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Diopside from
Marble quarry, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:732415
Long-form Identifier:1:3:732415:4
GUID (UUID V4):02e818ab-a33f-4060-a2ac-1cb4c7d116c8
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘIn der Luck’n, HĂ€usling, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
3.0km (1.9 miles) ⓘMitterbachgraben, Gansbach, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
3.5km (2.2 miles) ⓘGraphite deposit, Hengstberg, Hafnerbach, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
4.0km (2.5 miles) ⓘBerging marble quarry, SchönbĂŒhel an der Donau, SchönbĂŒhel-Aggsbach, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
7.3km (4.5 miles) ⓘSeebichl, Zintring, Maria Laach am Jauerling, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
7.3km (4.5 miles) ⓘTischwand, St Johann im Mauerthale, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
7.6km (4.7 miles) ⓘMarchart quarry, Rosenthal, Karlstetten, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
8.4km (5.2 miles) ⓘSt Johann im Mauerthale, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
8.9km (5.5 miles) ⓘSiebenhandl quarry (Kraxnerklippe), Felbring, Maria Laach am Jauerling, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
8.9km (5.5 miles) ⓘSchwallenbach, Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
References
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MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derby, N . H., 0 3 0 4 1 ( P A R T III)...Sphalerite. Gailtal. Vivianite as powder. Krasta Valley. Marble Qs six Mi. W of Villach nr Drautal. Raibl-Galena;...Adularia Xls; Magne­ tite X l s ; Sphene X l s ; Black Marble Q. Mallnitz-Pericline X l s . Unterschaferalpe...16 Miles Do not scale. Uooer Austria Altaussee tsch# Lower Austria Yugoslav! VII STYR1A ROCKS AND...Zeiring-Aragonite. General. Styria. Chrysocolla. VIII LOWER AUSTRIA (Nieder Oestreich) This includes the city
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Zone in Lower Austria and W Moravia present evidence for introduction of segments of the Lower Palaeozoic...peridotite massifs in the Moldanubian Zone of Lower Austria (Becker, 1996). Besides, some metasedimentary...amphibolite layers, minor calc-silicate gneiss and marble. Lenses of felsic garnet-biotite gneiss are comparable...Pucov and garnet compositions from HT-HP silicate marble and Ultrahigh-pressure grossular-rich garnetite...normalized REE pattern. Although the rock shows a lower-pressure overprinting, fine-grained garnet has highly
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amphibolites) carry Ti-bearing andradite, epidote, diopside–hedenbergite, and accessory magnetite. Data from...Novosedly Ć ebanov lda 20 km ČeskĂœ Krumlov Austria Mo N ath oli th ČeskĂ© Budějovice Fig. 1...2011). The Varied Group contains abundant layers of marble, calc-silicate gneiss, graphite gneiss, quartzite...co-ordinates is given in Tab. 1. 3.1. Pacova hora quarry near ChĂœnov The Moldanubian Zone is a heterogeneous...1995) and the Mesoproterozoic Dobra gneiss in Lower Austria (Gebauer and Friedl 1994; Friedl et al. 2004)
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spinel from Amity, uvite from Pierrepont, and diopside from near Richville (the famous Dekalb locality)... spinel, grossular, forsterite, monticellite, diopside, calcite, and wollastonite. There are many scattered...Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton or Whitcomb quarry at Bolton, Worcester County, where it occurs in...at Canaan and Boardman’s Bridge (Advance Stone quarry), and with green spinel at Norfolk by Schairer...limestone” (marble) west of North River, Essex County; similar yellow grains at the Atlas limestone quarry and
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discovery in 1967 of the Felbertal deposit in Austria, currently now the world's 3rd biggest tungsten...scheelite deposits in Australia (Mt. Isa district, Qld.; Broken Hill district, N.S.W.; Olary Block, S.A.; Yilgarn...herein are throughout regionally metamorphosed Lower-Middle Proterozoic calc-silicate horizons which...Austroalpine Crystalline Complex (Eastern Alps, Austria) in carbonaceous pelitic, psammopelitic, psammitic...grained bedded stratiform scheelite is present in marble, regional calc-silicate rocks intimately associated
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minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first case,...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite...symmetr:y ar:e no longer: present (Fig. 16a, p. 93). A lower: cr:ystallogr:aphic symmetr:y is often only shown
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mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2ÂŁl 11 felspar group____________...ÂŁ3 7 Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near ANNITE Mica__________ paper available...Chrysotile, pale grey-green Ixl ÂŁ1 County Bridge Quarry,Lizard Mg Fe SiO_______ massive. _________ .Cornwall...1x2 ÂŁ5 1x1 ÂŁ2 2x2 ÂŁ5.00 2x2 ÂŁ2 Hingston Down Quarry,Comwall,England Grey massive in matrix South Crofty
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transparent pale green to tan crystals occur in white marble at Mogok, Myanmar (Burma). It is widespread in...phlogopite crystals with tapered terminations in marble, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Crystals about 7 x 25...Phlogopite crystal, 4.5 x 4 cm, with calcite and diopside, Slyudyanka, Russia. been found. Dark brown tabular...forms huge crystals. At Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal district, Russia, it forms large, dark red-brown (but surprisingly...transparent) crystals with white calcite and granular diopside. The several lepidolite species may be colorless
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clinozoisite, wollastonite, scapolite, vesuvianite, diopside, and tremolite (Anthony et al. 1995). It is now...examples come from the Jeffrey mine (also noted as quarry on some labels), Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité...microcrystalline grossular on pale green crystals of diopside from the Orford nickel mine, St.-Denisde-Brompton...are found in seams along a contact zone between marble xenoliths and hornfels. The crystals are sharp...collected. Among the most famous is the Lowell quarry (also labeled as Eden Mills quarries), 428 ROCKS
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Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Diopside MERELANI, ARUSHA REGION, TANZANIA Most silicates... and, for pyroxenes, diopside is an exception (spodumene is another). Diopside crystals are monoclinic...point group 2/m; hence it is a clinopyroxene. Diopside crystals are commonly prismatic with a square...as simple and multiple twins on {100} or {010}. Diopside displays parting on {100} and possibly on {010}...attributed to planar exsolution lamellae (Nesse 2012)]. Diopside has a hardness of 5.5–6.5 and a specific gravity
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D from the Latin word marmor (a shining stone), marble may be said to cover a considerable n u m b e r...marbles are typically rocks. W h a t is marble ? T o the geologist marble is usually defined as a crystalline...stonemasons— or shall it be said the commercial view—marble is widely interpreted and may be said to include...form of gypsum known as alabaster is thought of as marble. For the purpose of this study the subject of marbles...some other types of rocks, so like marble and therefore termed marble in commercial parlance, also demand
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bodies enriched in Ca minerals (e.g. wollastonite, diopside-hedenbergite s.s.s., grossular-spessartine s.s...exotic desilicified rocks such as corundum fels or marble horizons are known to give host to such pegmatitic...carbonate contents into different varieties of marble have found recognition in the textbooks on metamorphic...composed of calcsilicate rocks alternating with marble horizons with thicknesses varying from 150 to 200...where they are named collectively as “Wunsiedel Marble” after a town nearby (Table1, Fig. 5a) (Richter
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of Graz, UniversitÀtsplatz 2/II, A-8020 Graz, Austria Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic...several samples of high-grade calcite-dolomite marble with an early ultrahigh-pressure history. These...by titanite and rutile, and that baddeleyite + diopside replaces zircon + calcite to higher pressures...kbar and ca. 800 °C, where the assemblage olivine-diopside-spinelrutile-zircon formed. This assemblage partially...dolomite = baddeleyite + forsterite + calcite + CO2. Marble-hosted zircons have been used in several cases
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ABSTRACT A metasomatic diopside rock occurs at the top of the dolomitic Connemara Marble Formation of western...titanite and K-feldspar in addition to around 90% diopside ( X M 8= 0.90-0.97). U-Pb isotopic measurements...identical within error to a less precise Rb-Sr age of diopside-K-feldspar of 483f6Ma. Petrological evidence indicates...major geological features of Connemara, and the diopside rock localities. syn-orogenic calc-alkaline intrusions...coarse (centimetre-sized) diopside crystals (referred to hereafter as diopside rock) which occurs at the
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~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins ÂŁ5 2 AEGIRINE ÂŁ10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl... _ . Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry. Tvedalcn near Ix I ÂŁ3 I x2 ÂŁ6 2x2 ÂŁ 12 7 AN!lilTE...- Creamy white micro crystals in cavirties Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway IxÂœ ÂŁ3 59 BOEHl\lITE AIO OH inNatrolite...--· 73 BRUCITE Grey grains richly distributed in marble Kilchrist, SJ...--ye, Scotland lxl ÂŁ1 2x2 ÂŁ2 2x3...AMITE Rich brown fibrous in matrix. Found Meldon Quarry, lx2 ÂŁ2 lxl ÂŁ1 _ ~_Ca SJ2.._ __ __ some ycm ago
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opalescence ............. Fl. ALBITE PERlCLrNE Italy, Austria, Switzerland Alpine areas. Fine large white twin...in calcite with brown hypersthene, gray-green diopside and minor apatite ..... Norway Kragero. Dark green...Canaan , New England Lime quarry. Fl. White crystal prisms in dolomitic marble . . Connecticut East Canaan................. . Pennsylvania Easton, Williams quarry. White fibrous with calcite, asbestos-like. New...display specimens ... New Jersey Paterson, Lower New Street quarry. White trapezohedral crystals in groups
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from GoM3 O4 O10 slerwand, PrĂ€gratten, Tyrol, Austria. It typically forms elongated, Al O OH often striated...in amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. ‱ Pink to green crystals...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted...crystals are found at Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Austria, associated with graygreen fibrous byssolite. Fine
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is one of the main constituent minerals in the lower crust and upper mantle. Clinopyroxene is the pyroxene...group C2/c at ambient conditions. For example, the diopside-hedenbergite solid solution, augite, jadeite,...aegirine are clinopyroxene minerals. Among them, the diopside and augite are calcic clinopyroxenes; jadeite...while spodumene is lithium aluminum silicate. Diopside is the main phase of the upper mantle peridotite...Grant et al. 2007; Demouchy et al. 2016). For diopside form mantle peridotite, water content ranges from
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MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to the general...two or more until a more rounded text results. Austria is defined here as what is localities. presently...mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria in­ which the best is the Natural History cluded...quarried for lime, for cement and for structural "marble" (in many SYMBOLS A N D ABBREVIATIONS colors).
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PRODUCTS OF SPINEL IN DOLOMITE MARBLE FROM STUBENBERG, STYRIA, AUSTRIA Franz BERNHARD§, Christoph HAUZENBERGER...Karl-Franzens-University Graz, UniversitĂ€tsplatz 2, A–8010 Graz, Austria Roy KRISTIANSEN PO Box 32, N-1650 Sellebakk, Norway...within polymetamorphic dolomite marble at Stubenberg, Styria, Austria. The crystallization sequence of...spinel, geikielite, ilmenite, marble, Eastern Alps, Stubenberg, Austria. Sommaire Nous documentons la...Mg–Al–B-rich rocks subjected to amphibolite facies to lower-grade conditions, or as a retrograde product of
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looking for that mineral in rocks that form at lower temperatures would make little sense. Sound, straightforward...care not to cause any motion in the cup, slowly lower a thin, clear ice cube into the coffee. Peer through...topaz [see PLATES 2o and 2 3], form much later, at lower temperatures and pressures. The second process centers...valve on the pressure cooker fails, the drastically lower pressure outside the pot causes not only steam and...where because of their compositions, the rocks have lower overall melting temperatures. For example, as basaltic
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pyroxene megacrysts can generate, typically at HP and lower temperatures, exsolution-like lamellar garnet and...parts of Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria (O’Brien & Carswell, 1993; Fig. 1). The Variscan...is called the Moldanubian Zone whereas a mostly lower grade region to the north is called the Saxothuringian... Poland), the Gföhl Unit in South Bohemia, Lower Austria and West Moravia (Medaris & Carswell, 1990)...(Fig. 2). At RUB the samples are from an abandoned quarry where one single layer of garnet + clinopyroxene-rich
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the dolomitic marble. Calc-silicate rock, consisting mainly of tremolite and diopside, was generated...of tremolite, diopside, and forsterite, or wollastonite-bearing assemblages in the marble, depending on...600 jC in the calcitic marble, while buffered reaction of the dolomitic marble occurred at higher XCO2...minerals constituting the ore and the silicate marble, most of which show end-member mineral compositions...of pelitic hornfels, calcitic marble, metapelite, and dolomitic marble in an upward sequence. Gray to
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mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins ÂŁ5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive. Minas Gerias...MITE Creamy white micro crystals in cavirties Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway IxÂœ ÂŁ3 Al O OH in Natrolite _...Strontian, Scotland Grey fibrous mass on dolomitic marble lxl ÂŁ4 lxl ÂŁ1.60 SrZeolite 278 BRIANY0UNGITE
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sapphire and spinel deposit of An Phu, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . ....12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The Cresson Vug, Cripple...Steger Nestroystrasse 15 2700 Wiener Neustadt Austria The author has been visiting mines and mineral...mineralogical tours have taken him from his home in Austria to such enticing localities as the Virgem da Lapa...near the Fazenda Dardanelos, in Barra de CuietĂ© district, 5 km from the town of Conselheiro Pena. Only
 
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