 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Localities of the Central Swiss Alps Figure 1 (above). Quartz ‘‘gwindel” (elongation along a-axis), Fieschergletscher...Burgener, Fiesch. Figure 2 (left). Rose fluorite and quartz, Goscheneralp, Canton Uri. Fluorite octahedron...CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures...discovered that consisted of numerous well-shaped quartz crystals from the adjacent mountains. As early |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...sio2ga@bellsouth.net Terry Ledford P.O. Box 239 Little Switzerland, North Carolina 28749 wiscottawatta@wmconnect...royal purple, with relatively little smoky color compared to the quartz from other Piedmont amethyst occurrences...a depression that would contain colorless drusy-quartz-lined vugs containing nice clusters of gemmy amethyst...could be seen in these pockets, where the clear quartz druse lining the wall rock had separated from its |  | | Book | | the private Bally foundation at Schonenwerd, Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because...Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly because they...hematite "Iron rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...Mineralogical Museum, University of Bonn. 22 Quartz (Rock crystal), of Dauphine habit, from the classic...FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | epidote + quartz + H2O = laumontite + prehnite, at low-pressure end and epidote + chlorite + quartz + H2O...pumpellyite at high-pressure end; (2) laumontite + quartz + H2O = heulandite (Cho et al., 1987). Dashed arrow...cooling path derived from fluid inclusions in fissure quartz (Mullis et al., 1994). low pressures (<200 MPa)...BiascaEpi Camperio ⁄ Passo del Lucomango Domodossola La Fibbia, Gotthard Lodrino Mt Ceneri Pizzo Lucendro Val...districts: BE, Bern; GL, Glarus; GR, Grisons; TI, Ticino; UR, Uri; VS, Valais). Major associated fissure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849-5305 Fluorite on Quartz CHAMONIX, HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE This exquisite fluorite on quartz specimen is considered...fluorite, hematite, and essentially incomparable quartz crystals in very large sizes and peculiar forms...to dark smoky quartz and are related to fissures in granites or felsic gneisses. Switzerland boasts a...octahedra up to 10 cm are reported associated with quartz, chlorite, and calcite. The intensity of pink color...(mountain-climbing collectors) on Goscheneralp and at nearby Fibbia. Other pink fluorite localities in this region |  | Parker, R. L., Stalder, H. A., de Quervain, F., Niggli, E., Graeser, St. (1973) Die Mineralfunde Der Schweiz (2nd ed.) Verlag Wepf & Co., Basel. | Book (edition) | | 3-85977-002-0 Copyright by Wepf & Co., Basel Printed in Switzerland Buchdruckcrci Birkhauser AG, Basel inTIWNRI...die Zentren (Vorkommensgebiete des Adulars mit Fibbia-Habitus) 420 ± 20 °C, fiir die tibri gen Gebiete...nier Nordlich obiger Linie Adular (NISSEN 1967) Fibbia-Habitus hoch Maderaner Habitus tief Zwei noch...Andermatt-Oberalp Ambri- oberstes Maggiatal-Fiesch 2. Untere Leventina und unteres Bleniotal Obrige Schweizer Alpen ...nur im Binnatal, in der mittleren und unteren Leventina und in der Umgebung von Olivone gefunden worden |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | less crjstalline condition as an incrustation on quartz, of a deep greenish-black colonr when well crjstallised...after topaz is not mentioned by Blum. (5.) Mealy Quartz.-The cacochlor of the Saxon Obergebirge is accompanied...; it therefore consists not of tridymite but of quartz. Analysis gave 97.55 per cent. silica. (6.) Lnutite...metal. H. W. Liqiiid Carbonic Anhydride in Smoky Quartz. By G. W. HAWES ( X i U . Am. J. [3], 21, 203--1...-0n the Gaseous Substances contained in the Smoky Quartz of Branchville, Con(ibid., 209-216) ; Jahrb |  | | Report (issue) | | phosphate type pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite...Alpine and hydrothermal veins, it is found with quartz and feldspar. In topaz rhyolites where red beryl...beryl is found, topaz, high-temperature quartz, and bixbyite are common associates of beryl. Alteration...2.87 1 (50) A bove: Beryl, topaz, a/bite, and quartz; 15 cm from the Shigar Valley, Skardu district...2) species. Low pH fluids (pH~2-3) result in quartz as the dominant alteration product. A pH of 4-5 |  | | Book | | second piece: the flakes are mica, the glassy grains quartz, and the yellowish grains feldspar. The whole specimen...hich feldspar, quartz, and mica are the main constituents. Quartzite consists of quartz only, mica schist...schist of quartz and mica, and eclogite of garnet and augite. There are also rocks which consist of fragments...100,000 years ago, beads made of limestone and quartz were found, and when man began to decorate cave...hexagofja/ and trigomiiPI. 12corundum, Pls. 14- 17 quartz, Pls. 22, 23 calcite, Pl. 30 apatite and -pyromorphite |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...9: 1 (Gaines, 1971; Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world...major associations of Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | contains euhedral quartzes (rock crystals, smoky quartz and morion quartz) of very variable sizes. Typically...earliest mineral fissures formed at about 400 °C and quartz-filled fissures continued to form to temperatures...from surface outcrops in the Rien valley hosted in quartz veins occurs as light reddish to brownish aggregates...Qtz-Cc-Ms-Ttn-Stb Stb crystals up to 5 mm growing on Cc, Fibbia granite gneisses Gotthard road tunnel A4 Qtz-Kfs-Stb...forming radial groups of 1 cm in diameter, hosted in quartz lenses in paragneisses Riental/Ur DT Hul-Stb |  | | Catalog/List | | Arizona RRUFF Project. Another was the 7,500+ quartz in Minas Gerais, Brazil: a micromount collection...........................................167 Switzerland ...............................................online, visit HA.com/5445 72018 Chrysocolla & Quartz var. “Gem” Chrysocolla Live Oak Pit, Inspiration...Starting Bid: $1,000 72019 ”Gem” Chrysocolla, Quartz & Malachite Miami, Miami-Inspiration District,...geode of gem chrysocolla lined with sparkling drusy quartz crystals. Got this piece from Norm Holer when he |  | | Book | | specimens are the handsome twisted smoky-quartz crystals from Switzerland. This fine example is flawlessly...bottom: papagoite in quartz, Messina, North Transvaal, South Africa; rutile in quartz, Tavetsch, Canton...Canton Grisons, Switzerland; stibnite in quartz, Manhattan, Nye County, Nevada. Inclusion specimens may be...pyramids one on top of the other within this flawless quartz crystal. Phantoms are inclusions caused by impurities...x 3” x 1" wafer-thin encrustation of brilliant quartz, calcite, and stilbite after a cluster of what |  | | Book | | RudolfDuthaler. Girenhaldenweg 17, CH-4126 Bettingen, Switzerland e-Mail: rudolf.duthaler@gmail.com With the cooperation...Duthaler, Girenhaldenweg 17, CH-4126 Bettingen, Switzerland e-Mail: rudolf.duthaler@:gmail.com Coi·er. aboi·e...with associated :ea/ire fsrilbire)from Fibbia, Gou hard, Switzerland (1.8 cm @, photo to rhe left) was first...Duthaler, Girenhaldenweg 17, CH-4126, Bettingen, Switzerland. E-mail: rudolf.duthaler@gmail.com •Dr.Stefan...coatings are usually partially ingrown into the quartz and when removed a rough, gray surface emerges |  | | Book | | quartz. A group of prismatic crystals with terminal pyramid...important members augite and hornblende. Next come quartz and mica (dark biotite and light muscovite). These...elements occur it will be obvious that silicates and quartz are the minerals most widely distributed. Nevertheless...foil on milky-white quartz. > From Musariu mine, Transylvania. Gold Au cubic. Quartz from German quarzen...are often given special names. Thus amethyst is quartz coloured violet by small quantities of iron or |  | | Book | | parageneses that ZER 1 a violet variety of the mineral quartz. A group of prismatic crystals with terminal pyramid...i1nportant 1ne111bers augite and hornblende. Next come quartz and 1nica (dark biotite and light muscovire). These...elements occur it will be obvious that silicates and quartz are the minerals most widely distributed. Nevertheless...foil on milky-white quartz. !> From Musariu mine, Transylvania. Gold Au cubic. Quartz fron1 German quarzen...are often given special na1nes. Thus a,nethyst is quartz coloured violet by sn1all quantities of iron or |  | | | | that <1 AMETHYST a violet variety of the mineral quartz. A group of prismatic crystals with terminal pyramid...important members augite and hornblende. Next come quartz and mica (dark biotite and light muscovite). These...elements occur it will be obvious that silicates and quartz are the minerals most _ widely distributed. Nevertheless...foil on milky-white quartz. > From Musariu mine, Transylvania. Gold Au cubic. Quartz from German Scale...are often given special names. Thus amethyst is quartz coloured violet by small quantities of iron or |  | | Book (edition) | | very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...purine-porphyrine group). a nickel porphyrine. With quartz. rutile, piemontite, sursassite, ardennite, Triclinic... translucent, luster growing on orthoclase and quartz on the Malosa resinous.streak white. H = 5. D = |  | | Journal (issue) | | a s h f o r G e m s t o n e s : Chrysocho]1a in quartz, chrysocholla, azurite, sugilite, charoite, turquoize...photoluminescence induced by various lamps (mercury-quartz, xenon, and deuterium lamps) and ultraviolet laser...(morganite), wollastonite, danburite, datolite, quartz, calcite, corundum, microcline, plagioclase, spodumene...Passe-like mineralization in the cracA offerruginous quartz. The Kasmпnachi deposit, Kazakhstan. The photograph...Specimen: V. Moroshkin. (alone) Naive gold in quartz covered by aпifгcial tutuine.scent coating. The |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland R H O D O C H R O S IT E fro m th e N ’C h w...Switz erland) Robert Sullivan, Jr. (Oberwil, Switzerland) Joseph Taggart (Socorro, NM) Doug and Fran Toland...cm(!), most off matrix, others perched on clear quartz with typi cally some 20-30% of them having thin...another strahler, pink fluorite on beautiful smoky quartz. this the result of his two weeks of digging...although the rare ones clusters of rich brown smoky quartz crys such as lengenbachite, imhofite and binnite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...Ogdensburgite. Shavano Peak (C O ) v,13/#4 Diam ond (CO ), Quartz (M T ). Jeanbandyite. Bancroft (O nt.) $10 v ...ber o f other minerals, including excellent faden quartz, have been fo u n d there as well. INTRODUCTION...found nothing but some white pieces of massive quartz. Was the professor right in saying that the location...visited only by foresters and hunters. In the 1950’s quartz became very important for different pur poses |  | | Book | | Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Spain .. Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Republic United Kingdom . United States...Felbertal; epidotes, Untersulzbachtal; biggest smoky quartz of the Eastern Alps (203 kg). Uses and services:...(Fluorite, Beryllium minerals, Sceptre quartz, Alpine quartz, Treasures of the Hohe Tauern, Habachtal)...and 14:00 to 16:00. Exhibits: Specimens with smoky quartz, feldspar (albite, orthoclase, cleavelandite)...with cups of rock crystals; morion and tabular quartz from Maissau; amethyst specimens and amethyst breccias |  | | Book | | minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293...13:67-70 New data on the cause of smoky and amethystine color in quartz (by A. J. Cohen) 20:365-367 Amethyst...Record bookshelf-A Guide to rite Minerals of Switzerland; Connecticut Mines and Minerals; Mineral Collecting...minerals in the Alpine and Subalpine region [Switzerland, Austria and Italy] (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293...(by R. Dietrich & R. Bode] 15:323-344 BAHIA Black quartz from Vit6ria da Conquista [Bahia,] Brazil (by J |  | | Book (volume) | | FRONTISPIECE. Smoky-quartz. St. Gotthard, Switzerland (from a specimen in the Karlsruhe...references to follow without The A. proprietors (smoky-quartz), for To M. Berwerth comparison of plates...Lapis-lazuli 258 Turquoise 260 Quartz 266. Yellow and 269. brown quartz 268. Chalcedony Opal Silicates... Amethyst Tridymite Common quartz 271. 276. 261 Group Smoky-quartz 364. Kainite Minerals 252...Zinc-ores I. 21. Frontispiece. of Plate 1. Smoky-quartz, large group 2. Forms of Antimony-ores |  | | Book | | known to humankind since prehistoric times such as quartz and gold, but also minerals first described quite...secondary. It occurs with pyrite, arsenopyrite, quartz, sylvanite. calaverite. krennerite and other minerals...in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes...mm (37s in) and imperfect crystals were found in quartz veins in Atlin, British Columbia, Canada. Fine...together with chalcocite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, quartz and other minerals. Fine crystals up to 10 mm ('/> |
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Fibbia, Fontana, Airolo, Leventina, Ticino, Switzerland