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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wulfenite
Formula:Pb(MoO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wulfenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:77491
Long-form Identifier:1:3:77491:0
GUID (UUID V4):97d96b6c-9526-41ce-b171-6269d3644925
Nearest other occurrences of Wulfenite
9.1km (5.7 miles) Moldava deposit, Moldava, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
10.8km (6.7 miles) Sadisdorf, Dippoldiswalde, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
10.8km (6.7 miles) Barbora adit, Knöttel area, Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
16.0km (9.9 miles) Berggießhübel (Berggiesshübel), Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
25.0km (15.5 miles) Altväter samt Eschig Mine, Sayda, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
34.7km (21.6 miles) Glückauf Shaft, Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
48.3km (30.0 miles) Himmelreich Mine (Shaft 238), Gehringswalde, Wolkenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
57.4km (35.7 miles) Uranus Mine, Kleinrückerswalde, Annaberg-Buchholz, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
62.7km (39.0 miles) Straßburger Glück Mine, Niederschlag, Bärenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
70.3km (43.7 miles) St Catharina Mine, Gottes Geschick Vereinigt Feld Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SteAeger de Peyre Lozere, France 4 lthough wulfenite (PbMO,) is acknowledged by virtually everyone...equivalent of wulfenite’s Red Cloud mine, yet attractive, somewhat wulfenite-like stolzite specimens have been...the interesting comparison between stolzite and wulfenite written by Modreski and Scovil (1990), stolzite...paragenetically definitive associations or matrix. Like wulfenite, it exhibits a wide variation in color, ranging...of 2.5-3.0, and is significantly denser than wulfenite, having a measured specific gravity of 8.34. Stolzite
Book
Netherlands. Back cover The museum ldar-Oberstein. West-Germany. is quaintly situated beneath the Felsenkirche...Copyright 1986 by . Ulrich Burchard, Lalling, West-Germany All rights reserved including the right of reproduction...Printed in Germany Miscellaneous: Design & Lay Out by Rainer Bode, Haltern, West-Germany Type set by...Wurzburg, West-Germany Colour separations by Litho Thungen GmbH, Thungen, West-Germany H. Bari, Musee...Printed by Sellier Druck GmbH, Freising, West-Germany 6 Gasull, Museo de Geologia, Barcelona 249; V
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oregon; argyrodite (a silver sulphide germanate), Germany, Bolivia. On the other hand, there are many well...in Colyn region W. of r. Dniepr. ANDREASBERG, Germany, S E Oberharz mountain range, lead-zinc deposit...arsen, hormotone, analcime, desmin. FREIBERG, Saxony, Germany, old famous mineral, classic locality. Native...Annaberg, Johanngeorgenstadt, Schneeberg, all in Saxony. Here have been discovered minerals: annabergite...Belgium, the most known are lead-zinc deposits Altenberg and Stolberg, very good specimens so called Schalenblende
Catalog/List
mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the...Molybdenum Glance, or molybdenum sulphide, Altenberg, Saxony. 10. Keweenaw Copper, or Peacock Co
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
September 1929. while on a rather hurried visit to the tin mines and china clay deposits of Cornwall, England...England, Captain M. T. Taylor of the East Pool Mine near Camborne, gave the writer a specimenthat was very...by Ferguson and Bateman in "Geologic Features of Tin Deposits"l as occurring in Cornish mines, the specimencontains... fluorite, chlorite and cassiterite. East Pool Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, England. Bright dark blue...Locality Ti rnerqrlorf Fluorescence Negative. Saxony. 3 Ferberite, var. Reinite. Same as scheelite
Catalog/List
}~-x2ixli". £l6.5o. NATIVE B~5MUTH. Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Very rich vein section consisting of feathery...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...cavities. lixl-!;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite...mm. 2x2xl-t". £13.00. 15. BROCHANTITE. Mammoth Mine, Tintic District, Utah, U.S.A. Bright, deep green
Book
Sorbonne, man Mineralogical Museum, Moscow, U.S.S.R. GERMANY j}& BONA POTENZA BIANCHI, Curator, % «G. P....HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY }& GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California...Professor, Mineralogical Institute, Bonn, WEST GERMANY ¥& H. J. SCHUBNEL, Professor and author, School...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells
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^ Gerhard becker, dealer, Idar-Oberstein, west GERMANY ^ bona potenza bianchi, Curator, University of...HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, east Germany ^ GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California...Professor, Mineralogical Institute, Bonn, west Germany ^ H. j. schubnel, Pro­ fessor and author, School...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells
Book
Editions Minerva S. A. Gendve, 1976 Printed in West-Germany 4 I I Preface Rather than a manual of mineralogy...and also certain metallic seams, in particular, tin, gold, copper, etc. —Deformations of the Earth’s...derivation, more or less flattened octahedrons (wulfenite). —Orthorhombic: straight prism with diamond-shaped...Vanadinite .... 84 Crocoite 84 Chervetite 86 Wulfenite 88 Copper Native Copper . . 88 Chalcopyrite ....Erythrite 104 Annabergite 104 Iron 106 Hematite 106 Tin 108 Cassiterite 108 Uranium 110 Becquerelite 110
Journal (issue)
•~_S_,.Sp~ef:· EDITORIAL .P.UBLiCATION • RED GILL MINE ?.Briscoe 2 LLANRWST MINES E.Otty 5 TUCSON...-r:e1,.:.0302 1io244;-~ . • •• • 1.1 fALLOWFIELD MINE P.3riscoe DIARY OE' EVENTS ·•. 12 15 E'OR...HOOVER AND DE RE METALLICA C:.Otty 30 HILTON MINE A.Winrow J!. HEIGHTS AND THE GREEN HOLE ? .S.....:Edifor.ie!•: .shoul_d! ?~:2~~1;;~t ••• WULFENITE NEW 300KS ON MINING COVER: Engine From The Alan...Rockbottom Issue 2,are you? 1 Red Gill Red Gill Mine has secondary minerals long been famous occur,and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
largely in British hands, whereas before the War Germany absorbed the greater part of the woild's output...mixture of the stolzite molecule, PbWO4, and the wulfenite molecule, PbMoO4, thus emphasizing the paragenetic...mineral association forms an excellent example of the tin-tungstenfluorine paragenesis, which, as will be seen...well-known mining district of the Erzgebirge in Saxony and Bohemia. The ancient crystalline rocks of the...districts richest in mineral veins are those of Altenberg, Zinnwald, Graupen, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Geyer,
Report (issue)
••• . New Zealand ••• Finland • •• France ••• Germany • •• Italy ... • •• Jugoslavia • • • Norway •••...known molybdenum mine1"als include molybdenite, wulfenite, and molybdite, only the first two of these being...acid, leaving a white or greyish residu•e. · Wulfenite is a molybdate -of lead (PbMoO4) theoretically...bright red, or colourless. It.s strea,k is white. Wulfenite decrepitates before the blowpipe, its fusibility...remain to indica.t e its pre.s ence. Deposits of wulfenite* a1 e almost wholly confined to veins, i.11 which
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, New...New Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill...Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...in igneous and contact metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz
Book (edition)
Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits... England. Found at La Bufa, Brea Mine, at Wanlockhead Mine Scotland, and also at Wallaroo, South
Journal (issue)
Moore Tpmoore1@cox.net The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province.............731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California .........................SCORODITE crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals...in the area of the No. 1 shaft at the Pyšminskij mine near Berezovsk. Figure 29. Workings along veins...www.budil-minerals.com The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province
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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...cassiterite zircon | scheelite vesuvianite wulfenite System The Trigonal rhombohedron scalenohedron...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
Catalog/List
50x40x30mm. £9. 6) NATIVE BISMUTH. Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. A very good solid mass of silvery granular...4mm. 35x30x20mm. £12. 8) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A nice clean specimen showing...60x35x30mm. £875. 9) CASSITERITE. Graupen, Bavaria, Germany. A group of about eight lustrous jet black cassiterite...75x65x30mm. £85. 10) CASSITERITE var "RUBY WOOD TIN". St Agnes, Cornwall. A small piece of matrix showing...attached. 60x20x20mm max. £45. 11) CASSITERITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Typical very fine grained
Journal (issue)
............... 2 Trip Report – Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Northern Territory ....................Micromineral News: Issue 7 Trip Report – Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Northern Territory Dehne McLaughlin,...off tomorrow on our third expedition (T3) into the mine. Struck big rain and a terrible tooth problem last...went on. Who wants to operate a mineral specimen mine? Being camped on the old waste rock dump as well...that our vehicle dust from the access track to the mine was an environmental impact so you cannot please
Book
on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2 inches...crystals on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long....in thi s category are the chromates, such as wulfenite (PbMoO4), and the wolfram ates or tungstates,...with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...Classification Siderite, 8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size
Book
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
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...scheelite rhombohedron scalenohedron calcite wulfenite corundum 1 m a es X — O U> = j? -a nepheline...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
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metals known, and bronze, a hard alloy of copper and tin, has been used since c. 3000 BC. Native copper is...(420 tons); others localities include Mansfeld (Germany), Bisbee (Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra...native sliver include Kongsberg (Norway), Freiberg (Germany), Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode...Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)
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metals known, and bronze, a hard alloy of copper and tin, has been used since c. 3000 BC. Native copper is...(420 tons); others localities include Mansfeld (Germany), Bisbee (Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra...native sliver include Kongsberg (Norway), Freiberg (Germany), Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode...Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)
Catalog/List
tr ix. 3x2" • £7. 4. ARGENTITE. Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. A pure metallic lead-grey mass .,ith some...crystal faces. 2xltxl". £6. 5. M\SENOPYRITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Sharp, silvery grey, complex...lxl". 50p. 6. aUTUNITE. Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany. Yellowishgreen sma 11 platy crystals sea ttered...matrix in association. Itxlt". £4. 8. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-et-Loire, France. Yellowish...with Beudantite - £6. lit. BOT: LkCKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Pale gree:, lustrous micro-crystals
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). Translation This book has book of but ...Lead 101. Copper-pyrites Copper-vitriol Mercury mine 46 crystals 101, nite Cuprite 107. 100. Copper-glance...Hypersthene Amphibole Group Uranium Compounds Tin 311 Bronzite, Spodumene 179. Wolframite 310... Glauco- Erythrite. compounds. Wolframite, Tin-ore. Rho- Gers- Garnierite. Molybdenum Cuprouranite...Uranium lite, Manganite. Chloanthite, 37. Wulfenite. minerals. Niccolite, Cobalt-ores. Pyromorphite
 
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