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Chalcedony from
Richelle, Visé, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium


Locality type:Sub-municipality
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Richelle, Visé, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1031707
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1031707:9
GUID (UUID V4):ead9a71a-4feb-48b1-bfe4-f970bfaf9666
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
3.8km (2.3 miles) Berneau, Dalhem, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
3.9km (2.4 miles) Château de Berneau, Berneau, Dalhem, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
4.8km (3.0 miles) Heure-le-Romain, Oupeye, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
5.4km (3.4 miles) Barchon, Blegny, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
8.1km (5.0 miles) Marnebel quarry, Eben-Emael, Bassenge, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
8.7km (5.4 miles) Romontbos quarry, Eben-Emael, Bassenge, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
8.8km (5.4 miles) Roosburg, Zichen-Zussen-Bolder, Riemst, Limburg, Flanders, Belgium
10.4km (6.5 miles) Caestert mine, Pietersberg, Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
11.3km (7.0 miles) Glons, Bassenge, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
14.9km (9.3 miles) 't Rooth quarry, Bemelen, Eijsden-Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rock Park, Calif.) Koninckite 1884 Cesaro (Richelle, Belgium) Larderellite 1854 Bechi (Tuscany, Italy)...Switzerland) Richellite 1883 Cesaro & Despret (Richelle, Belgium) McGovernite 1927 Palache & Bauer (Sterling...Missouri sapphire & agate prairie agate blue chalcedony Mammoth Nevada Ichthyosaur New Mexico New
Journal (issue)
Gerais, Brazil) Koninckite 1884 Cesaro {Richelle, Belgium) Fiedlerite 1887 VomRath (Laurium, Greece)...Switzerland) Richellite 1883 Cesaro & Despret (Richelle, Belgium) McGovernite 1927 Palache & Bauer (Sterling... ~ouri sapphire & agate prairie agate blue chalcedony Mammoth Nevada lchthyosaur New Mexico New...chambers. 6 cm., longest dimension. (e.g. opal to chalcedony), and mineral-laden percolat- ing solutions...Kielce Formation, southwest Russia (Grabau, 1913). Chalcedony (quartz), wood, Miocene, Yakupula, Turkey (Buurman
Catalog/List
pinkish chalcedony pebble with curious patterns on surface MgFeSiO I ins £2.50 l.S ins £5 Chalcedony lxl...Quebec, Car 694 ARDENNITE Salm Chateau, Ardennes ,Belgium Rich fibrous pale grey-brown mass. · Orange cleavages...lx2 £7.50 lx2 £5 2x2 £10 1070 CRANDALLITE Slaton Belgium 56 CHABAZITE Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland...DANBURITE San Luis Potosi, Mexico variety of Chalcedony. Compact green massive 6mm terminated crystals...--- - --- --- ------- Poge2 Vise, Argentaux, Belgium 1071 DIADOCHITE 900 ■ FLUOREDENITE Skrabbole, near
Catalog/List
£10 Ni As0 H/20 867 Salm Chateau, Ardennes ,Belgium Amplubole 500 AUSTINITE Gold Hill Mine, Tooele...pinkish chalcedony pebble with curious patterns on surface I ins £2.50 I.Sins £5 Chalcedony 507 BEMENTITE...Australia 1053 CERUSSITE Miblad~n Morocco variety of Chalcedony. Compact green massive s II I tal on pale pink...Garland, St Day Cornwall 1070 CRANDALLITE Slaton Belgium Dark blue vems and masses on and in quartz good.... _ PbZnVOOH 1071 DIADOCHITE Vise, Argentaux. Belgium pure pale brown nodule 2cm £4 3cm £6 Fe P0/4 SO/4
Catalog/List
01-1S0/41-1/2 694-- . ARDENNITE - Salm Chatcau, Ardennes ,Belgium Orange cleavages on quartz SiO (As,v: _!_J0'z£~...crystal about 5mm sizc Unusual hollow pinkish chalcedony pebble with curious patterns on surface 5mm £4...£4 Ti0 I ins £2.50 I.Sins £5 ____ Chalcedony . --- - - - - ·. --· - - ----- -- - - -- -------714 BROOKITE...■ CHRYSOPRASE Quccnslnnd Australia variety of Chalcedony. Compact green nHL~sive Ix I £1. SO I x2 £3 2x2...Gorland, St Day Cornwall 1070 CRANDALLITE Blaton Belgium Dark blue veins and masses on and in quartz good
Catalog/List
£18 lxl SOp lx2 £1 Bn S Salm Chateau, Ardennes ,Belgium 694 ARDENNITE 927 BARYTES Old Gang Mines,Swaledale...curious patterns on surface lins £2.50 I.Sins £5 Chalcedony 507 BEMENTITE Near Chillaton,Devon. Brown areas...■■ CHRYSOPRASE Queensland Australia variety of Chalcedony. Compact green massive lxl£1.50 !x2£3 2x2£5 2x2£7...AIO Ix I inch £4 lx2 £7.50 914 Vise, Argentaux, Belgium DIAS PORE 112 815 DELHAYELITE Rasvumchorr Khibiny...Ca Mg C0/3 £5 l070 CRANDALLITE_ . . _ Blat_on_ Belgium . . 673 DOLOMITE Teruel, Spain good creamy coating
Catalog/List
c_ i4____ ...L :.:.:: Salm Chatcau, Ardcnncs ,Belgium ARDENNITE 69 4 ANHYDRITE Tarascon, Pyrcnees France...Devon Eycoll Cumbria 1 72 Unusual hollow pinkish chalcedony pebble with curious patterns on surface pale...pale green masses/crystal sections in Basalt Chalcedony I ins £2.50 I .Sins £5 l x l £1 l x2 £2 2x2 £4 2x3...5 l x ½ £3 2x2 £9 I x2 £5 -- CALCITE 54 6 510 CHALCEDONY Greystoncs Quarry,Lezant ,Cornwall Greystoncs...------------- Page 4 CLI NOCLASE 943 Slaton Belgium CRANDALL ITE Whcal Gorland, St Day Comwall 1070
Book
masses or spherules with fibrous, finegranular, or chalcedony-like structure Hardness: 5 Lattice Constants:...Mode of Occurrence: Occurs at Berneau, Liege, Belgium, and at localities in Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia...(A); P= 90.18° Mode of Occurrence: Found at Richelle, Belgium in association with pyromorphite, anglesite...Columbia, Canada; and in small amounts at Altenberg, Belgium Optical Constants: IX = 1.574, P= 1.582, Y= 1.582;...richellite, halloysite, and allophane at Richelle near Vise, Belgium Optical Constants: ex = l.645, f3 = l
Catalog/List
E S C E N'. ARDENNJTE Salm Chalcau, Ardenncs ,Belgium BARYfES Sheppey, Kent 694 42 Small white crystal...surface Bl ack single crystal about 5mm size Chalcedony TiO 5mm £4 I .Sins £5 I ins £2.50 Near Chill...about I x I si7.c Zooli� £5 CRANDALLITE Slaton Belgium 1070 good creamy co ating. with slight radiations...£l.l0 b) £ 6 1/, ins 60p a) D Vise, Argentaux, Belgium CO RONADITE Cowshill, Wcardalc, County Durham....x2 60p 2x2£1 .50 2x3 £2.50 2xJ £12 RICHELLITE Richelle Vise, Dclgium 3 54 SCARBROITE South Bay,Searborqugh
Report (issue)
(1980). Analyses of series kanonaite-andalusite, Belgium. ANDALUSITE. Kramm, Contrib. Mineral. Petrol. 69...387-395 (1979). Analyses (8) from Salmchateau, Belgium, with Mn203 22 ,6-33.5%. Series andalusite-kanonaite...(1977)(Pub. 1978). Probe analysis, x-ray data, Richelle, Belgium. ANGLESITE. Spiess and Gruehn, (Z. Naturforsch...Abstr. 29, 479 (1978). Analysis from Ternell, Belgium. ARSENOPYRITE. Gole, Am. Mineral. 65, 8-25 (1980)...387-395 (1979). Probe analysis from Salmchateau, Belgium. BRAUNITE. Momoi and Miyahisa, J. Min. Soc. Japan
Book (edition)
resembling these in their general shape and origin. Chalcedony and limonite are often stalactitic. Interiorly...surface. Example, flint, A mineral of lustre. chalcedony. said to be dull Example, chalk. is 3. when...lead, or any zeolite, by its infusibility; from chalcedony by its inferior hardness, and its gelatinizing...England, in Vieille Montagne in the Liege district, Belgium Derbyshire, Alstonmoor, Mendip Hills, etc.; in...of zinc produced in 1885, in Europe, was, for Belgium and the Rhine, 129,734 long tons Silesia, 79,623
Book
SOL-ACIDS. RARE- 42.6.7. WITH HALLOYSITE ETC. (RICHELLE BELGIUM) ARS MSV,BOTRYDIDAL,OPALINE CRUSTS,ETC. OULL-GRSY...CHALCEDONYIMICRDXLINE QTZ). NODULESIN BASALT0-111 210 .6.5 CHALCEDONY HEXA. 2.57-2.64 SIL HICROXLINE+ HICROFl8R...SARO HEXA. 2.57-2.64 SIL BRWNISHORANGE+ RED CHALCEDONY (HICROCRYSTALLINE J;IUARTZI D-lll HEXA. 2.57-2...57-2.64 SIL RED TO DRWNISH RED CHALCEDONY (HlCROCRYSTALLINE QUARTZ) D-111 206 m 6.5 XONOTLITE ...2.57-2.65 SIL SUBTRANSLUCENT. GREEN-REDSPOTS. CHALCEDONY IHICROCRYSTALLINE QTZI 0-111 219 0, 0 --~Hc
Book
of quartz known as agate, amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, and citrine). The total number of mineral species...of quartz known as agate, amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, and citrine). The total number of mineral species...Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia...Ardennite, locality near Ottrez, in the Ardennes, Belgium. Arfvedsonite, for Johan A. Arfvedson (1792-1841)... 102 II / Mineral Names: An Alphabetical List Chalcedony (var. of quartz), from Chalcedon or Calchedon
Book
amethyst, rose quartz, chrysoprasc, jasper, chalcedony, agate, onyx, sardonyx, aventurine, heliotrope...granitic pegmatites, it also occurs in the 91 Chalcedony. 68 mm, High Adas. Morocco Cornelian. 40 mm...Ural mountains, Russia; in Kabamby, Madagascar. Chalcedony is mostly found in quartz veins and geodes in...volcanic rocks in association with cristobalite, chalcedony and other minerals. Pseudo-hexagonal tabular...different types of rocks. It is often associated with chalcedony. Coatings and stalactitic aggregates of hyalite
Book (edition)
Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany; Osaka Prefecture, Japan; Visé, Belgium; and Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California...southwest Texas, and in sands of the Owithe Valley, Belgium. SELECTED REFERENCES: Winchell and Winchell, Elements...other occurrences are found in Brazil, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Australia, and USSR....OF OCCURRENCE: Occurs associated with quartz, chalcedony, bismuth, cobaltite, and arsenopyrite in veins...Tonapah, Nevada. It also occurs in France, Germany, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Australia. SELECTED
Book
amethyst, rose quartz, chrysoprase, jasper, chalcedony, agate, onyx, sardonyx, aventurine, heliotrope...Ural mountains, Russia; in Kabamby, Madagascar. Chalcedony is mostly found in quartz veins and geodes in...volcanic rocks in association with cristobalite, chalcedony and other minerals. Pseudo-hexagonal tabular...different types of rocks. It is often associated with chalcedony. Coatings and stalactilic aggregates of hyalite...Czech Republic. Also known in Berneau and Richelle, Belgium; Zeleznik, Slovakia; Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine
Book
of London. Cornwall, England. Agate (var. of Chalcedony). The name is derived from its occurrence at...its discovery locality, near Ottrez, Ardennes, Belgium. von Lasaulx, A. & Bettendorf, A. (1872): Nied...1964), mineralogist, Université de Bruxelles, Belgium. Likasi, Shaba, Zaire. CaSn(OH)¢, cub., Pn3(?)...Profes- sor of Mineralogy, University of Liége, Belgium. Sidi Bosc d’Antic (1788): J. d'Histoire 2, 181...Musée Royale de l’Afrique Central, Tervuren, Belgium, who discovered the mineral. Shinkolobwe, Shaba
Book (edition)
Finland, Espoo, Finland. Joseph Lhoest: Liege, Belgium. John C. Lucking: Phoenix, Arizona. Emil Makovicky...Snohomish, Washington. Lourens Wals: Turnhout, Belgium. Terry C. Wallace: Dept. of Geosciences, University...dendritic growths on fracture surfaces or enclosed in chalcedony (moss agate). The term polianite refers to crystallized...substitute for Ni in the formula. Found in cavities in chalcedony in a laterized dunite, associated with goethite...of Louvain, c=5.548, B= 91.0°, Z=4, b=4.865, Belgium. MON C2/c. a= 17.140, 3.57, 3.10, 3.07, 2.8619
Book (edition)
Agate. var. of chalcedony. Pliny (A.O. 77) Hist. Nat. 37. 54 (achatcs). A variety of chalcedony with distinct...89. An agate consisting of jasper veined with chalcedony. Agathacopalite. organic material. J. Paclt (...Mag. 33. 270. Natural 13-FeO(OH) described from Belgium by R. Van Tassel ( I 959) Bull. Soc. helg. Gi'ol...or warditc. or a mixture of these. in a quartz-chalcedony mau-ix . Named from · A-matrix· since i t i s...gedanite. amhrosine. rum:inite. Amberine. var. of chalcedony. D.B. Sterrett ( 19 1 4 for 1 9 1 3 ) Min. Resources
Book (edition)
Ireland.and at Agate ➔ a banded mixture of quartz, chalcedony, also Fuka.Bic hu-cho.Okayamapref..Japan.In basalt...meteorite, with wiistite, majorite, Richelle. near Liege. Belgium. in tiny twins at the troilite. AM 84...Nordrhein-Westfalen, all Germany, at Vise, near Liege, Belgium, at Nowa Ruda, Lower Silesia, Poland, etc. Aufschluss...argentite forms sometimes good An.lennes Mts .. Belgium. Other localities are Haute crystals as at Sankt...Nenthead, Cumbria, England, at Vielle Montagne, Belgium, at Lavrion, Greece, at Langenau, near Freiberg
Book (edition)
Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany; Osaka Prefecture, Japan; Vise, Belgium; and Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California...southwest Texas, and in sands of the Owithe Valley, Belgium. SELECTED REFERENCES: Winchell and Winchell, Elements...other occurrences are found in Brazil, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Australia, and USSR....OF OCCURRENCE: Occurs associated with quartz, chalcedony, bismuth, cobaltite, and arsenopyrite in veins...Tonapah, Nevada. It also occurs in France, Germany, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, and Australia. SELECTED
Book (edition)
Greek Corpus, a bunch of grapes. Ex. limonite, chalcedony prehnite. Mammillary: resembling the botryoidal...example of stalactites is afforded by calcite. Chalcedony, gibbsite, limonite, and some other species,... 6. Milk white: white, slightly bluish; some chalcedony. B. GRAY. 1. Bluish gray: gray, inclining to...apparently from points over the surface, as flint, chalcedony. A mineral is said to be dull when there is a...Huelgoet, Brittany, France; in Moresnet district in Belgium; in province of Cagliari, Sardinia; in Spain, in
Book (edition)
southwest Texas, and in sands of the Owithe Valley, Belgium. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Winchell and Winchell, "Elements...OF OCCURRENCE: Occurs associated with quartz , chalcedony, bismuth, cobaltite, and arsenopyrite in veins...OF OCCURRENCE: Occurs near Neuville, Ardennes, Belgium; at Schlaggenwald, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia; at...composition, commonly associated with n1ontmorillonite, chalcedony, quartz, zeolites, and prehni te. Typical occur-...7th Ed., v. ll,p.488-491,NewYork, Wiley, 1951. CHALCEDONY = Variety of quartz CHALCOALUM ITE CuAl 4 (S04)(0H)
Book (volume)
and substitution pseudomorphs of quartz and of chalcedony after fluorite are especially common. ^^ The...cubosilicite has been given to the smalt-blue cubic chalcedony pseudomorphs from Tresztyan, Transylvania. Guanabaquite...Allemont. As large pyramidal crystals at Rhisnes, Belgium. With zeolites at various places on the Faroe Islands...Saint-Girons, Ariege. At Moet-Fontaine in the Ardennes, Belgium. In western Merionethshire, England. In the Polunochny...or NaCl-KCl. Alter. Pseudomorphs of quartz and chalcedony after barite, both by replacement and by incrustation
Book (edition)
Also isotropic with N = 1.65. Found at Richelle, Belgium. Fervanite (4FeV04-5H20) is monoclinic (?);... Color chestnut brown. concretions near Vis6, Belgium. II. = 2.5. Found in 4. Phosphates with type...438 (1909). TECTOSILICATES, Am(BX2)n 249 Chalcedony is a fibrous variety of quartz, containing opal...of impurities and form birefringence.11 Some chalcedony seems to have fibers elongated along c, some...these two gives ± elongation. Many varieties of chalcedony are recognized, depending upon color, structure
 
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