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Magnesite from
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Magnesite
Formula:MgCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnesite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7160
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7160:4
GUID (UUID V4):4ed04c8e-e8c0-4fec-a677-8527795819d9
Nearest other occurrences of Magnesite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Punta della Rossa (Rothorn), Devero Alp, Baceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
4.5km (2.8 miles) Monte Cervandone area, Devero Alp, Baceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
4.6km (2.9 miles) Pizzo Bandiera, Monte Cervandone area, Devero Alp, Baceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
6.9km (4.3 miles) Mühlebach, Ernen, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
16.9km (10.5 miles) Alfenza Mine, Crodo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
17.0km (10.6 miles) Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Termen, Brig, Valais, Switzerland
23.2km (14.4 miles) Gere Valley (Geren Valley), Gere (Geren), Oberwald, Obergoms, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
31.6km (19.6 miles) Pizzo di Röd, Fusio, Lavizzara, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland
37.0km (23.0 miles) Pian dei Sali serpentinite (Monte Netto - Cresta della Colmine northwest slope), Villette, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
38.3km (23.8 miles) Serpentinite quarry, Chämleten (Kemmleten), Hospental, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures were discovered...in particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding...mineral locality in the Alps, namely, the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal. In 1958, due to the initiative
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the private Bally foundation at Schonenwerd, Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because...Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly because they...rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...contain minerals and rocks from the famous pegmatite quarry at Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. A further 600...FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento
Catalog/List
Safrou Morocco £25 9. MAGNESITE choice colourless rhomb about one inch on magnesite with smaller rhombs...botryoidal , small display piece 2x3 Boyleston Quarry, Glasgow Scotland 1 £10 20. ANA•LCIME around a...small 2x2 matrix, good location piece -- Boyleston Quarry south\ofGlasgow, Scotland £8, b) lxl with less...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 28. HYDROXYL-HERDERITE good pale...colourless glassy crystals on large 1x 1 inch rock OAS quarry near Rome Italy £8 32. CALCITE pseudomorph after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal-metasomatic bodies of siderite and magnesite±talc are present (Varček 1962; Chovan et al. 1994;...mineral only recently from the famous Lengenbach quarry in Switzerland (Biagioni et al. 2021). Later it was...Ansermet et al. (2021) from the Chandolin Alp in Switzerland. This paper is presenting detailed mineralogical...(this paská Bystrica, Slovak Republic). per) and *Lengenbach (Biagioni et al. 2021). For the sake of comThe...character of the curve of tennantite-(Hg) from Lengenbach (Biagioni et al. 2021) is probably caused by
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L'Ossola ... .. .. . . . . .. Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn .. . .. . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel e della...Go­ schener Alp nel cantone di U ri, la Valle di Binn e le zone del Grimsel e della Furka nell'alto Vallese...ancora oggi. esistono famiglie, quali gli Imhof di Binn, i Caveng di Sedrun e gli Indergand di Goschenen...classico esempio e costituito dalla cava di Lengenbach in Val di Binn, in cui l'origine dei solfuri e dei solfosali...localita sono costituiti dalle do­ lomie della Valle di Binn, di Crevola d'Ossola e della Galleria del Sempione
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in veins in an altered diorite, New Cliffe Hill quarry, Stanton-upon-Bardon, Leicestershire, U.K. Hawthorne...region. Found in cavities within marble, Gioia quarry, Colonnata Valley, Carrara region, Apuan Alps,...Found in a nepheline syenite dyke in the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec. Johnsen...P1̄ Named after the discovery locality, the Gold Quarry mine. Found as a supergene mineral between fragments...fragments in a sample of jasperoid breccia, Gold Quarry Au mine, near Carlin, Eureka County, Nevada. Roberts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
east of the Yellow River, China, is a nickeloan Magnesite with Mg:Ni ~ 3:2; the origin of the name is not...translucent copper-red plates from Lengenbach, Binn, Valais, Switzerland, are monoclinic, composition near...honey-yellow blende from Lengenbaeh, Binn, Valais, Switzerland, are rhombohedral, composition near CusZn3As4S12_13...crystal found with temlaatite in the Lengenbach quarry near Binn, Switzerland, is pseudocubic with a pseudocell...overgrowth on rathite (rathite-I) from Lengenbach, Binn, Valais, Switzerland. The material is anorthic, with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J.D. Grice. 1994. Can. Min. 32, 843. Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Na26REE(S...silver-free baumhauerite in dolomite at Lengenbach, Binntal, Valais Canton, negative, 2Vmeas. 41 ~ at 1.629...Named for Arthur Roe, mineral collector from Switzerland. Average composition Tucson, Arizona. Pbl lAg0...metamorphic rocks from the Monte Rosa Massif (Switzerland) and Dora Maira Massif (Italy). Ca2AI[POn]2(OH)...cinnabar and edoylerite (this list) in a quartz-magnesite rich host rock from the Clear Creek Claim, New
Book (edition)
oxidised iron grain, silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl, Weimar near Kassel, Hessen, Germany (sample:...goethite (?, dark line), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany (sample: Hanel/Altherr);...part of grain), silicate matrix (dark grey); Stahl quarry, Dörrmorsbach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franken...bornite (pinkish), dolomite (dark grey); Dolomite quarry, Rędziny, Czarnów, Rudawy Janowickie Mts., Lower...Albula Valley, Grischun (Grisons/ Graubünden), Switzerland (sample: van Acken); PPL B Godlevskite (dark
Catalog/List
Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near Zermatt,Switzerland) S x H £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...fibrous on 2cm white dolomite. (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 Lead Sulphide 250 GALENA...attractive. (Gorner Valley near Zermatt lx2ins £4 Switzerland) Ixlins £2 189 IDOCRASE rich brown masses (Vai
Catalog/List
CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near.Zermatt,Switzerland) W x « £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...fibrous on' 2cm white dolomite. ' (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 163 GALENA Lead Sulphide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The dissociation of dolomite to aragonite + magnesite and the reaction of dolomite + aragonite to Mg-calcite...24–196 h. The reaction of dolomite to aragonite + magnesite has a positive slope and has been bracketed at...University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland 1 to 0.7 as a function of temperature as the...the system dolomite, aragonite, Mg-calcite, and magnesite, which has an invariant point at ~7.5 GPa and...(Ara), Mgcalcite (Mg-Cc), dolomite (Dol), and magnesite (Mag). [Dol] denotes a reaction where dolomite
Catalog/List
------------6 ALBITE Kragero Norway 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...rich variety) ½ x ½ £5 Ni AsO H/20 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...£3 lx2 £6 2x2 £12 --·- ---749 APATITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall two or three micro crystals on small...__ ____ FeAsS 531 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Down Quarry,Comwall,England Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyrite...lx2 - -----· ··-·- -- 1085 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall Small silvery crystals groups, Crystals
Catalog/List
THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...FAYALITE Vester Silfberg,Ludvika. Sweden 264 MAGNESITE Altermark, Mo-I-Rana, N.W.Norway mangan-ferroan...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal
Book (edition)
common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}...mineral of alkaline rocks in the Point of Rocks quarry, Colfax co., New Mexico, with aegirine and arfvedsonite...SwitzerlandItaly, overlooking Binntal, Valais canton, Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley
Book (volume)
L'Ossola .. . . .. ... . . . . Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn . .. . . . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel e della...a cavallo >> tra la Val For­ mazza e la Valle di Binn. Questi esemplari sono caratteristici anche per...saccaroide bianca (2x). Ochsenfeld, a/ta Valle di Binn. rissimo di ferro e di alluminio. 11 colore e chia­...dolo­ mia nelle vicinanze del Sempione (Valle di Binn). Nel Tirolo austriaco, della bella tremolite si...(lavori idroelettrici dell 'Oberaar), la Val di Binn, qualche cava dell'Ossola (Croveo, Vil­ ladossola
Report (issue)
gypsum, quartz (sedimentary); talc, serpentine, magnesite, calcite, magnetite, diopside, tremolite, forsterite...and Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. At Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. From Trepča, Serbia, Yugoslavia...Zemann (1981) Crystal structure refinements of magnesite, calcite, rhodochrosite, siderite, smithsonite
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Bauditz, Vejby, Denmark; Pierre Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen...Ca)5Ali2(P04)8(0H)22*32H20, 0 Orth. Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H=...Sub-translucent dirty yellow, brownish-yellow, green. Vilate quarry, Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. H= 5-5.5, Djn=3...Translucent yellow. Cherbadung, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 6.5-7, Djj4=3.70, Dg=3.71, VIID...white in reflected light. Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 3, Djjj= 5.329, Dc=
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
245 Barbosa, C. P., Minerals of the Brymado Magnesite Deposits, Serra das Eguas, Bahia, Brazil, 32-39...Brazil, brazilianite, 40-42, 5 I , ?3; Brumado magnesite deposits, Serra das Eguas, Bahia, 32-39; collecting...Chernovite-(Y), Bahia, Brazil, 38 Chips from the Quarry, 5-7, 83-84, 149-5 1, 213-15,293-95,373 Downloaded...Specimen Mineralogy Eskimoite, Colorado, 398 The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Locality...Fairfieldite, Maine, 412 Falster, A. U., The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Locality
Journal (issue)
£nneasanorite: Swit7,crland, Wallis, Binnral. Lengenbach. 34-7: 12 Eraz.oite· Chile, El Guanaco, Chilena...Hendekasanorite: Switzerland. Wallis, Binntal, Lengenbaclt 34-7: 12 Heptasanorite: Switzerland.. Wallis, Binntal...34-9:11 Jahnsit~Cafemg): Australia. Kapunda. Tom's quarry. 34-4:12 Janchevite: Nannoia. Otjozondjupa. Grootfontein...Mt. Signal, 34-5:5 p Sartorite: Switzerland, Wallis, Binntal, Lengenbach, 34-7:12 Schindlcrite: USA, Colorado...Packrat, 34-4: 13 Volborthitc: USA, Nevada, Gold Quarry, 34-10:9 p Wampenite: Gennany, Bavaria, Fitchtelgcbirgc
Catalog/List
ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar...with minor calcite or matrix ½" £4 7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvcdalcn near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...about 1cm size £4 FeAsS 1085 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Quarry, Cornwall Small silvery crystals groups, Crystals...£4 Ix ½ £6 lxl £8 531 ARSENOPYRITE Hingston Down Quarry,Cornwall,England Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyritc...-½"--•·-•·- .. - ---lxl £5 506 AXINITE Mcldon Aplitc Quarry, Okehampton Devon Very rich light brown massive
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(in alphabetical order): Thomas Armbrusler (Switzerland). Daniel Atcncio (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada)...tric .. rclated to Tbomasclarklte-(Y), Pouelrette quarry. Moni Saint-llilairc. RoU\,ille County, Qu bec...K)AISi:0 6, tel., compare Leucite. Tataraza\\a quarry. Fujioka, Gunma Prcfccturc, Japan. MR 30, 5--6...CaAl(Si.Al),O,(OH},·(I 11O,CI). mon., Graphitc quarry. Amstall. lowcr Austria, Austria. 73. 1492. NJMM...Cherbadung. Binntal (Binnatal), Canton Wallis, Switzerland. 52. 1583, 55, 1818. MM57, 315-322 (stt.) D
Catalog/List
the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...Quaitz. 3x2.5 inches Betws Garmon Wales £15 15. MAGNESITE excellent colourless/white rhombic crystal group...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...dolomitic marble with some pyrite micros Lengenbach mine, Switzerland £3 77. NATIVE GOLD, several spots in...this location closed many years ago. Boyleston quarry Barrhead Scotland £6 80. ANALCIME good coverage
Journal (issue)
Carolina. Muscovite (twinned) from the Nello Teer Quarry near Raleigh, N. C. in pegmatite veins where pneumatolytic...is uncommon. Major localities are at Ticino, Switzerland; Austria; and Italy. POLYLITIIlONITE, KLi 2 A1Si...example of twinned muscovite from the NeUo Teer Quarry, Raleigh, N. C. Fleischer, Michael, Chao, G. Y...Brazil) Hatchite 1912 Solly & Smith {Lengenbach, Switzerland) Dienerite 1926 Doelter (Radstadt, Austria)...Solly (Lengenbach, Switzerland) Lime 1883 Scacchi (Vesuvius, Italy) Liveingite 1902 Solly (Lengenbach, Switzerland)
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(brownish pleochroism), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // C Iron (dark...(brown and multicolour internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 20 Iron...iron (light grey), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // B Schreibersite...silicates (brown internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 34 Schreibersite...Poland (Ramdohr’s description points to the dolomite quarry near Redziny, Czarnów) [j]; Nic. // B Euhedral
 
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