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Epsomite from
Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Epsomite
Formula:MgSO4 · 7H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epsomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:95073
Long-form Identifier:1:3:95073:2
GUID (UUID V4):8ebaeff6-fd5d-44ac-aa97-94a3596d78b7
Nearest other occurrences of Epsomite
6.9km (4.3 miles) ⓘHimmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
54.3km (33.7 miles) ⓘStamm Asser Mine, Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
60.1km (37.3 miles) ⓘCermniky, Březno, Chomutov District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
70.9km (44.0 miles) ⓘPravčice rock arch, Děčín District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
82.2km (51.1 miles) ⓘSchmirchau mine, Ronneburg, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
82.8km (51.4 miles) ⓘLichtenberg open cast, Ronneburg, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
83.6km (51.9 miles) ⓘLichtenberg Absetzer dump, Kauern, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
85.8km (53.3 miles) ⓘTisová, Kraslice, Sokolov District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
92.5km (57.5 miles) ⓘLoitsch Quarry, Weida, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
ZnSO4¡7H2O. Polymorphism & Series: Forms a series with epsomite. Occurrence: A secondary mineral in oxidized portions...coatings on walls of mine passages. Association: Epsomite, melanterite, pickeringite, chalcanthite, gypsum...include: in Germany, from the Rammelsberg mine, near Goslar, Harz Mountains, and at Freiberg and Altenberg...Altenberg, Saxony. From Baňskå Stiavnica (Schemnitz), Slovakia. At Falun, Sweden. From Sain-Bel, near Lyon... Argentina. Name: For the locality at Goslar, Germany. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and C
Report (issue)
Pyrite, marcasite, halotrichite, pickeringite, epsomite, alum, melanterite, gypsum. Distribution: Many...Schwartzenberg, and at Bräunsdorf, near Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. From the Avacha and other volcanoes,
Report (issue)
Pattern: Ronneburg U deposit, near Gera, Thuringia, Germany. 3.336 (100), 2.752 (68), 2.878 (64), 3.701 (55)...(1) Ronneburg U deposit, near Gera, Thuringia, Germany; average electron microprobe analysis supplemented...uranium deposit. Association: Hummerite, gypsum, epsomite, picromerite, hematite, an unidentified K-Mg-Mnvanadate...near Gera, Thuringia, Germany. Name: For the Ronneburg uranium deposit, Germany. Type Material: Mineralogical...Mineralogical Collection, Bergakademie, Freiberg, Germany (78908). References: (1) Witzke T., S. Zhen, K.
dioptase 96, 97 dipyre 114 epistilbite 124 epsomite 60 erubescite 10 erythrite 70, 73 euchroite 70...dark gray or brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also in the United States (Arizona)...the German and Marienberg, Kremnica, ones of Freiberg, Schneeberg, and the Czechoslovakian Banska...Good found in crystals if occur at Freiberg in Saxony, Cavnic in Romania, Schwaz in the Tyrol (Austria)...with a metallic lustre, mainly at Siegerland in Germany and in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia). It is Lamellar
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93 emery 25 epidote 87, 87, 89 epistilbite 124 epsomite 60 erubescite 10 erytbrite 70, 73 euchroite 70...dark gray or brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also in the United States (Arizona)...the best examples come, are the Gern1an ones of Freiberg, Schneeberg, and Marienberg, and the Czechoslovakian...Switzerland. Good crystals ll occur at Freiberg in Saxony, Cavnic in Romania, Schwaz in the Tyrol (Austria)...with a metallic lustre, mainly at SiegerJand in Germany and in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia). It is found at
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(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...(Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)...silver and arsenic. It is found at St Andreasberg (Germany), Sala (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), Prlbram (Czech
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(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...(Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)...silver and arsenic. It is found at St Andreasberg (Germany), Sala (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), Prlbram (Czech
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hydrotalcite 51 fassaite 97, 98 hydroxides 23 epsomite 60 erubescite 10 falcon’s eye 31 fayalite 75...dark gray or brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also in the United States (Arizona)...Switzerland. Good crystals I occur at Freiberg in Saxony, Cavnic in Romania, Schwaz in the Tyrol (Austria)...with a metallic lustre, mainly at Siegerland in Germany found and in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia). It...Bleiberg mines in Carinthia (Austria), Freiberg in Saxony (Germany), Alson Moor in Cumberland (England)
Report (chapter)
Cretaceous building sandstones on monuments in Saxony, Germany HEINER SIEDEL Dresden University of Technology...Engineering, Chair of Applied Geology, D-01062 Dresden, Germany (e-mail: Heiner.Siedel@tu-dresden.de) Abstract:...weathering on Cretaceous building sandstones from Saxony has been studied and related to the sandstone rock...Cretaceous sandstone bedrock in natural outcrops in Saxony mainly originate from long-term chemical weathering...self-reinforcing process (Turkington & Phillips 2004). In Saxony, the honeycomb weathering of Cretaceous sandstone
Catalog/List
ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal... ARSENOPYRITE Iron sulfarsenide East Germany Saxony, Freiberg, Davidschacht Brilliant small tin white...specimens from one of the few active mines in East Germany ..... . ..,-=e:.:x:.::i:.:c:.:o Zacatecas, Mina...oz. 0 0 I BORACITE Magnesium chloroborate Germany Thuringia, Bischofferode Transparent white ½"to...hydrated basic phosphate of ferrous and ferric iron Germany Giessen, Waldgirmes (; Radiating reddish-brown
Journal (issue)
and engineering staff, many of them educated in Germany. The collection has been added with new gold specimens...exhibited at the Mining Museum in Heidelberg – Germany. Numerous samples illustrate a variety of assemblages...with impregnations of pyrite, micronic gold and epsomite (1753); lamellar gold on quartz in argillized...inclusions in sulphides. Native silver - Freiberg, Germany Some exceptional silver concentrations have...wires of up to 40 cm ), Freiberg, Mansfeld, St. Andreasberg and Wittichen – Germany; Kutná Hora, Jákimov
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Potsdam, Germany University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Potsdam, Germany 3 K+S...K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel, Germany 2 Highlights Interactions between NaCl brine and potash salt...data, cavernous structure 1. Introduction In Germany, salt deposits play an important role as industrial...bloedite, polyhalite V epsomite, leonite, bloedite, polyhalite W epsomite, kainite, leonite, polyhalite...polyhalite X hexahydrite, kainite, epsomite, polyhalite Y hexahydrite, kainite, kieserite, polyhalite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and B. Moser, Landesmuseum Joaneum, Graz, - in Germany: K. Thalheim, Staatliches Museum fĂźr Mineralogie...WĂźrzburg, and A. Massanek, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg. We are thankful also to other specialists...samples from the deposit AueNiederschlemma (in Germany), in the zone GeraJĂĄchymov. Legierski measured...Curienite Devilline Dewindtite z Diadochite Duftite Epsomite c Erythrite c Eulytite Ferrohexahydrite Fluckite...paragenesis with copiapite, chvaleticeite, whitish epsomite and gypsum on specimens from the Geschieber vein
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
K2MnV4O12, a new mineral from Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany: Description and crystal structure THOMAS WITZKE...Mineralogie/Geochemie, Domstr. 5, D-06108 Halle, Germany 2 Chemistry Department, University of Hawaii, 2545...Materialwissenschaft, Scharnhorststr. 20, D-04275 Leipzig, Germany 4 Institut fßr Geowissenschaften-Mineralogie, ...Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, D-55099 Mainz, Germany 5 Institut fßr Mineralogie und Kristallographie...chain vanadate mineral from Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany. It occurs as reddish-brown crystals of equant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany Received 2 April 2010; accepted in revised form...(pentahydrite), MgSO46H2O (hexahydrite), MgSO47H2O (epsomite) and MgSO411H2O (meridianiite). It is shown that...that only kieserite, hexahydrite, epsomite and meridianiite show elds of stable existence while starkeyite...series are kieserite, hexahydrite (MgSO46H2O) and epsomite (MgSO47H2O). Other hydrates, pentahydrite (MgSO45H2O)...low temperatures, a higher hydrated phase than epsomite is known to be stable in contact with a saturated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and fine-grained epsomite–hexahydrite (AV2503; Figs. 5G, H, I). Epsomite: Epsomite occurs as fine-grained...acicular blödite crystals, together with fine-grained epsomite– hexahydrite (AV2503, thin section, PPL); H) lath-shaped...lath-shaped blödite crystals and fine-grained epsomite (AV2503, thin section, SEM–BSE). Symbols: Ap:...Ap: aphthitalite, Ar: arcanite, B: blödite, E: epsomite, H: hexahydrite, K: konyaite, L: langbeinite, Ha:...Hexahydrite occurrences are similar to those of epsomite (see Figs. 4, 5I, H, 7D). Kalinite: In sample
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reference to the following scale, devised by the Freiberg mineralogist Mohs : 1. Talc. 2. Gypsum. 7...hydrated sulphate of magnesium, MgSO 4 .H 2 O. Epsomite, or Epsom Salt hydrated sulphate of magnesium.... 41,000 Japan ... ... ... ... 41,000 Germany ... ... ... 24,000 Russia ... ... ... ...brownish - red. streak, quantity Redruth), Saxony, Silesia, Australia Bohemia, Hungary, Italy...Notable examples are to be found in Cornwall, Saxony, Hungary (Kapnik, Rezbanya, Ora- Caucasus (Kiadebek)
Book (edition)
we may remark:— dendritic growths from Potosi, Freiberg and Peru; bundles of Case 1c. coarse fibres from...Pavilion: specimens also are shown from Cornwall and Saxony. This metal has the peculiar property of forming...brought in the native state from Sicily: in France, Germany, and Sweden it is also artificially prepared by...as being perfectly sectile. Good specimens from Freiberg, Chili, and also Cornwall, will be found in the...are sometimes found in Nature. The crystals from Saxony Case 25c. are of a paler yellow colour, which they
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Minerals soluble in water, such as rock salt, epsomite and others, have a characteristic taste, being...stibiconite (292) • Occurrence: rare; Braunsdorf near Freiberg (GDR), Pereta - Tuscany (Italy), Djebel Hamimat...quartz (size of needles 12 mm); Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, GDR) 38 Covelline, kermesite H 0-2 >...plastic bags • Similar minera~s: mirabilite (23), epsomite (111 ), thenardite (125) • Distinguishing features:...Associated minerals: alunogen, kaolinite (38), epsomite (111) • Occurrence: rare; Halle (GDR), Newhaven
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which are soluble in water, such as salt, sylvite, epsomite, etc., have a characteristic taste, being respectively...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) Harzgerode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey metallic opaque...Mountains, Germany ARSENOPYRITE FeAsS (Arsenical Py- rite, Mispickel) Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white... brittle, isolated deps. halite, mirabilite, epsomite, gypsum, clay Origin of Specimen NITRONATRITE... Gerinany CARNALLITE KMgCl; .6H,O Stassfurt, Germany INYOITE Ca[B;03(OH)s] . 4H Mount Blanco on Furnace
Journal (issue)
Carl Freiesleben was born on June 14, 1774 in Freiberg (Saxony) in the family ofa miner. He already gained...the gymnasium. In 1790-1792, he studied in the Freiberg Mining kademy, where Abraham Gottlob 1. Johann...University wrote, remembering years of study in the Freiberg Mining kademy: "The family of Freiesleben accepted...Frcic'> leben ~tudied the geology and mineralogy of Saxony and Thuringia in his first big trip with Leopold...the first mentions of mining activities in Saxony near Freiberg date back to 1168, ore mining in Annaberg
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rude jecoris colore, lucem corneam habens (from Freiberg, etc.) Fabricius (De Rebus Met., 1566). Glaserz...occurs at Johanngeorgenstadt, Freiberg, Schneeberg, and other localities in Saxony and was obtained in great...cubes. Bromyrite is found near Dernbach, Nassau, Germany (iodobromite) asA chlorian variety sociated with...reported from salt works at Hallein, Salzburg, Germany. Artificial NaCl-2H20 is probably monocUnic and...seams: at Duttweiler near Saarbriicken in the Saar, Germany; in mines of the Plauenschen Grund near Dresden;
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Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...crystal on biotite from M endig, Eifel district, Germany. Collection of Berndt Ternes; photo by E. van der... 0.4-mm crystal from M endig, Eifel district, Germany. Collection and photo WAHJr. Figure 4. Haiiyne...twin from Laacher Kessel, Mendig, Eifel district, Germany. Berndt Ternes specimen, photo by E. van der M...associated with volcanic regions; the Eifel District in Germany, and areas north of Rome and on Mount Vesuvius
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Minerals soluble in water, such as rock salt, epsomite and others, have a characteristic taste, being...stibiconite (292) e Occurrence: rare; Braunsdorf near Freiberg (GDR), Pereta — Tuscany (Italy), Djebel Hamimat...quartz (size of needles 12 mm); Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, GDR) 38 Covelline, kermesite Sulphide...stephanite, pyrargyrite (64) e Occurrence: rare; Freiberg (GDR), St. Andreasberg (FRG), Pribram (Czechoslovakia)...plastic bags e Similar minerals: mirabilite (23), epsomite (111), thenardite (125) e Distinguishing features:
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look for. Michael O’Donoghue Proustite (East Germany) 7 Rocks We can define a rock as a large mineral...Also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Old specimens from Wheal Newton, Harrowbarrow...(Austria), St Andreasberg, Harz Mountains (West Germany), Antronapiana, Ossola, Novara (Italy), from the...been found. Also from the Fichtelgebirge (West Germany), Liisens, Tirol (Austria), Mursinka (USSR), Mt...well-formed brown specimens from Emmelberg, Eifel (West Germany). Andradite is also found at Banat (Romania), Italian
 
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