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Opal from
Leisnig, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Municipality
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leisnig, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:985765
Long-form Identifier:1:3:985765:0
GUID (UUID V4):f784cd89-d8c4-426d-80db-cac57d23cb82
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Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Hemholtz...Technology, Chemnitzer Str. 40, 09599 Freiberg, Germany; r.moeckel@hzdr.de Department of Geological Sciences...intercalated with macrocrystalline quartz, quartzine, opal-A, opal-CT, cristobalite and/or moganite. In addition...(Seifert/Freiberger Präzisionsmechanik, Freiberg, Germany) with Co Kα-radiation in the range 5–80◦ (2θ)....Sensing & Inspection Technologies GmbH, Ahrensburg, Germany) and subsequent Rietveld refinement with Autoquan
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calcite Fracture Some minerals, such as quartz and opal, do not cleave in any particular direction, but...Cohesion Brittle minerals such as pyrite, quartz and opal, crumble into small fragment with a crackling sound...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) Harzgerode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey metallic opaque...Mountains, Germany ARSENOPYRITE FeAsS (Arsenical Py- rite, Mispickel) Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white...(Soap-Stone, Steatite) weathering product of serpentine opal, chalcedony, magnesite, chlorite SEPIOLITE Mgu
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calcite Fracture Some minerals, such as quartz and opal, do not cleave in any particular direc­ tion, but...Cohesion Brittle minerals such as pyrite, quartz and opal, crumble into small fragment with a crackling sound...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) I Lu erode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey greyish black metallic...Py­ rite, Mispickel; Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white to grey greyishblack metallic opaque...NiAs, (White Nickel) Schneeberg, Orc Mountains, Germany Table 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 & ?-T
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Mohr-Westheide Occurrence and Distribution of Moganite and Opal-CT in Agates from Paleocene/Eocene Tuffs, El Picado...of Cuba). The agates consist of high amounts of opal and moganite. Surficial alteration of basic volcanic... T. Occurrence and Distribution of Moganite and Opal-CT in Agates from Paleocene/Eocene Tuffs, El Picado...Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Hemholtz...Technology, Chemnitzer Str. 40, 09599 Freiberg, Germany; r.moeckel@hzdr.de Department of Geological Sciences
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calcite Fracture Some minerals, such as quartz and opal, do not cleave in any particular direction, but...Cohesion Brittle minerals such as pyrite, quartz and opal, crumble into small fragment with a crackling sound...Harzgerode, Harz, Germany - CHLOANTHITE . NiAs3 (W hite Nickel) Schnee berg, Ore Mountains, Germany - ARSENOPYRITE...Pyrite, Mispickel) >-Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany S K UTTERUDITE CoAs (Smaltite) Bou Azzer, Morocco...orthorhombic weathering product of serpentine '-opal, chalcedony, magnesite, chlorite ....._ - TALC
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Institut für Mineralogie, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Germany Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052...the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany). He graduated in Mineralogy and Geochemistry in...specifics of SiO2 modifications and varieties (e.g., opal, chalcedony, agate, quartz, amethyst). Following...Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 09599 Freiberg, Germany; jens.goetze@mineral.tu-freiberg.de Received: 12...seifertite, high-pressure silica glass, moganite or opal, are relatively rare in extraterrestrial materials
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Institut für Mineralogie, TU Bergakademie Freiberg Germany Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052...the Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany). He graduated in Mineralogy and Geochemistry in...specifics of SiO2 modifications and varieties (e.g., opal, chalcedony, agate, quartz, amethyst). Following...Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, 09599 Freiberg, Germany; jens.goetze@mineral.tu-freiberg.de Received: 12...seifertite, high-pressure silica glass, moganite or opal, are relatively rare in extraterrestrial materials
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Howe, who lived next door to a Mr. Neuswander, an opal collector and lapidary hobbyist—he mentored Nancy...Montagne–Moresnet area, situated on the borders of Belgium, Germany and Holland. The Vielle Montagne Company worked...Bergkristall, Rauchquarz, Amethyst, Chalcedon, Achat, Opal und anderen Varietäten. Ott-Verlag, Thun. The Mineralogical...boarding school in the mining town of Annaberg, Saxony, and during his two years of immersion in that...history, and when at last it was time to return to Saxony he was determined to stop in Zürich and visit the
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the stratified structure of feldspars. Precious opal exhibits a brilliant play of colours called opalescence...thick plates of rock crystal - a, smoky quartz - b, opal - c, and jasper - d .. ffffJ.t.i1!!}~{{tt1tWiiP{:...displaying numerous microscopic inclusions, such as opal and cordierite. Pearly lustre - typical of transparent...may be distinguished: - conchoidal (eg quartz or opal); - uneven (eg arsenopyrite or pyrite); - hackly...atomic structure are rare and are called amorphous (opal). Apart from their chemistry, the crystal form is
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the stratified structure of feidspars. Precious opal exhibits a brilliant play of colours called opalescence...thick plates of rock crystal — a, smoky quartz — b, opal — c, and jasper —d Transparent minerals — when...displaying numerous microscopic inclusions, such as opal and cordierite. Pearly lustre — typical of transparent...may be distinguished: — conchoidal (eg quartz or opal); — uneven (eg arsenopyrite or pyrite); — hackly...atomic structure are rare and are called amorphous (opal). Apart from their chemistry, the crystal form is
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MimetesitFund in Thailand • Neues von den Frühjahrsbörsen • Opal/Eibenstock 3/98 Aktuell: Neue Mineralien vom Wannigletscher...Ehrenfriedersdorf- ein sächsischer Zankapfel 24 Der Opal von Eibenstock- ein Neufund 29 Berylliummineralien...Kieselhölzer aus Deutschland und aus Böhmen. Biete: Achat. Opal, Quarz und Kieselhölzer aus Deutsch land. Bernd... 1731 . Aus Quellmalz & Karpinski ( 1990). Der Opal von Eibenstock - ein Neufund Dieter Bartnik, Leipzig...solch erstaunliche Geschichte geschrieben wie der Opal , ein amorphes, festes Hydrogel des Si liziumdioxides
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Bedeutung erlangt zu haben als es bisher in „good old Germany" der Fall war. Während bei uns z .B. Mineralogische...Bergkristall, Turmalin, Lapis-Lazuli, Amethyst, Opal,Aventurin ... dies sind nur einige Edelsteine, aus...Minerals erfolgte durch Röntgendiffraktometrie. Opal Si0 2 Einmalig blieb auf einer Kieselschieferkluft...sehr selten in dünnen Zonen innerhalb feinkörniger Opal-Zeolith-Aggregate. Eisenreicher Tinsleyit verleiht...beobachtet. Eng vergesellschaftet sind Bobierrit, Opal, Klinoptilolith-Na, Klinoptilolith-K und Gips.
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Albit, Beryll, Bleiglanz. Diopsid, Epidot, Granat, Opal, Prchnit, Quarzzwill. (Ja­ paner Gesetz!) (84/11/21-25)...Ilmenit, Magnetit, Montmorillonit, Natrolith, Olivin, Opal (milchig), Phillipsit (igelförmig) (52/91). Göpfersgrün:...Chalccdon, Cuprit, Limonit, Malachit, Manganomelan, Opal, Pyromorphit, Quarz (52/205). Goslar: (Goslar/Nds...Nephelin-Basalt-Stbr.: Aragonit, Chabasil, Dalolilh, Natrolilh, Opal, Phakolith, Phillipsit (2/45). 19 Großalmerode:...(Naturschutzgebiet!) Kl. PhonolilhSlbrü.: Hauyn, Nalrolilh, Opal (50/76). ObcrHohestein: (Darmstadt-Dicburg/Hess
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.. . .. 5 KA.OLINS.-Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Italy...parts of Germany, Bohe1nia and Moravia - ... . .. ,, 28. Diagram of Kaolin formatio11 at Aue, Saxony ... ...are, in England (Cornwall and Devon), France, Germany, Austria and the United States of America. The...on the following pages : France, pp. 43 and 47; Germany, pp. 55-57; Austria, pp. 68-70; Italy, p. 81 ;...Pa1yis, 1803, p. 618. • • I 63 KINGDOM OF SAXONY. In a report upon the property of the company'
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' Der Jura,' on the Jurassic rocks of Southern Germany,--and in his magnificent ' Petrefactenkunde Deutschlands...completing his studies in Edinburgh, he crossed over to Germany and studied at the Universities of Berlin and Bonn...ADDRESS OF TIlE PRESIDEI~T. 41 Geological Map of Saxony was entertained as early as 1780; and during Werner's...their publication upon the large military map of Saxony on the scale of-~,2~,~,,,,, ...... .(rather more...interesting portions, containing the kingdom of Saxony proper, were published, between 1836 and 1844.
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actinolite, or so-called greenschists near Hainichen, in Saxony, had been brecciated by pressure and the fragments...collected an immense number of observations from Saxony, Bavaria, and Bohemia especially in the "Granuiite"...141; by von Lasaulx in the Ardennes; by Credner in Saxony and by Wichmanu in the Lake Superior rooks. 8 Manual...a clear, transparent character. JIhese look like opal, but their optical character shows them to be single...They have been carefully studied and described in Saxony, 1 the Vosges Mountains,2 the Black Forest,3 and
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Antiquariat Andreas Müller, WaldemsReichenbachand, Germany, and Mary and Ed Rogers, Poncho Springs, Colorado...wunderkammern: a catalogue raisonné of collecting in Germany, France and England, 1565-1750. Pittsburgh, 1970...[Biographical entries for the then living physicians of Germany.]. Bover, Memoria Biográfico, 1842 Bover de Rosselo...[181]-476. [This bibliography of Westphalia in Germany covers the period 1555-1886. A continuation for...Frederic Adolphus Ebert, librarian to the King of Saxony. Oxford, Univerisity Press, 1837. 4 vols. [A bibliographical
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Antiquariat Andreas Müller, WaldemsReichenbachand, Germany, and Mary and Ed Rogers, Poncho Springs, Colorado...wunderkammern: a catalogue raisonné of collecting in Germany, France and England, 1565-1750. Pittsburgh, 1970...[Biographical entries for the then living physicians of Germany.]. Bover, Memoria Biográfico, 1842 Bover de Rosselo...[181]-476. [This bibliography of Westphalia in Germany covers the period 1555-1886. A continuation for...Frederic Adolphus Ebert, librarian to the King of Saxony. Oxford, Univerisity Press, 1837. 4 vols. [A bibliographical
Journal (volume)
Granulit, Gneiss, Glimmerschiefer, Plänermergel, Opal umschliesst. Die beiden letzteren Felsarten enthalten...flachmuscheligen Bruch, seine Härte ist unge3. Der Opal tritt in dünnen Adern als weisse glänzende Masse...übergeht. Sie besteht aus dem deutlich erkennbaren Opal von grüner Farbe, muscheligem Bruch und bedeutender...hellgrüner Farbe, an seiner geringen Härte erkennbar. Der Opal ist an manchen Stellen rein ausgeschieden und hat...Magneteisens. Diese Gesteine enthalten alle nur wenig Opal. Zur Bestätigung der erhaltenen Resultate wurde
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On the Staff of the Carl Zeiss Factory, Jena, Germany. P. A. K. Prince Peter Alexeivitch Kropotkin...only other artists who have risen to eminence. Germany.—A characteristically florid style is here cultivated...formerly called aft-er St Boniface, the apostle of Germany, was once the richest in Friesland, and belonged...in Crete; of Pope Leo XIII., in 1885, between Germany and Spain in the matter of the Caroline Islands...distinct appellation. It first took its rise in Germany, and more tardily received recognition in Great
 
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