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Actinolite from
Amerika Quarry, Penig, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amerika Quarry, Penig, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:114904
Long-form Identifier:1:3:114904:3
GUID (UUID V4):b2462171-dbd7-406f-a709-5b80924188d9
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
7.0km (4.4 miles) Diethensdorf Quarry, Diethensdorf, Claußnitz, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
7.9km (4.9 miles) Ratssteinbruch, Hartmannsdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
33.2km (20.7 miles) Maxhütte, Zwickau, Zwickau District, Saxony, Germany
36.1km (22.4 miles) Shaft 38, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Aue-Bad Schlema, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
36.3km (22.6 miles) Shaft 309, Niederschlema, Bad Schlema, Aue-Bad Schlema, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
36.6km (22.8 miles) Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
41.8km (26.0 miles) Vater Abraham Mine, Lauta, Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
42.7km (26.5 miles) Gelbe Birke Mine, Beierfeld, Grünhain-Beierfeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
42.9km (26.6 miles) Frisch Glück Mine (Herkules-Frisch Glück Mine), Fürstenberg hill, Waschleithe, Grünhain-Beierfeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
43.7km (27.1 miles) Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
der ' Oberen Halbinsel' yon Michigan, in Nord-Amerika," gives us a partial description of the geological...and in some specimens from the Chocolate-Marble Quarry, Marquette, it was entirely absent. Besides tourmaline...distinct crystals occur in the Chocolate-Marble Quarry, Michigan; they occur also very abundantly in the...specimens occur in Whetstone Quarry, Teal Lake, and Chocolate-Marble Quarry, Michigan. C. Carbonaceous...whilst in a Tertiary clay from Dolau, near Halle, Germany, he olfly observed very few and minute crystalline
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...(1972) gives a detailed description of this unique quarry and its yttrium-niobiumbismuth-vanadium mineral...Jachymov ENGLAND 8Buckbarrow Beck, Cumbria GERMANY 2 Am Hechtsberg quarry, Hausach NAMIBIA 10Khorixas UNITED...or pneumatolytic origin Mica Lode-Meyers Ranch quarry, 8-Mile Park, Colorado Beyerite, schumacherite...California NEW OCCURRENCES Pucher shaft, Schneeberg, Germany Eskdale intrusion, England At Buckbarrow Beck
Report (issue)
CT Concept & Design Maximilian Glas, Stamberg, Germany English Edition © 2002 by Lapis International,...www.lapisint.com ISBN 0-971 5371-2-7 Printed in Germany Above: Schor! and microcline from Pakistan's world...Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany German Edition © Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany ISBN 3- 921656- 31...COLLABORATION WITH LAPIS MAGAZINE, CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History...William B. Simmons • From Paris in America to Amerika in Saxony A Survey of the World's Tourmaline Deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accessoriesare quartz, analcime, nepheline, pectolite, actinolite or tremolite, garnet, lawsonite,mica, chlorite...common but not abundantl sphene, hornblende, actinolite, zoisite, and chromite, all rare. In the chloromelanite...8 ) . Mexico Saerrn, Ka.nr, T. (1937), Mitte} Amerika; Handbuch der regional Geologie,Heidelberg' y Tnzozolroc
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 ...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...illustration selected is the symbol of Brinton's quarry, three miles south of West Chester. REFERENCES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metasomatites-II (sometimes with tourmaline); 11) carbonate-actinolite-diopside-metasomatites (inferred); 12) quartz-dolomite-ankerite...Metallogeniya zolota [Yevraziya, Afrika, Yuzhnaya Amerika] (The Metallogeny of Gold [Eurasia, Africa, and
Report (volume)
reconnaissance. Parts of four sections -between the Keystone quarry and Huckleberry Creek were mapped by planetable...uncertainties, from the latitude of the Double Eagle quarry to the latitude of the Cleveland mine road. Elsewhere...rather striking east-west canyon, northeast of Finch quarry. .A secondary road shown on our map in sec. 19...northern end of the Stensgar belt, an abandoned quarry in the NE14NE1_4 sec. 32, T. 33 N., R. 40 E., affords...Stensgar dolomite is completely exposed on the old quarry road at the southeast end of the hill. Black-gray
Book (edition)
Rosenzwcig (deceased) (USA). Jochen Schlilter (Germany), J. Sejkora (Czcch Republic), Masaaki Shimizu...Mcndoza, Argentina. l'UM.\11972. 276-280 D Actinolite, □ CaiMg.Fc2") 5 Si,0 22 (O1lh, mon .. Mg,(Mg...tric .. rclated to Tbomasclarklte-(Y), Pouelrette quarry. Moni Saint-llilairc. RoU\,ille County, Qu bec...K)AISi:0 6, tel., compare Leucite. Tataraza\\a quarry. Fujioka, Gunma Prcfccturc, Japan. MR 30, 5--6...CaAl(Si.Al),O,(OH},·(I 11O,CI). mon., Graphitc quarry. Amstall. lowcr Austria, Austria. 73. 1492. NJMM
Journal (issue)
manager Mary Lynn White Minerals of the Fairfax Quarry, Centreville, Virginia................ John C....Bisbee. PYROMORPHITE, Germany, Cumberland. APOPHYLLITE, Germany, Mexico. TOPAZ, Germany, Brazil. COPPER, Michigan...TOURMALINE, Elba, Russia. APATITE, Germany, Japan, Brazil. RHODOCHROSITE, Germany, Hotazel. CHALCOPYRITE, Japan...Mineralogical Record m in c R A L s op m e FAIRFAX QUARRY cenTReviLLe, viRGinm by John C. M edici 7272 Macbeth...Macbeth Drive, Dublin, Ohio 43017 The Fairfax quarry has been in operation for many years, mining Triassic
Book
Ordines Naturales Digestorum Synopsis. Halle, Germany. HAbvY, R.-J. (1801): Traité de Minéralogie. Paris...Historie (J. Sillig, trans., 1851, Hamburg and Gotha, Germany). ROME DE LISLE, J.B.L. (1772): Essai de Cristallographie...aiisserlichen Kennzeichen der Fossilien. Leipzig, Germany (A. Carozzi, trans., 1962, Univ. Illinois Press...Institut ftir Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum, Germany, in recognition of her contributions to the mineralogy...indigenous people of the discovery area. Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada
Book (edition)
Fritz, Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...France; Andreasberg, Freiberg(*), and Schneeberg(*), Germany; Pribram(*), Jachymov, and Schemnitz, Czech Republic;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
member of amphibole supergroup (tremolite or actinolite), it was distinguished from ‘jadeite’ of the...‘Nangyoku’ and ‘nephrite’ were used for fibrous actinolite. A brief note on two different ‘jade’ (‘kōgyoku’...35–59. Washington, H.S. (1922) The jades of Middle Amerika. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
respectively by Haüy' in France and von Buch" in Germany, to rocks composed essentially of a foliated augite...alteration of plagioclase, and green hornblende (actinolite and smaragdite) as the result of an alteration...krystallinischen Gesteine von Minnesota in Nord Amerika. Neues Jahrb. f. Min., etc., 1877. 3R. D. IRVING:
Journal (issue)
Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland...Muscovite Biotite Chlorite (undifferentiated) Actinolite Tourmaline (undifferentiated) Epidote Garnet...Santiago Chile, 40, 167-182. (Originally published in Germany in 1870.) FeO(OH) 3 PALACHE, C., BERMAN, H....Atacamite, Brochantite, Cyanotrichite Address in Germany: Hellmut Weidner P.O. Box 2705 D-658 Idar-ObersteinF...in the old famous stopes. Of these stopes, the Amerika stope is probably the biggest, and could easily
Book (edition)
Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...Prof. of Mineralogy, University of Cologne, West Germany; Curator of The Mineralogical Museun1. A dear friend... Mineralogical Museum, University of Cologne, Germany Mineralogical Museum , University of Berne, Switzerland...also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is stable below 179°C. (Argentite is...vertically striated crystals with acute terminations ACTINOLITE Ca2 (Mg, Fels Si 8 022 (OH)220-1 00 mol. % Ca
Journal (issue)
Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland...Mineralogical Notes Pyrite crystals from Duff’s quarry, Huntsville, O h io .............................size Write or call for free 1979 SHOWS: Munich, Germany Detroit Hazel Park H A R V E Y M. G O R D O N ...rocks comprise sheared and fractured scapolite-actinolite rocks, schists, and quartzite of the Precambrian...with granite gneiss, crystals of microcline, actinolite and titanite occur. This relationship between
Book (chapter)
abernathyite, AM Index 41-50, 10 (1968). Abeston = actinolite or chrysotile, de Fourestier 1 (1999). abhazit...Fe3+-rich quartz, Bukanov 127 (2006). achloma = actinolite or tremolite or jadeite, Bukanov 256 (2006)....actinoin = actinolite, Bukanov 252 (2006). actinolite = Fe-rich tremolite, MM 61, 304 (1997). actinolite-asbestos...actinolite-asbestos = fibrous actinolite, Hey 318 (1962). actinolithe = actinolite, Egleston 2 (1892). actinolitic...309 (1997). actinolota = actinolite, Zirlin 19 (1981). Actinolyt = actinolite, de Fourestier 2 (1999)
Report (issue)
___________ 715 716 716 718 719 720 721 721 722 723 Quarry descriptions.-___._-_-_-_-_-_-_---_-___--______-_...___--___-________--____.__.__ Cardiff "green marble" quarry...._._._-__________ Jarrettsville-Dublin district...outlook__________________-_________________________ Quarry descriptions________________________________________...district_______________-_____-_______ H. Clay Whiteford and Co. quarry._________________ State Line district-______-_____-_-____...continues to be produced today (1956) from a deep quarry in northern Harford County, Md. Crushed, the serpentine
Book (edition)
Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; Czechoslovakia; Norway; Germany; Tsumeb; Namibia; Chanarcillo, Chile; and Broken...ACMITE Olivenite Eveite = Aegirine ADAMITE ACTINOLITE Ca,(Mg, Fe**);Sis02.(OH), Zn,AsO,(OH) Mg/(Mg...) = 0.5-0.89 Amphibole Group Ferro-actinolite Series, Actinolite-Tremolite Series CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Monoclinic...occurrences are found in Chile, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, and Algeria. SELECTED REFERENCES: Palache...England; also found at Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, East Germany. SELECTED REFERENCE: Davis, R. J., Hey,
Book (edition)
Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; Czechoslovakia; Norway; Germany; Tsumeb; Namibia; Chaiiarcillo, Chile; and Broken...Adamite ACMITE Olivenite Eveite = Aegirine ACTINOLITE Ca2(Mg, Fe +2) 5 Si 8 022(0H)2 Mg/(Mg + Fe+ 2)...2) = 0.5- 0.89 Amphibole Group Ferro-actinolite Series, Actinolite-Tremolite Series CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Monoclinjc...occurrences are found in Chile, Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, and Algeria. SELECTED REFERENCES: Palache...England; also found at Johanngeorgenstadt, Saxony, East Germany. SELECTED REFERENCE: Davis, R. J., Hey,
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...crystal group, 16 cm, from Freiberg, Obersachsen, Germany. Peabody Museum collection and photo. F igure...group, 10 cm, from Andreasberg, Harz M ountains, Germany. Pea­ body M useum collection and photo. Figure...Kurprinz, Gross-Schirma bei Freiberg, Obersachsen, Germany (label dated 1854). Pea­ body Museum collection...matrix, 3.5 cm, from Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany. Peabody Museum collection and photo. 89 F igure
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo...especially during the 1970s (see this entry for Actinolite, Fluorapatite, Prehnite, Pumpellyite). Ilmenite
Report (volume)
Gobildo der obereii Halbinsel vou Miebigau iu Nord-Amerika. Zeitscbr. Deutscb. geol. Gesell., Berlin, 1869...Eothpletz3' showed how the actinolite, or so-called greenschists near Hainichen, in Saxony, had been brecciated...collected an immense number of observations from Saxony, Bavaria, and Bohemia especially in the "Granuiite"...original hornblende had passed into secondary actinolite, as well as into biotite, chlorite and talc.8...plagioclase, rarely orthoclase, with zoisite. Actinolite, chlorite, and other minerals may also occur
Book
Eastern Desert . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 3.2 Slate quarry, eastern United States . . . . . . . . . . . ....Agricola (1494–1555) Agricola was a German, born in Saxony, with the given name of George Bauer. He was one...silicates olivine, (FeMg)2SiO4, and tremolite-actinolite, Ca2(MgFe)3Si8O22(OH)2, are both green since...these two minerals. Both olivine and tremolite-actinolite are magnesium-iron silicates, which means that...Rhine and Meuse valleys, in the Netherlands and Germany. In Hawaii basalt was the main raw material, and
Book (volume)
by by called was as member varieties of actinolite. are the intrinsic beauties of recognize ... incontestable an pages will show how stone-quarry specimen Referring again pology and implements...also liveis iise. OE right no They of say quarry- other specu- 8 CHINA lators can during...their sole jealous jade-workers, the among to quarry are carried by coolies to line leading southwards...breadth and twenty in SOUTH the floor of the quarry During February and March, when of hard bailing
 
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