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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdite
Formula:MoO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Molybdenite1 photo of Molybdite associated with Molybdenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:77468
Long-form Identifier:1:3:77468:2
GUID (UUID V4):c3540107-3f6a-4a95-a964-9f7f3e719692
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdite
29.8km (18.5 miles) Naundorf Granite quarry, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcopyrite (Wright, 1915). 2Hr U.S.N.M.96611\ Santa Niio Mine, Patagonia Mts., 2Ht U.S.N.M. 9749U Santa Cruz Co...about this specimen Harvardunnumbered Kenawyer Mine, King's River Catryon, Fresno Co., Calif. 2Ht ...region. Tbis specimen is probabiy from the Alpine Mine, south of Lake Tahoe, where molybdenite occurs together...molybdenite occurs mostly in fine veinlets with molybdite, wolframite, topaz, cassiterite, monazite, pyrite...(Endlich, 1878). Harvard unnumbered Mountain Lion Mine, Boulder Co., Colorado. 1859 OF MOLYBDENITE Magnolia
Report (issue)
••• . New Zealand ••• Finland • •• France ••• Germany • •• Italy ... • •• Jugoslavia • • • Norway •••...mine1"als include molybdenite, wulfenite, and molybdite, only the first two of these being of conside...metallic zinc, a deep blue colo•u r is produced. Molybdite, or molybdic ochre, is a hydra.t ed ferric molybda...assoc.iated metallic minerals atfe oxidized, and molybdite is found in this surface zone. Several of the...its Ores and their Concentration ; U.S. Bureau of Mine&, Washington, D.C., Bull. 111, 1916. t Horton, op
Report (issue)
MANGANESE ORES, ' MJNST.M.M., A.M.l.C.E., F.G.S, TIN ORES. By G. M. DAvr,s, M.Sc. ( • TUNGSTEN ORES. By... FOREIGN COUNTRIES: Europe: Finland; France; Germany ; Italy; Norway; Russia; Spain; Sweden ; YugoSlavia...belonesite (MgMoO,.) and pateraite (CoMoO,.), while molybdite appears to be a hydrated iron molybdate, produced...the later solidifying portion of the magma, with tin, tungsten, wolfram and sulphides, according to the...certain ores, as for example those of the Quyon mine, Quebec, but oil flotation is far more generally
Report (volume)
____ Sweden _________________________________ Germany ______________ ___________________ Austria____...molybdenite from pipe (?) in granite, George Fast's mine, near La Trinidad, Sahuaripa district, Sonora, MexicoVII...molybdenite from a replacement deposit in gneiss, Ogden mine, Edison, N. J____ I.. A, Tabular yellow crystals...unimportant. Molybdenum is commonly associated with tin, tungsten, bismuth, and copper deposits, and wulfenite...Mo)O4; contains 11.68 per cent of molybdenum. Molybdite, hydrous iron-molybdenum oxide, 2(FeO2 ).6Mo03
Report (volume)
..*... .... Molybdite from New Hampshire .................................. Molybdite from other localities...composition of molybdic ocher Continued. Artificial molybdite....................................... Occurrence...................... Calcite from Andreasberg, Germany.................................... Calcite from................................... Calcite from Germany....................................._.. Calcite...explain the discrepancy, showed the presence of tin in appreciable quantity in both minerals. It therefore
Report (volume)
---The beryllium-bearing vein at the California mine.-___-_-----_-._-Location and history...________...Aerial photograph of area surrounding the California mine _ _ _ _ 29. South slope of Carbonate Mountain, looking...northwest______ 30. Molybdenite in beryl, California mine.____________________ 96 97 102 104 107 TABLES...molybdenite, occurs in quartz monzonite at the California mine southwest of Mount Antero. Mineralogical study shows...in material collected from the mine dump. The vein at the California mine is 1% to 3 feet thick where exposed
Book (edition)
Oxides with Metal : Oxygen < 1:2 (M2O5, MO3) Molybdite IV/E.03-10 732 IV/F - Hydroxides and Oxidic...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
In 1891, W. T. Schaller 9 analysed samples of molybdite from various American localities, and found that...of Mr. Inspector G. Smith a fine specimen of molybdite from Wilson's Downfall, New South Wales, was obtained...to be wholly surrounded by the fibrous mass of molybdite. A little over a quarter of a gram was obtained...Block (near Jingera), Glen Eden, and Mt. Metallic Mine, Jingera. It is interesting to note that those specimens...Cripple Creek, D.S.A. It is entirely different from molybdite both in colour and solubility. The colour is a
Catalog/List
Tellurium down one side small 2x3 inch (Bambolla Mine, Moctezuma, Mexico) £25 BERYL translucent colourless...CHALCANTHITE rich blue mass on lx2 matrix (Majuba Mine, Nevada USA) £6 STRONTIANITE yellowish. strongely...crystalline areas in white Barytes. (Whitesmith mine, Strontian, Argyllshire, Scotland) lxl £5 lx2 £10...5mm brown crystals over 2x4 inch surface hardshell Mine, Santa Cruz County Arizona USA £ I 2 GYPSUM variety...chalcocite) on matrix with dark grey Pyargyrite Uchuchaqua Mine, Peru £ 10 b) with 3mm crystal on lxl inch £5 FLUORITE
Book
concentrated, together of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the...specific ores, such as molybdenum, tungsten and tin ores, from hot gases and vapour, is called pneumatolysis...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves... BISMUTH Bia Krupka, Czechoslovakia very good tin-white, grey silver- white light grey, silverwhite...arsenic-silver ALLEMON- ore veins TITE yellowish grey tin-white to grey g rey No. 1—8 metallic opaque
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sublimates are volatile in the R. F. although some (tin) is difficultly so.1' (p. 12.) ]OURNAL MINERALOGICAL...sulfuric acid, a fact which has even led to floatedto mine "tellurides" the existence lossof moneyininvestmentsincompanies...omissions, as magnesium oxide (p. 1a9), molybdite (p.124), and tin sulfides (pages 108 and 110). The formulas...(AuAg)Ten; polydymite, NirSo; fayalite, FeSiOa,molybdite, MeO3; etc. There is al-soa curious lack of consistency
Book
others containing elements of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the magma...specific ores, such as molybdenum, tungsten and tin orcs, from hot gases and vapour, is called pneumatolysis...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...trigonal metallic opaque liquid 13.6 greasy tin-white, grey silverwlutc grey metallic opa opaque... metallic opaque 2.5-3 8.6 very good fragile tin-white to grey grey metallic opaque compact, thread­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aBstraCt Anthoinite, AlWO3(OH)3, from the Mt. Misobo Mine, Democratic Republic of the Congo, has triclinic...described anthoinite from the Mt. Misobo tungsten mine, Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it forms...pseudomorphed after scheelite in the Kara tin/tungsten mine in northwest Tasmania. The anthoinite was...microcrystalline sample of anthoinite from the Mt. Misobo Mine, Kalima mining district, Maniema Province, Democratic...structure. In this context, a related mineral is molybdite, MoO3, which has the same stoichiometry and same
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite holds several other distinctions. The first tin ingot poured in the United States came from Etta...cassiterite and led to the founding of the Harney Peak Tin Mining, Milling & Manufacturing Company, which built...cassiterite. As mentioned, the first tin ingot produced by a mine in the United States came from the Etta...Black Hills also spent small fortunes trying to mine cassiterite but usually went bust because of low-grade...that the specimen came from the nearby Nickel Plate mine, type locality for arrojadite. Arsenolite, As20
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mention thepresence of beryl. An analysis of molybdite fromthislocality waspublished by Schaller 5in...California GEOLOGY Antero lies a short distance Mine. AND MINERALOGY. Description.--The country rock...specimens the molybdenitehasbeenentirelyalteredinto molybdite. Molybditeis the only supergenemineral of importancein...Heron, A.M.: The Distribution of Ores of Tungstenand Tin in Burma. Records,Geol. Survey of India, vol. 50
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the yellow tungstite (tungstic ochre) and molybdite (molybdic ochre). Native bismuth and bismuthinite...mineralizers have produced, first, pneumatolytic tin- and apatite-veins, and finally veins containing...small percentages of tungstic oxide, often with tin oxide and molybdic oxide, in tantalates 1 8 Technology...beryl.1 Secondly, there is a wolfram-tourmaline-tin phase of pegmatites, as in the granite of the Southern...iron and copper sulphides, as at Sadisdorf near Altenberg, where7 wolframite occurs with lithia-mica, fluorspar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
6017. 7 pp, Issued January, 1927. Recovery of Molybdite from the Ore. H. A. DOERNER. Technical Paper 399...Bowlders in Hard-Ore Stopes. E. D. GARDNER AND The Tin Situation from a Domestic Standpoint. J. W.FURNESS...National Committee on Metals Utilization. SimCoal-Mine Fatalities in December, 1926, and Preliminary Figures...Issued January, 1927. 33 pp. Paper, 15 cents. Coal-Mine Fatalities in the United States 1925. UT.W. ADAMS...Insestigations 2787. 9 PP. Paper, 10 cents. Consumption of Tin in the United States, 1925. J. W. FURNESS. Circular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALS FROM THE ETTA MINE KEYSTONE, SOUTH DAKOTA By ARTHUR SMITH JR. The purpose of this article is...Rapid City. The Etta mine is located 1 mile south of Keystone. To reach the mine take Alternate Route...makes a Y ; the dumps of the Etta mine are directly ahead. To reach the mine follow the road to the right...pegmatite. The Etta mine, originally one of the important mines of the old Harney Peak Tin Company, was purchased...down, the mine was sold to Ray Chord and Walter" Clifford who have no plans to leopen the mine in the near
Book (edition)
méphitique. See Carbonic acid. Acide molybdique. See Molybdite. Acide muriatique. See Hydrochloric acid. Acide...calamine, Patrin ; mes singbluthe, Germ.; mine de laiton, Patrin ; mine de laiton de Pise ; ori. chalcite, Glock...Nagyagite. Black titanite . See Titanite . Black tin . See Cassiterite . See Graphite , Wad , and Pyrolusite...lefver slag, Wall.; liver -colored copper ore ; mine de cuivre panaché ou violet ; Brochant; minera cupri...Rose; kieselzinkspath ; lapis calaminaris, Germ .; mine do zinc vitriforme, de Lisle ; prismatic calamine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lo•iisCo. Mo. Lindgren. Molybdenite........... Molybdite .............. + Monazite Muscovite. Lindgren...Also surfaceweathering. Also surface weathering, Tin (native)............ Titanitc .....................melaconite, mercury, molybdite, psilomelane,pyrolusite,pyromorphite,smithsonite,stromeyerite, tin, turgite. Very... bromyrite, calomel, lead, mercury, molybdite, stromeyerite, tin. Of the minerals which are known
Book (edition)
and its Compounds Zinc and its Compounds Cadmium, Tin Compounds of Titanium Cobalt and Nickel and their...Carbon Cerium M W = Potassium = Silver = Sodium = Tin = Tungsten CHEMICAL COMPOSITION. Iron 8? CHEMICAL...SrO = = strontium oxide; S0 2 sulphur dioxide tin sulphur trioxide; Sn0 2 (sulphurous acid); S0 3 dioxide...undecomposed mineral and boiled with the addition of tin-foil, assumes a beautiful blue or violet color a...finally a beautiful violet color. On charcoal with tin the glass becomes violet if there is not too much
Report (issue)
of MoOg i.e., in the smallest portion to which molybdite could be broken without altering its character...is a rarer mineral than either molybdenite or molybdite. It occurs generally in squarish tables, also...the output of molybdenite was obtained from the mine held by Mr. V. Sachs, at Kingsgate (22 miles east...at * Not only molybdenite, but bismuth, wolfram, tin, scheelite, gold, and monazite are found at these...explain themselves. as well to add that wolfram, tin, and especially bismuth, may also occur in quartz
Book (chapter)
de Fourestier 250 (1999). ocre de molibdeno = molybdite, Novitzky 210 (1951). ocre de montana = hematite...halloysite-10Å, Egleston 235 (1892). ocre molibdeno = molybdite, de Fourestier 250 (1999). ocre-vanadifère = cuprite...Bukanov 285 (2006). Old Mine Clay = kaolinite ± quartz, Robertson 24 (1954). Old Mine No.4 = kaolinite + quartz...liquid, Kipfer 187 (1974). olipaiite = copper + tin (bronze), de Fourestier 252 (1999). olive copper...Omphazit = omphacite, Dana 6th, 357 (1892). ón = tin, László 203 (1995). onchosine = muscovite ± chlorite
Report (issue)
Hydrochloric acid. Acide marin Acide molybdique. See Molybdite . Acide muriatique. See Hydrochloric acid . Acide...Germ .; mine de laiton , thumerstone, James . ; thumite ; yano Aurichalcum Patrin ; mine de laiton...zerreiblicher. Black titanite . See Titapite . Black tin . See Cassiterite. Bleierz, blau. See Galenite....BOURNONITE , Jameson . PbCuSbSg. Antimoine sulfure mine de cuivre panaché ou violet ; Ortb . rhombic. ...; kieselzinkspath ; lapis calaminaris, Germ . ; mine de Brazier.. calamine, Jameson ; prismatic zinc
Book (edition)
mephitique. See Carbonic acid. Acide molybdique. See Molybdite. Acide muriatique. See Hydrochloric acid. ... Nephrite or Jade: Agate Bomare; amazonenstein mine, verdStre, CondaHochaxe-stone, Lenz; barkk5, Lem;...calamine, Patrin; meseingbluthe, Germ.; mine de laiton, ; Patrin ; mine de laiton de Pise chalcite, Gloek...Nag3^agite. Black titanite. See Titanite. Black tin. See Cassiterite. Black wad. See Graphite, Wad, ...lefver ; slag, Wall. ; liver-colored copper ore mine de cuivre pauach6 ou violet Brochani ; minera
 
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