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Orpiment from
Copper ore deposits, Rells valley, Vandans, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Orpiment
Formula:As2S3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orpiment data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper ore deposits, Rells valley, Vandans, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:861746
Long-form Identifier:1:3:861746:0
GUID (UUID V4):a87f1f0c-abf4-4526-9db8-62545d7a7d91
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The Features of Native Gold in Ore-Bearing Breccias with Realgar-Orpiment Cement of the Vorontsovskoe Deposit...The Features of Native Gold in Ore-Bearing Breccias with Realgar-Orpiment Cement of the Vorontsovskoe Deposit...paper describes native gold in ore-bearing breccias with realgar-orpiment cement from the Vorontsovskoe...other minerals. The latter include both common (orpiment, barite, pyrite, prehnite, realgar) and rare species...including the presence of small non-economic copper porphyry deposits and general trend in change of the composition
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example, is found in the oxidized zones of copper deposits, often with cuprite and malachite. Localities...occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association with copper ores, and at Butte, Montana, as well as Colorado...neighbourhood of sulphur¬ bearing agents. Above: Copper from Lake Superior. Michigan. This crystal shows...this example out of proportion Above right: This copper specimen shows dendritic (plant-like) habit and...threadlike appearance 10 Elements and Alloys Copper Cu Native copper occurs in small amounts only, the mineral
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carried out using a fi ngernail (hardness 2-2.5), a copper coin (hardness 3) or a steel knife (hardness 5...ELEMENTS Copper opper has a characteristic reddish colour darkened by a coating of black copper oxide....weathering produces a covering of green copper carbonate. Native copper is quite rare, but the metal is easily...from ores. Copper was one of the earliest metals known, and bronze, a hard alloy of copper and tin, has...used since c. 3000 BC. Native copper is found in altered copper deposits, cracks in basaltic lavas, and
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carried out using a fi ngernail (hardness 2-2.5), a copper coin (hardness 3) or a steel knife (hardness 5...ELEMENTS Copper opper has a characteristic reddish colour darkened by a coating of black copper oxide....weathering produces a covering of green copper carbonate. Native copper is quite rare, but the metal is easily...from ores. Copper was one of the earliest metals known, and bronze, a hard alloy of copper and tin, has...used since c. 3000 BC. Native copper is found in altered copper deposits, cracks in basaltic lavas, and
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University of Bucharest, Romania Rom . J. Mineral Deposits is also the Bulletin of the Society of Economic...Metaliferi Mts. 15 4. Baia Mare metallogenic district 64 5. Other sources of native gold from Romania...various authors involved in the research of gold deposits around Brad. For example, in a report written...in 1910-1911 by Friedrich Schumacher on the ore deposits owned by “Ruda-12 Apostoli” company, a mineral...been added with new gold specimens from the ore deposits around Brad or from the “Golden Quadrilateral”
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coal and oil are associated with sedimentary deposits. When a rock is altered by different types of...disciplines combine to identify economic mineral deposits. Early mineralogists were men who first noticed...minerals of an element which always forms cations (copper or sodium are examples) you need to look through...sedimentary rocks and are often associated with salt deposits because they are precipitated from evaporating...dioxide for rutile (Ti02), arsenic trisulphide for orpiment (As2S3). Growth of Crystals Mineral crystals
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the specifics of a lead carbonate hydroxide or a copper chloride hydroxide. The complete listing of pigment...hydroxide, or cuprorivaite and the related calcium copper silicate generally known as ‘Egyptian blue’). Third...Egyptian blue, which is here defined as calcium copper silicate. The third category (italics in the footer...various blue-green and green corrosion products of copper, its alloys and ores. It is stated in Pliny’s Naturalis...comment that aerugo can be scraped from natural copper ore (König, cf. Kühn, 1993a) it is clear that this
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dendrites, moss, branching trees, wire, knitting (copper); wart-like, mammillary (red hematite); 7 parallel...—m Top, left to right: Bottom, left to right: orpiment, pyrite, cinnabar. hematite, azurite, malachite...fingernail: rubbing fingernail: scratching possible copper com: scratching possible knife: scratching easily...determination: A fingernail will scratch up to hardness 2; a copper coin to 3; a good steel pocketknife to as high...of the cylinder than it is in the and coastal deposits. center (see illustration below). Always try
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dendrites, moss, branching trees, wire, knitting (copper); 2 flaky foliated , bearing some resemblance to...across the plate will produce the streak. If orpiment, pyrite, cinnabar. hematite, azurite, malachite...fingernail: rubbing fingernail: scratching possible copper coin: scratching possible knife: scratching easily...determination: A fingernail will scratch up to hardness 2; a copper coin to 3; a good steel pocketknife to as high...the lighter sand minerals in river and coastal deposits. Specific gravity is established according to
had noticed similarities in age between glacial deposits in South Africa and South America. He also had...ions, changing the feldspar to a clay to Monument Valley and the Grand called kaolinite. But water is not...from mountain batholiths and washed into river deposits, weathering and erosion can be extremely profitable...years, especially along the Baltic Sea, where deposits are plentiful. In the Middle China have yielded...Osmium Hassium i Sm 62}Eu Samarium Pu Plutonium Copper Palladium 77)Pt Iridium Silver 48 Cadmium
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precious native elements such as silver, gold and copper to complex silicates such as vesuvianite, first...such as tectonic movements, volcanoes, rock and ore formation, and looks at the physical and visual properties...Vanadates Silicates Organic Minerals and Mineraloids Ore-forming Minerals Glossary Index 158 159 - ,...the basis of an ancient treasure, lapis lazuli. Copper and gold were first used at least 10,000 years...forms of arsenic sulphide, realgar (top-left) and orpiment (bottom), were used by the Ancient Chinese for
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the specifics of a lead carbonate hydroxide or a copper chloride hydroxide. The complete listing of pigment...hydroxide, or cuprorivaite and the related calcium copper silicate generally known as ‘Egyptian blue’). Third...Egyptian blue, which is here defined as calcium copper silicate. The third category (italics in the footer...various blue-green and green corrosion products of copper, its alloys and ores. It is stated in Pliny’s Naturalis...comment that aerugo can be scraped from natural copper ore (König, cf. Kühn, 1993a) it is clear that this
Report (issue)
SURVEY-INGEOMINAS MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF COLOMBIA: ORE DEPOSIT MODELS By Dennis P. Cox, Editor Open-File...California 1983 PREFACE This compendium of ore deposits models was assembled for the Colombia Mineral...related; (2) to provide data on the environments of ore deposition so that favorable rocks, structures, and...Rocks typical of the geologic terrane in which the deposits are found. (For igneous rock, use terminology...rocks. Age range; Ages of known deposits and ages in which such deposits might have formed. Depositional
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s 20 OR sera anessCUT RSEve S2 Cori ee Bee ORE ByBaSNN e re eae ey enite ose, Ficsils Serta...toolmaking or as currency used in trade be- A chiid’s copper tay home tion the 1950s tween tribes or cultures...making knives, axeheads, and arrow- heads; and copper, bronze, or iron was used for many of man’s earliest...7,000 years ago when humans began using forged copper to make jewelry, and jewelry making is still one...today. The metals gold, silver, platinum, and copper are just some of the minerals that have been mined
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minerals. Its name is derived from the Greek minera, ore, and logos, reason. Its beginnings as a separate...and some native eJements such as gold, silver, copper, and diamond. Crystals bounded by faces of a single...after pyrite or siderite, of malachite after native copper, of cuprite after azurite, of quartz after barytes...are non-magnetic and cannot be magnetized (e.g. copper); paramagnetic minerals can be magnetized only...geophysical prospecting for iron ore deposits. Magnetic separation is used in ore dressing, the magnetism facilitating
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minerals. Its name is derived from the Greek minera, ore, and logos, reason. Its beginnings as a separate...and some native elements such as gold, silver, copper, and diamond. Crystals bounded by faces of a single...after pyrite or siderite, of malachite after native copper, of cuprite after azurite, of quartz after barytes...are non-magnetic and cannot be magnetized (e.g. copper); paramagnetic minerals can be magnetized only...geophysical prospecting for iron ore deposits. Magnetic separation is used in ore dressing, the magnetism facilitating
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to dendrites. moss. branchmg trees, wire, knmmg (copper), 2 flaky foliated. bearing some resemb lance co...fingernail: rubbing fingernail: scratching possible copper coin: scratching possible knife: scratching easily...A fingernail will s.:ratch up to hardness 2, a copper ~oin to 3. a good steel pocketknife t0 a-; high...the lighter sand 1ninerals in river and coastal deposits. Specific gravity is esrnblished according to...yellow, barium a yellowish green, boron a green, copper a blue, and potassium a violet flame. Fluorescent
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minerals. Its name is derived from the Greek minera, ore, and /6gos, reason. Its beginnings as a separate...and some native elements such as gold, silver, copper, and diamond. Crystals bounded by faces of a single...after pyrite or siderite, of malachite after native copper, of cuprite after azurite, of quartz after barytes...are non-magnetic and cannot be magnetized (e.g. copper); paramagnetic minerals can be magnetized only...geophysical prospecting for iron ore deposits. Magnetic separation is used in ore dressing, the magnetism facilitating
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had noticed similarities in age between glacial deposits in South Africa and South America. He also had...the Colorado Plateau in Arizona, home to Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon, more than a vertical mile...from mountain batholiths and washed into river deposits, weathering and erosion can be extremely profitable...years, especially along the Baltic Sea, where deposits are plentiful. In the Middle Ages, the amber trade...(;hr<)tl'll.um Mangan,ese l!Oll Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc 39 Zr 40 Nb 41 Mo 42 Tc 43 Ru 44 Rh 45 Pd
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at the Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Forma­ tion of the Ukrainian National Academy of...(1.7 cm). Rosia Montana: PC [JSJ Page 2: Arpa.) Valley. Făgăraş Mts., South Carpathians [SSZ] English...Shcherbak (Institute of Mineralogy. Geochemistry and Ore Formation. National Acade­ my of Sciences of the...Voznyak (Institute of Miner­ alogy. Geochemistry and Ore Formation. National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine... tok patak, folyó strumieií. strumyk, potok valley údolí völgy dolina vein žila telér žila
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concentrated only in occasional locations. Most mineral deposits are distinctly local accumulations and do not...REPRESENTATIVE MINERAL AGGREGATES A X 0.75 COPPER RHODOCHROSITE Dendritic Aggregate-branching,...important emerald locality is limited to a small district near Muzo in Colombia, South America. Minerals...of such groupings are copper, lead, zinc; gold and silver; silver and lead; copper and gold; tin, tungsten...iron and titanium; nickel and cobalt; nickel and copper; zinc and cadmium; and chromium and platinum. Some
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and bright colors. Adamite isfound in metallic, ore-bearing veins that have been altered by oxygen. It...spheroids. This coloration is caused by traces of copper, although some specimens may be pink or violet...usually appear as bright IMPURITIES Both the copper and the cobalt in adamite are actually impurities...and fissures in metal-bearing ore veins and also in some coal deposits. Main Sources: ¢ Brazil ¢ England...because of its occasional resemblance to the blue copper carbonate mineral azurite. Some allophane contains
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dendrites, moss, branching trees, wire, knitting (copper) ; 2 flaky foliated , bearing some resemblance...fingernail: rubbing fingernail: scratching possible copper coin : scratching possible knife: scratching easily...determination: A fingernail will scratch up to hardness 2; a copper coin to 3 ; a good steel pocketknife to as high...the lighter sand minerals in river and coastal deposits. Specific gravity is established according to...yellow, bariu1n a yellowish green, boron a green, copper a blue, and potassium a violet flame. · Fl uorescent
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7 cm). Ro~·ia Mo11w11ci: PC {JS/ Page 2: Arpa~ Valley, Fiigiira~ Mis., So111h Carpa1hia11s {SSZJ English...Shcherbak (lnsti1u1e of Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Ore Formation. National Academy of Sciences of the Ukrai...Voznyak (I nstitute of Mineralogy. Geochemistry and Ore Formation. ational Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine...or chain open-pi1 peak pit quatTy river s1ream valley vem Czech stola potok jeskyne vysoky kopec, vrch...or chain open-pil peak pil quarry river stream valley vein galerie piir1iu pe~tcrii ,nail deal lac mic
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Calcium Carbon Cerium Chlorine Chromium Cobalt Copper Dysprosium Erbium Europium Fluorine Gadolinium...most shells. Finally, the metals, such as iron, copper and nickel, have a distinctive type of metallic...element that always forms cations, such as sodium or copper. To find these minerals you will have to rummage...gemstones ruby and sapphire. The very important ore minerals hematite, Fe203, and cassiterite, Sn02,... An example is chromite, FeCr204, the principal ore of chro¬ mium. Hydroxide minerals are mostly formed
 
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