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Langite from
Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway


Locality type:Municipality
Classification
Species:Langite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6 · 2H2O
Comments:Langite was identified on a sample labelled "Kongsberg", at the x-ray laboratory at Natural History Museum of Oslo.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Langite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:39436
Long-form Identifier:1:3:39436:1
GUID (UUID V4):cc9db8f0-fc6b-4b5d-824d-d2dfc3b3865f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralfunn på Kongsberg etter nedleggelsen av Sølvverket Fred Steinar Nordrum Sølvgruvene på Kongsberg (1623-1958)...leting etter mineraler i sølvforekomstene på Kongsberg av samlere bosatt i Norge tok til om­ kring 1970...så som Lars Gulliksen og Per H. Sælebakke fra Kongsberg og Tore Solberg og Stein Jacobsen fra Drammen...enerett til drift av sølv- og gullforekomster i Kongsberg, Flesberg og Eiker opphevet. Dermed ble ble det...grotteklatreutstyr i Drammen, og det ble holdt klatrekurs i Buskerud. Klatreaktivrteten i gruvene øket derfor betraktelig
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of Norway - the (almost) complete inventory Gunnar Raade Preamble A monographic survey of the...the minerals of Norway (Norges Mineraler) was published by Neumann (1985), covering all minerals recorded...and synonyms. A large number of minerals new to Norway have been recorded since the book appeared. The...attempt to list all accepted mineral species from Norway, including those from Neumann (1985) and later...& Nickel 2001). Names of minerals discovered in Norway after the edition of Neumann's monograph are in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1966): Note on powellite (CaMoO4), a new mineral for Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 46, 121122. Raade,...Oslo Region. Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway, No. 39. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 48, 259. Raade...Eiker Church. Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway, No. 40. NorskGeologisk Tidsskrift 49, 227-239...new hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, from Norway. American Mineralogist 55, 1457-1465. Raade, G...anorthosite. Contributions to the mineralogy of Norway, No. 43. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 50, 241-243
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals from contact deposits of the Oslo region, Norway Gunnar Raade Abstract A list of 22 Zn/Cu minerals...cuprite, gunningite, hydrozincite, ktenasite, langite, linarite, rosasite, and serpierite. Table 1 lists...sulphide-bearing quartz breccia in Lassedalen near Kongsberg. It was interpreted as a pseudomorph of malachite...175181. Neumann, H. 1944. Silver deposits at Kongsberg. Norges Geologiske Undersakelse 162,133 pp. Neumann...Gunningite Hemimorphite Hydrozincite Ktenasite Langite Linarite Malachite Namuwite (?) * Posnjakrte *
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Group of intertwined wires of silver from Kongsberg, Norway; specimen is almost 12 cm high. Today the...aesthetically intertwined wires of silver from Kongsberg, Norway, which stands almost 12 cm high. The centerpiece...anglesite, anhydrite, linarite, sturmanite-ettringite, langite, and brochantite. A portion of one sulfate case
Catalog/List
& ACANTHITES L Kongsberg Silver Mines — ' Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway Major Kongsberg Silver Piece. What...represents one of the most attractive examples from Kongsberg. At the base, there are two absolutely perfect...Ex: specimen. the ring of wire silver which Kongsberg Swethelm (circa Estimated Value moves freely...1940s-1950s), Kongsberg, Eric $80,000 - 90,000. Asselborn, Ex: Buskerud, Norway; Emmering Collections...flashy CALCITE with QUARTZ Kongsberg Mine, Kongsberg Suskerud, Norway red-orange spessartine garnets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Additional, minor phases include trace Cu minerals langite, wroewolfeite, and a lavendulan-group mineral,...mine of the Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway [30]. At the latter site, it resides...kipushite, (Cu,Zn)5 Zn(PO4 )2 (OH)6 ·H2 O, and the langite- and wroewolfeite-related mineral posnjakite, Cu4...calcite 3.9(3), dolomite 3.5(3), orthoclase 1.2(2), langite 0.4(1); wroewolfeite, illite (trace). gypsum 61...92.72(16)◦ . The admixing in the sample CuR3a langite is characterized by the parameters a = 7.158(2)
Journal (issue)
....... 177 by B. Cairncross & B. Rademeyer Kongsberg r e v isite d ..................................Norwegian Mining Museum P.O. Box 18 N-3602 Kongsberg, Norway Peter Lyckberg P.O. Box 2785 L-1027 Luxemburg...Luxemburg For more than 3 0 0 years the Kongsberg silver district in N orw ay produced substantial quantities...uncovered fascinating unreported data about old-tim e Kongsberg mines and miners. T his article sum m arizes m...latest discoveries. Figure 1. (top) Crest of the Kongsberg mines. The Mineralogical Record, volume 32, May-June
Journal (volume)
discoveries from the Larvik Plutonic Complex, southern Norway 47 Harald Oskar Folvik Mineralene fra Skjerpemyr...richterite from the Hydro quarry, Fen complex, Southern Norway: crystallographic data and crystal-chemistry 102...type locality at the Kjennerudvann lake, Kongsberg, Norway 110 Roy Kristiansen and Hans Christian Olsen...old, new mineral to Norway 116 Roy Kristiansen Lithium mineralization in Norway: a review 119 Gunnar...pegmatites within the Tysfjord granite, northern Norway. Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrifter 38, 5-28. Husdal
Journal (issue)
Waterford has produced some particularly fine langite-connelllte-brochantite flowstone cruses. These...sublevel (see Tyler, 1990). Acanthite, anglesite, langite, linarite, pyromorphite and serpierite were identified...was visually identified as cuprite. LANGITE Cu4S04(0H)6.2H20 Langite commonly occurs as a component of...green plates forming epitaxial overgrowths about a langite group mineral. The crystal morphology and association...the supergene Cu, Pb and Zn sulphates, linarite, langite, serpierite and anglesite, are very late. There
Journal (issue)
very fine green specimens from Weardale. Four Kongsberg silvers, (£85 to £550); a collection of quartz...sulphides; these include caledonite, hydrocerussite, langite, Ieadhillite, mattheddleite, susannite, wulfenite...secondary minerals and sometimes partially replacing langite, linarite and other, uncharacterised, copper sulphates...hydrozincite and hemimorphite, and even some chrysocolla. Langite Uncommon as euhedral pseudohexagonal crystals...blocky langite with pale green transparent tabular leadhillite standing on edge on the langite and linarite
Book
Ullensvang Statsallmenning, Hordaland Fylke.] Norway (by W. L. Griffin. T. Garmo, H. Lovenskiold & A...Boehmite from syenite pegmatites in the Oslo region, Norway (by A. 0. Larsen) 12:227-230 BOGGS, RUSSELL C....16:443-458 Famous mineral localities: the Kongsberg silver mines, Norway (by 0. Johnsen) 17:19-36 Famous mineral...a soda granite in the Oslo region [Gjerdingen],Norway (by G. Raade & J. Haug) 11:83-91 FLUORITE Fluorite... H. L111venskiold,A. Palmstrl'Jm: Anatase from Norway 8:266-271 GARNET [Abstracts of the] FM-TGMS-MSA
Book
pegmatites with cassiterite and wolframite in Stavanger (Norway), in the Urals (USSR), in Bayerischer Wald, (FRG);...gravity• Genesis: secondary• Associated minerals: langite (130), posnjakite (131 ), brochantite (228), chalcophillite...mines in Freiberg (GDR), Schwarzwald (FRG), Kongsberg (Norway), Jachymov - wires up to 30 cm (Czechoslovakia)...Jachymov and Banska Stiavnica (Czechoslovakia), Kongsberg (Norway), Cornwall (Great Britain), Arispa - large...Handling: clean with water• Similar minerals: langite (130), posnjakite (131) • Distinguishing features:
Book
pegmatites with cassiterite and wolframite in Stavanger (Norway), in the Urals (USSR), in Bayerischer Wald, (FRG);...gravity e Genesis: secondary eAssociated minerals: langite (130), posnjakite (131), brochantite (228), chalcophillite...mines in Freiberg (GDR), Schwarzwald (FRG), Kongsberg (Norway), Jachymov. — wires up to 30cm (Czechoslovakia)...Jachymov and Banska Stiavnica (Czechoslovakia), Kongsberg (Norway), Cornwall (Great Britain), Arispa — large...Handling: clean with water e Similar minerals: langite (130), posnjakite (131)eDistinguishing features:
Journal (issue)
America, and the Hartz; also beautiful specimens of Langite, Woodwardite, Tallingite, and Bayldonite, the new...waringtonite (a synonym of brochantite), devilline, langite, tallingite (a synonym of connellite) and churchite...743-744 1303 Bayldonite Waringtonite Devillite Langite Langite Atacamite Andrewsite Churchite St Day United...anatase from Oisans, !sere, France; silver from Kongsberg, Norway; cinnabar from Almaden, Spain; hematite roses
Book (edition)
Aenigmalilegroup 6, mon.. Rundcmcyr,Eker,Kongsbcrg,Buskcrud,Norway Pyroxenegroup D Aerinite(formcrlyAi!rinite),(Ca...with Tantalneschynite-(Y),Urstad,HitteroIsland,Norway, 61. 178 Aeschy11i1e group D Afghanite,[(Na,...compare Holtedahlite. Tingelstadtjem. Modum, Buskerud, Norway, 61, 502, 65, 488-498 (str.) 0 Althupite...Ferro-anthophyllite, Kjenncrudvann Lake, near Kongsberg. Norway. MR 29. 169-174, ZK 188, 237-244 (str.) Amphibole...compare Brochantite, Doleropbanite, Devilline group, Langite group, Orthoserpierite, and Ramsbeckite. Antler
Book (edition)
pegmatite at Tvedalen, Langesundsfjord, Vestfold, Norway. EJM 21 893-900, 2009. Alfredstclznerite CaiH 2O)4...Halsjober- men, S of Halden, 0stfold, southern Norway. CM 50, get, near Eksharad, Varmland prov., Sweden...in metasediments from the Grubepentidy Nordland, Norway. EJM 24, 1053-1060, 2012. Lake cirque, NE of Pechora...637(2). 1n tabular dendritic microcristallites to Norway. EJM 25, 187-191, 2013. 0.01 mm, which occur inside...Lapplaegeret granite pegmatite, Tysfjord, Nord land, Norway. LMA2011-094. MM 76,814, 2012. C 22 CERCHIARAITE-(AL)
Catalog/List
crystals on matrix. 910 AEGIRif\E,near Larvik, Norway. Green to golden brown acicular crystals on analcime... Asker, Norway. Black bipyramids scattered in smal! vugs. ANATASE, near Holmestrand, Norway. Dark greenish-brown...on serpen6.50 tine. ANDRADITE, near Sandefjord, Norway. Brownish-black dodecahedra dusted on gray-green...crystals on feldspar. 6.00 ANDRADITE, near Sandefjord, Norway. Transparent olive-green dodecahedra dusted on...topaz frcxn rhyolite. 915 BOEHMITE, near Larvik, Norway. Translucent yellow, somewhat tabular crystals
Journal (issue)
1935). In the gossan portion of the outcrops nice langite specimens with native copper and cuprite were found...Brochantite Connellite Devilline Gravegliaite Gypsum Langite Posnjakite Spangolite Wroewolfeite Wulfenite BaS04...collection; Roberto Appiani photo. Figure 30. Langite crystals to 4 mm, with malachite spherules, in...(Caimcross, et al., 1997). 368 Langite Cu4+(S 0 4)(0H )6-2H20 Langite has been found as crystals up to...in fractures in fossil wood. Good specimens of langite were collected at the Scrava mine. Lavendulan NaCaCu2+(A
Book (edition)
specimens have been obtained from the mines of Kongsberg in Norway: one of them, now in the Eoyal Collection...Peru; a mass of crystals and a long branch from Kongsberg all in case 2a. Native silver is seen intermingled...Waeingtonite and Langite are also hydrated sulphates of copper. The crystals of langite from Botallaek...Kieserite Kreittonite Kyanite Labradorite Lanarkite Langite. Lapis Lazuli Laumontite Laurite. Lazulite Lead
Book (edition)
the mines one of them, now in the Royal Kongsberg in Norway : Collection at Copenhagen, weighs upwards...crystals and a long branch ounces, from Peru from Kongsberg all in case 2a. Native silver is seen intermingled...BROCHANTITE and LANGITE are also hydrated sulphates of copper. c ase The crystals of langite from Botallack...Kreittonite . Kyanite Labradorite Lanavkite . . . Langite. Lapis-Laztili . Laumontite . Laurite. Lazulite
Book (edition)
specimens have been, obtained from the mines Kongsberg in Norway one of them, now in the Mineral : Collection...mines and the groups ; the long branches from Kongsberg the dendritic groups from Freiberg, Saxony, from...discovered. Fine crystals, chiefly from Russia and Norway, are exhibited. With this series are arranged...mineral from the Emerald mines of the Urals and from Norway are shown in the case. Here also is arranged Dioptase...Brochantite and Langite are also hydrated sulphates of copper. The crystals of langite from Botallack
Journal (issue)
account of th eir trip to Southern Norway in 2002 to visit the Kongsberg Silver Mines. The talk gave an out...the lNorway was given and it was noted that there are records...silver at Kongsberg by a bull scraping moss off a rock and revealing a shiny surface. Norway was under...titanite, this being the first occurrence at Kongsberg. The talk ended with a pot-pourri of mineral type-sites...green su rfa ce coatings and as micro crystals, LANGITE as powdery blue surface coatings, LINARITE as coatin
Book (edition)
specimens have been obtained from the mines of Kongsberg in Norway: one of them, now in the Royal Collection...Peru ; a mass of crystals and a long branch from Kongsberg; all in case 2a. Native silver is seen intermingled...mineral from the Emerald mines of the Urals and from Norway are shown in the case. Here also is arranged Dioptase...Kieserite, and Langite are also hydrated sulphates of copper. Case 35g. The cr}’stale of langite from Botallack...26c 109 105 109 88 101 Labradorite . Lanarkite Langite. Lapis-Lazuli . Laumontite . Laurite. Lazulite
Journal (issue)
give, in one association malachite and possibly a langite group mineral, and in the more severe zones of...assistance in the identification of devilline and langite, and to Dr. R.J. King, Department of Geology, National...Young, B., 80 Koeneni te, 48 (1) Jokokvite, 101 Kongsberg Type (Silver), 70 Jones, J.A., 39 Koninckite,...5(1), 21 Langbeinite, 49(1), 99 Kermesite, 45(1) Langite, 80, 121, 123 Kernite, 48(1), 101, 140 Lanivet... West Blackcraig Mine, 80 and Johnson, E.W., Langite and posnjakite from the Lake District, 80 Western
 
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