district to the western Erzgebirge arewellknown. In t...minerals, galena, sphalerite,pyrite, arsenopyrite,chalcopyrite,carbonates and in placesby cobaltand nickelminerals
Report (Issue volume)
igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million. The Phoenixville type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and...deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments distant from diabase. Zn-Pb-Cu in quartz veins cutting Triassic and
Book (edition)
Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits...Sphalerite 23 SULFIDES AND SULFOSALTS NAME: Chalcopyrite FORMULA: PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: CuFeS, Color:
Report (Issue volume)
Shale Brick Corp. Fenati Brick Co., Inc. Midland Quarry, McQuiston Coal Co. Veon Mines, Ralph A. Veon,...igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million. The Phoenixville type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and
Report (issue)
skarn/replacement deposits in marble bordering tholeiitic diabase sheets. These deposits contain abundant magnetite...calcareous siltstone units bordering diabase and late-stage diabase differentiates, mainly ferrogabbro...igneous segregations and veins within and bordering diabase sheets. The segregations and veins are enriched...skarn/replacement deposits in marble bordering tholeiitic diabase sheets. Skarn consists of coarse-grained Ca-Fe-Mg-Mn...calcareous siltstone units bordering diabase and late-stage diabase differentiates, mainly ferrogabbro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is confined to a partially brecciated Permian diabase intrusion which intersects the Ordovician slate/...dipping veins - partly within the diabase and partly at the diabase contact. The main ore minerals are...are pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite, argentite, stembergite, hessite and covellite are accessory...minerals. The diabase dyke follows the NW-5E-trending fracture pattem of the Oslo district, and subsequent...subsequent development of cross-cutting fissures in the diabase may have allowed the introduction of ore-bearing
Report (Issue volume)
active mines, 1962 .. 2. Types of active mines (quarry andjor underground) 3. Number of months that mines...Hanover Name of Mine a11djor Mining Company Hanover Quarry 2 Adams Gettysburg Teeter Stone, Inc. 3 Adams...McCanna Lime Plant Beaver Run Limestone Co. Ashcom Quarry, New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co. 7 Bedford...Bedford County Stone and Lime Co. Hinter leiter Quarry, Eastern Lime Corp. Evansville Pit No. I, Allentown...Inc. Oley Quarry, Eastern Lime Corp. Oley Quarry No. I and Oley National Gypsum Co. Quarry No. 2, Allentown
Report (issue)
crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...white radiating tufts; Delaware County: Ward's quarry, mealy white radiations. DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY...mines, the corundum mines at Unionville, Brinton's quarry south of West Chester, and the French Creek iron...illustration selected is the symbol of Brinton's quarry, three miles south of West Chester. REFERENCES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
series J. Petrography Co-Ni sulfides Pyrite Chalcopyrite BELGIAN CONGO. Paragenesis Stage A Quartz...Pyrite Siderite 2. Co-Ni Calcite Chlorite 3. Chalcopyrite sulfides Talc Staœ½ D Dolomite or siderite...oligodasealbite, with pitchblende Sphalerite Chalcopyrite Pyrite Cobalt and nickel sulfides, arsenides...uranium.Because of the longmininghistoryof the district, theJoachimsthal areahasbeendescribed in greatdetailin...Theveindeposits in theW61sendorf areaof Bavaria, in western Germany, largelycontain fluoritethatisminedformetallurgical
Book (volume)
drift under till, Hancock, 108 - 27, South end of Upper Beech pond, Wolfeborough, 128 . 28, Section near...Hampshire. Geological map of the Ammonoosuc mining district. ILLUSTRATIONS NOT PRINTED HELIOTYPES FROM...finding only one point low enough to allow the upper surface of the ice to be seen from the masthead...Canada, must have had a much less slope. If its upper surface descended only one foot in two hundred,...gravelly earth and boulders, which may be called the Upper Tz//. There is almost always a definite line of
Report (edition)
County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company quarry in York County, are...Zircon Crystal 50 Diagramatic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite 53 Geologic Cross-Section of West ...84 of Deweylite after Dolomite, Ceclar Hill Quarry 89 _ Limonite Pseudomorphs from Chestnut Hill...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...have been taken from topographic quadrangles. A quarry or mine symbol designates the exact mineral location
Report (edition)
Edition, 1976 Front cover: Mass of tetrahedral chalcopyrite crystals etched calcite, from French Creek...mines, (courtesy of John S. White) Back cover: Upper left: galena with cubic and octahedral cleavages... “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE
Report (issue)
Triassic deposits 31 Mineral localities 38 District of Columbia Mavtrl a Tirl IWlCfci JT XClilUl...Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS Illustrations...Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville...« Serpentine variety picrolite from the Delight quarry, Delight, Maryland. Specimen is about 12 cm by...Maryland. Figure 17. Location of the Marriottsville quarry, Hernwood, Maryland. Figure 18. Marble (white)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are tholeiit,ic, and presumably originated in the upper mantle. Considering the probable isotopic inhomogeneity...observed isotopic uniformity of sulfides in normal diabase from intrusives suggests little contsminrttion...pyrite enriched in S3* relative to coexisting chalcopyrite; specimens from the Cornwall, French Creek,...beneath the Newark basins, during late Triassic time, upper mantle sulfur was isotopically similar to meteoritic...determined by the isotopic composition of sulfur in the upper mantle, The Iatter value is therefore an important
Book
thorium, which aTe strongly concentrated in the upper lithosphere, are markedly oxyphile elements occwTing...pseudomorphously, and by various sulfides, especially chalcopyrite. Uraninite crystals may show .vell-defined alteration... 1,834 g (Meen, 1948) (Fig. 2.1); Rock Landing Quarry, Hadclam Neck, Conn., 6 X 7 X 10 cn1, 1,200 g (Ingerson...deposit, Great Bear Lake, Canada; Gold.fields district, Canada) (Fig. '2.7). Brecciated pitchblende 111ay...Canada and Schneeberg, Saxony. In the Blind River district of Ontario :fine-grained euheclral uraninite occurs
Report (edition)
Crystal . . . . . . .. Diagra1natic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite Graphic Granite Geologic Cross-Section...Pseudomorphs of Deweylite after Aragonite. Cedar Hill Quarry . . . . . . . Calcite Crystal Forms "Picrolite"... Q t9 Diabase intrusions 225 er ...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...have been taken from topographic quadrangles. A quarry or mine symbol designates the exact mineral location
Report (issue)
Chantilly, Virginia. STOP 3. Culpeper Crushed Stone Quarry, Stevensburg, Virginia STOP 4. Granophyre and ferrogabbro...lithologic types at the Culpeper Crushed Stone Quarry, Stevensburg, Virginia. 18 EARLY MESOZOIC BASINS...skarn/replacement deposits in carbonate rocks bordering diabase sheets. These deposits, such as the Cornwall deposit...and locally in precious metals, associated with diabase bodies The second category is deposits associated...Chantilly prospect Cub Run Copper Chantilly Fairfax Quarry Bull Run Manassas Brentsvilie St. Stephens Calverton
Report (issue)
........................................ 13 Chalcopyrite ..............................................located in what is now a residential suburban district ................................................Arlington, New Jersey. The mine workings followed the upper surface of the thin Arlington sill, here about 20...Generalized cross-section at the old Westlake sandstone quarry, located about one mile southwest of the Schuyler...mineralized sandstone above the margin of the Arlington diabase sill, here about 6-10 feet thick. (After Darton)
Report (issue)
Crystal aggregates on display at Gagnon Falls quarry on Noyes’ property. Amorphous quartz o r hydrous...to form a round and smooth stone with a convex upper surface and an either flat, convex, or concave lower...found in several breccia veins in the floor of the quarry and again on the shore of Elbow Lake in the lef...outstanding geode specimens occur in basalts and diabase, but more commonly occur in the former named rock...after amethyst are all found in the Thunder Bay district. By 1887 an active trade had developed in amethyst
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...3 /# l D ohrm ann G old collec­ tion, G illette quarry (CT), Spanish fluorite $12 H ouston M useum Catalog...Hill Cu-Zn-Pb occurrence known locally as the “Chalcopyrite Room ” is remarkably complex, with 50 species...locality known to local collectors as the “ Chalcopyrite R oom .” The name derives from the most prominent...occurs which is still under investigation. The Chalcopyrite Room lies below the east terminus of the 1220
 
Mineral and/or Locality  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 25, 2024 07:25:15
Go to top of page