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Rhodochrosite from
Slag dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süß, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Mine Dump
Classification
Species:Rhodochrosite
Formula:MnCO3
Habit:coatings or tiny (up to 0.1mm) rhombohedra on calcite and/or goethite
Colour:rose-red
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodochrosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slag dumps, Richelsdorf Smelter, Süß, Nentershausen, Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:401212
Long-form Identifier:1:3:401212:2
GUID (UUID V4):fc1367a3-764c-413d-a97e-adfbdf430bdc
References
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Journal (issue)
Hall Mineral Collection N. Turner. 1 Rammelsberg Slag Minerals 1 W. van den Berg and C. van Loon. Diary...was a single tourmaline (65 x 20тт) from the Jos region of Nigeria which graded from pink to dark green...The International Association o f Collectors o f Slag Minerals has sprung from a n association between...and other memorabilia found in the workings and dumps or uncovered during research in old archives. Some...District Special Planning Board in progress on the dumps. A couple of points arose from our discussion with
Report (issue)
Smithsonite forms two solid solution series: one with rhodochrosite and one with siderite, as noted in Chang, et...seen. There is evidence of solid solution with rhodochrosite (Mn2+CO3) (Palache et al., 1951), and some evidence...compositions covering the entire smithsonite-rhodochrosite series. Physical Properties Smithsonite exhibits...collection; Jesse La Plante photo Smithsonite-rhodochrosite on coronadite; from the Kintore opencut in Broken...in the hemispheres from cores of zinc­ rich rhodochrosite (with Mg, Ca and Pb) to rims of manganese­ rich
Journal (issue)
Design Editorial 2 The Minerals of Meadowfoot Smelter D.Green 3 The Munich 1986 Mineral Show A. Fisher...COVER Dons Digest 33 Linarite - Meadowfoot Smelter SEM Photo. Magnification x70 Classified Ads. ...Meadowfoot Smelter David I. Green All substances which came into being during smelting and slag formation...and water are minerals. The ruined Meadowfoot smelter is situated 1 ½ miles north west of Wanlockhead...stream up one of the spurs of Sowen Dod. The slag dumps have received considerable attention from mineral
Report (volume)
rocks and the eventful geologic history of the region, the number of tj'pcs is not surpassed in many...of Maine, 183S. Gives some cross sections in the region of Blue Hill, with descriptive notes on the rocks...Sullivan, with several geologic cross sections of that region. A paper of historical value, describing deposits...copper deposits of Blue Hill. Forms on) the old slag dumps, but was not noted in the ore. A little is present...pegmatitic quartz contains fluid inclusions. Rhodochrosite. Absent in most deposits; a little noted at
Book (volume)
CHEROKKE-PICKENS COUNTIES NELSON (Pickens Co.), a 300 sq. mi. region surrounding this town contains many pegmatite dike...HillsboroBeryl, Quartz crystals (blue, smoky);  in dumps of 13 area minesAmazonite, Garnet, Mica. JONES...fossil iron ore. CEDARTOWN, area iron minesRhodochrosite. RABUN COUNTY AREA:  many regional old minesGold...minesMica, Beryl, Quartz;  SE 4 mi.: (a) area of the Germany Mt.; (b) at Wilson farmAmethyst (gem quality);...TOWNS COUNTY AREA:  extending into Clay Co., NC, a region of mica schist exposures reaching from (a) Winchester
Report (volume)
Director Bulletin 842 OF THE GREATER HELENA MINING REGION MONTANA BY J. T. PARDEE and F. C. SCHRADER UNITED...Inregion. _____ In peefcet Geologic map of Scratchgravel...Marysville; B, Town of Wickes and ruins of old smelter.__..__-.__________---__-_-__--_-_-____-_--___ 68...Index map showing location of greater Helena mining region, Montana.__________________________ _ 2. Faulting...described in this bulletin are distributed through a region of about 3,000 square miles surrounding the city
Journal (issue)
that nothing comparable had ever been seen in the region. Veteran speleologists who explored and mapped...occurrence is located in the Sinai-Negev Desert region of Israel, just north of the Gulf of Aqabah. This...the clHfs of the Timna Massif. In thls re­ mote region the occurrence of enriched copper nodules in a...made into the desolate Arava region to examine the ancient shafts and smelter ruins. The arid desert conditions...of previously unknown Egyptian cul­ ture in the region of the mines. Prior to that time, the mines had
Book (volume)
Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed...of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions (containing...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY:...gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite crystals; g Fairview Landing, area mines⎯Cerussite...Fluorspar region extends W into Pope Co. HENDERSON COUNTY TERRE HAUTE, area gravels, pits, mine dumps⎯Mason
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Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed...of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions (containing...States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY:...gravel rd. 2 mi. to the Mahoning Mine No. 3, on dumps⎯Fluorite crystals; g Fairview Landing, area mines⎯Cerussite...Fluorspar region extends W into Pope Co. HENDERSON COUNTY TERRE HAUTE, area gravels, pits, mine dumps⎯Mason
Report (issue)
the producing iron ranges of the Lake Superior Region, about a hundred miles west and a little south...REGIONAL GEOLOGY IN RESUME The geology of the region has been described by several geologists (Zapffe..."The bedrock in the Cuyuna district and adjacent region is largely concealed by a mantle of glacial drift...imperfect. Lakes are very abundant through the region ... The valley of :Mississippi River is narrow...two directions. :Much of the green slate of waste dumps may turn black after a few months' 11 THE Cl'lTNA
Journal (issue)
Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...further updating.) In the case of East and West Germany, which did not exist separately in Goldschmidt’s...to the wrong side, we combined them all under “Germany.” (Current events may soon render the distinction...(Schlosstrasse 6, D-8050 Haindlfing Freising, West Germany) has in recent years commissioned replicas of two...was bom the son of a well-to-do family in Mainz, Germany, in 1853. He entered the mining academy at Frieberg
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G. Postfach 100940 D.4970 Bad Oeynhausen West Germany Tel (05731) 151. Telex 972-4835 Weserhttte Otto...-D-6000 Frankfurt am Main1l1 Federal Republic of Germany Amsterdam - Beijing - Bruxelles Caracas . Johannesburg...6,000 years ago s the Egyptians. Ancient slag piles or dumps, wall inscriptions, museum pieces, etc.,...large sums of money on research. Historically, Germany was the leading industrial country before the First...This is the most important deposit in the Tebessa region and is found in an elliptical depression extending
Report (volume)
map of the area-............. In pocket. II. A, Smelter at Planet, Ariz.; B, Mountain of gneiss and schist...Mack's and Ward well & Osbourne properties; B, Smelter at Cinnabar, Ariz............ 78 IV. A, Ridges...economic geology of the principal ore deposits of .the region as was obtainable in the short time allotted. In...places to make travel over almost any part of the region possible, although in some places not at all convenient...the general geologic conditions existing in this region, combined o The Arizona and Swansea Railroad is
Catalog/List
Touissit District, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco This is just a nice, reasonably intact...Washington, USA Named in the 1850’s for the Autun region of Burgundy in France, Autunite is a commonly found...perfection of the Chalcocite specimens saved from the smelter by miners toiling in its depths. This classic example... 53055 RHODOCHROSITE Madan Ore Field, Rhodope Mountains, Smolyan Oblast, Bulgaria Rhodochrosite is one...Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia Other than a dacha on the Black Sea, this
Book (edition)
"black" in the same language. Rbodonite and rhodochrosite both come from the Greek word for "rose," as...Gulf of Mexico, as well as in other countries (Germany, Spain, Rumania, Iran), are of various sizes and...Several notable localities for arsenopyrite are in Germany, in the silver mines of that country. 25. What...includes calcite, dolomite, magnesite, siderite, rhodochrosite, and smithsonite. In composition they grade...Laurium, Greece, where sea water has acted upon lead slag from the ancient mining operations, producing phosgenite
Report (issue)
construction1 temperature control1 blast control, slag and n1elt composition) ; hydrometallurgical extraction...has been the world's major aluminum producer. Germany held the leadership for a few years during its...furnaces known as "pots." A reduction plant or smelter consists of a number of pots electrically connected...rnetal has come from Canada. The ne,v Canadian smelter at Kitin1at, British Columbia, which had not been...Metallurgical Corp. in 1953 for the construction of a smelter in Lane County, Oreg., to produce "master" aluminum-silicon
Report (issue)
stores (Sherman and Sherman, 1969). The claims and smelter were acquired by Lewisohn Brothers of New York...until 1907, when finally, they were closed and the smelter was shut down. After that, Rosemont was more or...the south about halfway between the mine and the smelter (Robert Lenon, oral commun., 1992). 14 86.2 ...were probably cut down to make charcoal for the smelter, and thus most of the present trees are second...Park alongside the road. 15 STOP 4 B MOW RY SMELTER S ITE Leader: Rob ert Lenon, Mining Engineer, Ret
Report (volume)
hill________________________ XVI. A, Sweet mine and smelter plant of Mansfield group; B, Castle Butte mine...from Mexico in 1854. (See fig. 1.) It lies in the region mapped by the United States Geological Survey as...miles southwestward to Twin Buttes. The Pioneer smelter, recently built, is 1^ miles southwest of Sahuarita...northwest. CLIMATE AND VEGETATION. The climate of the region is arid, with hot summers, particularly in the...elevation of 9,432 feet. The best-forested part of the region is the west slope of the Santa Rita Mountains,
Report (issue)
----- ---------- - 19 General features of the region..........._._______._..._...---....---....-.--...introductory statement on the general geology of the region by S. F. Emmons, a chapter on the areal and structural...to light during the vigorous development of the region in late years, which have an important bearing...relations to the ore deposits. GENERAL FEATURES OF THE REGION. The Oquirrh Range proper is a north-south range...1895, pp. 349-269. GENERAL FEATURES . OF THE REGION. ' 21 The sedimentary rocks involved in this
Book (edition)
"black" in the same language. Rhodonite and rhodochrosite both come from the Greek word for "rose," as...Gulf of Mexico, as well as in other countries (Germany, Spain, Rumania, Iran), are of various sizes and...localities for arsenopyrite are in containing Germany, in the silver mines of that country. 25. What...Laurium, Greece, where sea water has acted upon lead slag from the ancient rarer mineral than cerussite, but...Saint-Nabord, France; at in the Black Forest of Germany, and elsewhere. 179. What mented orbicular
Catalog/List
is native to the warm seas of the Indo-Pacific region and known traditionally to the Pacific Islanders...in this fine specimen, relatively large for the region. The undulating interior of the geode is lined...besides the locality being in a desolate and remote region, the Swedish government generally limits access...com/6071 49126 FLUORESCENT ZINCITE Burning slag dumps, New Jersey Zinc Company Refinery; Laboratories...Pennsylvania as well as some from Belgium. These dumps were also used for discarded building products later
Journal (volume)
Copper Cliff Fired with coal H. C. Robson. ... Slag, use of Blessing, George F., and Lewis F. Darling...metal mines Dwight-Lloyd roasters at Port Pirie smelter 90 Gilbert Rigg. Danger from Dyer, B. W., and D...Utah Zinc Co. Code of ethics T United Verde smelter. Parsons, L. A Personnel Administration, book review...Prospecting at Joplin United Eastern United Verde smelter in the Ketchikan district. C. A. Grabill. T...rali-iuin chloride, is marketable product, while the slag, whieli is impure crushed and reverted to the original
Report (volume)
and a calcium alumin8.te slag containmg 30 to 50 percent aluminn,. The slag is leached with sodium carbonate...hyd~~lris and alkaline treatment of alnm1num s de slag. ALUMINA AND BAUXITE Hydrolysis was also used...company often must also bmld an alumma plant,.a smelter and special facilities including electric powerpiants...r-ER W. ELLIS. Geology of the Arkansas Bauxite Region. U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 299, 1958, 268 pp...capacity for primary aluminum, are operated in vVest Germany, Norway, Spain, Yugoslavia, Tai,van, and Austria
Report (issue)
streams. Pre-Cambrian time is represented in the region by several thousand feet of quartzitic and shaly...prepared regional geologic maps that for parts of the region have not yet been superseded by more detailed work...section of the Fortieth Parallel Survey in the Ogden region. In 1912 Hintze,6 Butler,0 and Loughlin 7 made...made studies in. the Cotton wood-American Fork region and found extensive overthrust faults, which necessitated...much like that made by Blackwelder for the Ogden region. The work of Hintze was independent of that of
Book
and geological structure are isolated in the ore region territory. Ore fields consist of ore deposits enclosing...deposits include mineral mining dumps, concentrator tailings dumps, ash and slag disposal areas of power­and­heat...than 30 % in the USA) from oxidized copper ore dumps and concentration tailings by bacterial and acid...area as a whole (ore province, ore belt, zone, ore region or node, basin, structure, etc.) based on general...geological concept (geochemical specialization of region and rock complexes, favorable tectonic, magmatic
 
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