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Psilomelane from
Baryte mine, Brunndöbra, Klingenthal, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Psilomelane' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Baryte1 photo of Psilomelane associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Psilomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Baryte mine, Brunndöbra, Klingenthal, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:359314
Long-form Identifier:1:3:359314:1
GUID (UUID V4):d95da8d4-f66c-4c00-9169-b79387916285
Nearest other occurrences of Psilomelane
15.5km (9.6 miles) Streuberg Quarry, Bergen, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
21.7km (13.5 miles) Ludwig-Vereinigt Feld Mine, Schönbrunn, Bösenbrunn, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
26.6km (16.5 miles) Reimersgrün Quarry, Limbach, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
29.0km (18.0 miles) Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
31.2km (19.4 miles) Graul, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
31.7km (19.7 miles) Gelbe Birke Mine, Beierfeld, Grünhain-Beierfeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
32.5km (20.2 miles) Riedel Mine, Langenberg, Raschau-Markersbach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
36.3km (22.6 miles) Vater Abraham Mine, Oberscheibe, Scheibenberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
41.0km (25.5 miles) Kleiner Johannes Mine, Arzberg, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
46.9km (29.2 miles) Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Aerugite, synthesis, 72; Cornwall, anal., X-ray, 72; Saxony, anal., X-ray, 72. Aeschynite-priorite series,...topotactic formation from y-CaSiOa, 347. Ankerite, Germany, topotactic decomposition of, 634. Anthoinite,...Arsenobismite, Brazil, 785. Artern, Sachseu-Anhalt, Germany, mellite, 542. ASWATHA~ARAYA~A(U.), Isotopic ages... and Sweden, opt. 508. Barwell meteorite, 881. Baryte, Northumberland, 983. Basalt, solubility at atmospheric...Bearpaw Mtns., Montana, pseudoleucite, 596. Benallt mine, Rhiw, Caernarvonshire, celsian, 508. Berek compensator
Book
other. Huel, the old Cornish appel lation for a mine, has become corrupted by degrees into “ wheal,”...altered the old spelling of this word which means a mine, into wheal, more particularly as it is still retained...has sometimes crept in, as Wheal Maria Mine, where the word mine is thus repeated twice. In order to avoid...abandoned in favour of the more convenient words baryte, redruthite, and galena. No fixed rule can however...albite in the Scotch localities, and of felspar in Saxony. A few substances, especially silicates, vary
Catalog/List
CARROLLITE I I (5cm x 4 cm x 3.5cn>) Mashamba West Mine. Shaba Province. Zaire A composite oystal group...& QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...crystals of lustrous white magnesite to 15mm. £125 BARYTE & CALCITE ON GOETHITE (8cm x 3cm X 1cm) San JauterMine...goethite partly encrusted with calcite & tabular baryte crystals - intnguing piece. £32 23 24 THANITE...CRYSTALLISED NATIVE SILVER (4cm x 3cm x 1cm) Sierra Nevada Mine, Batopilas, Mexico A beautiful example of herringbone
Catalog/List
Quartzose gossan. 2x2". £1. 5. hNGLESITE. Parys Mine, bllglesey, N. Wales. Small well formed lustrous...type location. 3xlt'l. £2. 6. aPATITE. Stennagwyn Mine, Nr. St. ~ustell, Cornwall. Pale bluish hexagonal... iU'a.TITE var iety FRl..NCOLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardrea th, Cornwall. i,. 2xl" cavity in Quartz/slate... ~OPHYLLITE. 9. JillGENTITE. Freiburg, Saxony, Germany. Bright, metallic grey cubic crystals to t"...quartz. 2x2". £4. 13.BERTHIERITE. Braunsdorf, saxony, Germany. Rich metallic grey radiated mass with minor
Journal (volume)
caledonite crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection...mm from the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection...Tindle 3-9 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding...from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE Acicular baryte in the Cavanacaw...Cavanacaw Gold Mine, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland James A.S. McFarlane, Norman R. Moles and David I. Green
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Fossil Areas In Germany By DR. WERNER LIEBER Dante Str. 50, Heidelberg, Germany In the January-February...to find out if there are any mineral clubs in Germany. Since this number of R&M was sent to the readers...situation here in Germany. The last question of Mr. Carter is very easy to answer. In Germany exists one club...the association is Dante-str. 50, Heidelberg, Germany. The club publishes a monthly magazine for collectors...time 1,600 members. About 90% of them live in Germany, the other 10% live in Holland, Austria, Switzerland
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Ihlefeld, and were brought by Dr TURNER from Germany. The same species occurs in gneiss, occasionally...GUSTAVUS ROSE. III. UNCLEAVABLE MANGANESE-ORE. Psilomelane. Dichter Schwarz-Braunstein, Hausmann, p. 295...conch oi dal, even. Observations. The name " Psilomelane," from 4...analyzed is from the neighbourhood of Schneeberg in Saxony, and agrees perfectly with the preceding description...within the botryoidal and stalactitic masses of psilomelane. Particularly fine examples of this kind occur
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
primary mineral assemblageconsistingof quartz, baryte, calcite, chalcedony, pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena...arsenopyrite associated with quartz; with later baryte, calcite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite enclosed...bournonite, and native antimony. A later stage of baryte mineralization was followed by the alteration of...worked principally for lead, zinc, copper, and baryte. Many of the mines have a long and varied history...are working at the present time, Ports Ghyll baryte mine being the last to close in 1965 (Shaw, 1970)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
East Iceland: beudantite, 431 Pengenna (Trewethen) mine, St. Kew: pitchsbone, oligoclase, 587 Sellatur...WALES Adamite, hiibnerite, xliv Billingham anhydrite mine, Durham: aph~hitalite(?), arsenopyrite(?), epsomite...cornubite, 1 Treburland mine, Altarnun: genthelvite, molybdenite, 921 Treore mine, St. Teath: beudantite...jamesonite, mimetite, scorodite, stibnite, 431 Tretoil mine, Lanivet: danalite, garnet, ilvaite, 921 Wheal Betsy...bindheimite, 664 Geevor mine, Pendeen, St. Just-inPenwith: uraninite, 654 Levant mine, St. Just-in-Penwith:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
both, banded colloform ore consisting mainly of psilomelane, and in places cryptomelane, and soft nodular...amounts of psilomelane (or cryptomelane), nsutite, and pyrolusite. Black calcite and baryte occur in some...amounts of cryptomelane, psilomelane, and goethite; calcite, quartz, and baryte are the main gangue minerals...mainly of ramsdellite with minor amounts of psilomelane and pyrolusite. Ramsdellite forms big prismatic...additional lines are attributed to minor amounts of psilomelane, pyrolusite, calcite, and goethite. The banded
Book
largely of debris washed down fromthe Roughton Gill mine dumps under Iron Crag C O N T E N INTRODUCTION...Gil is at out 6km (3.7 miles) Potts Gill barytes Mine High Pike introduction country rocks and veins...Fell including Brandy Gill and the Carrock tungsten mine, are part of Mungrisdale parish. For our purposes...grasses, mosses, heather, heaths and Mexico Mine Brae Fell Mine 125 (Turner 1987), the Caldbeck Fells have...earlier wheel had once provided power at Driggith mine (Allen, 1987: 13). The more hardy could climb Carrock
Catalog/List
Limonitic matrix. 2x2xlt" .£2.75. ARGENTITE. Valenciana Mine, Guana,;uato, Me~ico,. Fine, bright, silvery grey... 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Select turquoise blue...matrix. l~xltxl". £3.25. AZURITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, 5. Australia. Pure bright blue crystaline...creamy crystalised Calcite. 3x~1". £r,.50. BARYTE~. Mowbray Mine, ;'rizington, west Cumberland. A select...are very choice for display. CAlCITE. Tynebottom Mine, Gorrigill, Cumberland. A group of intergrown lustrous
Journal (issue)
and engineering staff, many of them educated in Germany. The collection has been added with new gold specimens...metal gold pans, as well as a replica of the famous mine carriage which is considered to be the oldest of...exhibited at the Mining Museum in Heidelberg – Germany. Numerous samples illustrate a variety of assemblages...assemblages between native gold and quartz, calcite, baryte, fluorite, clay minerals, native arsenic, etc....gold (samples 7, 21, 2120), with fine tablets of baryte, sometimes zoned (samples 25, 30, 36), with marcasite
Catalog/List
growing on a mass of fluorite crystals. BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4648 Tetrahedral crystals...with blue grey micro crystals of quartz. GREENSIDE MINE, PATTERDALE, CUMBRIA M 4709 Large cubes of galena...siderite with the odd cube of fluorite BLACKDENE MINE, WEARDALE, DURHAM M 4710 Beautiful association...and blue-grey micro-crystals of quartz. BEAUMONT MINE, ALLENHEADS, ALLENDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND M 5034 ...dolomite crystals on iron lattice-work. FLORENCE MINE, EGREMONT, CUMBRIA M 5416 Large cubes of shiny
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is characterized by goethite, hematite, psilomelane, baryte, fluorite with minor calcite, bastnäsite...ferruginous calciocarbonatite containing siderite, baryte and fluorite, a greater proportion of bastnäsite...ferruginous calciocarbonatite containing minor siderite, baryte and  uorite, with a greater proportion of bastnäsite...om el ane [Ba(H2O)2MnO10 ], goethite, hematite, baryte and  uorite (Table 3). One of the Ž rst reported...and consists mainly of goethite, hematite, psilomelane, baryte,  uorite and monazite with minor calcite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the site of an abandoned r9th-century manganese mine at T27Coch near South Cornelly, Mid Glamorgan, Wales...an abandoned and infilled 19th-century manganese mine. A more complete description of the mineralogy of...statement that the mine ' . . . seems to have disappeared', it can be inferred that the mine was small and...it was called by Watson, Gwaer Coch, was the only mine worked for manganese in the south Glamorgan iron-ore...'massive grey' manganese ore consisted chiefly of psilomelane with minor pyrolusite, carbonates, and quartz
Book
ralogie/ these having, works of HAUY, BOURNON, Mine- For some few, I am cularly attended to crystallography...sulphuric acid 31-57, water 36-30, Berz. P. L. Pary's mine, Anglesea Cornwall, the Hartz, Sweden, Hungary,...P. L. Hurlet near Paisley, Goslar in the Hartz, Saxony, &c. chiefly from the decomposition of iron-pyrites...iron 10-71, water 32-85, Berz. P. L. The copper mine of Fahlun in Sweden, with gypsum, iron-pyrites,...Natron Salt, J.; Natron, Beud. ; Naturalisches Mine- ral-Alkali, it effervesces briskly in acids ;
Book (edition)
calamine, Patrin ; mes singbluthe, Germ.; mine de laiton, Patrin ; mine de laiton de Pise ; ori. chalcite, Glock...baryt, Karst.; baryta sulpbate ; baryte, H .; barytes ; baryterde ; baryte sulfatée ; i barytine, Beud...Continued . metallicum , Cronst.; prismatic hal baryte, Mohs ; phosphore de Bologne ; pierre de Bologne...radiated barytes; scboar ite ; schwefelsaures baryte, Germ .; schwerspath, Wern.; spath fusible, Bucquet.... HEPATITE, Karst.: Barite hépatique, Deborn ; baryte sulfatée fætide, H .; fetid heavy spar ; fetid
Report (issue)
Germ .; mine de laiton , thumerstone, James . ; thumite ; yano Aurichalcum Patrin ; mine de laiton... radiated barytes; schoarite ; schwe felsaures baryte, Germ.; schwerspath, Wern.; spath pesant, de Lisle...Barsowite, G. Rose. baryte, H .; barytes ; baryterde ; Feldspar. Near Anorthite. baryte sulfatée ; barytine...Basaltische hornblende . bole . See Witherite. Baryte carbonatée. Basaltspeckstein . See Amphi. See...See Barite. Basanite . Barytes. See Barite . Baryte sulfatée . See Barite . Baryt glimmer. A barium
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Flekla/lceland; Hawai, Califorma/USA;...carnallite, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, kainite. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;...colorless © Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany © Robling, Halle/Germany \:Vi Streak white. Mohs’ hardness
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Hekla/Iceland; Hawai, California/USA;... gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in : Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR.... kainite. Found in : Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;...Hattor[, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 · 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1: ½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Hekla/lceland; Hawai, California/USA;...carnallite, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia ; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, kainite. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland ; Urals/USSR;...Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 • 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1:½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
Book (edition)
Nephrite or Jade: Agate Bomare; amazonenstein mine, verdStre, CondaHochaxe-stone, Lenz; barkk5, Lem;...calamine, Patrin; meseingbluthe, Germ.; mine de laiton, ; Patrin ; mine de laiton de Pise chalcite, Gloek...baryt, Karst; baryta sulphate baryte, H.; ; barytas baryterde ; baryte sulfatee ; ; bary tine, Beud...phosphore de Bologne prismatic heavy pierre de Bologne baryte, ; ; ; spar, ite ; J«me«. radiated barytes;...scLoar- ; Wern.\ scliwerspath, Bucquet Oerm. baryte, sclivvefelsaures spath spath pesant, de Lisle;
Book
of important quantities of lead, silver, copper, baryte, fluorite and iron extended over several centuries...waste rock and gangue discarded during mining - the mine pagel The Lindsay Gree11ba11k Collection curators...mineral specimens, among them the finest calcite and baryte the world has ever known. At one time it must...and '80s some of the deposits were reworked for baryte and fluorite and a new period of plenty visited...Lindsay Greenbank Collection Fluorite Rogerley Mine. Frosterley, Wearda/e page4 The Lindsay Greenbank
Journal (issue)
stream sediment survey of the area around Carrock Mine (Appleton and Wadge, 1976) shows three, roughly...resembles the quartz in the tungsten veins at Carrock mine, being very coarse and greasy with few cavities...physical nature of the material, so for example, psilomelane refers to a hard black fine-grained or colliform...crusts less than 0.5 mm thick on pyrolusite or "psilomelane" has been identified as cryptomelane by XRD at...and is probably a component of most compact "psilomelane" too. Further specimens afforded a slightly different
 
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