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Tourmaline from
Quartzite quarries, Embd, Visp, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quartzite quarries, Embd, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:130073
Long-form Identifier:1:3:130073:4
GUID (UUID V4):85ca250a-12aa-458f-892f-b81cdec024d0
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
10.8km (6.7 miles) Brunegg pass, Turtmann Valley, Turtmann-Unterems, Leuk, Valais, Switzerland
13.5km (8.4 miles) Mittal-Hohtenn railway tunnel, Mittal, Steg-Hohtenn, Westlich Raron, Valais, Switzerland
19.1km (11.9 miles) Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Termen, Brig, Valais, Switzerland
25.9km (16.1 miles) Blau lake, Saflisch Valley, Grengiols, Östlich Raron, Valais, Switzerland
28.8km (17.9 miles) Chummibort, Grengiols, Östlich Raron, Valais, Switzerland
29.9km (18.6 miles) Gibelmatte, Mätti Valley, Grengiols, Östlich Raron, Valais, Switzerland
31.3km (19.5 miles) Chriegalp, Chriegalp valley, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
31.5km (19.6 miles) Binna tunnel, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
32.5km (20.2 miles) Flesch lake, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
32.9km (20.4 miles) Cani Mine, Vanzone con San Carlo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extends to the south-east, culminating in the quartzite hill of Carrickgollogan. Geological Studies...(?), spodumene, cassiterite, epidote, pinite, tourmaline, cerussite, hyalite (?), and rutile. To these...disseminated through the granite. Garnet and tourmaline, which are abundant in the aplites, are also...titaniferous min-ersls disappear also. Garnet, tourmaline and apatite are frequently abundant in the heavy...contrast to the Ordovician. The thick layers of quartzite evidently represent a period or periods of shallow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
paper Itacolumite, flexible sandstone and flexible quartzite – a review Helen C. Kerbey * Department of Geology...term itacolumite was first used for a Brazilian quartzite thought to be a new type of rock in 1822. As analytical...Keywords: Itacolumite Flexible sandstone Flexible quartzite Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Introduction . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sandstone or quartzite?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....typically labelled as flexible sandstone, flexible quartzite or itacolumite. The specimens are usually cut
Report (issue)
asable. Floes arc represented by stippling, and quarries by crossed hammers. 76- 75' Eastone// //*...usable. Floes are represented by stippling, and quarries by crossed hammers. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Iv...Construction Company Luther Clayton quarry 15 15 Other quarries 15 Silica brick 1G Definition 16 Uses of...Tuscarora quartzite show ing the original grains; B. Photomicrograph of Tuscarora quartzite showing fragments... Photomicrograph of coarse grained Tuscarora quartzite ; D. Photomicrograph of a very fine grained, well
Journal (volume)
by the finding of many rounded pebbles of hard quartzite in a wash at the east base of the mountains 1J...metasediments, including much crystalline limestone, quartzite, and mica schist. These metasediments are in many...dark-gray la}^ers of metadiorite and biotitic quartzite have been much injected lit-par-lit, and somewhat...pegmatitic silexite, so that both diorite and quartzite have almost lost their identities as such (fig...and intercalated beds of crystalline limestone, quartzite, and mica schist constitute the bulk of the rocks
Book (edition)
Palaeolithic Implements (Acheulean). Top row in quartzite, bottom row in flint. 1, 2 from Great Alnc, 3...M:igazinc. A, quarry debris: B, Basal Cambria quartzite with boulders of Markficlditc; C, l\farkticldite;...relatively shallow water in which the sands (now quartzite) and sandy limestones of the Lower Cambrian were...irnrt/J risiti11g Ca111hria11 Various large quartzite quarries at Nuneaton ; Lickey Hills ; Lawrence Hill...evidences of severe compression in the Cambrian Quartzite of the Lickey Hills. The rock is fractured in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
noticeable and a phacoidal jointing as in the quartzite quarries of Holyhead, or a tearing into lenticular"...The Purple (or Glyn) Slates are worked in open quarries at all accessible points along their outcrop from...river west of Criccieth. They also appear in the quarries of black slate close to Dolwyddelan, and may be...meantime, it is interesting to note that certain tourmaline-bearing grits and cherts found among the Bunter
Report (Issue volume)
pumice, salt (brine), stone (crushed sandstone and quartzite, 1989-90), and values indicated by symbol W •6... pumice, silver, stone (crushed dolomite and quartzite. 1989), value indicated by symbol w XX Total...total. Production was by four companies operating quarries and calcining facilities in Shelby County. Both...Georgia Marble Co. and Pluess-Staufer A. G. of Switzerland announced joint-venture plans to construct a...companies reported dimension stone production from quarries in Franklin, Blount, and Talladega Counties. Output
Book
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
Report (Issue volume)
.........................280 Sleeps Hill Quarries.................................................channel‑filling sandstone and conglomerate. Clasts include quartzite, rare phyllite, gneiss and marble (Daily and Milnes...Uratanna Formation disconformably overlies Rawnsley Quartzite as erosional channel fill up to 100 m thick southwest...(Dalgarno, 1962) disconformably overlie Rawnsley Quartzite and, in the absence of both units, younger carbonates...may have been highstand deposits. Well‑rounded quartzite pebbles, in particular, may have been derived
Report (volume)
A. 118. Field studies for the catlinite and quartzite groups: Milwaukee, Public Mus., Year Book, 1924...vol. 6, no. 217, pp. 22-24, January, 1925. 151. Quartzite pebbles at the base of the Lance formation in...1925. 1338. Replacement copper ore deposits in quartzite: Econ. Geology, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 394-396, June-July...pp., 3 figs., 5 pis., December 1, 1925. 1547. Tourmaline-bearing cinnabar veins of the Mazatzal Mountains... 61, p. 148, February 6, 1925. 1830. Gold in quartzite in the Goudreau district, Ontario: Canadian Min
Book (edition)
be found or the business will close. Mines and quarries will therefore always open and close, and new...(so-called Ma and P a operations) and limestone quarries supplying construction materials to a large region...undergo me tamorphism and recem enting to produce quartzite. Sand and gravel for c onstruction use is extremely...does produce shell), includes more than 2,50 0 quarries, and accounts for tw o thirds of the nation’s...Syria 304 Niger 2 Nigeria 300 Somalia 2 Switzerland 300 Kenya 1 Turkey 300 Mali 1 Algeria
Report (volume)
S. A. 1. Field studies for the catlinite and quartzite groups: Milwaukee, Public Mus., Year Book, 1924...vol. 6, no. 217, pp. 22-24, January, 1925. 6. Quartzite pebbles at the base of the Lance formation in...vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 495-499, August, 1925. 3. Tourmaline-bearing cinnabar veins of the Mazatzal Mountains... 1925. 2. Replacement copper ore deposits in quartzite: Econ. Geology, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 394-396, June-July... BIBLIOGRAPHY 363 Lausen, Carl Continued. 2. Tourmaline-bearing cinnabar A*eins of the Mazatzal Mountains
 
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