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


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Coffinite
Formula:U(SiO4) · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:SEM-EDS
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Coffinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:951440
Long-form Identifier:1:3:951440:9
GUID (UUID V4):05ebeef5-f7de-41c6-a8a8-9970918e5e42
Nearest other occurrences of Coffinite
72.2km (44.8 miles) Bonomi Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
93.0km (57.8 miles) Boitses (Les Boitses), Lavey-les-Bains, Lavey-Morcles, Aigle, Vaud, Switzerland
97.4km (60.5 miles) Les Marécottes, Salvan, Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland
97.7km (60.7 miles) La Creusaz U prospect, La Creusaz, Les Marécottes, Salvan, Saint-Maurice, Valais, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mag., 56, 599W. Gabriel (1990) Minerals of Switzerland (5th edition) 603. 222 p. Birh.hiiuserVerlag...Names, International Mineralogical Association. Switzerland. Mineralien-W elt, 2, 17-21 (in German). 000...LengenbachWorking in the higher level ofa new quarry at Lengenbach(Binn- Group. Location of type specimenmaterial...specimenmaterial is not stated tal, Switzerland),where they are always closelyassociated but is presumed to be the...Edenharterite (TlPbAs.Su):A new mineral from Lengenbach,Binntal (Switzerland).Eur. J. Mineral., 4, 1265-1270. S
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commonly filled with secondary minerals. Left: Coffinite (darker grey) with hematite (lighter grey) in...5 dark grey; 4 Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches...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);...part of grain), silicate matrix (dark grey); Stahl quarry, Dörrmorsbach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franken
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BM 1966,00222 Mt. Cherbadung, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland S. Graeser (1966) Schweiz. Min. Petr. Mitt...Baumhauerite (Cotype) BM 1926,01654 Binntal, Valais, Switzerland R.H. Solly (1902) Min. Mag. 13, p. 151....(Part of Holotype) BM 1926,01654 Lengenbach, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland A. Pring, W.D. Birch, D. Sewell...Cafarsite (Cotype) BM 1966,00434 Binntal, Valais, Switzerland S. Graeser (1966) Schweiz. Min. Petr. Mitt...Honea & A.M. Weeks (1976) Canad. Min. 14, p. 429. Coffinite (Cotype) BM 1956,00201 La Sal No.2 mine, Mesa
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Almandine VIII/A.08-160 Henritermierite VIII/A.09-40 Coffinite 828 830 832 834 836 VIII/B - Nesosubsilicates...(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
Catalog/List
acicular sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts...tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal, Switzerland, sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE:... Italy. minute crystals AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE:... Quobec, AS /\BOVE with crystals sprays switzerland. North 1984 .. USA, crystals crystals Switzor...APRIL, Copper Falls, Michigan, Italy. crystals Quarry, S3ndung;;rn, /\sker, AS ABOVE Nalps, /13,
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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 (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)
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(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
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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=
Journal (issue)
3 M.a dans la partie occidentale du Mont Chemin,Valais, Suisse). Selon Vivier et al. ( 1987), leurs faciès...Suisse : découvert par S. Ansermet au Mont Chemin (Valais), il a été daté à environ 9,9 Ma (265 à 285°C pour...; les phosphates : apatite ; les silicates : coffinite - kasolite - quartz épidote - thorite/uranothorite...devenait : pyrite, épidote, quartz, calcite et coffinite (altération de la pechblende). Des cristaux primaires...s'agit de pechblende plus ou moins altérée en coffinite et en richetite. La P" paragenèse est : dolomite
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indigenous people of the discovery area. Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada...Mineralogy, University of Adelaide, Australia. Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, Australia. From Gk...beryllium, calcium, and silicon. Cherbadung, Valais, Switzerland. Named after its discovery locality, at...Freiberg, Germany. Legenbach quarry, Binntal Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Solly, RH. (1902): Mineral....compound in 1952. Gerstenegg, Grimsel, Bern, Switzerland. Walenta, K. (1976): Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr
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Tsumeb, Namibia. Crystals of binnite in Lengenbach, Binntal. Switzerland, up to 30 mm (l'/i6 in). Crystals...in contact metamorphic limestone from the Kalkar quarry, California, USA. Application: Sn ore. Cylindrite...Massachusetts, USA: also Val d'Anniviers, Wallis, Switzerland. Massive aggregates come from Dobsina, Slovakia;...from the cavities in dolomite from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. Livingstonite HgSb4S8 MONOCLINIC...known in metamorphic veins in Val d'Anniviers, Switzerland. Betekhtinite Cu| 0 (Fe,Pb)S 6 ORTHORHOMBIC
Book (volume)
Belgium-the Netherlands-Extreme Western Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Volume V (or Volume III, Part III)...secondary minerals in the Urgeirica deposit are: (1) coffinite [ U ( S i 0 4 ) 1_ Jy ( O H ) 4 ] x ; (2) autunite...primary. Of the three major secondary minerals, coffinite is neither a calcium or copper mineral, autunite...contains inclusions of mudstone. The trachyte (in a quarry on Monte Axpe) is a fine-grained bluishwhite rock...Considerable older pitchblende spherules are replaced by coffinite [U(Si04)i_ x(0H)^ x]. At the end of stage 2, this
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Nruuibia. Crystals of binnite -in Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland, up to 30 nun (P/16 in). Crystals...in contact metamorphic limestone from the Kalkar quarry, California, USA. Application: Sn ore. Cylindrite...Massachusetts, USA; also Val d' Anniviers, Wallis, Switzerland. Massive aggregates come from Doliina, Slovakia;...from the cavities in dolomite from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. Livingstonite HgSb4Sg MONOCLINIC...Luis Potosi, Mexico. Rathite, 60 mm, Binntal, Switzerland Sartorite PbAs2S4 Rathite •• MONOCLINIC
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Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...Mineralogical Museum , University of Berne, Switzerland Mineralogical Museum , University of Copenhagen... Also in Canada, Scotland, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, and New Zealand (nephrite). BEST REF...the floor of the 910-foot level of the Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California, associated with quartz...(cleavelandite), England, Norway, Sweden, France, Italy, Switzerland (pericline), Austria, Germany, USSR, India, Japan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Austria Rg, Nat. As Rg, Orp → Nat. As + Binntal, Switzerland + Fracture controlled As-mineralization in rhyolitic...hydrothermal uranium-bearing minerals like uraninite or coffinite in radioactive hand specimens (as measured by...and genesis of the Lengenbach Pb-Zn-As-Tl-Ba-mineralisation, Binn Valley, Switzerland. Mineralium Deposita...Bi-Co-Ni-Fe-As-S system in the Penninic Alps, Switzerland—unraveling compositional, mineralogical and genetic
Book (edition)
Hans A. Stalder: Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Hugo Strunz: Institute of Mineralogy, Technical...Grasshopper Mt., Tulameen, BC, Canada; Kaltenberg, Valais, Switzerland; Bogota, near Canala, New Caledonia; Mt....intrusion, NWT, Canada; Selva, near Poschiavo, Switzerland; Oko, near Koti, Japan; Red Hills, Wairaw R....France; pic. Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines, Alsace, bach, Binn, SwitzerBlack Forest, and Marienberg, Saxony, Germany;...(1893-1973), professor of mineralogy, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. Mon C2/m. a=11.066, b = 8.085, c = 7.965, B
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and uraninite, small amounts of thucholite and coffinite have been identified. Oxidized uranium minerals...sulphosalt occurrence of Lengenbach in the Binn Valley (et. Wallis, Switzerland). Further important results...mineral! ?, pascoite, associated with mineral 2, coffinite, pyrite, marcasite, galena and tetrahedrite, whose...mineral! mineral 2 pascoite Uranium minerals coffinite tyuyamunite metatyuyamunite metatorbernite Sulphides...zinc and copper, and in the primary zone we find coffinite, pitchblende, karelianite and montroseite. The
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and uraninite, small amounts of thucholite and coffinite have been identified. Oxidized uranium minerals...sulphosalt occurrence of Lengenbach in the Binn Valley (et. Wallis, Switzerland). Further important results...mineral! ?, pascoite, associated with mineral 2, coffinite, pyrite, marcasite, galena and tetrahedrite, whose...mineral! mineral 2 pascoite Uranium minerals coffinite tyuyamunite metatyuyamunite metatorbernite Sulphides...zinc and copper, and in the primary zone we find coffinite, pitchblende, karelianite and montroseite. The
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Also in Canada, Scotland, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Tanzania, Madagascar, and New Zealand... Canada; Habachtal, Austria; Rontongranite, Switzerland; and several localities in northern Italy. SELECTED...Hittero and elsewhere in Norway; near Pizbucendro, Switzerland; in the Ilmenskie Mountains, Urals, USSR; and...the floor of the 910 foot level of the Commercial Quarry, Crestn1ore, California, associated with quartz...Rowan County, North Carolina; at the Chantilly quarry, near Areola, Virginia; Cochise, Gila, and Pima
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Also in Canada, Scotland, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Tanzania, Madagascar, and New Zealand... Canada; Habachtal, Austria; Rontongranite, Switzerland; and several localities in northern Italy. SELECTED...Hitter6 and elsewhere in Norway; near Pizbucendro, Switzerland; in the IlImenskie Mountains, Urals, USSR; and...the floor of the 910 foot level of the Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California, associated with quartz...Rowan County, North Carolina; at the Chantilly quarry, near Arcola, Virginia; Cochise, Gila, and Pima
Catalog/List
................ PERICLINE Italy, Austria 1 SWitzerland Aleine areas Fine large white twin xls on 1:;neisswith...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...bands in layered sandstone with uraninite and coffinite. . . . . . . . . R. AURICHALCITE Zinc copper hydroxy-carbonate...CO2 molecule Canada Ontario, Bancroft, Princess quarry ~inous to glassy yellow masses with blue sodalite
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been rewritten. This is the case, e.g., with coffinite and brannerite. Larger additions have been made...X , imm. Binnental, Wallis (on road Binn-Giessen), Switzerland RAMDOHR Splendidly recrystallized ore...process F I G . 50 170 x "Golzer Berg", Switzerland RAMDOHR Oolite, now consisting of hematite;...of goethite F I G . 194 150 x Carrick Dhu- Quarry, Cornwall RAMDOHR Very peculiar replacement ..."Araldite" . . . manufactured by Ciba in Basel, Switzerland, and "Gießharz P 5 " (Palatal) of BASF, the latter
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo...9: 1 (Gaines, 1971; Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world
 
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