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Tourmaline from
Marble quarry, Gummern, Weißenstein, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Comments:This bluish tourmaline was assigned to dravite by chem. analysis and lattice parameters in Ertl, A. (1995): Elbait, Olenit, Dravit-Buergerit-Mischkristalle, Dravit, Uvit und ein neuer Al-Turmalin (?) von österreichischen Fundstellen. - Mitt. Österr. Miner. Ges., 140, 55-72.
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Gummern, Weißenstein, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:989952
Long-form Identifier:1:3:989952:0
GUID (UUID V4):62faef75-eca2-47e4-9993-bbc2965500b8
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
2.1km (1.3 miles) Modre quarry, Kras, Treffen am Ossiacher See, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
3.8km (2.4 miles) Oswaldiberg tunnel (A10 Highway tunnel), Oswaldiberg, Villach, Carinthia, Austria
8.7km (5.4 miles) Jungfernsprung, Landskron castle, Landskron, Villach, Carinthia, Austria
17.2km (10.7 miles) Döbriach, Millstatt lake, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
22.1km (13.7 miles) Lug-ins-Land, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
24.5km (15.2 miles) Magnesite Mine, Millstätter Alpe, Millstatt, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
25.9km (16.1 miles) Feldspar quarry, Wolfsberg, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
29.1km (18.1 miles) Radischberg, St Peter, Moosburg, Klagenfurt-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
31.3km (19.4 miles) Lieser river alluvials, Trebesing, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
34.7km (21.6 miles) Hintereggengraben, Trebesing, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z B U R G (Land Salzburg)...Muscovite; Asbestos; A c ­ tinolite in asbestiform; Tourmaline with the province. (black) ; Titanite X l s ;...GrossgLoekner S*lzbur* Styrla to JudfnteurR VI CARINTHIA Yugoslavia 220 ROCKS AND MINERALS of the...the road. Seidelwinkel-Zoisite. Bucheben. Marble. Kolm Saigurn at the end of the road. Old gold M. with...Asbes­ tos. Hofgastein. Ilmenite. Bad Hofgastein. Marble; Epidote Xls. Bad Gastein. Very old gold mines
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minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first case,...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...apatite and -pyromorphite, Pl. 37 beryl, Pl. 38 tourmaline, Fig. 17 quartz, Fig. 20 calcite; tetragonal...kyanite, staurolite, garnets, epidote, zircon, tourmaline, cordierite, sillimanite, augite, hornblende...sedimentary rocks are formed. Deposition may take place on land, in rivers, lakes, or in the sea. The majority of
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Articles Famous mineral localities: Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria ...........................................6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner Lieber. For a detailed review...1 famous mineral localities: Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria Gerhard Niedermayr* Department of Mineralogy-Petrology...History Museum of Vienna Burgring 7, A-1014 Vienna, Austria leiberg is among the most famous o f European...Bleiberg is located in southern Austria, in the province of Karn;n (Carinthia), just a few kilometers north
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MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derby, N . H., 0 3 0 4 1 ( P A R T III)...Vivianite as powder. Krasta Valley. Marble Qs six Mi. W of Villach nr Drautal. Raibl-Galena; Calamine;...Adularia Xls; Magne­ tite X l s ; Sphene X l s ; Black Marble Q. Mallnitz-Pericline X l s . Unterschaferalpe...N E / from Heiligenblut-Thurningite. Dobrova-Tourmaline Xls var Dravite; Maraeodite. Gloggnitz-Arfedsonite;...Altenberg-Hematite. Wochein-Limonite (Geodes). General-Tourmaline (yellow and black). VII STYRIA (Steiermark)
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MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...from many These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to...two or more until a more rounded text results. Austria is defined here as what is localities. presently...mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria in­ which the best is the Natural History cluded...map that is on the folder around Hiittenberg in Carinthia. Mica of each map. The map numbers appear (phlogopite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HUET Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria HEINRICH MALI AND PETER...Montanuniversität Leoben, Peter-Tunnerstraße 5, 8700 Leoben, Austria MONIKA HORSCHINEGG Department of Lithospheric...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ANDREAS ERTL AND GERALD GIESTER Institut für...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT In the Eastern Alps (Central Europe)... quartz, plagioclase, muscovite, garnet, and tourmaline, with additional spodumene in the pegmatites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Na-rich dravite in the marbles from Friesach, Carinthia, Austria: Chemistry and crystal structure Franz Pertlik...Na-rich dravite in the marbles from Friesach, Carinthia, Austria: Chemistry and crystal structure. – N. Jb...light green tourmaline crystals from a marble near Friesach, Carinthia, show that this tourmaline belongs...for 898 single crystal X-ray data. Key words: Tourmaline, dravite, crystal structure, crystal chemistry...together with an accurate geologic mapping of Carinthia. In an overview on petrological, and in parts
Catalog/List
crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent...e a pseudomorph Also one small pink and green tourmaline crystal section and some fine grained Lepidolite...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)
Journal (issue)
MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1945 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................···································· 471 BLEIBERG, AUSTRIA .................................................SPECIMEN FROM PENN. ........ 479 BRENNER PASS OF AUSTRIA ··············································...(township) ; and Dexter Lime Quarry, Lincoln township. The latter quarry is not usually ascribed to any...shelf of the quarry lies some 35 feet below the water level, the bottom much more. The quarry was first
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gems you will receive as part of your collection. Marble MINERALS --------------8ism uthin it e, Blue...GEM MATERIALS, MARBLE IS FAIRLY EASY TO RECOGNISE BUT DIFFICULT TO DEFINE The finest marble is white, but... green, grey or red. Scientists usually regard marble as a rock rather than a mineralogical species....a reference to its distinctive sheen Oustre). Marble is not really a mineral species but a metamorphic...although it may be highly variable in composition, marble is principally made up of calcite. Each molecule
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract: The geological settings of Cr-bearing tourmaline occurrences are reviewed and the crystal chemistry...are established. An increasing Cr content in tourmaline causes an increase of both lattice parameters...octahedra and of the tetrahedral ring. Key-words: tourmaline, chromium, crystal structure, X-ray single-crystal...summarizes the geological settings of the Crbearing tourmaline occurrences and includes single-crystal structure...by Rumyantseva (1983). According to the recent tourmaline nomenclature (Henry et al., 2011), the mineral
Book
rhombohedron apatite beryl, corundum calcite quartz tourmaline orthorhombic rhombic prisms pyramids barytes...spodumene, staurolite, talc, titanite, topaz, tourmaline, vesuvianite (idocrase), wollastonite, zeolite...inclusions may contain asbestos, chlorite, hornblende, tourmaline. 3 Rock Crystal Cluster (Minas Gerais, Brazil)...according to the albite law. Occurs in Switzer¬ land, Urals, Norway, UK. Feldspathoids are minerals of...muscovite (No. 13). Rare. Specimen from the Tyrol (Austria). 10 Biotite is the most common mica, named after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria 2 OREA, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology...of Sciences, Hollandstrasse 11-13, A-1020Wien, Austria e-mail: christian.ademeit@student.tugraz.at The...of Vienna, Althanstraße 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien, Austria Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography...Leoben, Peter-Tunner-Straße 5, A-8700 Leoben, Austria Department of Geology, Shahid Chamran University...University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, A-8010, Graz, Austria e-mail: thomas.angerer@uibk.ac.at 1 2 Sphalerite
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metamorphosed sandstone and forms a hard rock. Marble forms from the metamorphosis of limestone and may...16 Phyllite Gneiss Homfels 17 Quartzite Marble Skam 18 Sedimentary Rocks Sandstone Travertine...Crystals often show a triangular cross-section as in tourmaline and the rhombohedral class has axes paralleling...hair-like as in millerite; columnar, as in beryl or tourmaline; platy, the micas; bladed, as in kyanite; tabular...properties which may help in identification. Tourmaline is pyroelectric in that it becomes electrically
Report (issue)
extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept &...Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline A Gemstone Spectrum Contributions by Brian C...LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief ..........Mineralogy of the Tourmaline Group . . . 10 Species by Species - The Minerals of the Tourmaline Group ........24 Ferdinand Damaschun • Is There Really Black Tourmaline? ..... 30 Joachim Zang and Warde da Fonseca-Zang
Catalog/List
Hallein, 9. L. Hallein, Lower Lower Austria. Fibrous. Austria. Lamellar, color sky blue and white...white. 10. L. Ischel, Upper 2 Austria. Color red. Mineralogical Cabinet. Genps V. Sp. ac. U. Ammoniac-Salt...Hungary. Triv. Pollyhallite. 26. L. Ischel, Upper Austria. CLASS ORDER Genus 28. L. 29. L. 30. L. HJILOIDE...Gypsum-Haloide. (efflorescing.) 31. L. Ischel, Austria. Prismatic crystals in groups. 32. L. France...Earthy. Primiatic Gypstm-Haloide. 46. L. Ischel, Austria. tables, intersecting 47. L. Montius, Italy.
Journal (issue)
often quite interesting. A slab of fossiliferous marble was labeled “petrified flesh of a fish, or something...learned that Marriot and Son had bought the Oneco quarry and were working it (the one which we had first...had been abandoned. Here is an example of how a quarry might receive a wrong name by a careless collector...Another source of confusion arises when a mine or quarry is situated near a county or state line and its...adjacent county or state. Or worse still, the mine or quarry could be right on the line. These are but a few
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Institution Washington, D.C. 20560 INTRODUCTION Tourmaline is a name applied to a group of mineral species...comprise a broad range of chemical composition . Tourmaline are found in many different environments. They...form euhedral crystals. The chemi try of the tourmaline group was a cause of much bewilderment to early...ion led Ruskin (1891) to mention in discussing tourmaline, that "on the whole, the chemistry of it is more...than the making of a respectable mineral." The tourmaline group, until recently, has usually been said
Catalog/List
'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high...Meteoric Stone, or Iron Moes, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. Meteorites, Canon Diablo, Arizona. Kiowa...the crystals sandstone allows cabinet are is Austria-Hungary, brown coal formation.” am cases and...are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
published a proposed classification scheme for the tourmaline group. They reexamined the currently approved...approved fourteen end-members of the tourmaline-group minerals and identified potential new end-members based...One of these, a potential new end-member alkali tourmaline, is fluorine-dominant dravite, which they designated...interest to collectors. We think this is a new tourmaline species, and a proposal to the International...because of the odd association and color of the tourmaline crystals. It is interesting to Location The
Catalog/List
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...e a pseudomorph Also one small pink and green tourmaline crystal section and some fine grained Lepidolite...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
Catalog/List
... 2500. 7. BERYL variety MORGANITE, Gillette Quarry, Haddam, Connecticut. Possibly the finestof this...magnificent and extrcmely rare example of ruby on a white marble matrix. The crystals are long and slcnder and bright......................... 10,000. 10. RUBELLITE TOURMALINE, Wranjaka, Madagascar. An old-time solid mass......................... 150. 11. INDICOLITE TOURMALINE, Mawi, Nuristan, Afghanistan. A sharply tenninated........................... 250. 21. INDICOLITE-TOURMALINE ELBAITE, Cruzeiro Mine, Gouvemador Valadares
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sr-bearing high-pressure tourmaline from the Kreuzeck Mountains, Eastern Alps, Austria Andreas ERTL1,*, Dan...Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria *Corresponding author, e-mail: andreas.ertl@a1...Naturhistorisches Museum, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria 3 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Abstract: A detailed investigation was conducted...conducted on high-pressure (~1.4 GPa) tourmaline from an Eoalpine mafic eclogite, which occurs in the Kreuzeck
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
realgar mineralization in marbles from Saualpe, Carinthia, Austria R. GoÈd1 and J. Zemann2 1 2 È sterreichisches...Vienna, Austria O Institut fuÈr Mineralogie und Kristallographie, UniversitaÈt Wien, Vienna, Austria With...December 30, 1999 Summary The ``Geochemical Atlas of Austria'' shows a notable positive geochemical arsenic...stream sediments of the Saualpe, eastern Carinthia, Austria. Detailed investigation has shown that it...orpiment mineralization at Stein near Dellach, Austria is free of other elements (Czermak and Schadler
Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan...In U.S., very abundant in Tri-State lead-zinc district as cockscomb forms. Very excellent cockscomb crystals...found in schists at Mitterberg, Austria, and in the Trentino district, Italy. 40 Arsenopyrite (Metallic
 
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