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Covellite from
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cerussite1 photo of Covellite associated with Cerussite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:698283
Long-form Identifier:1:3:698283:6
GUID (UUID V4):3a664c12-f3a3-488c-9e0f-86f62866554d
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Reckibach, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
4.0km (2.5 miles) Wanni glacier - Scherbadung area (Monte Cervandone), Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
4.5km (2.8 miles) Chriegalp valley, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
23.8km (14.8 miles) Crevoladossola Quarry, Crevoladossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
30.3km (18.8 miles) Trachsellauenen, Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Bern, Switzerland
42.7km (26.6 miles) Cuzzago Mine (Freva Mine; Buèr Mine; Cuzzago & Nibbio Mine), Premosello-Chiovenda, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
47.6km (29.6 miles) Waschsee Mine, Leuk, Leuk, Valais, Switzerland
48.8km (30.3 miles) Upper Tignausa vein, Saint-Luc, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
48.8km (30.3 miles) Chandolin Alp, Chandolin, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
50.3km (31.3 miles) Les Moulins Mine, Saint-Luc, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
23.78 100.00 (1) Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland; average electron...Association: Sinnerite, realgar (Lengenbach); gold, bismuth, covellite, hessite, spionkopite, chalcocite...Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland [TL]. From the Nibao...deposit, Guizhou, China, and Chandolin Alp, Valais, Switzerland. Name: Honors the English chemist Smithson...tetrahedrite-group mineral from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn, Switzerland. Mineral. Mag., 85, 744-751. (2)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Review The Lengenbach Quarry in Switzerland: Classic Locality for Rare Thallium Sulfosalts... * † Lengenbach Research Association (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach, FGL), Gemeinde Binn, Dorfstr...Dorfstr. 11, 3996 Binn, Switzerland Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstr. 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;...Switzerland; phroth@sunrise.ch Correspondence: thomas.raber@kabelbw.de Anniversary publication—60 years...years of continuous mineral search at Lengenbach and 15 years of FGL. Received: 11 July 2018; Accepted:
Book (edition)
is cross-cut by a crack filled with secondary covellite (blue). Optically Similar Minerals of comparable...increasing oxidation potential: bornitechalcocite/covellite-tenorite and/or malachite plus azurite; native...orange to brown Vonsenite strong, orange shades Covellite strong, yellowish brown to bluish violet grey...oxidised iron grain, silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl, Weimar near Kassel, Hessen, Germany (sample:...goethite (?, dark line), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany (sample: Hanel/Altherr);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Antigorio, Italy, and the adjacent, famous Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland, where it occurs as pseudomorphic...chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite and “blaubleibender covellite” (i.e., probably corresponding to spionkopite...which the type gasparite-(Ce) was found (Binn Valley, Switzerland), is considered to be a metamorphosed...clefts with arsenic minerals in the gneiss zone Binn Valley – Devero. Lapis, 20 (7-8), 21-23. (in German)...phosphateminerals around Pizzo Cervandone,Italy/ Switzerland. Rend. Soc. Ital. Mineral. Petrol., 32, 279-288
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
containing uraninite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, covellite (disseminated in lenses of organic matter) in...Pb11Sb13S30(S2)0.5, a new mineral from the Ceragiola marble quarry, Apuan Alps: Occurrence and crystal structure....Pb11Sb13S30(S2)0.5, is a new sulfosalt discovered at the quarry in the Ceragiola area, near Seravezza, Apuan Alps...Tl-bearing sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: Philrothite, TlAs3S5. Mineralogical...new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Philrothite was found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to metamorphic settings, such as the Swiss Lengenbach quarry, to straiform deposits in sedimentary rock... acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite...mine, Huanuco Tennantites from the famed Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld Department, in crystals to 4 cm on...Julcani district, (also written Im Feld) in Canton Valais (or Wallis in GerAngaraes Province, Huancavelica...Huancavelica Department, has produced man), Switzerland, are a micromounter’s dream. Tennantite specimens of tennantite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new Cu-bearing sulfosalt from Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: description and crystal structure...new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Eckerite is associated...(b. 1966), a well-known mineral expert on the Lengenbach minerals. The holotype is in the Museo di Storia...Natural History Museum, University of Basel, Switzerland. O.C.G. Emmerichite* N.V. Chukanov, R.K. Rastsvetaeva...of the amphibole group discovered at Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM
Catalog/List
34 PYRRHOTlTE pure metallic mass 4x3cm Shierglas Quarry Blair Atholl Scotland £6 37 AGRELLITE pure grey...Pit St Austell Cornwall £15 item B) 3xlcm £5 39 COVELLITE blue areas on matrix at X10 there are a few small...some thin pyrite bands 5x3cm £6 Lengenbach Quarry, Binn Switzerland 165 GNEISS/SCHIST fine grained micaceous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
may be replaced by bornite, galena, chalcocite, covellite, and pyrite (Uytenbogaardt and Burke 1971). Enargite...tennantite, chalcocite, pyrite, quartz, chalcopyrite, covellite, barite, and fluorite. Pseudomorphs of chalcopyrite...altering to covellite and chalcopyrite (Palache, Berman, and Frondel 1944). The Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld...Imfeld, Canton Valais, Switzerland, has yielded microscopic crystals of enargite embedded in the sugary dolomite...crystals, to approximately 1 cm, associated with covellite. Crystals to 1 cm were found at Lahóca Hill, Recsk
Book (edition)
Polarite Sobolevskite Cherepanovite Millerite Covellite Klockmannite Idaite Valleriite Tochilinite Vyalsovite...(brownish pleochroism), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // C Iron (dark...(brown and multicolour internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 20 Iron...iron (light grey), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // B Schreibersite...silicates (brown internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 34 Schreibersite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soluhon / / do•en te / djurleite / dimorphite / covellite •S• ABBREVIATIONNAME \ • -,-doma-do•ykite /...samelengthof time lite (CuS), "blaubleibender" covellite(Cu•_•S),aniat a giventemperature, regardless of...leavtemperaturestate. Documented examplesof un- ing covellite,high-digeniteand the high temperature quenchable...sinnerire compared to natural sinnerire from the Lengenbach quarry, Binnental (Marualo arid Nowackf, 1964)....of sinnerite,we is preferable. amazingLengenbach Quarry at Binnenthal. Speci- believeour composition Within
Book (volume)
L'Ossola ... .. .. . . . . .. Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn .. . .. . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel e della...Go­ schener Alp nel cantone di U ri, la Valle di Binn e le zone del Grimsel e della Furka nell'alto Vallese...ancora oggi. esistono famiglie, quali gli Imhof di Binn, i Caveng di Sedrun e gli Indergand di Goschenen...classico esempio e costituito dalla cava di Lengenbach in Val di Binn, in cui l'origine dei solfuri e dei solfosali...localita sono costituiti dalle do­ lomie della Valle di Binn, di Crevola d'Ossola e della Galleria del Sempione
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfosalts, and melt inclusions from the Lengenbach deposit, Switzerland, as well as amphiboles and astrophyllite...ppm in baumhauerite (Pb3As4S9) from Lengenbach Quarry, Switzerland (LEN-B) (Table 2). In general, Tl was...outlier baumhauerite sample from Lengenbach Quarry in 13 Switzerland (LEN-B) and two samples from La...mineralization, along with baumhauerite from Lengenbach quarry and parapierrotite from Lookout Pass, UT....ore-forming environment, the Lengenbach sulfide deposit in Switzerland, measuring a range of -4.1 to
Catalog/List
'l • £3. 12. BAUMHAUERITE. Lengenbach Quarry, Binnental, Switzerland. Rich, metallic grey masses aggregated...Limonitic gossan. 2xlt". £2. 18. BUSTAMITE. B.R. Quarry, Meldon, Nr. Okehampton, Devon. Fine, pure, divergent... Very fine shape and form. 3tx2". £8. 4-0. COVELLITE. Hen...encrusting Quartz matrix. Distinct crystals Jf Covellite are rare, 2xl". £6. 4-1. CUPRITE. C-opper Queen...cellular Lir.nnitic GJssan. 3txlt". £2.50. CJlcerrJw Quarry, Luxulyan, CJrnwall. n very interesting and unusual
Book (edition)
common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}...mineral of alkaline rocks in the Point of Rocks quarry, Colfax co., New Mexico, with aegirine and arfvedsonite...SwitzerlandItaly, overlooking Binntal, Valais canton, Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
k l i n , New Jersey; Langban, Sweden; Lengenbach, Switzerland; Chuquicamata, Chile; Musonoi and Shinkolobwe...this fluorite and dolomite specimen from Penfield quarry, near Rochester, New York, have been self-collected...Colorless crystals of anhydrite, the Simplon Tunnel, Switzerland (11 cm). Figure 47: Grey cobaltite crystal...crystals with calcite crystals, Prince's Soapstone quarry, Lafayette Station, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania...Cream-colored catapleiite with epididymite, De-Mix quarry, Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec (3.5 cm). Figure 52:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
{vnnecn Coppen-SurrunDrsrexcBs (A) Tetrahedral Covellite Cubanite Chalcopyrite Stromeyerite Enargite Tennantite...found in chalcocite, stromeyerite, chalcopyrite, covellite, cubanite and enargite. In chalcostibite there...Structural investigations on sulfosalts from the Lengenbach, Binn Valley (Ct Wallis). Part 2, Schweiz MineroJ
Journal (issue)
Carolina. Muscovite (twinned) from the Nello Teer Quarry near Raleigh, N. C. in pegmatite veins where pneumatolytic...is uncommon. Major localities are at Ticino, Switzerland; Austria; and Italy. POLYLITIIlONITE, KLi 2 A1Si...example of twinned muscovite from the NeUo Teer Quarry, Raleigh, N. C. Fleischer, Michael, Chao, G. Y...Brazil) Hatchite 1912 Solly & Smith {Lengenbach, Switzerland) Dienerite 1926 Doelter (Radstadt, Austria)...Solly (Lengenbach, Switzerland) Lime 1883 Scacchi (Vesuvius, Italy) Liveingite 1902 Solly (Lengenbach, Switzerland)
Book
Bauditz, Vejby, Denmark; Pierre Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen...Ca)5Ali2(P04)8(0H)22*32H20, 0 Orth. Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H=...Sub-translucent dirty yellow, brownish-yellow, green. Vilate quarry, Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. H= 5-5.5, Djn=3...Translucent yellow. Cherbadung, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 6.5-7, Djj4=3.70, Dg=3.71, VIID...white in reflected light. Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 3, Djjj= 5.329, Dc=
Book
Quartz (smoky variety), St. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland « 4x 8 x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...containing minerals such as quartz, calcite, covellite, chalcopyrite, galena, bornite and sphalerite... Quebec. USA: Climax Lake, Colorado; Frankford Quarry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Europe: Carrock Fell...Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany; Lengenbach Quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland; Cavnic and Sacaramb, Romania...resemblance to pyrite. Covellite, Butte, Montana, USA © 1.3 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm Covellite Formula CuS Specific
Book (edition)
(in alphabetical order): Thomas Armbrusler (Switzerland). Daniel Atcncio (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada)...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...Cherbadung. Binntal (Binnatal), Canton Wallis, Switzerland. 52. 1583, 55, 1818. MM57, 315-322 (stt.) D
Book (volume)
L'Ossola .. . . .. ... . . . . Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn . .. . . . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel e della...a cavallo >> tra la Val For­ mazza e la Valle di Binn. Questi esemplari sono caratteristici anche per...saccaroide bianca (2x). Ochsenfeld, a/ta Valle di Binn. rissimo di ferro e di alluminio. 11 colore e chia­...dolo­ mia nelle vicinanze del Sempione (Valle di Binn). Nel Tirolo austriaco, della bella tremolite si...(lavori idroelettrici dell 'Oberaar), la Val di Binn, qualche cava dell'Ossola (Croveo, Vil­ ladossola
Journal (issue)
Voikau :\n11t· \'ente LA MINÉRALOGIE DU LENGENBACH (Suisse) par Eric ASSELBORN (deuxième partie)...RÉALGAR 1 1 1 1 MINERAUX VALLEE DE BINN. SUISSE MINÉRALOGIE DU LENGENBACH 1 Dans notre précédent numéro...et les méthodes d'exploitation du gis~ment de Lengenbach ; nous voyons maintenant la minéralogie de ce...Le Lengenbnch vu depuis l'Alp l..ercheltini. l. Binn • 2. Imfeld • 3. Carrière de Lengenbnch • 4. Affieurement...avec la rathite est relativement abondante au Lengenbach. Elle fut d'abord dénommée rathite II par l'étude
Journal (issue)
..... 20 Cave mineralisation at Hampstead Farm Quarry, a lecture by Pro£ Rankin; report by Frank Sharp.................. ...... 29 The Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland by Steve Laurie .................were notable. Some excellent material from Manod Quarry was on view, notably a fine synchesite-Ce and some...From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper and cuprite from Prince ofWales Mine, prehnite...terminated natrolite and possible mesolite from Dean Quarry, hetaerolite crystals from Kennack Sands, mixite
Journal (issue)
the cut is currently stockpiled in and around a quarry about a mile to the south, where it will be crushed...CrystalLocalities Fig. 1 Turquoise, Kvartsbrudd (quarry), near Notodden, Norway, photo by Frede Andersen... l\lincral News 8 Fig. 2 Turquoise, Kvartsbrudd (quarry), near Notodden, Norway, photo by Frode Andersen...it was described by Fransolet and Melon from the quarry Fosse Roulette, Cahay, Vielsalm, where it occurs...Lake, near Notodden, Norway An abandoned quartzite quarry produced attractive globular aggregates to 1.5
 
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