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Aragonite from
Castor Mine, Loope, Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castor Mine, Loope, Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:104337
Long-form Identifier:1:3:104337:2
GUID (UUID V4):e3c30728-8c37-4de7-b110-2cb03c4c67b2
Nearest other occurrences of Aragonite
5.4km (3.4 miles) Silberkaule Mine, Heckhaus, Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7.6km (4.7 miles) Windloch im Mühlenberg cave, Ründeroth, Engelskirchen, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
18.6km (11.6 miles) Büschhof Quarry (Schretzmair Quarry), Wirtenbach, Nümbrecht, Oberbergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
31.2km (19.4 miles) Finkenberg, Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
32.3km (20.1 miles) Hühnerberg quarry, Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
32.6km (20.3 miles) Weilberg (Großer Weilberg), Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
37.2km (23.1 miles) Lyngsberg (Lühnsberg; Lünsberg), Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
39.0km (24.2 miles) Leyberg, Bad Honnef, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
40.1km (24.9 miles) Rolandseck, Rolandswerth, Remagen, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
40.2km (25.0 miles) Dächelsberg, Niederbachem, Wachtberg, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
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oxygen isotope (d18O) values at Castor Lake and Scanlon Lake, north-central Washington. Error inherent...mineral) oxygen isotope values (d18O) in Castor and Scanlon Lakes, north-central Washington using a modified...data exist) and small climatic differences between Castor Lake and the nearby weather stations applied in...(48.542N, 119.582W) and Castor Lake (CL) (48.539N, 119.561W) are located in north-central Washington on...the Pacific westerlies and the Aleutian low- and north Pacific highpressure systems. Winter precipitation
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tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and...exceptional 9-cm tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave...selection. So let’s begin the tour of the drawers with North America and the localities in Canada, the United...disease has not gotten to them.) From the Yankee Girl mine, Silverton district, San Juan County, tennantite...include the Monitor mine, Taylor district, White Pine County, Nevada. Monitor mine tennantite is associated
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Wisniewski of Wendell, Idaho, Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada...least mention the occurrences. California Mines Aga Mine. Baker, San Bernardino County In January of 2004...with angle site, pyromorphite, and gold at this mine. Subsequently besides vanadinite, mottramite, and...can only be recognized in the SEM. Bagdad-Chase Mine, Ludlow, San Bernardino County In January of 2003...associated with colorless mimetite and wulfenite at this mine. Other minerals occurring here include duftite,
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Maximilian Glas, Starnberg, Germany Printer Mediahaus Biering, Munich, Germany English Edition © 2005 by...high fi-om the Vallone workings in the Rio Marina mine Collection Walter Giannini Photo Franco Valoti ...Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany German Edition © Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany ISBN 3-921656-57-5...3-921656-57-5 Printed in Germany The Italian Island of ----- A Mineralogical Jewel in the Tuscan Archipelago...history on Elba is, in the words of long-time iron mine director Giulio Pulle,"lost in the obscurity of
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most famous and best studied zeolite occurrence, North Table Mountain. Fine scolecites have been available...fractures in stone quarried at Woodleaf, Rowan County, North Carolina, and occurs as similar radiating sprays...gold-bearing veins of the Olinghouse mine, Washoe County, Nevada (Castor and Ferdock 2004). A suite of zeolites...as small radial fibrous aggregates at the Engels mine, Plumas County, and at Crestmore, Riverside County...levyne, and apophyllite in the Elk Mountain area north of Yale and in the 2001237 Road quarry at Wolf Point
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LIEBER Baden-Baden Straaae 3 69126 Heidelkrg, Germany I Downloaded by [RMIT University Library] at...author: 300 ROCKS & MINERALS A B Figure 1. Aragonite twins. A: Three-dimensional view. B: View from...11. Japan-law quartz twin, 2 cm high, from the PC mine, Jefferson County, Montana. Figure 10. A: Quartz...4-cm Japan-law quartz twin from the Mundo Nuevo mine, Ancash Province, Peru. These twins both possess...Alpine-law twins, a term sometimes favored in Germany. Elsewhere it is known as the Dauphin6 law, after
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by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found...after three semesters to pursue an opportunity to mine placer gold near Quartzsite. He also bought and...and operated a decorative-boulder quarry north of Phoenix. He and Phoenix dealer Bob Lane collected a lot
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balance model adapted to two small, closed lakes (Castor and Scanlon) located in the Pacific Northwest. Model...of instrumental climate data) demonstrate that Castor Lake and Scanlon Lake have a somewhat limited isotopic...isotopic responses of two lakes in central Washington, Castor Lake and Scanlon Lake, to hypothetical climate...542 N, 119.582 W) and Castor Lake (CL) (48.539 N, 119.561 W) are located in north-central Washington, within...the Pacific westerlies and the Aleutian low- and north Pacific high-pressure systems. A more detailed description
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other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There...Figure 1. Leadhillite, 6.7 cm high, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Formerly in the Houston Museum...pseudomorphing leadhillite crystals to 5 mm, from the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Scotland. This is the underside of the...twins closely resemble the trillings seen in aragonite (Artini-law twins). Lamellar twins on {142} and
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Florida] at 23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province, China T here has been...rocks and has been identified as a product of coal-mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include orpiment...Paris, Oxford County, Maine, and the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton County, New Hampshire. It occurred with...deposits of the general Carlin type in Nevada (Castor and Ferdock 2004). Perhaps best known to collectors...attractive groups of crystals from the Getchell mine, Humboldt County, where individual crystals to 12
Report (issue)
OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU OF...University of Nevada Press Photographs by Stephen B. Castor, Jeff Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock...Frontispiece: Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection...of Minerals Stephen B. Castor Geology and Mineralsin Nevada Stephen B. Castor The Mining and Mineralogical
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Indian jewels Rutile Diaspore Fluorite Calcite Aragonite Rhodochrosite Cerussite Byzantine jewels Variscite...significance for us all” a time, the economy of Whitby in North Yorkshire – the principal, local source of jet –...the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...himself wore a simpler version European state with Germany for his coronation in 800 CE. at its heart. Later...is made in a workshop in the Lower Rhineland of Germany 1400 1424–1796 The crown and other imperial regalia
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parageneses. The high-pressure CaCO3 polymorph aragonite, occurring as abundant phenocrysts in a calcitic...mantle-derived melts are generally too hot for stable aragonite crystallization (cf. A.R. Chakhmouradian et...22) core and rim of a calcite lath, Kaiserstuhl, Germany (Fig. 5c) Locations and other details: (23,24)...lack of any petrographic or chemical evidence of aragonite-to-calcite conversion (Carlson and Rosenfeld 1981;...1993; Keiter et al. 2008) at other localities, aragonite clearly has limited significance for carbonatite
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Indian jewels Rutile Diaspore Fluorite Calcite Aragonite Rhodochrosite Cerussite Byzantine jewels Variscite...the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...himself wore a simpler version European state with Germany for his coronation in 800 CE. at its heart. Later...is made in a workshop in the Lower Rhineland of Germany 1400 1424–1796 The crown and other imperial regalia...thunderbolt for Zeus or a trident for a shipwreck off the north Poseidon, makes the god’s identity coast of the
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(EGA, PfeifferAnalysis Vacuum Aßlar, Calorimetry Germany.) were used to determine the 2.2. Themogravimetric...analysis (EGA, Pfeiffer Vacuum Thermostar. Aßlar, Germany.) were used to determine the alumina ceramic crucible...comparison of the state for common carbonates aragonite (CaCO strontianite (SrCO cerrusiteequations (PbCO3...temperature than the orthorhombic Pmcn carbonates (aragonite, cerrusite, strontianite, than the trigonal R-3c...crystallographic increase in temperature than the Pmcn (aragonite, cerrusite, strontianite, axes and expand atAdditionally
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...versity of Nevada Press Photographs by Stephen B. Castor, Jeff Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and...Cataloging-in -Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock...Frontispi ece: Oliven i te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection...Contact Metaso rnatic Deposits 56 60 Stephen B. Castor Mercury Deposits 67 Stephen H. Ca\lor llnd Jo
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Update on the of the Mineralogy San Rafael Mine Downloaded by [Laurentian University] at 10:24 05...specimens from his collection he San Rafael mine, in north central Nevada, is a relatively little known...from this interesting occurrence. The San Rafael mine, at the old camp of Quartz Mountain in the Lodi...headframe and ore bin of the abandoned San Rafael mine stand out from the surrounding terrain and can easily...(left). View to the southwest of abandoned San Rafael mine headframe and ore bin at sunset, summer 2008. Martin
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Centre Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany [Received 4 May 2014; Accepted 3 October 2014;...devices, magnets, etc. (Adachi and Imanaka, 1998; Castor and Hedrick, 2006). Two This paper is published...(2012) Crystal Growth and Design, 12, 3806 3814. Castor, S.B. and Hedrick, J.B. (2006) Rare earth elements...Busenberg, E. (1982) The solubilities of calcite, aragonite and vaterite in CO2-H2O solutions between 0 and
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grainy-textured aggregate (olivine); shells (aragonite). to tufts, bundles (amianthus/ tions), bearing...gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England; 6*...by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR. Similar...in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR; Alsace-Lorraine/France;...colorless © Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany © Robling, Halle/Germany \:Vi Streak white. Mohs’ hardness
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concretions), bearing some resemblance to roe, shells (aragonite). 15 MINERAL CHARACTERISTICS Color of Minerals...gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia ; Surrey/England; Colorado/USA;...by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR. Similar...in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland ; Urals/USSR; Alsace-Lorraine/France;...Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 • 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1:½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
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dependent on the generosity of aristo¬ crats, as in Germany or Russia. Povarennykh would like to see a rational...Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...and naturalist; professor at the University of North Carolina (1818—1857); author of Elements of Geology...and chemist; assisted R. W. Bun¬ sen in Marburg, Germany; opened chemical laboratory in Philadelphia (1848);
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gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in : Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England; Colorado/USA;...by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR. Similar...: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR; Alsace-Lorraine/France;...Hattor[, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 · 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1: ½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'...Hesse, near the towns of Magdeburg, Halle, Erfurt/Germany; Galicia and Catalonia/Spain: Urals/USSR; Iran;
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gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England ; Colorado/USA...by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR. Similar...in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR; Alsacc-Lorraine/ f-rance;... Q) Hattorf, Philippsthal , Hesse/Germany ~ Robling, Halle/Germany l :½ white and colorless 3 ◄ Streak...Hesse, near the towns ofMagdeburg, Halle, Erfurt/Germany; Galicia and Catalonia/Spain; Urals/USSR; Iran
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mother-of-pearl, and shell are that were et on seashore the north coast of Europe, igget is fossil resin from trees...carbonate, which occurs either in the form of aragonite or calcite secreted by cells in the mantles of...olivine (peridot), chrysoberyl (alexandrite), aragonite, lolite, staurolite, zoisite (tanzanite), topaz...@ PERIDOT © GARNET Amber mine at Russia The world’s.largest amber mine is in _ Kaliningrad Oblast—partofthe...Colombia Miners can be seen searching for emeralds ina mine in Muzo, Colombia. Although emerald deposits have
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obtained from a new local mine. In the 1980s, the location of the mine, called ‘gold mine’, was recognised to...catastrophic earthquakes of 1703 and 1730, this mine district was abandoned. Locardi and Orsini (1990)...hydrothermal fluids like in the Mountain Pass carbonatite (Castor, SC 2008). Thorium and U are enriched in carbonatites...Quaternary carbonatitic districts, notably in the Rhine graben and Central Massif of France, which may be...from Northern Latium to Rome (Fig. 1b). To the north, in CE the Vulsini volcanic complex, the largest
 
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