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Fluorapatite from
Marble quarry, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomite2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Forsterite2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Forsterite at this locality.
Tremolite2 photos of Fluorapatite associated with Tremolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1243754
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1243754:4
GUID (UUID V4):328e839a-2050-4166-83ba-f7a578a2acc0
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Im Liagl, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
1.6km (1.0 miles) In der Luck’n, Häusling, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
6.7km (4.2 miles) Grimsing, Emmersdorf an der Donau, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
8.3km (5.1 miles) Steinhof quarry, Obritzberg-Rust, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
10.6km (6.6 miles) Pegmatite quarry, Ambach, Wölbling, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
11.4km (7.1 miles) Bacharnsdorf, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
12.2km (7.6 miles) Arzberg (Atzberg; Michaeler Berg), Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
13.1km (8.2 miles) Unterkienstock, Rossatz, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
14.9km (9.2 miles) Am Schuß quarry, Am Schuß, Weiten, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
15.0km (9.3 miles) Blocherleitengraben, Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed...hornfels chill-zone is evident at both the upper and lower contact of the sill with the sedimentary rocks....of a misshapen l@cm lazurite crystal in whitish marble matrix. Examination of the other side of the specimen...lazurite. The matrix of the crystals is diopside marble, indicating a metamorphic grade and rock composition... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
octahedra to 1 cm occur in chloritic matrix at the Hamm quarry, Windham County, and fine crystals to 2.5 cm occur...octahedral crystals in chlorite schist at Prince’s quarry, Philadelphia County. Excellent specimens consisting...and octahedra to 1 cm across in marble in the Appomattox Lime quarry near Beckham, Appomattox County...occurred in talc at the Cherokee mine of the Ducktown district, Polk County, Tennessee. Sharply developed magnetite...Hill, and similar crystals are found in the Kimzey quarry or Calcite Hill locality (Smith 1996). Magnetite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Llallagua, Bolivia. Elongate crystals of fluorapatite from Brazil display welldeveloped polygonalized...Amelia Volume 69, MarcWApril1994 133 Courthouse district; the other is the Rutherford pegmatite. In July...minerals. RECENT MINERAL DISCOVERIES AT THE BENNEll QUARRY, BUCKFIELD, MAINE. W B. Thompson, Maine Geological...House Station 22, Augusta, ME 04333. The Bennett quarry is located in a complex granite pegmatite in the...cleavelandite unit along the north side of the quarry, producing additional morganite and large quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
67.5° N, long. 139° E). Occurrence: In a kotoite marble. Associated minerals are: calcite, kotoite, forsterite... a new member of the hulsite group, in kotoite marble from east of Verkhoyansk, Sakha–Yakutia, Russia...long-abandoned Clear Creek mercury mine, New Idria district, San Benito County, California, USA. Occurrence:...S)12O34(OH,F)8•5H2O O RTHORHOMBIC Locality: Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada...Occurrence: (1) In an unusual breccia or altered marble xenoliths; associated minerals are quartz, a labuntsovite-group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite in the United States (Wilson 1977; Francis and...many others, another of North America’s finest fluorapatite specimens. It is from a locality, however, that...worldwide, the Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovery in 1967 of the Felbertal deposit in Austria, currently now the world's 3rd biggest tungsten...scheelite deposits in Australia (Mt. Isa district, Qld.; Broken Hill district, N.S.W.; Olary Block, S.A.; Yilgarn...herein are throughout regionally metamorphosed Lower-Middle Proterozoic calc-silicate horizons which...Austroalpine Crystalline Complex (Eastern Alps, Austria) in carbonaceous pelitic, psammopelitic, psammitic...grained bedded stratiform scheelite is present in marble, regional calc-silicate rocks intimately associated
Book
117-134 Brazilianite NaAli{PO,,)z(OH), 117 Fluorapatite Ca 5(PO,)l 118- 120 Pyromorphite Pb5(PO4 )3CI... u 73 74 Corundum (Variety Ruby) in W11ite Marble Jagdalak, Afghanistan Crystal 4 cm (11/1 in.) long...across Columbite with Feldspar and Mica Rincon district, San Diego County, California Black crystal 3... Aragonite (Variety Flos Feri) Eisenerz, Styria, Austria 12 cm (4 ¾ in.) across 91 Calcite on Sphalerite...117 118 Fluorap11ti te with Cookeite Pulsifer Quarry, Auburn, Maine Purple cryst,;il 2 5 cm ( I 1n )
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Novosedly Šebanov lda 20 km Český Krumlov Austria Mo N ath oli th České Budějovice Fig. 1...2011). The Varied Group contains abundant layers of marble, calc-silicate gneiss, graphite gneiss, quartzite...co-ordinates is given in Tab. 1. 3.1. Pacova hora quarry near Chýnov The Moldanubian Zone is a heterogeneous...1995) and the Mesoproterozoic Dobra gneiss in Lower Austria (Gebauer and Friedl 1994; Friedl et al. 2004)...directly bordering amphibolite layer (Fig. 3). Calcite marble within several metres of the Mn-rich layer is represented
Journal (issue)
sapphire and spinel deposit of An Phu, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . ....12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The Cresson Vug, Cripple...Steger Nestroystrasse 15 2700 Wiener Neustadt Austria The author has been visiting mines and mineral...mineralogical tours have taken him from his home in Austria to such enticing localities as the Virgem da Lapa...near the Fazenda Dardanelos, in Barra de Cuieté district, 5 km from the town of Conselheiro Pena. Only
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1830. Peter Tarassoff photo. Figure 7 (right). Fluorapatite with quartz, 4.5 cm high, Horní Slavkov (Schlaggenwald)...vein-dikes that were then being mined for phosphate (fluorapatite), mica, and graphite. A contemporary of Dawson...Tony Gordian and a large collection of Francon quarry minerals from Donald V. Doell. They and other donors...with albite and aegirine, 3.5 cm high, Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec. Michael Bainbridge...Display of minerals from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Francon quarry, and other localities in the Monteregian Hills
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eastern, lower Austroalpine nappes (Stubenberg Granite contact aureole, Styria, Eastern Alps, Austria) P....University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria b GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg...Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria d Fasangasse 11, A-8073 Feldkirchen, Austria Received 23 November 2005;...belongs to the Lower Fig. 1. Simplified tectonic map of the western part of the Lower Austroalpine units...Austroalpine nappe system (Flügel and Neubauer, 1984). The lower Austroalpine Unit at the eastern end of the Alps
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens is from the Dattaw mine, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay Division. It consists of green crystals...Tange-Achin, Kandahar Province, and are embedded in marble. The example in the Smithsonian collection is a...offering a diopside from Tange-Achin, also embedded in marble, that is approximately 4 cm and a bright green...in my notes is of a 4-cm dark green crystal in marble from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province. In...found at Khapalu (also spelled Khaplu), Ghangche district. Other Pakistani localities that have produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz-microcline lens hosted by Precambrian Grenville Marble. Brown (1983) described the bodies he labeled as...species occurring largely as trace minerals. Fluorapatite, Ca5(PO3)4F, was found as pale blue-green Edwards...dravite crystals commonly have inclusions of fluorapatite crystals, zircon crystals, and acicular voids...consistent with its direct contact with the surrounding marble. Quartz, SiO2, occurs in two distinct crystal habits...fluorine to form fluorine-dominant dravite, fluorapatite, and tremolite and phlogopite containing significant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
REE-bearing accessory phosphate minerals such as fluorapatite, monazite and xenotime can be utilized to date...European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna Austria, on April 25 and 27, 2005. The session contained...mineral inter-relationships including monazite– fluorapatite interaction under high-grade metamorphic conditions...pyroxenes should be expected to predominate in the lower crust and upper mantle of the Earth as well as in...baddeleyite-bearing assemblages in veins from a marble that makes up part of the contact aureole associated
Book (edition)
departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...thaleniteM crystals from the NYF-pegmatite at Askagen quarry, Viirmland, Sweden, in tiny metamict crystals to...composed of triphylite, alluaudite, scorzalite and fluorapatite, in beryl-rich pegmatite at Angarf-Sud, near...crandallite, perhamite and fluorapatite in a phosphate zone in the Penrice marble quarry, Angaston, near Adelaide
Book (edition)
with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...Counties, California, etc. At Jordan6w Slcl5ki, Lower Silesia, Poland. The oldest known deposits of white
Catalog/List
crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...Richard V Gaines small Ix half inch £ I5 29. FLUORAPATITE single terminated greenish-red crystal about...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...short wave, UV large Ix2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 70. HYDROXYL-HERDERJTE two or three pale brown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the Oconee River:...property—near Commerce: ferrocolumbite (Cook, 1978). Lula district—Standridge property, about 7.0 km east of Lula:...(chryso­ lite, olivine) (Teague, 1956). Jefferson district—9.7 km southwest of Jefferson on S.R. 11, northwest...Bartow County Allatoona Gold mine—lot 929, 21st district: bornite, chal­ copyrite, galena, gold, quartz
Book
themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species, microspecimens...fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...be seen under the microscope, providing that the lower magnifications are used. The details of color and...Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces yellow-orange...comes from the Millington quarry in Rocky Hill. From the Chimney Rock quarry near Somerville, there is
Book
themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species, microspecimens...fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...be seen under the microscope, providing that the lower magnifications are used. The details of color and...Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces yellow-orange...comes from the Millington quarry in Rocky Hill. From the Chimney Rock quarry near Somerville, there is
Journal (issue)
by L. A. D. Menezes and J. M. Martins The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California ...................San Venanzo quarry, Terni, Umbria, Italy, and was later recognized from the Eifel district in Germany...over the world— with special emphasis on Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Europe's Newest Mineral i Magazine...zone 2, and the other consists of a rock with a lower P 20 5 (4.5%) and medium MgO grade (around 5%) called...mineral content of the orebodies is as follows: Fluorapatite: 13% Calcite: 55% Dolomite: 22% Magnetite: 6%
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gar net, ilmenite, pyrophanite, magnetite, fluorapatite, and sulfides. Grothite forms numerous scattered...describe grothite in syenite from the Dresden district. In com parison to ordinary titanite, grothite...was identified in eclogite, dolo mite, and marble in Austria (Franz and Spear, 1985; Daniele and Daniela...titanite, zircon, epidote, allanite, prehnite, fluorapatite, fluorite, and graphite in variable amounts...drilled in 1976 during geological exploration of the lower levels of the central orebody. Grothite is a constituent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metamict aeschynite-(Y) from the Evje-Iveland district (Norway): heat-induced recrystallization and dehydrogenation...Pb6Sb6S14(S3), a new mineral from the Ceragiola marble quarry...............................................low-T metamorphic Graz Paleozoic, Eastern Alps, Austria. ................................................ILDEFONSE, G. CALAS.– Native Cd+ in sedimentary fluorapatite....................................... 1087...Mineral inclusions in zircon from diamond-bearing marble in the Kokchetav massif, northern Kazakhstan.
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...crystals to 2.5 cm have been found with spine! in marble less than 1 mile southwest of Amity (Chamberlain...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain, 1982), with ilmenite
Book (volume)
colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway airport at rd...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...shark teeth. CHATTOOGA COUNTY GORE, N 6 mi., along lower slopes of Taylor RidgeHalloysite. SUMMERVILLE:...US 27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;... W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N: (a) at the Marble Springs Quarrygemmy marble (red and green); (b) E, in Taylor
 
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