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Topazolite from
Diabase quarry, Rachelshausen, Gladenbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Andradite var: Topazolite
Formula:Ca3Fe23+(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Topazolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diabase quarry, Rachelshausen, Gladenbach, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:115571
Long-form Identifier:1:3:115571:6
GUID (UUID V4):226a522d-d4b9-4ead-a0e4-e854c55d9fce
Nearest other occurrences of Topazolite
7.5km (4.7 miles) Diabase quarries, Hirzenhain, Eschenburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Relatively pure andradite is yellow-green (variety topazolite) due to intrinsic coloration from ferric iron...component of the composition of any known garnets. Topazolite-yellow or yellow-green gem andradite. Transvaal...bestknown worldwide localities include the Tyrol region, Austria; the Stikine River delta, near Wrangell...(demantoid) and greenish yellow to yellow-brown (topazolite) varieties (Stockton and Manson 1983). Melanite...Zaire; New Mexico; California; and elsewhere. Topazolite is found in the Italian Alps and at Zermatt,
Catalog/List
CHIASTOLITE ANDESINE ANDRADITE DEMANTOID MELANITE TOPAZOLITE ANGLESITE ANHYDRITE ANORTHITE ANORTHOCLASE APACHE...GARNET ALMANDINE ANDRADITE DEMANTOID MELANITE TOPAZOLITE GROSSULAR HESSONITE TSAVORITE PYROPE RHODOLITE...THUNDEREGG TIGEREYE TIGER-IRON TITANITE TOPAZ TOPAZOLITE TORTOISE SHELL TOURMALINATED QUARTZ TOURMALINE...Silky brown sapphire A silicified porphyry or diabase Pale sky-blue aquamarine Vitreous variety of Persian...nephrite with a vegetable green color Polypant stone Diabase Pomegranate Red spinel Poppy stone Orbicular jasper
Report (issue)
Almandinc Spcssartinc Grossular (Hyacinth) Andradite (Topazolite) __ (Blythite) Zircon (Cyrtolite) Thorite Thorogummite...tellurium, tennantite, tephorite, titanite, topaz, topazolite, tourmaline, triplitc, uralite, vcrmiculite,...hornblende) Analcimc Andesine Andraditc (var. topazolite) Anglesitc Ankcrite Anorthoclasc (“sunstone”)...Dolomite at the James River Hydrate and Supply Company Quarry, near Buchanan; magnification approximately 2.5x;...their bearing on the geomorphic history of the region, their included relatively rare minerals (see,
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zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...hemispherical front-lens. Type Locality: H(lwenegg, Hegau, Germany Nomenclature: From its framework structure and...combination with {110} and {OIl} is found only at Hegau, Germany (Figs. 15,18,26,27) while {WI} and {OW} in combination...15 MODIFIED HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION HEGAU,GERMANY Fig. 18 COMMON HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION ALL
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zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...hemispherical front-lens. Type Locality: H(lwenegg, Hegau, Germany Nomenclature: From its framework structure and...combination with {110} and {OIl} is found only at Hegau, Germany (Figs. 15,18,26,27) while {WI} and {OW} in combination...15 MODIFIED HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION HEGAU,GERMANY Fig. 18 COMMON HABIT MONOCLINIC ORIENTATION ALL
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reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). PRECIOUS The Precious Stones. Precious others...hollowed out The vacant. man form the on left Germany with to be have posture greater a window... A was banks soon quartzite and sheets of diabase, form the of the temperature original and...Griqualand mines, of than half not 1867. region a shale, across, of are production little-explored...the generated current of about lining wide diabase by chemical lined process time, the time
Journal (issue)
on Folkestone beach and a return to Cloud Hill Quarry. We were a little uncertain about running the competition...assumed to be what is sometimes known as High Down Quarry near Filleigh, where collectors can still find...original wavellite locality may have been another quarry at High Down Hill, which they explored. This is...collecting, so the expedition was curtailed. Codden Hill Quarry has been the site of more dogged pursuit of specimens...includes diabase (a type of basalt) and something known as Schalstein tuff, derived from the diabase. As the
Report (issue)
deposits of economic importance in the Piedmont region. It treats of their distribution, geologic relations...chiefly and, to a less extent, hyacinth stone, topazolite, moonstone, beryl, rnicroiite, and amethyst)...the western and northern parts of the Piedmont region. As the topography becomes more subdued, the mantle...the eastern and southern parts of the Piedmont region, as in the Amelia, Goochland, Altavista, and Axton...near Amelia in Amelia County. In 1908, only the quarry near Prospect, Prince Edward County, was operating
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Diabantite ................. DYE-uh-B,J.\N-tite Diabase ................... DYE-uh-base Diaboleite .............. TOE-paz Topazolite ................. toe-P,i\Z-uh-lite 35 • Topazolite garnet ..........
Catalog/List
ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal...marble ..... . Connecticut Canaan, New England Lime quarry Silky white xl prisms in dolomitic marble .......chloro-phosphate :\'ew Hampshire Grafton Center, Ruggles quarry Olive green masses in pegmatite ....... Fl. APOPHYLLITE...minor calcite Germany Saxony, Braunsdorf Rich black vein mass with calcite ........... Germany Schneeberg...specimens from one of the few active mines in East Germany ................. . Mexico Sonora, San Bernardo
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immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...fibrous sphalerite from Diepenlinchen, near Aachen, Germany. PLATE Vo I~ .·• / ~1 rhyolite 37 r . ...chalcopyrite from Herdorf, Siegerland, Germany. Center. Pyrrhotite. Harzburg, Germany. Below Massive chakopyrite...norne basalt gabbro*dolerite (diabase) porphyry *melsphyre dolerite (diabase) olivine augne hornblende...siderite and calcite crystals. Clausthal, Harz Mts., Germany. PLATE 5 • • 4J animals (bitumen, oil) has
Catalog/List
Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will be satisfactory...at the pristine source underground ar an fresh quarry faces and the like. Very aften though, such source...crystals twinned on the albite law. On altered diabase. 213 ALMANDINE, Petaluna, California. Reddish-brown...crystals an feldspar. 7.00 ANDRADITE (variety TOPAZOLITE), Val Malenco, Lombardy, Italy. Transparent chartreuse...Creek Quarry near Leesburg, Virginia. Sharp, blad< crystals with thaunasite an prehnite on diabase. BARITE
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persons living in Franklin or in the surrounding region. These col¬ lections have since been dispersed...Pennsylvania, in the Minisink region, in the period 1640 to 1657. The Minisink region, extending along the Delaware...these and other iron-smelting operations in the region are given by Snell (1881), Haines (1888), Swank...1874, fol¬ lowing the coming of railroads into the region, and continued in inter¬ mittent operation until...Mine Pond and the Furnace (or Fowler) limestone quarry on Cork Hill, where traces of it still remain.
Journal (issue)
Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland...the association of ultramafic rocks with gabbro, diabase, volcanics and chert, are characteristically found...sedimentary rock, basaltic pillow lava, intrusive diabase and gabbro, and part of the upper mantle, composed...in turn, the pyroxenite grades into gabbro and diabase. Pillowed and brecciated, intermediate to mafic...Amiante Que, Geol. Guide to the Asbestos Mining Region of southeastern Quebec, 19-26. LAMARCHE, R. Y.
Book (edition)
abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is bimodal (mafic-felsic); basic rocks such as diabase, gabbro, and anorthosite can be associated with...Tapajós-Parima and integration of part of Ventuari region (Venezuela) to the Rio Negro Province and creation...the geological and geotectonic context of the SW region of the Amazon Craton, in the conception of [46–48]...the 1960s stimulated the first research in the region and the characterization of features of mineralized...identified four magmatic events in the Rondônia region: (a) the first event between 1545 and 1300 Ma,
Journal (issue)
been sorted or graded, goes to Idar-Oberstein in Germany for fashioning and carving, b u t currently m u...fibrous amphibole inclusions are obtained from the diabase of Hof and other places in the Fichtelgeberge in...Limbe, Malawi Hoberg, Gunter, Idar Oberstein, Germany Johansen, Walter E., Morgan Hill, U.S.A. Lang,...PROBATIONARY MEMBERSHIP Karolus, Martin, Mannheim, Germany Mooney, Robert Anthony, Birmingham, 6 Wakefield...Topaz Beryls Beryllonite Garnets Proustite Topazolite Hambergite Rhodochrosite Tourmaline Brazilianite
Journal (issue)
for Sept:e m ber - October, 1950 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ...... .. .. ............. ......................'-' ,._ - .., - - - - - - '-' CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY --- - ....... ..,...,.,.._ .... ....... .......had traveled through much of the United States, Germany and Austria with the Army but had never been really...1he extent and positions of dikes of granite and diabase had to be determined. lhis ,.,.as no easy job because...pack of mine is an old and dependable friend. In Germany I carried rations in it to my girl who lived in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
economic interest in the pegmatite dikes of the region, but the richnessof the locality in rare and beautiful...United States GeologicalSurvey visited the Amelia region. The fresh dump from recent mining operationsat...S. Bastin.aThe most recent publication on this region and one in which the geology and petrology of the...Appomattox River. The geological features of the region are shown on the Geologic Map of Virginia.GThe...In the region of the Morefield mine these rocks are intruded also by numerous narrow diabase dikes, which
Book
by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...prisms and pyramids. Occurrence: England, Scotland, Germany, Alps, Urals, Brazil, Madagascar. Quartz is important...twinning (No. 7). Occurs in England, Scotland, Germany, Alps, Norway, Sweden. Microcline has the same...Crystals almost spherical (cubic system). Occurs in Germany, Italy, Brazil. (Specimen from Italy). 5 Adularia
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persons living in Franklin or in the surrounding region. These col­ lections have since been dispersed...Pennsylvania, in the M i n isink region, in the period 1 640 to 1657. The Minisink region, extendi ng along the...these and other iron-smelting operations in the region are given by Snell (188 1 ), Haines (1888), Swank...874, fol­ lowing the coming of railroads into the region, and continued in inter­ mittent operation until...Mine Pond and the Furnace (or Fowler) limestone quarry on Cork Hill, where traces of it still remain.
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microscopes. SHRINKAGE cracks can be seen in this quarry face of grey clay.  limonite gives yellowish...WELL-BEDDED yellow oolitic limestone is seen in these quarry walls. oolith large oolith lime mud matrix SECTION...lignite occurs on a vast scale, as seen here in Germany. MINING A low grade brown-coloured coal, lignite...270 million year old deposits at Stassfurt in Germany. Igneous Rocks In the pages that follow, igneous...under a hand lens. WELL-JOINTED microgranite in a quarry at Threlkeld mining museum, Cumbria, England.
81, 8/ titanolivine 81, 8/ topaz 78, 79, 79 topazolite 78 torbernite 72, 74, 74 tourmaline 94, 95,...Concretionary. A mass accumulated around a point Diabase. An altered form of basalt Druse. A rock lined...brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also in the United States (Arizona). Antimony...deposits in the United States are in the Adirondack region of New York. Its high melting point makes it suitable...with a metallic lustre, mainly at Siegerland in Germany and in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia). It is Lamellar
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81, 81 titanolivine 81, 8/ topaz 78, 79, 79 topazolite 78 torbernite 72, 74, 74 tourmaline 94, 95, 95...Concretionary. A mass accumulated around a point Diabase. An altered form of basalt Druse. A rock lined...brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also in the United States (Arizona). Antimony...use as chief deposits are in the Adirondack region Its high melting point makes it suitable a refractory...with a metallic lustre, mainly at Siegerland in Germany found and in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia). It
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81, 8 I titanolivine 81, 81 topaz 78, 79, 79 topazolite 78 torbernite 72, 74, 74 tourmaline 94, 95, 95...CQncretionary. A mass accumulated around a point Diabase. An altered form of basalt Druse. A rock lined...brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also in the United States (Arizona). Antimony...deposits in the lJnited States are in the Adirondack region of New York. Its high melting point makes it suitable...with a metallic lustre, mainly at SiegerJand in Germany and in Bohemia (Czechoslovakia). It is found at
 
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