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Covellite from
Richelle, Visé, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium


Locality type:Sub-municipality
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Comments:Identified by R. Van Tassel.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Richelle, Visé, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1031711
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1031711:2
GUID (UUID V4):9d7601c1-5c41-47dd-942a-15146b8228ec
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
19.2km (11.9 miles) Bleyberg zinc and lead smelter slag locality, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
19.7km (12.2 miles) Erlenbach mine, Lontzen, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
29.7km (18.5 miles) Emma mine, Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands
30.8km (19.2 miles) Domaniale mine, Kerkrade, Limburg, Netherlands
31.7km (19.7 miles) Hendrik mine, Brunssum, Limburg, Netherlands
31.7km (19.7 miles) Laura mine, Eygelshoven, Kerkrade, Limburg, Netherlands
35.9km (22.3 miles) Moët-Fontaine, Rahier, Stoumont, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
37.1km (23.0 miles) Herzogenhügel, Ternell, Eupen, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
37.2km (23.1 miles) Münsterbusch zinc smelter slag locality, Stolberg, Aachen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
38.4km (23.9 miles) Birkengang zinc smelter slag locality, Stolberg, Aachen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Philippo (éditeur) Minéralogie de la commune de Visé Tr a v a u x s c i e n t i f i q u e s d u M u...Minéralogie de la commune de Visé (Argenteau, Richelle et Visé), Province de Liège, Belgique Ferrantia 81...1. Boule rose de koninckite sur cacoxénite de Richelle avec des cristaux produisant certaines réflexions...photo P. Chollet. 2. Boule rose de koninckite de Richelle montrant une multitude de cristaux, image MEB...Richellite en pseudomorphoses de cristaux de gypse de Richelle belles pseudomorphoses sur quartz, collection
Journal (issue)
intergrowths from Kameoka, Kyoto Pref.,Japan 296-300 Covellite from Summitville, Rio Grande County, Colorado...First evidence of natural superconductivity : covellite 403-410 Copper-zinc hydroxychlorides : origin...voor ceramiek. Willemietkristallen van Moresnet, Liège, België. Kristalletjes tot ongeveer 1 mm lang. Verzameling...Destineziet Ontdekt in 1879 te Argenteau ten oosten van Richelle, en door Césaro genoemd naar P. Destinez. De formule...maar dan amorf. Richelliet Ontdekt in 1883 te Richelle en naar de vindplaats genoemd door Césaro. Het
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals reported from the mine include sulphur, covellite, goethite, minium, tenorite, azurite, cerussite...Al)(PO4 )2 (OH)·H2 O, a new mineral from Richelle, Belgium. Mineral. Mag., 43, 463-467. Wittern, A. (2001):
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...Chinle Formation, Colorado Plateau (Finch, 1959). Covellite, wood, Permian, Sierra Oscura, New Mexico {Rogers
Journal (issue)
chalcopyrite and bornite (altering to chalcocite and covellite), calcite and galena, (King, 1983). A number of...personal communication). thin plates of purple covellite (John Jones, perso nal communication) . For a...lowest level of the quarry. COVELLITE, CuS Two occurrences of covellite were reported by King (1973)...with this material could be pseudomorphs after covellite. 2. As anhedral masses and, in one case, an indigo...chalcopyrite and bornite (altering to chalcocite and covellite), calcite, galena and a chlorite-rich fault gouge
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphur-rich layer, sulpuhr, metastable copper sulphide, covellite, digenite, atacamite and antlerite, jarosite were...chalcopyrite was transformed into chlorine-bearing covellite and CuCl, and the iron was leached out and released...observation showed that the Clbearing covellite (Cl-covellite) was present around the peripheral of cuboid...freely connected to the liquid reservoir. The Cl-covellite and CuCl was transported out through the major...Pseudomorphic replacement reaction dominated the Cl-covellite forming reaction in a closed or a (half-) open
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
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...excellent microcrystals implanted on enargite or covellite crystals at Butte, Montana; and abundantly in...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
Book
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...varieties ruby and sapphire, came from India. Covellite CuS, hex., P63/mmce. Named after Niccolo Covelli
Book (edition)
Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany; Osaka Prefecture, Japan; Visé, Belgium; and Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California...copper ore, associated with enargite, luzonite, covellite, and pyrite, at the Tilva Mika deposit, Bor, eastern...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....leadhillite, matlockite, anglesite, cerussite, covellite, and quartz, at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine,
Book (edition)
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...found with cuprobismutite, bismuthinite, and covellite at the Tunnel Extension mine, Marysvale, Piute
Book
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)...council of 1’ Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga. Covellite, for Niccolo Covelli (1790-1829), Italian mineralogist...mineralogist, who dis¬ covered Vesuvian covellite. Cowlesite, for John Cowles, American amateur mineralogist... locality in schist near Ottrez, a village in Belgium on the border of Luxemburg. Otwayite, for Charles
Book
It occurs together with pyrite, chalcopyrite, covellite, bornitc and other minerals. Crystals up to 25...other minerals. World famous specimens with 37 Covellite. 65 mm. Butte. U.S.A. and Summitville, Colorado...Riddarhyttan, Sweden. Carrolite Cu(Co,Ni) 2 S 4 Covellite CUBIC • • • CuS HEXAGONAL • • • Properties:...Czech Republic. Also known in Bcrneau and Richelle, Belgium; Zeleznik, Slovakia: Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine...Typical localities are Zermatt, Switzerland; Ottrez. Belgium: Pregraten. Austria. 207 Datolite, 30 mm .Of
Book
Translucent yellow, yellowish-brown. Ottrez, Ardennes, Belgium. H= 6-7, Djj4= 3.7, D(.= 3.74, VIIIB 19. Lasaulx...Vaes, 1958. Am. Min. 44(1959), 910 (Abst.). Covellite, CuS, E Hex. Submetallic blue. Mt. Vesuvius,...MoTranslucent creamy-white, pale rose. Ottrez, Ardennes, Belgium. H=?, Djjj= 3.3, D(,= 3.364, VIIIB 21. De Koninck...brownish-black, reddish. Berneau, Vise, Liege, Belgium. H= 2.5, Djjj= 1.85, D(.=?, VIID 13. Dumont, 1838...A1)(P04)(P030H)(0H)2, S Mon. Adamantine pale yellow. Richelle, Liege (N), Belgium. H= < 6, Djjj=?, D(.= 5.55, VIIC 17
Book (edition)
Chiappero (France). G. Daxner (Austria). M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo Delia Ventura (Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada)...and Pumpellyite group, Salm-Chåteau, Ardennes, Belgium, EJM 3, 819-830 (str.). NJMA 166, 137-167 (sir...artifact?). Royal m of Natura) History of Belgium. Brussels. Belgium, 32. 254 34 D Calcurmolite, Ca(UO2...11(OH)2 , mon., Ottrc, Stavelot Massif. Ardennes. Belgium, 63, 795, 69, 783-787 (str.) D Du-yne, [(Na.K)6(SO...Gcrmany, 27, 712-716, tric., Vise, Argenteau, Belgium, BSBG 7, 117, Halotrichite group ~. 230-242 (str
Book (edition)
Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany; Osaka Prefecture, Japan; Vise, Belgium; and Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California...copper ore, associated with enargite, luzonite, covellite, and pyrite, at the Tilva Mika deposit, Bor, eastern...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....leadhillite, n1atlockite, anglesite, cerussite, covellite, and quartz, at the Mammoth-St. ,t\nthony mine
Book
It occurs together with pyrite, chalcopyrite, covellite, bornite and other minerals. Crystals up to 25...Riddarhyttan, Sweden. Carrolite Cu(Co,N i) 2s4 Covellite CUBIC CuS HEXAGONAL ••• Properties: C - indigo-blue...Czech Republic. Also known in Berneau and Richelle, Belgium; Zeleznik, Slovakia; Kerch, Crimea, Ukraine...Typical localities are Zermatt, Switzerland; Ottrez, Belgium; Pregraten, Austria. 207 Datolite. 30 mm xx,...radial aggregates. It is also known from Meuville, Belgium and Wippra, Germany. Lorenzenite Na2Ti2Si2O9 ORTHORHOMBIC
Book (edition)
and on Michipicoten ; Island, Lake Superior. Covellite, or Slue Copper. Massive; dull blue-black; the...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...material of the United States cent. Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, and Jamaica also use a nickel...of iron. Cornwall. Koninckite is another, from Belgium. Dufrenite. hydrous phosphate of iron sesquioxide;
Book (edition)
copper ore, associated with enargite, luzonite , covellite and pyrHe, at the Tilva Mika deposit, Bor, eastern...southwest Texas, and in sands of the Owithe Valley, Belgium. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Winchell and Winchell, "Elements...leadhillite, matlockite, anglesite, cerussite, covellite, and quartz, at the MammothSt. Anthony mine, Tiger...OF OCCURRENCE: Occurs near Neuville, Ardennes, Belgium; at Schlaggenwald, Bohemia, Czechoslovakia; at...commonly associated with malachite, azurite, covellite, bornite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. Found as excellent
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...called ‘“‘blaubleibender Covellit” (blueremaining covellite) for this reason]. In a red-bed copper deposit...nm); pleochroic in blue to blue-whit this for covellite) aining (blue-rem Covellit”’ bender [formerly...Saxony, Germany. BM NJMM:133(1955); 2.8.12.1 AM Covellite 41:164(1956), 44:907(1959); R:614; ABI:161. CuS
Book (edition)
Huelgoet, Brittany, France; in Moresnet district in Belgium; in province of Cagliari, Sardinia; in Spain, in...characters from galena to those of chalcocite and covellite; composition, Cu2 S.2PbS(?). Material classed...dis- It Rhombohedral or Hexagonal c Cinnabar Covellite HgS CuS Rhombohedral-Trapezohedral CdS Hexagonal-Hemimorphic...SELENIDES, TELLURIDES, ARSENIDES, ANTIMONIDES 371 COVELLITE. Monoclinic ? Pseudohexagonal through twinning... leaving a yellow coating and rough surface. Covellite has been prepared artificially by heating in sealed
Report (volume)
7 = 2.35±0.01. DESTINEZITE. . ! Belgium (Prof. Lacroix). Nearly colorless, earthy. Under...OPTICAL PROPERTIES. 97 KONINCKITE. 1. Vise", Belgium (A. M. N. H.). Pale yellow in powder. ably isotropic...which have a lower value for n. 2. Richelle, near Vise", Belgium (Col. Roebling). Yellow crust. Chiefly...Cotunnite................................... 237 Covellite..................................... 185 Crandallite
Book (edition)
cooling. Tarnish not uncommon; may alter to covellite or chalcopyrite or bornite. Chiefly in veins with...Japan; Freiberg, Saxony; Cobalt, Ontario; etc. Covellite (CuS) is dihexagonal dipyramidal with c/a = 4... 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...veins as a constituent of clay, as near LDge, Belgium. 160 C. S. Ross: Am. Mineral., XXXI, 411 (1946)
Book (edition)
Mag. 33. 270. Natural 13-FeO(OH) described from Belgium by R. Van Tassel ( I 959) Bull. Soc. helg. Gi'ol...spcc. from Salm-Chatcau. Belgium ]. Named from the (TI,) Ardennes, Belgium. Var. Arsenioardcnnite. vanadioardcnnitc...Guinea. Named after Astrid ( 1905- 1 935). Queen of Belgium. Astrocyani te-(Ce ) , Cu2 (Ce.NdhUOi(CO1) 5(OH)...Netherlands). preferring a locality-derived name. i.e. Belgium. 65 Belile. syn. of lamite. A.E. Tomebohm ( 1...(18S9) 23. 409. A mineral wi1h the composi1 ion of covellite. bul apparenlly cubic. F.A. Genth (ibid. 23. 417)
Report (issue)
PYRITE, CHALCOPYRITEy PYRRHOTITE, CHALCOCITE, COVELLITE, 148 Author index GALENA AND APATITE HAVE BEEN...PHOSPHATIC BEDS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF HONS (BELGIUM) source =GEOL, SOC. LONDON QUART, J,, V, 42, P...AND THE U.S.A. DEPOSITS WERE WORKED CHIEFLY IN BELGIUM, FRANCE, THE FEDERA L REPUBLIC OF GERMANY AND THE...ED,, PRE-PERMIAN AROUND THE BRABANT MASSIF IN BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS AND GERMANY, NETH, GEOL, DIEHST...RUSSIA, ALGERIA, MOROCCO, TUNIS, EGYPT, PALESTINE, BELGIUM, SPAIN, THE PACIFIC ISLANDS, THE WEST INDIES, AND
 
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