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Zircon from
Railway tunnel, Galgenberg, Leoben, Leoben District, Styria, Austria


Locality type:Tunnel
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Railway tunnel, Galgenberg, Leoben, Leoben District, Styria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:692104
Long-form Identifier:1:3:692104:0
GUID (UUID V4):d886058a-6888-4d4b-b707-bef813f21a26
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
1.5km (1.0 miles) ⓘHĂ€uselberg, Leoben, Leoben District, Styria, Austria
10.4km (6.4 miles) ⓘQuartz quarry, Wolfsgruben (Wolfgruben), Seiz, Kammern im Liesingtal, Leoben District, Styria, Austria
11.1km (6.9 miles) ⓘGleinalm tunnel, Sankt Michael in Obersteiermark, Leoben District, Styria, Austria
12.4km (7.7 miles) ⓘAugraben, Sankt Lorenzen bei Knittelfeld, Sankt Margarethen bei Knittelfeld, Murtal District, Styria, Austria
12.8km (8.0 miles) ⓘPreg, Sankt Lorenzen bei Knittelfeld, Sankt Margarethen bei Knittelfeld, Murtal District, Styria, Austria
13.9km (8.6 miles) ⓘGulsen, Sankt Marein-Feistritz, Murtal District, Styria, Austria
23.9km (14.9 miles) ⓘLead mine, Graschnitzgraben, Sankt Marein im MĂŒrztal, Bruck-MĂŒrzzuschlag District, Styria, Austria
27.7km (17.2 miles) ⓘBreitenau Mine, Hochlantsch, Breitenau am Hochlantsch, Bruck-MĂŒrzzuschlag District, Styria, Austria
31.4km (19.5 miles) ⓘLeucophyllite mine, Kothgraben (Kotgraben), Kleinfeistritz, Weißkirchen in Steiermark, Murtal District, Styria, Austria
31.6km (19.6 miles) ⓘBĂ€ren valley, Pletzen, Gaal, Murtal District, Styria, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
size reaches up to 300 ”m. The significance of zircon as a perfect mineral container was confirmed by...University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria 2 OREA, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology...of Sciences, Hollandstrasse 11-13, A-1020Wien, Austria e-mail: christian.ademeit@student.tugraz.at The...of Vienna, Althanstraße 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien, Austria Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography...Mineralogy, MontanuniversitĂ€t Leoben, Peter-Tunner-Straße 5, A-8700 Leoben, Austria Department of Geology, Shahid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gilgen Windows Alps-The Hallein District I . Alps-The Hallein District II . Alps-The Lammertal and Gosau...five on Spittal, in Carinthia, and the last two on Leoben and Vienna respectively. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7....Geologists' Association 1966 Field Meeting in Austria. The form of the orig inal Guide has been retained...on Spittal, in Karnten (Carinthia), one day in Leoben and one in Vienna (Fig. I). The ma in object of...of one of the numerous good tourist guides to Austria. The present Guide is intended for use in conjunction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite, chlorite, 158 Caernarvon, INDEX SCOTLAND Zircon (in Lewisian granites and gneisses), 587 Bin Burn...staurolite, 672 Bray Head, Wicklow, gypsum (in railway tunnel), 818 Bunnahowna, Renoyle Point, Connemara...544 Leinster, granite, zircon, 253 Rathdrum, Wicklow, gypsum (in railway tunnel), 818 France Bauzot uranium... 612 .~eleznik (-- Vashegy), vashegyite, 8o2 Austria (0sterreich) Tyrol, melilite, 4t2 Virgental, Tyrol...Dhenkanal District, Orissa, chromite, chromian amphibole, k~mmererite, 725 Sittampundi, Salem District, Tamil
Book
Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part
Book
175 Beryl, Aquamarine, Emerald, &c. Chrysoberyl Zircon, &c. - - -- - Tourmaline - - Garnet -...actually sold in the year 1863 —” - - No. of - District. Mines. Copper Ore. Tons. Cornwall and Devon... NATIVE Copper, den driform. From the Lizard District, Corn wall. .* See the Mineral Statistics compiled... From a vein in Serpentine at Mullion, Lizard District, Corn 29. NATIVE Copper, crystal lized. Cornwall...Croker Fox. CoPPER, in Serpentine. From the Lizard District, Corn 31. NATIVE CoppER, reticulated. wall.
Journal (issue)
Iron Mines, Snake Hill, Guttenberg, the Erie Railway Tunnel, Hoxie’s Quarry at Paterson, and later the...BOHEMIAN GARNETS. Br GEORGE F. Kusz. THE garnet district of Bohemia is situated about 60 kilometers northwest...kilometers constitutes what is known as the garnet district of Bohemia. It is probable that garnets may be...industry. The largest garnet ever found in this district is now preserved in the Green Vault of Dresden...light blue sapphire of two carats has been cut) ; zircon, in doubly terminated tetragonal prisms, similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mexico, cryst., anal., opt. X-ray, 744 Ceylon, zircon, 7o9 Ceylonite, New Caledonia, anal., opt., cell-size...'agpaitic', 729 Eganville, Renfrew County, Ontario, zircon, 587 Elasticity in minerals, anisotropy explained...plagioclase, 867 Frederikshabs Isblink, Greenland, zircon, 587 Granite, Cornwall, weathering of, history...of oxygen partial pressure in, Greenland, S.W., zircon, 587 'Green rust', crystal structure of, 377 580...788 Gypsum, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, genesis in railway tunnel, 8~8 Gyrolite, Western Deccan, India, anal
Report (issue)
2.2m by 2.2m shape. A railway line was built to connect with the main railway system and a test range...Cornish-sounding trace minerals such as Tourmaline and zircon easily detected in SE England rocks (even in the...Sowan 3.8.91 Railway Tunnels Reach Their Centenary and a Half 161 years ago the railway system was born...born, and it is now nearly 150 years since "railway mania - .. (1845-6). Therefore it is not surprising...are now reading reports of 150th celebrations of railway tunnels. Two examples follow, and I would be pleased
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pea~oalogy © Springer-Verlag 1993 Printed in Austria Geochemistry of Polymetamorphic Ultramafics (Major...X 689200 Y 160800 X 688700 Y 163500 railway tunnel railway tunnel X 692200 Y 161600 X 691300 Y 160800...al., 1991; Sergeev and Steiger, 1993) and single zircon U - T h - P b dating techniques (Oberli et al....versus U - P b systematics in zircon: a high-resolution isotopic study of a zircon population from a Variscan...Geochemistry of ultramafic xenoliths from Kapfenstein, Austria: evidence for a variety of upper mantle processes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province veindikes; Harrington (1879) describes zircon crystals to 11 cm in length and 2.5 cm across the...Tirol, Austria; langite from St. Just, Cornwall, England; epidote from Knappenwand, Salzburg, Austria; vesuvianite...collectors for well-crystallized fluorapatite, zircon, vesuvianite, diopside, phlogopite, and scapolite...vesuvianite, and mines in the Thetford Mines–Black Lake district, perhaps better known for green andradite and...photo. localities including the Mont Royal railway tunnel that runs below the museum, the extinct Corporation
Journal (issue)
I. Jacobson Alpine Anyhydrite from the Simplon Tunnel, Switzerland..................479 by W. E. Wilson...International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria, where more collecting opportunities presented...presented themselves. When Al’s assignment in Austria concluded in 2002, they retired to Powell Butte near Portland...Surselva, Switzerland Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website and see us at Mineral-Shows worldwide:...140-foot-level tunnel, then proceeding upward into a raise just above the 140-foot tunnel but below the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
samples on the surface and along the Jungfraubahn railway tunnel that crosses the mountain range and (iii) modeling...Lauterbrunnen "Siderolithic unit" Jungfraubahn railway tunnel Handegg 160000 635000 Tertiary RSCM sample...(EN: Eiger north, GG: Guggi glacier, ET: Eismeer/tunnel, EW: Eiger west, MJ: Mönchsjoch, RT: Rottal, TB:...locations are shown (subsurface samples from the railway tunnel are indicated with dashed stars). Coordinates...of geologic information in the Jungfraubahn railway tunnel. www.solid-earth.net/9/1099/2018/ D. Mair
Book (edition)
great distances, are often quite foreign to the district where they are now foupd. Such a deposit could... an indication that the rocks of that coastal district are hard. So far as one can generalize, the reverse...of -the succession may be lacking in any given district; To this in fact, a more detailed knowledge of...Ordovician succession in North Wales and the Lake District. Some of our finest scenery has been carved out...Lake Qirvan. Conglomerates, sandstones, Moffat. District. Black Grey and shales black black shales
Journal (issue)
lustrallng the stratigraphy or tho Marquette Iron district, One sot remains of Ihle discontin­ ued Item....tabubr crystals on rock, 5 x 8 - 1/2", S35. 00 ZIRCON & ZIRCON I UM M I N ERALS zm.coN. Norw:ty. A now shipment...Royal I s a. member. l. n the early 1920's a railway tunnel was constructed through Mount Royal, permitting...specimens were collected al Intervals along the tunnel. These rockJI were subsequently stud.Jed. Many.... . . . . . . . . . . 2 . 00 Nu.mbers refer to Tunnel locaUons 181 ,t. 00 Camplonlto 183 I- 70 Camptonlle
Book (edition)
dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley, Salzburg, Austria. AM 61,178, 1976. Af ghanite (Na.I<,Ca)6Ca 2 [...Trostau. Albite - pericline, xx 20 mm, the Alps, Austria, G Fichtelgebirge ~fts.. Bavaria,Gennany.Albite-bearing...\igeria. both overlookingZillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria. Veryabundantin a laterstageof deeplydifferentiated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
McTavish Reservoir site and in the Mount Royal railway tunnel which runs under the McGill campus. Figure...end of the park. Mount Royal Tunnel In 1912–1913 a 4.8-km-long railway tunnel was driven through Mont Royal...Royal by the Canadian Northern Railway (Clegg, 2008). This gave geologists a unique opportunity to examine...1923; Chartrand, 63 Figure 15. The Mount Royal Tunnel and a geological cross-section of the mountain... East entrance of the Mount Royal Tunnel in 1913, when the tunnel was still being driven. Several occurrences
Journal (issue)
first described in 1840, from its occurrence in a railway cutting at Bishopton, Renfrewshire; but specimens...Thomas Brown since 1810. I (see fig. 2.) of a tunnel and its approach cuttings for the :-.J che later...are turned out." (Heddle, Glasgow to Greenock railway, an unusual mineral was of che zeolice family...minerals in Scotland; ... Dr Brown, living in the district, had kept an eye upon everything that came his...this rare and beautiful mineral in the Bishopton Tunnel in 1842 [sic]." The Society's proceedings for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coal with ferruginous clay was recorded from a railway tunnel near Dover. Large stones mixed with rotten...is less abundant than in No. 1. One large zoned zircon was noted. From the above description it will be...after cordierite), altered biotite and iron oxide, zircon and (?) rutile. The structure, he said, was not...and quartz, decomposed felspar, pale biotite and zircon may be identified in a thin slice. A portion of...colourless prisms and pink and purple ovoid grains of zircon are still abundant, nearly half of the residue
Book (edition)
great distances, are often quite foreign to the district where they are now found. Such a deposit could... an indication that the rocks of that coastal district are hard. So far as one can generalize, the reverse...of the succession may be lacking in any given district; in fact, a more detailed knowledge of geological...Ordovician succession in North Wales and the Lake District. Some of our finest scenery has been carved out...If we plot the Silurian sediwe note the Lake District Greyand black shales 40 feet 30 feet Conway
Journal (issue)
Alpine Pink Fluorite from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel, Switzerland.....................................COVER: FLUORITE, 5.8 cm, from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel. Found in September 2022. Thomas SchĂŒpbach photo...of the English Lake District that is now within the borders of the Lake District National Park. The nearest...lent him his 3.70-meterlong telescope, and the railway engineer, Robert Stephenson (1803– 1859), lent...1840s were turbulent years: famine in Ireland, “railway mania” and a financial crisis in England, uprisings
Book
Hill Quarries, near Parramatta, in the Sydney district (Chalmers, 1968). It also forms colorless, transparent...in Tertiary basalt at Mount Bell, in the Moina district (Chalmers, 1968). Analcime is found along the...chabazite, cowlesite, phillipsite, and thomsonite. AUSTRIA Styria: Colorless trapezohedra of analcime, up to...diameter, are found with anatase in the Wolfsberg tunnel, near Spittal/Drau (Gernot Weissensteiner, pers...1897). Analcime also occurs in the Scharfenstein Tunnel near Bensen and at Stabigt, near Tetschen (Hintze
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Hill Quarries, near Parramatta, in the Sydney district (Chalmers, 1968). It also forms colorless, transparent...in Tertiary basalt at Mount Bell, in the Moina district (Chalmers, 1968). Analcime is found along the...chabazite, cowlesite, phillipsite, and thomsonite. AUSTRIA Styria: Colorless trapezohedra of analcime, up to...diameter, are found with anatase in the Wolfsberg tunnel, near Spittal/Drau (Gernot Weissensteiner, pers...1897). Analcime also occurs in the Scharfenstein Tunnel near Bensen and at Stabigt, near Tetschen (Hintze
Journal (issue)
Group HQ Maidstone visit The collapse ofTyler Hill Tunnel, Kent Radon Underground 18 23 24 32 37 50 54...stripped of floors and fittings leaving the bare railway tunnel and a number of side tunnels, all equally bare...Company limited by Guarantee Registered Office: 5 Railway Cottages, Old Station Way, Bordon, Hampshire GU35...Other underground-related events 14 May Hindhead Tunnel walk-through wvvvv.surreyhills.org/Hindhead-Together...Europe SB study weekend visited the concrete-lined tunnel driven by mining engineers through a sample of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elminen et al. Fig. 3. (A) A sketch of 220 m tunnel ïŹ‚oor showing the Myras clay, the fault structures...(B) A sketch of the clay-ïŹlled fracture with the tunnel cross section, drill cores and drill core sections...the west of the study area, has been dated by the zircon U-Pb to 1645 ± 12 Ma (Vaasjoki, 1977). A 1632 ±...from the study site, and during the mapping of the tunnel, new diabase and quartz porphyry dykes of the same...were identiïŹed 2 km from the tunnel site (Elminen et al., 2007). a tunnel site in southern Finland. The
Report (issue)
Sublayer (Dressler 1990). U-Pb age determinations on zircon and baddeleyite from North Range felsic and mafic...Superior Province. The gneisses have yielded a zircon age of 2711 Ma (Krogh et al. 1984). 3) An easily...STRATHCONA LEGEND — — — roads 1,^-4- railway (abandoned) [ ] railway tunnel ——— water pipeline 500m Figure...during construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, that a railway rock-cut near the present site exposed...until the mid-1970s. At that time, the highway and railway were relocated to permit mining of the ore. The
 
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