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Bournonite from
Feldspar quarry, Laas, Fresach, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Bournonite
Formula:PbCuSbS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bournonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Feldspar quarry, Laas, Fresach, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:199675
Long-form Identifier:1:3:199675:3
GUID (UUID V4):13c97809-2f72-45ce-a4d3-6fe3ecb28e6f
Nearest other occurrences of Bournonite
12.4km (7.7 miles) Marble quarry, Kras, Treffen am Ossiacher See, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
18.2km (11.3 miles) Zunderwand, Erlacher Bock, Radenthein, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
18.5km (11.5 miles) Erlacher Bock, Radenthein, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
18.6km (11.5 miles) Erlacher Bock Alp, Erlacher Bock, Radenthein, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
22.0km (13.7 miles) Umberg, Wernberg, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
26.0km (16.2 miles) Kot Alp, Innerkrems iron deposts, Krems in Kärnten, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
35.2km (21.8 miles) Oberdorf mining district, Rennweg am Katschberg, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
37.9km (23.5 miles) Johanniskogel, Flattnitz, Sankt Veit an der Glan District, Carinthia, Austria
43.7km (27.1 miles) Schurfspitze (north slope), Silbereck - Altenbergkar area, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
43.9km (27.3 miles) Silbereck - Altenbergkar area, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
References
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crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 21. HYDROZINCITE visible with...fluorescent coating, large I x2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 22. HYDROXYL-HERDERITE good pale pinkish...pinkish crystal about half inch size (Linopolis district, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil) ...Yavapai County Arizona USA £10 lx2 £5 lxl £3 24. BOURNONITE very rich silvery mass in 2.x2.5 inch matrix
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Torda( Telemark Norway £ 12 11. SPESSARTINE on feldspar crystals about 1.5mm orange spessartine crystals...I inch 12. BOURNONITE good coverage of grey crystals on the surface of massive Bournonite/Pyrite. Quiruvilca...micro's on some galena in the matrix, Bleiberg Carinthia Austria ( one of the most famous European mines) £20...inch matrix with minor Hydrozincite Bleiberg Carinthia Austria £6 20. HUNTITE white chalky massive areas...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India 23. EUDIALYTE really excellent display
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crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...5 mm size (Benallt Mine,Lleyn, Wales) £30 11. BOURNONITE good blocky grey crystals from half to one inch...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...43. ZIRCON brown spots scattered over large 2x3 feldspar, yellow FLUORESCENCE short wave. Tvedalen Larvik
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pure grey slightly crystalline mass, Ratnapura district SriLanka small 2x3 £8 5. MUSCOVITE nice curved...fibrous crystals in large 2x3 quartz Maishofen, Austria £17 15. KOCHSANDORITE three small white areas...and with a band ofBarite (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 3x3 inch 42. FLUORITE cleavages...coverage and interesting location Hingston Down Quarry Cornwall 3x2.5 £8 43 . LEPIDOLITE good small display...with short wave, UV large lx2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 46. CALCITE creamy massive, with very
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mass nearly lxl inch with Hydrocerussite. Merehead Quarry Mendips £35 9. SIMPSONITE Orange cleavage mass...across on lxl with small quartz crystals Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec £25 14. VESUVIANITE lxl inch area...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 41. ALLOPHANE good creamy- pale...pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 some attractive salmon- 43. HYDROZINCITE...with short wave, UV large lx2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 44. CALCITE nice FLUORESCENT piece, nail
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========================================== Bournonite, 2.6 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou...miniatures of bournonite from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. Bournonite from...all show lustrous, cogwheel-shaped, multiple bournonite twins with (to judge from the photos) little...Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabroda, Vila Real district, Norte Region, Portugal. Fabre Minerals specimen...Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, Norte Region. These seven fluorite specimens
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Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part
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formed in various ways. The well-known minerals feldspar, quartz and mica derive from gases, generally...as parageneses, e.g. feldspar and quartz. Others exclude each other, e.g. feldspar and rock salt. Most...scratched talc gypsum calcite fluorspar apatite feldspar quartz topaz corundum diamond Resistance to Grinding...than the rock forming minerals, such as quartz or feldspar. That is why they are deposited by flowing river...Antimonite, arsenopyrite, orpiment, galena, bornite, bournonite, covellite, tetrahedrite, cobaltite, chalcocite
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5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture...location. As S rich pink cleavage 345 REEDMERGNERITE Feldspar Group micro orange spheres on ½ inch matrix. 72... Brosso Minc,lvrca.ltaly lxl £5 Boghill Road Quarry, Glengonnley, County Antrim, Yaknl Mine,Bigndic...£10 OH Claims, Gila County, Arizona U.S.A Haury Quarry, Black Forest, Germany Ayama Bolivia ½x½£1.50...Astrophyllite small brown plates with Aegirine in feldspar (St Hilaire Quebec,Canada) I x 1 .5 £4 Donnayaite
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(Old Gunnislake Mine,Cornwall) 14 ins £4.50 065 BOURNONITE PbCuSbS/3 grey massive in quartz (Les Anglais...with Azurite. Rare. (Grabanz,Neufinkenstein,Carinthia Austria) 2x2cm £4 452 TENORITE Copper .Oxide. Rich...OH good blue micro crystals on rock (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) 14 X 14 £2.00 lx 14 £3.50 2 ...thin light blue crusts on matrix. (St Stephan Austria) lxlins £5 1cm £3.50 416 TYROLITE Ca Cu Arsenate/Carbonate...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
there. The rock forming minerals, such as quartz, feldspar, mica, calcite and dolomite, build entire mountain...galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, jamsonite, bournonite, pyrite, ankerite. There are also some other...deposits: sphalerite xls, tetrahedrite, galena xIs, bournonite, calcite xIs, cIausthalite-rare selenium mineral...twins of gypsum crystals. BLEIBERG, Carnthia, Austria. Leadzinc deposit, here occur: galena, large xIs...greenockite, stolzite and srnithsonite. Near Salzburg Austria, well known mineral locality: wagnerite, lazurite
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OCTOBER 1'n7 1. ACTI~ULITE. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. Choice oliv~ green very rich lustrous bladed crystal...1:3.25. 3. ALMANDINE GARNET. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. Select lustrous well formed deep raspberry red...-rixl-t".£3.25. 7. APATITE. Etiro Mine Karibab District, S.W. Africa. Unusual turquoise blue pure lustrous...Cleavelandite in places. 2-txlfxlt-". £8.00. BOURNONITE. Wheal Boys, st. Endellion, Cornwall. Lustrous...blackish Sphalerite crystals covering cellular Bournonite matrix with odd needly crystals of Jamesonite
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SPECIMEN) 80x70 2 BISMUTHINITE XSTLS. PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE, TWO XSTLS TO 3MM IN BISMUTHINITE/QUARTZMATRIX...ACC No. 826. MOLYBDENITE & NATIVE BISMUTH, PENLEE QUARRY, MOUSEHOLE. A 20 MM AREA OF MOLYBDENITE AND A 20...No. 1028. CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR, WHEAL COATES, ST. AGNES. (EXC.V.SMALE) 40X20...No. 960. CASSITERITE PSEUDOMORPHING ORTHOCLASE FELDSPAR WHEAL COATES. ST. AGNES. A SINGLE CRYSTAL. (EX...TOURMALINEMATRIX. 180x 130 QUARTZ CRYSTALS. GREYSTONES QUARRY, LEZANT. WHITEfTRANSPARENT PRISMATIC XSTLS. ENCRUSTING
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black rock, containing no quartz but rich in the feldspar minerals pyroxene and olivine. Old basalts with...intrusive rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual...traprock is diabase in which lath-like crystals of feldspar grow first and darker minerals grow round them...structure. It contains mostly quartz and orthoclase feldspar with some smaller amounts of a darker mineral...rocks are poor in quartz but rich in plagioclase feldspar. Darker and even poorer in silica than diorite
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location details l cm£4 2cm£8 Mount Malosa, Zomba District. Malawi IxI ins £5 Rich line grained black crystalline...DESCRIPTON Pyroxene Na Fe TiSiO MnS PbSi0/3 Feldspar ALLANITE Cc Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO ALLOPHANE pure...r, I 1.J 3 Ca Al C0/3 ALUNITE K AlS0/4 OH Feldspar Li Na Al P0/4 F OH Zeolite TiO Kcystonc. South...Gryth)1tan. Sweden 7 CcSrC0/3 CcSr C0/3 AISiO Feldspar Pb AgSb S CaS0/4 Dolomite group ANNITE ANORTHITE...silvery schist Kaveltorp MineSweden 18 Mica Feldspar Felspar Group Amphibole 502 ANTIGORITE 29
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glassy grains quartz, and the yellowish grains feldspar. The whole specimen is called granite. Limestone...rock consisting of several minerals, of w.hich feldspar, quartz, and mica are the main constituents. Quartzite...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...(NaCl), pyrite (FeS ), 2 magnesite (MgC03), potash feldspar (KA1Si 30 ), are mineral 8 examples, whilst hydrochlo_ric...adularia, Fig. 23 augite and hornblende, Fig. 24 feldspar; triclink Pl. 44 microcline, Fig. 8 albite. No
Journal (issue)
SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2022 Articles The Akchatau mine, Shet District, Karaganda, Kazakhstan..................573 by...recently he had been concentrating on the Tintic district in Utah and amassed many self-collected specimens...Bay Area. He and Agatha also purchased some farm land where they raised grapes, almonds and pistachios...illustrated in his 1972 article on the Fairfax quarry in the Mineralogical Record, and on page 255 of...favorite collecting spots was the famous Auglaize quarry in Paulding County, Ohio. He kept meticulous records
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BOURNONITE.Mapimi,Durango.Mexico.Lead grey equant bournonite xtls to 13mm sitttmg with a little milky quartz...no matrix. Good RF Ml £2 59. BARITE,Coldstones Quarry,Patley Bridge,Yorkshire.Attractive xtl groups of...with ADULAR,Schwarzkopf,Anlauftal.Pongau,Salzburg,Austria. PU mass of greenish black earthy clinochlore coated...LOLLINGITE.Grube Lolling.Huttenberg in Karnten,Austria Rich veins of radiating silvery grey needle like...Castrovirreyana Mine,nr Lima.Peru.Submetallic lead grey bournonite xtls to 17mm stud a sulphide hch matrix.With
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2018 Articles Oberdorf an der Laming, Styria, Austria ................................ ................STRONTIANITE, 9 cm, from Oberdorf an der Laming, Styria, Austria. Fine Minerals International specimen, now in the...STEPHANIE@STONETRUST.COM Obtrdorf an dtr Laming ~ tyria, austria Thomas P. Moore Peter Huber 2709 East Exeter...net Rohe-Wand-Gasse 18 A-2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria huber@mineral.at Just outside the village of Oberdorf... in the state of Styria (Steiermark), central Austria. The setting is bucolic, the mining history is
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the county into eleven districts, stretching from Land 's End to the Tamar at the bound ary with Devon...well as two scenic views to give a flavour of the district. Such a plethora of wonderful minerals - each...impossible to include all those found in each district. I have therefore included a gallery of minerals...Granite is formed from the minerals of quartz, feldspar and mica. sedment s,lty (3) Granite intrusion...c:liffs and exposed tors on the high ground i r,land that are such a feature of Cornwall. Near the end
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China. Figure 1: An apparent pseudomorphafter bournonite, collected at the YaogangxianMinein YunnanProvince...of wellrounded felsite, granophyre, and quartz-feldspar porphyry pebbles. cobbles, and boulders suggesting...than one hundred years. June 2019 Because the bournonite specimens from the Yaoganxian Mine are often...page I). The yellowish mineral replacing the bournonite crystals resembled '•bindheimite", a Pb-Sb-O...China, and the first observed pseudomorph after bournonite from the Yaogangxian Mine. Conglomerate Silver
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dating back 17,000 years; Magdalensburg (Carinthia, Austria), where a series of quartz crystals were...Lombardy, which was under the direct control of Austria) fostered the formation of independent states....sirnilar to those in Switzerland and southern Austria, in the north. (2) Hercynian granite with pegmatites...dematoid variety) from the abandoned Sferliin asbestos quarry in the Malenco Valley, following in the footsteps...crystals to 5.8 cm on edge), from the Azcarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain. Roberto Appiani photo.
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35-0, water 20-2, Beud. P. L. The salt mines of Austria, Sal/burg, &c. The hot springs of Carlsbad, &c...rock-salt or its accompanying clays. Aussee, in Upper Austria, in the same. APTHALOSE. SULPHATE OF POTASSA...62-8, Gmelin. P. L. It is said to occur in the district of Tarapaca, Peru, forming a vast bed several...Cheshire Wieliczka, Poland Hall, in the Tyrol ; Austria Salzburg Spain Egypt, &c., chiefly in secondary...20 per cent, of water, occurs at Bleiberg, in Carinthia. It is classed by Beudant as a distinct species
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there. 40x25x30mm. £18. 5) ARAGONITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A shallow cavity in a triangular...biotite without matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean...specimen showing very lustrous metallic silvery bournonite as two chunky cogs, the largest to 30mm by 10mm...£25. 18) FERBERITE after SCHEELITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. Two fairly sharp pyramidal...19) FERRITUNGSTITE and SCHEELITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A heavy mass showing yellow
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there. 40x25x30mm. £18. 5) ARAGONITE. Greystones Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall. A shallow cavity in a triangular...biotite without matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean...specimen showing very lustrous metallic silvery bournonite as two chunky cogs, the largest to 30mm by 10mm...£25. 18) FERBERITE after SCHEELITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. Two fairly sharp pyramidal...19) FERRITUNGSTITE and SCHEELITE. Hingston Down Quarry, Callington, Cornwall. A heavy mass showing yellow
 
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