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Famatinite from
Falkenstein, Falkenstein mining district, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Famatinite
Formula:Cu3SbS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Famatinite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Falkenstein, Falkenstein mining district, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:263317
Long-form Identifier:1:3:263317:6
GUID (UUID V4):6f72ce33-45e5-49d5-a2b1-e75c1508c565
Nearest other occurrences of Famatinite
9.1km (5.7 miles) Kleinkogel, St Gertraudi, Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
10.3km (6.4 miles) Gertraud adit, Großkogel (Reither Kogel), St Gertraudi, Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
14.9km (9.3 miles) Matzenköpfl (Madersbacher Köpfl), Reith im Alpbachtal, Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
16.6km (10.3 miles) Maukenstadl adit, Maukenötz District (Mauken), Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
64.5km (40.1 miles) Marienberg Alp (Marienberg), Nassereith, Imst District, Tyrol, Austria
70.7km (43.9 miles) Erasmus adit, Schwarzleo mining district, Schwarzleograben, Hütten, Leogang, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
98.0km (60.9 miles) Leidenfrost, Hoher Sonnblick, Alteck - Hoher Sonnblick area, Rauris, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
References
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prehistoric and historic Schwaz and Brixlegg mining areas (North Tyrol, Austria) MATTHIAS KRISMER*, FRANZ...University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52f, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria *Corresponding author, e-mail: Matthias.Krismer@uibk...ac.at Abstract: The copper ore occurrences from Schwaz and Brixlegg were mined both in prehistoric and...strata-bound bodies and breccias in the Devonian Schwaz Dolomite of the Northern Greywacke Zone. The ore...tetrahedrite-tennantite. Especially in the Großkogel mining area in Brixlegg, barite is associated with the
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I N I N G IN E U R O P E Prehistoric Copper Mining in Europe 5500–500 bc W I L L I A M O ’B R I E...conducted on some five millennia of prehistoric copper mining in Europe. There is a broad-ranging look at field...over the past 150 years or so by archaeologists, mining engineers, and geologists. These regional studies...record of Chalcolithic (Copper Age) and Bronze Age mining for many parts of Europe, from the eastern and...sites, including such famous mining centres as the Mitterberg in Austria, Kargaly in Russia, the Great
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Doumenc of the St. Etienne, France, School of Mining. The gasification of underground coal has been...20-21. “One Hundred Years of California Placer Mining”, by H. A. Sawin. 56-62. COVER PHOTO Dr. William...attention is at the Gem property in the Bridge River district, The uranium at this property is asociated with...The last two are more or less peculiar to the district. The pitchblende occurs in veins with the torbernite...more uranium oxide from any single lode or placer mining location on the public domain which has not previously
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Pierre-Jacques Chiappero (France). G. Daxner (Austria). M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo Delia Ventura... Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria). Werner Krause (Gennany). Andre Lalonde...Lalonde (Canada), P. Leblhuber (Austria), Andrew Locock (Canada). J.A. Mandarino (deceased) (Canada),...Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar (Austria). Gian Carlo Parodi (France). Marco Pa ero (ltaly)...(Canada). Alan R. Plante (deceased) (USA), L. Putz (Austria). Gunnar Raade ( orway). Robert A. Ramik (Canada)
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Europe regional names as Bavaria, Bohemia, Saxony, Tyrol, and many others, are generally used without regard...crystallographers, geologists, petrologists, geochemists, mining engineers, mineral assayers, curators, collectors...Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia...Louis Cordier (1777-1861), French geologist and mining engineer; student of Haiiy; helped enlarge the...identified as scientists, or related to mineral mining, collecting, or exploration, there are some cases
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For the Student of Elementary Mineralogy, the Mining Engineer, the Geologist, the Prospector, the Collector...mean between them. The various methods of deter- mining the values of these three principal indices of...largest part of the world's supply comes; Passau district in Bavaria; southern Bohemia; Korea; Madagascar;...at Monroe, Conn.; Brewer's mine, Chesterfield district, S. C.; near Cummins Abundant with silver ores...less important Alpine district reaching from Carinthia through the Austrian Tyrol^and the Italian Alps
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Translucent colorless. Schildmaur, Admont (near), Austria. H= 2-3, Djjj= 1.82, D(;= 1.875, Vc 02. Walenta...C1), IaI Mon. Transparent colorless. Amstall, Austria. H= 4, 0^^= 2.40, D(,= 2.380, VIIIE 30. Quint,...colorless, bluish, violet. Hall, Innsbruck (near), Tyrol, Austria. H= 3.5, Djjj= 2.98, D(.= 2.960, VIA 07. Werner...light. Ascham Aim, Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria. H= 3.5, Djjj=?, D(.= 7.33, IID 09d. Mumme et al... Metallic grey. Sedmochislenitsi mine, Vratsa district, Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria. H= 2.5, Djj4= 6.32
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Institut fur Mineralogie der Universitat Wien, Austria. Michael Zolensky: Lyndon Johnson Space Center...(1966) Mineral News Mineralogy and Petrology (Austria) Mineralogica Polonica Micro Probe VII References...Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod...and quartz veins at Juneau. In Canada, Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake...deposits, ON; Atlin and Caribou, BC; and Klondike district, YT. In Mexico, Altar and Magdalena, SON; Parral
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its discovery locality, at Schildmaur, Admont, Austria. Walenta, K. (1979): Tschermaks Mineral. Petrogr...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20...the mineral, a mining engineer known for his work in the Limoges Altisite district. Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne...plus Gk. hydor, water, plus calcite. Khakassy District, Siberia, Russia. Bilibin, G. (1926): Soc. Russe...Named after its discovery locality, at Amstall, Austria. Quint, R. (1987): Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh
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DR. RICHARD Professor of Geology and Freiberg Mining BECK Economic Geology Academy Translated and...Institution of Mining Engineers (England) Member American ; Member Institute of Mining and Metallurgy;...Washington Academy of Science, etc., etc. Institute of Mining Engineers; WITH 272 FIGURES AND A MAP FIRST...ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 1905 Copyright, 1905, by THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL EPIGENETIC...' This Kupferschiefer is cases. lean in this district, carrying only 1.4% of copper, and no silver,
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- iH ^ fe o -• vO y MINERALOGY AND MINING. Mine Accidents —Ventilation — Ore Dressing, Etc...in fullness of plan, tion." American Journal of Mining. detail, and execu- THIRD APPENDIX TO DITTO...species. By Edward H. Williams, Jr., Professor of Mining Engineering at Lehigh University, Pa 18mo, cloth...DRESSING IN EUROPE, KUNHARDT. By W. B. Kunhardt, Mining Engineer 8vo, cloth, 1 60 ACCIDENTS IN MINES...possession of every person connected with the mining of coal." Mining Herald. " This book should be not only
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cross-bars or riffles. Most riffies placer mining is today carried on with dredges, some of which...Arizona and Utah is essentially a biproduct of copper mining and that from California largely is from placer...but it 230 I Descriptive Mineralogy was mining throughout the length of the Keweenaw peninsula...peninsula. Most of active was the copper in the district were found; one found in small irregular grains...Bolivia at in the glacial drift in have been district sandstone areas of the eastern United States
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in the epidote from the Untersulzbachthal in the Tyrol, the biaxial figures may be observed immediately...filamentous in California, sparingly, in Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co. ; in the Maris vein, in Los Angeles...the alluvial deposits of the river Pinto, in the district of Choco, near Popayan, in South America, where...one was discovered by Don Rubin de Celis in the district of Chaco-G-ualamba, whose weight was estimated...near Seymour, Conn., in quartz mine, Chesterfield district, South Carolina in Colorado. ; occurs also at
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in the epidote from the Untersulzbachthai in the Tyrol, the biaxial figures may be observed immediately...the alluvial deposits of thi river Pinto, in the district of Choco, near Popayan, in South America, where...one was discovered by Don Rubin de Celis in the district of Chaco-Gualamba, whose weight was estimated...near Seymour, Conn., in quartz mine, Chesterfield district, South Carolina ; in Colorado. ; occurs also...the Urals, Siberia, Finland; in various parts of Austria; Prussia; France. Large quantities are brought
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behind the riffles for that purpose. Hydraulic mining is sometimes used to move great quantities of gravels...gravels through sluices. Most placer mining is today carried on with dredges, some of which are gigantic...County; in Idaho at the Poorman mine, Silver City district; in Colorado at Aspen; and in Arizona at the Silver...pounds was taken from there); in the Thunder Bay district on the north shore of Lake Superior, at Silver...nineteenth century. Most of the copper of the district oqcurs in very small irregular specks, but notable
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J ■ I p r e s e n t l i m i t of 1 underground mining ■ ■ 1 1 •H CO CO cd •H cd \ i 4-1 •H c ...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)... 8.5 ppm Ag, 0.7% Zn, 0.3% Pb; Engineering and Mining Journal, November 1984). The Butte ore field contains...Montana. From Meyer et courtesy of the Society of Mining Engineers of A.I.M.E. al. (1968), molybdenite...(Fig. 28-12). The gold deposits in the Georgetown district are of Proterozoic age. From Branch (1966), with
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u n d e r g r o u n d 1 of QJ · · u , Ό mining 1 1 IL··I _ l ~ U C > cd rH cd 3 1 "1...Batholith near Arequipa, Toquepala-Cerro Verde district; in the centre, Morococha and in the north, Michiquillay)... 8.5 ppm Ag, 0.7% Zn, 0.3% Pb; Engineering and Mining Journal, November 1984). The Butte ore field contains...Montana. From Meyer et courtesy of the Society of Mining Engineers of A.I.M.E. al. (1968), molybdenite...(Fig. 28-12). The gold deposits in the Georgetown district are of Proterozoic age. From Branch (1966), with
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Absitc. var. of brannerite. A .W.G. Whittle ( 1 954) Mining Rev. S. Austral. Dept. Mines no. 9 (for 1 952)...438]. (TL) Schildmauer. near Admont. S tyria, Austria. Named for locality. Adulaire. syn. of adularia...I� 100.86'. Z=4. (TL) Amstall graphite quarry . Austria. Named for locality. Anagenite. syn. of chrome...[PDF 6-226 on synth. materia l). fn:,) Hall, Tyrol, Austria. Named from av-uopo½ ·w11hou1 water' . from...dolomite and with kut nohoritc. (TL) S tyria. Austria. Named for M.J. Anker. Syn. Brown sp:ir (part)
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Agricola. This work gives a detailed account of the mining practices of the time and includes the first factual... John Wiley & Sons, New American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleurn Engineers, 1960,...areas of high concentrations in order to r11ake the mining profitable. Copper is not extracted from rocks...and Utah is essentially a by-product of copper mining. For 100 years following the discovery of gold...active mining through the length of the Keweenaw peninsula. Most of the copper in the district was in
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dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley, Salzburg, Austria. AM 61,178, 1976. Af ghanite (Na.I<,Ca)6Ca 2 [...Trostau. Albite - pericline, xx 20 mm, the Alps, Austria, G Fichtelgebirge ~fts.. Bavaria,Gennany.Albite-bearing...\igeria. both overlookingZillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria. Veryabundantin a laterstageof deeplydifferentiated
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accounts of his worldwide travels to many major mining and mineral location, and lots of beautiful photographs...Mineralization 352 BOX 15.4 Sulfide Minerals as Ores and as Mining-Related Contaminants 354 18. CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY...available resources and reserves, and the impact of mining on the environment. Economic geology includes the...Egyptian paintings and Renaissance drawings may depict mining practices (see Figs. 1.8 and 1.10). Minerals have...Agricola. This work provides a detailed account of the mining and ore smelting practices of the time and includes
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Agricola. This work gives a detailed account of the mining practices of the time and includes the first factual...New York: Wiley. Littleton, Colo.: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Evans, A. M...locate areas of high concentrations to make the mining profitable. Copper is not extracted from rocks...applications. Examples of such applications are in the mining industry (for quality control of the product shipped...mercury placed behind the riffles. Most placer mining is today carried on with dredges, some of which
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Agricola. This work gives a detailed account of the mining practices of the time and includes the first factual...atomic substitution; relation of crystal Vienna, Austria structure to paragenesis 1960 Thomas W. F...References Buseck, pp. Jr., 1968, Affluence F. Jr., Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, 1960,...isometric forms. Determination of Indices of Forms. mining the forms present on any it is first In deter-...areas of high concentrations in order to make the mining profitable. for our Copper is not extracted
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Agricola. This work gives a detailed account of the mining practices of the time and includes the first factual...inera ls and Rocks, 5th ed. An1erican Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Baltimore...areas of high concentrations in order to make the mining profitable. Copper is not extracted from rocks...applications. Examples of such applications are in the mining industry (for quality control of the product shipped...mercury placed behind the riffles. Most placer mining is today carried on with dredges, some of which
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Institute of Carl A. Francis, Harvard University, Mining and Technology, Ermanno Galli, Instituto di Mineralogia...molecules work gives a detailed account of the mining practices of the time and includes the first factual...Minerals and Rocks, 5th ed. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Baltimore...of high con- centrations in order to make the mining profitable. Copper is not extracted from rocks...applications. Examples of such applications are in the mining industry (for quality control of the product shipped
 
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