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Cryptomelane from
Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cryptomelane
Formula:K(Mn74+Mn3+)O16
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cryptomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:77459
Long-form Identifier:1:3:77459:4
GUID (UUID V4):742dfb1b-7c4f-4711-87a5-0913b7b7194d
Nearest other occurrences of Cryptomelane
9.4km (5.9 miles) Vrchoslav fluorite deposit, Vrchoslav, Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
25.0km (15.5 miles) Altväter samt Eschig Mine, Sayda, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
57.1km (35.5 miles) Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
60.1km (37.4 miles) Greifensteine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.2km (43.6 miles) Stamm Asser Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.3km (43.7 miles) St Catharina Mine, Gottes Geschick Vereinigt Feld Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.3km (43.7 miles) Frisch Glück Mine (Herkules-Frisch Glück Mine), Fürstenberg hill, Waschleithe, Grünhain-Beierfeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.5km (43.8 miles) Gottes Geschick Vereinigt Feld Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.5km (43.8 miles) Gottes Geschick Mine, Gottes Geschick Vereinigt Feld Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
86.6km (53.8 miles) Markocice Th prospect, Gmina Bogatynia, Zgorzelec County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sammlungen Brennhausgasse 14 09599 Freiberg, Germany andreas.massanek@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de Downloaded...Schloss Freudenstein Schlossplatz 4 09599 Freiberg, Germany christina.seifert@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de Figure...KRÜGERHAUS A New Permanent Exhibition in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany 212 ROCKS & MINERALS N ative silver, in...mineral localities in just Germany. Figure 3 (above). Krügerhaus in Freiberg, Germany. Detlev Müller photo...Churprinz Friedrich August mine, Großschirma, near Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Jeff Scovil photo. A Mineralogical
Book (edition)
Ilmenorutile IV/D.03-10 Tapiolite IV/D.04-00 Cryptomelane IV/D.08-20 Hollandite IV/D.08-60 IV/D.08-70...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
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Aguilarite. 343 Ahrens, L. If. and Liebenberg, W. R. Tin and indium in mica, as determined spectrochemically...diffraction pattern .. 586 347 671 Crookesite. Cryptomelane, crystal structure of. ( M a t h i e s o nW...mineral from Marnmotla R. B. Metamict pitchblende 93 Mine,Arizona..... from Goldfields, SaskatcheDark-field...Gordon, S. G. Wherryite, a new mineral from Mammoth Mine, 93 Arizona. -r with Pecora, W. T. Lazt'tlite-scorzalite...Ferguson, R. B. Red gold from San INDEX Antonio gold mine, Bissett, Manitoba. with Conybeare,C. E, B. Metamict
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mineral in hydrothermal vein deposits of tin and tungsten or tin and Figure 1. A fine 6.3-cm-tall wavellite...specimens were once found at General Trimble’s iron mine at East Whiteland, Chester County, where it occurred...collected from the vicinity of an old manganese mine at White Rocks in Cumberland County where it occurs...cacoxenite, strengite, and rockbridgeite in and on cryptomelane and iron oxides. Coarsely crystalline white...on the dumps and underground at an old phosphate mine on the Newman farm south of East Waterford, Juniata
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AKHTER (S. M.), see QAISER(M. A.), 735. Alaer6n mine, Copiap6, Chile, arsenolamprite, 732. Ala di Stura...South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions, distinction from montebrasite, 4r4. Amblygonite mine, Caceres...albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489. Amoibite, Germany, anal., opt., X-ray, 26. Amos Stream, New Caledonia...from Mull and Morvern, 934. Bala Durga Gourishankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, India, microcline perthite...Crystallization of anorthite, 78o. Bhavani Sankar mine, Tummalatalupur, Nellore, lndia, muscovite, I4O
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amounts of thallium in manganese ores from the Apache mine, Gila County, Arizona, was reported to the U. S...Lrizona. In June 1944, specimensfrom the Apache mine were included in a group of samplessubmitted to...analysis by K. J. Murata of three samples from this mine showed that thallium was indeed present, in amounts...breccia zones at the Cochise group and at the Apache mine are in Gila(?) Conglomerate. Those at the Apache...this province yielded about 1.5 million tons of mine-run ore ranging from 3 to 10 per cent manganesebut
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data from England, 106 France and, locally, Germany are based on historical (before 1995), non-compliant...average for the Argemela mine, PANNN, 2017) and, except for the Argemela mine, 200 such deposits appear...discontinuous Mn-Fe-rich sedimentary units (e.g., Drosgol Mine in Scotland and Clews Gill in 230 England), exploited...layers (coticules). The 234 minerals include cryptomelane, goethite, hematite and other manganese oxides...deposits that include some lithiophorite (Usingen, Germany), and 252 2) Aalenian black shales from the Dauphinois
Book
Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Responsible Series Editor: F. Pirajno ISSN 1876-1682...much biased by science with too little sense of mine for beauty) will keep his memory and work, alive...rocks in the Bohemian Massif, which is shared by Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria, has been...the region are not very promising and mining in Germany is obviously a profession of the past, but learning...pegmatites. The geochemical atlas of the F.R. of Germany, albeit not covering all rare elements of relevance
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Aerugite, synthesis, 72; Cornwall, anal., X-ray, 72; Saxony, anal., X-ray, 72. Aeschynite-priorite series,...topotactic formation from y-CaSiOa, 347. Ankerite, Germany, topotactic decomposition of, 634. Anthoinite,...Arsenobismite, Brazil, 785. Artern, Sachseu-Anhalt, Germany, mellite, 542. ASWATHA~ARAYA~A(U.), Isotopic ages...Bearpaw Mtns., Montana, pseudoleucite, 596. Benallt mine, Rhiw, Caernarvonshire, celsian, 508. Berek compensator... 2rid edn, Vol. 2, 554; Vol. 3, 1022. Boqueirdo mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, leucophosphite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Frondel).. . 222 Bixbyite and pseudobrookite from tin-bearing rhyolite of Black Range, N. Mexico. (Fries...INDEX 144 141 doch) JI / 333 218 2r8 467 Cryptomelane, a trew name for the commonest of the "psilomelane"..."psilomelane" minerals. (Richmond, Fleischer). Cryptomelane, unit cell of. (Ramsdell). . . Crystal drawings...and Elpidite. ........ 419 pseudobrookite f rom tin-bearEmerald, American synthetic. ing rhyolite of... . . . . Fleischer, M. with Richmond, W. E. Cryptomelane, a new name for the commonest of (psilomelanett
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BaNa2A14Si4016, as orthorhombie crystals from Benallt mine, Wales. Named from the chemical formula. B a r i...tetragonal crystals and earthy masses from Schneeberg, Saxony, and Pala, California. Named after Adolph Beyer...Beyer (1743-1805), mining engineer of Schneeberg, Saxony, who in 1805 recognized 'luftsaures Wismuth'. Not...5H20, as white chalk-like masses from Kristineberg mine, V~sterbotten, Sweden. Named from the locality....1946, vol. 31, p. 204. Gold telluride, Au2Tea, as tin-white triclinic crystals from Montbray, Quebec. Named
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
places: manganite, pyrolusite, ramsdellite, cryptomelane,psilomelane, hollandite, braunite, and coronadite...of the manganeseoxides,psilomelane,hollandite,cryptomelane, and theseare followedby oneor more of the following...exploration in depth,to as muchas 500 feet at the Luna mine in the Little Florida Mountains,New Mexico, and...thousands of tons•Crescent mine, Washington;Buckeyemine, California; Club House mine, Arkansas. During this...pyrolusiteand psilomelanein a mine near Blythe, California; in the Rhinehart mine, Socorro County, New Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mn-oxide minerals identified were aurorite, cryptomelane/hollandite/coronadite, lithiophorite, pyrolusite...SWL. Aurorite, pyrolusite, todorokite and the cryptomelane group minerals, although found in several stratigraphic...in water chemistry. Chemical analyses of the cryptomelane group minerals suggest the existence of at least...hollandite (Ba) and the isostructural minerals cryptomelane (K) and coronadite (Pb). I. Introduction Yucca...thick, contain the Mn-oxides "psilomelane", cryptomelane, hollandite, coronadite, pyrolusite and ramsdellite
Book
Congress Catalog Card No. 66-17809 Printed in Germany 08 011635 3 PREFACE TO THE T H I R D (GERMAN)...N , Troy, New York, USA G. FRIEDRICH, Aachen, Germany H . FROHBERG, Toronto, Canada R. L A GANZA, North...Pullman, Washington R. A. ZIMMERMANN, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Bamdohr, Theorie Minerals XVÜ ABBREVIATIONS...metals in definite localities (e.g., the geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are
Journal (issue)
Otherearly minesinthecounty -&manganese, tine-marl,tin, niter (saltpeter), lithographiclimestone, silicasand...the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas: in the tin deposits near the headwatersofIrish theyareassoc...green epidote,and g a y quartz along with other mine& in minor producedexcellentpyritecrystalsandothernotewyminerals...alocalfarm andresinousglobules in ironore at theDixie mine (BarwoodandZelazny. road(Edmundson,1938). TheBe...southwestempartofthecounty. Theprospectconsistsofafew shallow test mine pitsandscatteredfragments~Wte(Edmundson, 1938).
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 &
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Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...on the Benitoite Gem mine, it was stated that the Mina Numero Uno, a nearby mine having a similar mineralogy...Another rope-climbing strahler who had France’s “Mine Des Farges,” now known worked the high altitudes...ranged from rel­ from Mina La Farola (the Farola mine) atively clear to opaque white to yellow- some 500... gemmy, white barite crystals, mak­ El Salvador mine, was one, and volborthite, ing them very attractive
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immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...soft. Only by the addition of tin did man obtain a usable alloy, bronze. Tin only occurs in important quantity...quantity in cassiterite (tin and oxygen), and never as the pure metal. In order to obtain copper in sufficient...various parts of the Austrian Tirol and Salzburg. Much tin ore came from Britain so that brisk trading in minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The large number of unusual lithium, tin, and beryllium minerals which has been deposited at the Foote...H E F O O T E M I N E R A L Company spodu­ mene mine, hereafter called the Foote quarry, consisted of...in Rocks and Minerals (Marble and Hanahan), the mine had been developed into a huge open pit with fourteen...quarry lies in the large number of unusual lith­ ium, tin, and beryllium minerals, especially phosphates, which...sometimes interfered with mine operations and con­ flicted with established mine regulations. O S H A (Occupa­
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advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...identified using square brackets e.g. [Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall] and a note is included with...recentlapidarycompetition organisedby SMLS. UK Journal of Mine,& M111cr.1bNo. 34 -4- accessible; most of these...local sites); an underground visit to Smallcleugh mine at Nenthead, visiting the famous ballroom flat and
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Design: Hansbernd Lindemann, Berlin. Printed in Germany. Preface More than thirty years ago, microprobe...contribution entitled "The tectonic environment and tin metallogeny of granites in South China". The following...synoptical extract is quoted from their work: "Endogenic tin metallogeny of the granites in South China is closely...migration of orogenic granites on the initially tin enriched Proterozoic continental crust, the "reverse...formation of the world's largest granite-endogenic tin metallogenic zone. The ore source zone formed by
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distributed through black calcite from the Aurora mine (Treasure Hill), Hamilton, Nevada. The largest grains...(argentian), cryptomelane, p1'rolusite, quartz, and manganoan calcite. The name is for the mine. The mineral...neue Mineralien aus dem Binnatal (Kt. Wallis). Schweiz. M inero.l. P etrog. M itt. 46, 367 -37 5. Analysis...neue Nlineralien aus dem Binnatal (Kt. Wallis). Schweiz. Mi,neral. Petrog. Mitt 46, 367 375. Analysis by...50 microns in size from Neubulach, Schwarzwald, Germany, were found by microchemical tests to contain A1
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microprobe analysis as K-and C a - b e a r i n g 'cryptomelane' (see section Manganese oxides and hydroxides)...silicate minerals. Pyrolusite generally postdates cryptomelane. The compositions of white micas range from...Supergene minerals Cryptomelane Pyrolusite Roman6chite Goethite Lepidocrocite Cryptomelane Pyrolusite Goethite...matter (dark grey), surrounded by secondary cryptomelane (grey) and quartz (black). Field of view = 1... pseudorutile (Psrt), romanSchite (Ro), and cryptomelane (Cpt; M dense masses, V - veins, N - needles)
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cobalt); II Non-ferrous metals (copper, aluminum, tin, lead, zinc); III Minor metals (titanium, berflium...Karil mine, Moustapha Pasha, Roumelia, Ttrrkey. MrcueBr- FlBrscurn NEW Coronadite, Cryptomelane, DATA...following formulas are tentatively suggested: cryptomelane, KRsOr6(?) R:Mna chiefly, also Mn2, Co, Zn,Fe'
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pseudomorphs after pyrite, pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine—near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous...ilmenite, magnesite, magnetite, talc Stony Point mine—near Charlottesville chalcopyrite, cuprite, goethite...County Enterprise mines (manganese)—near Beckham cryptomelane (gem quality), manganite, quartz crystals State...pyrite inclusions) Crimora mine (manganese)—near Waynesboro cryptomelane, psilomelane, pyrolusite Simons...minerals) Amelia County Bath County Beryl pegmatite mine (0—near Amelia beryl, muscovite (rum colored), quartz
 
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