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Opal from
Pumice quarries, Wingertsberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pumice quarries, Wingertsberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:368543
Long-form Identifier:1:3:368543:3
GUID (UUID V4):ca1b7bef-a733-43a4-b932-65b2ae84c096
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
0.7km (0.4 miles) In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1.1km (0.7 miles) Thelenberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
2.0km (1.2 miles) Krufter Ofen, Kruft, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3.4km (2.1 miles) Rothenberg Quarry, Bell, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.2km (3.2 miles) Caspar quarry, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
25.3km (15.7 miles) Virneberg Mine, Rheinbreitbach, Unkel, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
31.6km (19.6 miles) Lyngsberg (Lühnsberg; Lünsberg), Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
32.5km (20.2 miles) Quegstein, Wintermühlenhof, Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
33.6km (20.9 miles) Stenzelberg, Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
34.4km (21.4 miles) Weilberg (Großer Weilberg), Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
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Report (issue)
........................................... 58 Pumice and scoria ......................................Pennsylvanian and Cretaceous shales and building blocks of pumice and scoria from Quaternary volcanoes. A cement...wallboard, plaster, pumice, block, brick, and tile made from local limestone, gypsum, pumice, scoria, and clay...gold-silver mines of the Cochiti district, pumice is quarried for use in pumice blocks. Its cumulative value now...gold and silver. Santa Fe County has its own pumice quarries west of Espanola. Almost within sight of the
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editors Corrado Cimarelli, München, Germany Sebastian Müller, Mainz, Germany More information about this...distinguished researchers from Greece, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy to provide a compilation of all different...ETH-Zurich, Switzerland) born 1940 in Berlin (Germany) with studies in: Technical University Berlin,...(Greece) as scientific coordinator. In Switzerland and Germany he joined geological hazard and risk related pilot...neighbouring island Yali are covered with voluminous pumice deposits, which are mined on a large scale. The
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editors Corrado Cimarelli, München, Germany Sebastian Müller, Mainz, Germany More information about this...distinguished researchers from Greece, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy to provide a compilation of all different...ETH-Zurich, Switzerland) born 1940 in Berlin (Germany) with studies in: Technical University Berlin,...(Greece) as scientific coordinator. In Switzerland and Germany he joined geological hazard and risk related pilot...neighbouring island Yali are covered with voluminous pumice deposits, which are mined on a large scale. The
Report (issue)
rhyolite-f!rauite class. , . . olcanie gla<.:ses, pumice, aud perlite are in this class. The more basic...distriet Group IV Cascade Range and -:\lodoc PJ ateau Pumice and perlite deposits Freshwater clia to mite of...layer Lower Cedarville l\IJNERAL DEPOSIT Perlite Pumice 16 B t.,LLETIX 176-~lD-"ER.ll. ( 41 3-orther...rock Quickill'"er :--onoma ,·olca.nics Perlite, pumice. ,tone building - Quaternary ..,cream gravel...made from n1etals or mineral raw materials. Sand, pumice, and pumicite are the pri11cipal abrasives produced
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DIRECTOR See erweiwE POR |S —$<$_____ MINES AND QUARRIES IQO2 PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERVISION CHIEF...1.—Character of inquiries concerning mines and quarries: 1850 to 1902 ...........--..----------.--2-----Table...included in Census reports concerning mines and quarries: 1850 to 1902........--.---.-.--.---Maplers—=Mlininostatistics...aes Table 13.—Productive and unproductive mines, quarries, and wells: 1902.......-..---------------------+------Table...quantity and value of such materials obtained from quarries included under other GlASsiti Caton sal OO 2Re
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covered half the island with a thick layer of ash and pumice fragments, but luckily nobody was visiting the...located in the small and rather bleak island of Jan Mayen. Beerenberg has been active five times since 1633...The lucky birthday boy was Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who received it from his generous grandmother...water as was discussed in our “tour,” from Jan Mayen at the north to Bouvet Island near Antarctica. Like... meaning flows of broken magma fragments, ash, pumice, and gas (in volcanological terms, a nuée ardente
Report (issue)
flows.-__ Bishop tuff -__-_---_--------------Basal pumice layer _______________ Principal tuff member.___...inversely graded layers of pumice resulting from dumping two batches of pumice into a beaker partly full...cement blocks with pumice aggregate proved to be cheaper and easier to use. Pumice for aggregate and for...These crystals are embedded in a matrix of jarosite, opal, and quartz, and the matrix also contains dispersed...for water. Discontinuous segments of a thin basal pumice layer also crop out locally along the west side
Book (volume)
of the Geological Society of London. Porphyry; Pumice; Pyroxenite; Quartzite; Quartz-Porphyry. J. S...flowers. POMERANIA (German, Pommern), a territory of Germany and a maritime province of Prussia, bounded on...Oder. Pomerania is one of the flattest parts of Germany, although east of the Oder it is traversed by a...lampreys are s6nt from Pomerania to other parts of Germany. With the exception of the almost inexhaustible...to weaken the house of Austria by alliances in Germany; but Mme de Pompadour changed this hereditary policy
 
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