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Calcite from
Diabase quarry, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diabase quarry, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1436481
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1436481:7
GUID (UUID V4):78ecc223-dc0a-416f-a4c3-77268ce1a4a0
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
3.0km (1.9 miles) Peterlesstein, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
4.5km (2.8 miles) Diabase quarry, Stadtsteinach, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
11.8km (7.3 miles) Diabase quarries (Rimlasgrund; Schicker quarry), Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge, Bayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
13.1km (8.1 miles) Johannes der Täufer Mine, Schmölz, Wallenfels, Kronach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
16.3km (10.1 miles) Silberne Rose Mine, Goldkronach, Bayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
20.6km (12.8 miles) Reinersreuth quarry (Köhlerloh quarry), Reinersreuth, Sparneck, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
21.2km (13.2 miles) Streuspitz, Weißenstadter Forst-Nord, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
25.9km (16.1 miles) Epprechtstein, Kirchenlamitz, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
27.1km (16.8 miles) Christa Mine, Großschloppen, Kirchenlamitz, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
29.0km (18.0 miles) Buttermühle, Lichtenberg, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
References
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Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...thick, are found. The formation consists of an upper zone (200 to 500 meters thick) containing fresh...easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, the base of the...connected by minute veinlets containing phillipsite, calcite, and smectite. Jointing of the columns across zeolite-filled...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed
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zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...thick, are found. The formation consists of an upper zone (200 to 500 meters thick) containing fresh...easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, the base of the...connected by minute veinlets containing phillipsite, calcite, and smectite. Jointing of the columns across zeolite-filled...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
includes the rocks of the diabase family, to which belong: (0.) True diabase. ( b . ) Melaphyr and augitic...crystalline rocks, as gneiss, granite, diorite, gabbro, diabase, &c., but also nearest to those which contain a...and the nickel and copper ores of the Dillenburg district, are probitbly + View Article Online Published...736 ABSTRACTS OF CHEMICAL PAPERS. derived from diabase. The origin of the important deposits of phosphorite...phosphorite in Xasssu must also be assigned to diabase, which is everywhere rich in apatite. ,Wethod of A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ladick Trucking and Excavating weathered granite quarry is located approximately 1 mile east of State Highway...and hafnium-rich zircons. The highly weathered upper-level pegmatites locally contain acicular crystals...BISMUTH, AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS FROM THE WATERLOO QUARRY, SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2...Orleans, LA 70148. The Michels Materials Waterloo quarry exposes Baraboo Interval quartzites and metapelites...Falster, and W. B. Simmons. 2002. The Waterloo quarry: A new locality for gahnite, manganocolumbite,
Book
immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was... You will be told that these are fragments of calcite crystals. Three minerals will be mentioned to you...consisting (apart from impurities) only of the mineral calcite. Granite is the bestknown example of a rock consisting...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds...Pr..1iTE 2 Sulphur Abo/le Sulphur crystals on calcite. Below A specimen of massive sulphur. Both from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
many are commonly well crystallized and include calcite, stilbite, heulandite, laumontite, natrolite, pectolite...5 cm across associated with natrolite sprays, calcite, pectolite, apophyllite, and pale green datolite...Paterson and West Paterson (including the famous Upper and Lower New Street quarries where crystals to...single analcime crystal on serandite from the Demix quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. This 3.7-cm specimen...found in quarries at Upper Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union
Report (edition)
Minneapolis. 1903. C. K. Leith. The Mesabi iron-bearing district of Minnesota: U.S.G.S. Mon. 43, 1903. J. M. Clements...Clements. The Vermilion iron-bearing district of Minnesota. U.S.G.S. Mon. 45, 1903. C. R. Van Hise and...near Grand Portage 112 48. Columnar jointing in diabase 113 49. Sand bar at the mouth of the Beaver River...Distribution of land and sea in North America during Upper Cambrian time 121 54. East-west geological section...155 ILLUSTRATIONS xv 67. Glacial striae on diabase, Duluth 157 68. Striated boulders from glacial
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...sedimentary rocks, clay minerals,_ quartz, feldspars, calcite, and micas are abundant. However, many other minerals...to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6) orthoclase; (7)...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale
Book (edition)
Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...sedimentary rocks, clay minerals. quartz, feldspars, calcite, and micas are abundant. However, many other...to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6) orthoclase; (7)...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale
Report (edition)
polis 1903. C. K. Leith. The Mesabi iron-bearing district of Minnesota: U.S.G.S. Mon. 43, 1903. J. M. Clements~...Clements~ The Vermilion iron-bearing district of Minnesota. U.S.G.S. Mon. 45, 1903. C. R. Van Hise and...near Grand Portage 112 48. Columnar jointing in diabase 113 49. Diagram showing possible origin of a...Distribution of land and sea in North America during Upper Cambrian time 121 54. East-west geological section...155 ILLUSTRATIONS x\" 67. Glacial striae on diabase, Duluth 157 68. Striated boulders from glacial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...worldwide, the Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County... The metamorphic rocks exposed in the Acushnet quarry are a mixture of schists, gneisses, and intruded...of orthoclase, the pericline variety of albite, calcite, epidote, muscovite, quartz, titanite, chabazite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
G. W. Tyrrell—Intrusions of Kilsyth-Croy District. 299 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. SHIPMAN, J. Manuscript notes...H E INTRUSIONS OF T H E K I L S Y T H - CROY DISTRICT, DUMBARTONSHIRE. By G. AY. TYRRELL, A . R . C...of Gernal Brae and Auchinstarry in the Kilsyth district. Sir A. Geikie has treated of the general relations... 300 G. W. Tyrrell—Intrusions of Kilsyth-Croy District. Rocks of the Firth of Forth,21 later in his...has described similar rocks 6from the Stirling district,5 and Dr. Falconer from the Bathgate Hills. II
Book (volume)
drift under till, Hancock, 108 - 27, South end of Upper Beech pond, Wolfeborough, 128 . 28, Section near...Hampshire. Geological map of the Ammonoosuc mining district. ILLUSTRATIONS NOT PRINTED HELIOTYPES FROM...finding only one point low enough to allow the upper surface of the ice to be seen from the masthead...Canada, must have had a much less slope. If its upper surface descended only one foot in two hundred,...gravelly earth and boulders, which may be called the Upper Tz//. There is almost always a definite line of
Report (issue)
M ystery Caves in the Middle and Upper Ordovician limestones nea r Etna. (Co urtesy of Joe P etty...Dresbach Formation .............................. , Franconia Formation .............................. St. Lawrence...LIST OF FIGURES Mystery Caves in the Middle and Upper Ordovician Limestones near Etna ..................The Taylors Falls and Ironton Members of the Franconia Formation, at the South Edge of Taylors Falls...Kellogg.. 38 8. The Taylors Falls :Member of the Franconia Sandstone at Taylors Falls ..................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
......................................... 595 Germany........................................................................................... 597 Bavaria..................................................secondary. Prominent among these are chlorite, calcite, quartz, chalcedony, agate, and other cherty and...less completely filled with the various minerals (calcite, zeolites, etcetera) previously referred to. In...least for Germany and the British Isles, and is probably so for other countries as well. GERMANY Saxony
Report (volume)
............................................. Calcite............................................................................................... Diabase.............. '. ................................sandstone and underlying shales and sandstones....... Franconia sandstone.......................................granite and gray granite .................... Diabase or trap dikes............................................ 57 57 58 59 59 60 61 62 62 63 64 64 Quarry methods............... .......................
Book
by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...pyramids rhombohedron apatite beryl, corundum calcite quartz tourmaline orthorhombic rhombic prisms... calcium carbonate (CaC03) may crystallize as calcite (calc spar) which is trigonal, or, under different...spherical cavities which are called geodes. Quartz, calcite and fluorite are typical of such crystals. Mostly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Saint Croix river. The northern lim it of the district is near latitude 46° 25', a t the boundary line...is in the lower Dalles of the Saint Croix near Franconia (latitude 45° 15'), although the lava flows of...the agricultural possibilities of m uch of the district by the formation of extended sand plains, which...north to the level of the Saint Croix river at Franconia, Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld...erosive power, yet, owing to the newness of the district physiographically, very little rock-cutting has
Report (Issue volume)
igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million. The Phoenixville type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and...deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments distant from diabase. Zn-Pb-Cu in quartz veins cutting Triassic and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Bibliography ........................... The Diabase-Porphyrite ............................................................. Geological Map of the District ........................... Page 5~6 567 569...miles. The best account of the geology of this district is that given by Murchison in the ' Silurian System...M'Coy, Ramsay, Symonds, Lapworth, and Rutley. The district is shown on sheets 56 S.W. and 56 S.E. of the...with are diabase-porphyrite, andesite, andesitic ash, rhyolite, rhyolitic ash, and diabase. These give
Report (issue)
crystals), Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville...Philadelphia: Fairmount Park, Frankford, and Rit- enhouse quarry. SCOLECITE CaAl 2 Si3 Oi .3H 2 O MONOCLINIC ...1910, 540. silky mass of radiating needles, with calcite. Colorless, white. . ; SiO2 A12 3 CaO Na 2...white radiating tufts; Delaware County: Ward's quarry, mealy white radiations. DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY...mines, the corundum mines at Unionville, Brinton's quarry south of West Chester, and the French Creek iron
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must have potassic feldspar, limestone must have calcite, sandstone must have quartz, and so on. Characterizing...with ordinary sediments such as detrital quartz, calcite, and clay minerals. Rocks as well as minerals and...which the rock was initially found are: bentonite (Upper Cretaceous, Benton shale), cherokite (Mississippian...tribal peoples: bojite (Boii, Celtic tribe in Germany), gondite (Gonds, central India), onkilonite (Onkilones...salts overlying rock salt deposits at Stassfurt, Germany. [G. Abraum, refuse; the salts were originally
Report (Issue volume)
Shale Brick Corp. Fenati Brick Co., Inc. Midland Quarry, McQuiston Coal Co. Veon Mines, Ralph A. Veon,...igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million. The Phoenixville type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tain-makingmovementsin Carboniferoustimes. Probablyin Upper Carboniferoustimes the Archeozoicrocks of the w...Oligocene but in Upper Cretaceousconglomerates. 4 The younger veins are therefore older than Upper Cretaceousand...Schumacher, Friedrich: The genesis of the Freiberg ore district. XVI. Int. Geol. Cong. Rept., I: 399-4o5, •933...Cornwall. The striking analogiesof the Cornwall district to the western Erzgebirge arewellknown. In t...Geology of Falmouth and Truro and the min- ing district of Camborn&and Redrfith. Mem. Geol. Surv. England
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
splitting and trimming the slate for the market. The quarry itself was then entered, the conspicuous dip of...Delabole Slate forms the lowest subdivision of the Upper Devonian rocks of the area visited during the excursion...bands of vesicles infilled with pink or creamy calcite lying EXCURS IO N TO N ORTH COR N WAL L. in...for itself in the lava. The subdivi sions of the Upper Devonian rocks along the Trebarwith Valley lie in...quarried in several huge excavations. At Lanterdan Quarry the chlori toid-spo tted Woolgarden phyllites are
 
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