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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:95815
Long-form Identifier:1:3:95815:0
GUID (UUID V4):87ab2f3b-7204-441f-9461-9a8bac255016
Nearest other occurrences of Agate
13.7km (8.5 miles) Obercarsdorf, Dippoldiswalde, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
13.9km (8.6 miles) Schlottwitz, Glashütte, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
19.8km (12.3 miles) Weesenstein, Heidenau, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
34.7km (21.6 miles) Glückauf Shaft, Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
49.0km (30.4 miles) Blahuňov, Místo, Chomutov District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
51.7km (32.1 miles) Struthwald quarries, Niederwiesa, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
54.2km (33.7 miles) Braunsdorf, Niederwiesa, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
62.7km (39.0 miles) Straßburger Glück Mine, Niederschlag, Bärenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
68.0km (42.3 miles) Ratssteinbruch, Hartmannsdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
68.3km (42.4 miles) Wendishain, Hartha, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
author Variscan lamprophyres occur in the greisen tin-, tungsten- and molybdenum-ore district of Krupka...microgranites and mafic dykes associated with late Variscan tin-bearing granites and include minettes, kersantites...magmatic activity, which produced isolated lah c Altenberg Cze blic Sn u vas, feeding necks or dykes of p...location of the Cínovec/Zinnwald, Krupka and Altenberg Sn–W–Mo deposits (modified from Wasternack et...rhyolites (predominantly ignimbrites) related to the Altenberg–Teplice Caldera (ATC) (Mlčoch and Skáce- lová
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...crystals We have species. Large the of over agate having feldspar, orthoclase, common instead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BARITE–FLUORITE VEINS OF THE ERZGEBIRGE, EASTERN GERMANY: EVIDENCE FROM OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY...Talstraße 31, 09627 Bobritzsch, OT Niederbobritzsch, Germany THOMAS MONECKE§ Geological Survey of Canada, Natural...Potsdam, Telegrafenberg B120, D–14473 Potsdam, Germany ABSTRACT The optical absorption spectra of yellow...barite–fluorite veins of the Erzgebirge, eastern Germany, are characterized by a broad absorption band with...fluorite, hydrothermal vein deposits, Erzgebirge, Germany. SOMMAIRE Les spectres dʼabsorption optique de
Book (volume)
fupplied that part without which, of Chemiftry, Mine- ralogy can never be fuccefsfully ftudied., The...114 Spec. 2 1 Heliotrop - 1 1 - 1 . - - Agate, or Achates Spec. 22. fa/per. Jafpis - - -... 23. Siliceous Spec. 24. Obfidian , Iceland Agate Spec. 25. Variolit Spec. 26. Feldjpar Var....Argillaceous Earth — Baryt — Strontion Earth — Silver — Tin — Antimony = = 200 •— Lead e= 412 — Copper... 375 — Ai 320 75 = 260 P= 96 — Silver — Tin — Antim. — Lead — Merc. — fen. Zink — film. —
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others containing elements of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the magma...later stage they often become filled with quartz, agate or chalcedony. The largest part of the gases and...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
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
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Tennantite Fablerz and Bournonite - TIN - Oxide of Tin Stream Tin Tin Pyrites· BISMUTH - -.. .. -...... - - PLATINUM - - MOLYBDENUM, URANIUM, TIN -· - - -.. V - - - - 81 n 88 84 85 86...castings in pure copper, and in its alloys with tin, zinc, &c., selected i11. each instance for some... fluor-spa1', and cl1lorite ; more ra1·ely with tin 01·e, zinc-blende, galena, and calc-spar. Tl1e ore...Humphries. 2. NATIVE COPPER. From Penibrol,e Mine, St. A.1.istell, Cornwall. Presented by R. Taylor
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answer the purpose extremely well, and are sold in Germany at a — — — — very cheap rate. Besides occurring...reflects with sufficient is the case with Oxide of Tin and brilliancy to give well-defined images, as Specular...platinum. 2nd. A small spoon of platinum. 3rd. An agate pestle and mortar. 4th. Thin platinum wire and holder...chlorine when heated with muriatic acid. Compounds of Tin form chlorides when dissolved in muriatic acid, which...precipitate on the addition of protochloride of tin, and metallic gold with protosulphate of Iron. Platinum
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concentrated, together of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the...later stage they often become filled with quartz, agate or chalcedony. The largest part of the gases and...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
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Scholar a and Boerhaave, publilhed a fyftem of mine- ralogy. He Earths, 2. Salts, fa&ions, divides...known in every civilized country of Europe. In Germany it has been publifhed by Widenman, Emmerling, Karften...may mention, them from one anoift, That wood tin, fibrous malachite, red ore of antimony, cobalt...perfections its confequently in ±vii many The. mine- refpe&$ imperfect.' may be ralogy of the intelligent..., Orydlogno- and it 0economical Mineralogy Mine- . Oryclognofie.—Qx what has been hitherto in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polymetallic veins in the Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Germany: constraints from radiogenic isotopes Jörg Ostendorf...Accepted: 10 September 2018 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The Freiberg...Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany 2 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural...30655 Hannover, Germany 3 Present address: Schubertstr. 10, 30900 Wedemark, Germany 4 Helmholtz Zentrum...Freiberg, Germany The Freiberg mining district, located in the eastern Erzgebirge of Germany, is well
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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)
& M JUNIOR CLUB Collecting In Idar-Oberstein, Germany Since few rock and mineral collectors from the...chance to visit the world famous Idar-Oberstein, Germany, area, I'd like to tell of my 7 visits there. My...to be stationed on an army post in Landsthul, Germany (approx. 40 miles from Idar-Oberstein). At that...San Francisco, Calif. While going to school in Germany (1960) my 6th grade class was trying to find a...through Idar-Oberstein. While there I searched for agate and any other mineral I could find. Digging up small
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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
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Tantalite Wolfram. Tin. Cassiterite, Oxide of Tin 63 Wolfram, Tungsten Tin Pyrites 63 Tungsten...expressions gold-yellow, brass-yellow, silver-white, tin-white, lead and iron-grey, all derived from the colours...copper imparts a green colour, and, if a granule of tin is added, it becomes red, peroxide of iron makes...magnesia, protoxide of iron, oxides of copper and tin, and lime ; the solution of each of these has a peculiar...protoxide of iron is sometimes replaced by oxide of tin, sometimes by magnesia, the peroxide by oxide of
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banded growths in thodochrosite (page 112) and agate (page 167), document these changes. Such features...some of the world’s finest crystals of amethyst, agate and a large family of silicate minerals known collectively...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...manganese oxide on limestone, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany * 11.5 x 24 x 0.5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A
Book (edition)
being compared with the substances, a just idea of Mine ralogy may soon be formed . The arrangement adopted...Cornwall have produced for ages a large quantity of Tin, and in a rivulet at Lead - hills the author procured...commonly calledfaun Amethyst, &c. peculiar to one mine. This rare and much admired production is now cut...form the most important and interesting part of Mine ralogy; and as they are our riches and circulating...Cornwall, Native Silver was found in the Hurland copper mine, also in a regular vein in Wheal Juwel, situated
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and its Compounds Zinc and its Compounds Cadmium, Tin Compounds of Titanium Cobalt and Nickel and their...hematite. Moss-like forms also occur, as in c. moss agate. Reticulated. ' Slender ^ prismatic crystals...banding is shown in a transverse section: e.g., agate, much stalagmite, riband jasper, some limestone;...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
Catalog/List
Triv. Blue Vit- Chem. Sulphate of Copper. Parys mine, Anglesea. 13. L. 14. Ar. Genus VII. Sp. 1. ...numerous TiO. fibrous. Coarsely granular. 45. L. Saxony. Sp, 2. Compactly Coarsely fibrous. Scotia...also, quartz, topaz, The mica, and ox- ide of tin. 58. L. Cumberland, England. color. Chaux In cubes...and iron pyrites. 63. L. Johann Georgenstadt, Saxony. In greyish yellow cubes, invested by sulphate...of carbonate of lime, and iron pyrites. 64. L. Saxony. In g.eenish white cubes, intermingled with
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53 Barytes Chalcedony 54 Wulfenite Agate 55 Moss agate 56 Chrysoprase Cornelian Jasper 57 58...metal bronze was produced by alloying copper and tin. Iron replaced bronze for tools and weapons in most...Such druses are in particular a rich source of agate and amethyst. Another rich source of minerals is...deposits include diamond, corundum, topaz, gold and tin. 3 Metamorphic rocks are previously-formed rocks...very lucky, the minerals that can be found on old mine dumps, beaches, in quarries, etc. in Britain cannot
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Ytrium, Lanthanum, 1, 2, 3. 4. Titanium, 5. Tin, 6. Molybdenum, 7. Tungsten, 8. Vanadium, ...aster, star.] HavThe ing the appearance of a stai mine. An oxyd having an acrid within. Alkali. Containing...crystals ? 22 STRUCTURE OF MINERALS. Zinken, in Germany, 1000 cwt. of cry*tals of quartz were taken above...quite^drflterent, and also the internal structure. Idocrase and tin ore crystallize in similar square prisms, with tejwrtinal...scattered over the surface. Ex. brilliancy, ore, tin ore, flint, chalcedony. A mineral of luster.
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SECTION D’OR NOVA SCOTIA. OF A MINE IN CORNWALL. Mine Section Tin & Copper a of Longitudinal...common of using a section mine, &c. &c. June, 1829. &c. of a tin a tabu- arranged ; a fami-...consists in the delight afforded by the study of Mine- ralogy. It has the been following my endeavour...abundant most every sandstone, and more the mine. (it is this and yellow iron in deeply lour...nitro-muriatic acid. Tests for Platinum. If muriate of tin recent the solution a bright of red precipitate
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KOFOID Plate -I'. H Soweriy,a-l el lit Agate. 2 . Amethyst. 1. POPULAR MINERALOGY; COMPRISING...share the same fate as the general deposit in the mine, that would not be prized by the mineralogist. ...would be more convenient for him to take the whole mine away with him at once, and break it up at his leisure...for example, the streams of Cornwall produce Tin ore in abundance, and amongst this grains of Gold...are found very handsome pebbles of Carnelian and Agate ; at many of the railway cuttings near London, may
 
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