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Halite from
Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Halite
Formula:NaCl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Boracite2 photos of Halite associated with Boracite at this locality.
Anhydrite2 photos of Halite associated with Anhydrite at this locality.
Clinoatacamite1 photo of Halite associated with Clinoatacamite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Halite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:126925
Long-form Identifier:1:3:126925:3
GUID (UUID V4):31b986a4-7111-4737-b4e8-3cb3d527d95e
Localities for Halite in this Region
Friedenshall (Solvayhall), Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Gröna Mine, Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Nearest other occurrences of Halite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Gröna Mine, Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
3.6km (2.2 miles) Friedenshall (Solvayhall), Bernburg, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
10.4km (6.5 miles) Friedrichshall potash mine, Staßfurt, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
11.3km (7.0 miles) Leopoldshall potash mine, Staßfurt, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
18.4km (11.4 miles) Aschersleben I potash mine, Aschersleben, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
22.4km (13.9 miles) Brefeld potash mine, Tarthun, Bördeaue, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
30.3km (18.8 miles) Douglashall I-II potash mine, Westeregeln, Börde-Hakel, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
31.6km (19.7 miles) Douglashall III potash mine, Westeregeln, Börde-Hakel, Salzlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
36.7km (22.8 miles) Krügershall Mine, Teutschenthal, Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
56.9km (35.3 miles) Zielitz potash mine, Zielitz, Börde, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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sedimentary basins, forming thick bedded deposits with halite; as a sublimate in volcanic fumaroles; in nitrate...intermediate-grade metamorphism. Association: Halite, kieserite, kainite, carnallite, polyhalite, gypsum...Austria. In Germany, from Westeregeln and Stassfurt, 34 km south of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, and at Bernburg...Bernburg, Lower Saxony. At Aislaby, near Whitby, Yorkshire, England. From Kalusz, Ukraine. In the Verkhnekamsk
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25.71 12.14 Total 99.87 100.00 (1) Lüneburg, Germany; average of two analyses. (2) Mg3 B7 O13 Cl. Polymorphism...Anhydrite, gypsum, halite, sylvite, carnallite, kainite, hilgardite. Distribution: In Germany, from Lüneburg...of Hamburg, Lower Saxony; in Saxony-Anhalt, in the Stassfurt-Westeregeln-Bernburg district, at the Douglashall...composition. Type Material: Mining Academy, Freiberg, Germany, 19324. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman
Report (chapter)
Zechstein salt correlation: England-Denmark-Germany G. Richter-Bernburg S U M M A RY: A correlation of the Zechstein...Zechstein strata of England and Germany is presented. It is based on strong similarities in the distribution...equivalent to the deposits of the Werra Cycle in Germany and that those of the Teesside Group are correlatives...formations in England (including offshore), Denmark and Germany soon discloses the limits of our knowledge. The...as well as in Jutland (Suldrup and others) and Germany, and offer the following facts for consideration
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facts and problems of sedimentation G. Richter-Bernburg S U M M A R Y : The distribution and lithology...(Ca2) and the thick Stassfurt rock salt (Na2); this halite can be a b o u t 500 m thick. The lower part o...of St Andrews on May 30, 2015 I58 G. Richter-Bernburg FIG. 1. Lamellitic (varved) Basalanhydrit, Zechstein...of St Andrews on May 30, 2015 160 G. Richter-Bernburg tation at the top of the main laminated sequence...comparable with the scarp of a barrier reef (Richter-Bernburg 1941, 1942, 1955, p. 612, 1972, p. 281 et seq
Journal (issue)
Übersichskarte von Sachsen-Anhalt 1:400,000, 1993 (Halle: Geologisches Landesamt Sachsen-Anhalt. ISBN 3-929951-00-2)...(Saale): Landesamt für Geologie und Bergwesen Sachsen-Anhalt). 6: Bachmann, G.H. et al. 2006. HalleStorung (Mitteilungen...(Mitteilungen zu Geologie und Bergwesen in Sachsen-Anhalt, Bd.10, 154pp. ISSN 1861-8723). 7: Bachmann, G...G.H. et al. 2008. Geologie von Sachsen-Anhalt (Stuttgart: E.Schweizerbart'sche Verbuchhandlung (Nagele...Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen, Central Germany, August 2010. Introduction Some of the earliest
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B~yTpenmO~O Bna~Hy, o6paaoBaBin Northern Germany (RICHTER-BERNBURG, 1955) my~ocn, BepOSTHO, B peaya~TaTe...Northern Germany accordocTpOBOB, MO>KHOCUnTaTS nepexo~oM K 6accetiHy. OT ing RICHTER-BERNBURG (1955)....distribution by the Hessian Trough (KuLICK & RICHTER-BERNBURG example of the early Zechstein sedimentary sequence...& KOWALCZYK, 1987; KA.DING, 1987). of Northern Germany. This holds true particularly It seems desirable...position of east coast of England through Northern Germany the German Zechstein belt in the wider southern
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more fascinating by the absence of any extensive halite or potash accumulation in present-day marine environments...too much attention to the Permian deposits of Germany. We have done so deliberately, however, because...of potash deposits and the development of blue halite? Uranium-bearing solutions percolating up from...anhydrite (CaSO,). Next in order of abundance comes halite (NaCl), often known as rock salt or common salt...than one mineral, though the calcium sulphates or halite may often make up as much as 99% of a given horizon
Report (chapter)
and schwellen facies in the lower Zechstein of Germany J. Paul SUMMARY: The Zechstein basin had a schwellen...palaeohigh and basin. Subsequent sedimentation of thick halite blanketed the topography and filled the basin....top of the palaeohighs (Fig. 2, locality 6). In Germany, these reefs are isolated reef knolls and seldom...the NW-German sub-basin (Langer 1977; Richter-Bernburg 1982)and which may also be equivalent to the Trow...slopes of the palaeohighs (Herrmann & Richter-Bernburg 1956). Turbidity currents (Fig. 2, locality 10)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Isotope Hydrology, Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hanover, Germany Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources...Safety Analyses, Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hanover, Germany University of Bremen, Institute of Environmental...Environmental Physics, Otto-Hahn Allee, D-28359 Bremen, Germany d State Authority of Mining, Energy and Geology...Geology (LBEG), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hanover, Germany e Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus,...Geology, Erich-Weinert-Str. 1, D-03046 Cottbus, Germany b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received
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geochemical methods, such as the C 1 - / B r - ratio in halite (Holser, 1966), and sulfur isotope composition...was close to saturation with respect to halite, but no halite formed. This anomaly was owing to the fact...1979; Steinhorn and Gat, 1983 ). Few years later halite precipitation started in the basin (Y. Levy, Israel...sediments is from a carbonate-clastic sequence to halite. 3. The sedimentological character of marine evaporite...and can be traced for large distances (Richter-Bernburg, 1957; Anderson and Kirkland, 1966; Wardlaw and
Report (chapter)
Zechstein carbonates form important gas reservoirs in Germany and the Netherlands and in at least one commercial...Zechstein carbonates form important gas reservoirs in Germany and the Netherlands and several significant discoveries...Claymore fields, and from various fields in East Germany and Poland. A ^ A ZSA A ^ A A ^ Z4A ^...(late leaching); and cementation and replacement by halite, triggered by mobilisation of underlaying salt...(Brueren 1959; Ftichtbauer 1964 and 1972; Richter-Bernburg 1955; Rhys 1975; Smith 1980; Taylor 1981; Taylor
Report (volume)
. . . . . . 9 19 31 55 63 75 87 103 113 127 Germany J. PAUL. Environmental analysis of basin and schwellen...schwellen facies in the lower Zechstein of Germany . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J...Werra Cycle (Z1) in West Germany (preliminary results) G. RICHTER-BERNBURG. Zechstein 1 and 2 Anhydrites:...facts and problems of sedimentation. G. RICHTER-BERNBURG. Zechstein salt correlation: E n g l a n d - D.... . . . . . 9 19 31 55 63 75 87 103 113 127 Germany J. PAUL. Environmental analysis of basin and schwellen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wilhelmshall, north of Halberstadt, in Prussian Saxony. The result of Dr. S. Zuckschwerdt's examination...salt, and partly of secondary formation. ~ Near Bernburg, again, the mineral occurs abundantly, overlying...of the above researches on the laugbeinite of Germany, there seemed little room for doubting that the...Luedecke, by the examination of slices (from near Bernburg) in sodium light between crossed nicols, was unable...XXIV, 1891, 281. 2ND. O F SECONDARY FORMATION. Halite (crystals in fissures of the rock salt, and fibrous)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wilhelmshall, north of Halberstadt, in Prussian Saxony. The result of Dr. S. Zuckschwerdt's examination...salt, and partly of secondary formation. ~ Near Bernburg, again, the mineral occurs abundantly, overlying...of the above researches on the laugbeinite of Germany, there seemed little room for doubting that the...Luedecke, by the examination of slices (from near Bernburg) in sodium light between crossed nicols, was unable...XXIV, 1891, 281. 2ND. O F SECONDARY FORMATION. Halite (crystals in fissures of the rock salt, and fibrous)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evaporites from the Zechstein basin, northern Germany Received: 27 January 1998 / Accepted: 11 May 1998...Geologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany Fax: ++234 709 4571 e-mail: Anke.Kampschulte@ruhr-uni-bochum...evaporite samples from the Zechstein basin of northern Germany, focusing in particular on the upper evaporitic...facies as well as sulfate intercalations within the halite facies, the socalled “Anhydritmittel”. 193 Fig...samples containing, for example, larger quantities of halite were dissolved and the sulfate reprecipitated as
Report (chapter)
For example, Anderson et al. (1972), Richter-Bernburg (1963) and Kirkland (2003), based on isochronous...shallow water are up to 10 m per 1000 years for halite and INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1–2 m per 1000...pointed out that, in order to accumulate thick halite deposits, the regional relative humidity must be...[less than 76% relative humidity (RH) is needed for halite formation], although this value is only a rough...either during the night or seasonally, most of the halite that has been formed will go back into solution
Report (chapter)
successions of claystone, carbonate, anhydrite, halite, and potash salt. The number of cycles varies...this part is found in the subsurface of northern Germany and southern Denmark (Best 1987; Kulick & Paul...basin, associated with a predominance of playa-type halite and potash salt deposits in the basin centre, and...Environment Carbonate + Sulphate Gypsum Gypsum Halite sabkha salina + solar pond deep basin playa Max...Zechstein 2 Carbonate. German part based on Richter-Bernburg (1985). ZECHSTEIN 2 CARBONATE Fig. 7. Diagrammatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zechstein group in the Netherlands is subdivided into 5 halite rich evaporitic sequences including K–Mg salts...caverns which require a salt as pure as possible in halite. By compiling well log and seismic data in the...evaporite sequences: shale, carbonate, sulfate, halite and K–Mg salts (dominantly including polyhalite...platforms in the marginal part of the basins, whereas halite accumulated in basin centers during drawdown periods...and (iii) a composition as pure as possible in halite [25,26]. Modern seismic imaging tools are relatively
Report (chapter)
millimetre scale, that are themselves interbedded with halite on a scale of 30 to 100m (Figs 1 & 2). The laminae...Salado Formation which contains proportionately more halite (Fig. 2) and abundant pseudomorphs after bottomgrowth...intermediate-scale cycles define the anhydrite and halite members of the Castile Formation. The Anhydrite... Fig. 3. Isopachyte map of the Anhydrite 1 and Halite 1 members showing thickening of anhydrite (solid...(solid lines) from west to east and thickening of halite (dashed lines) from south to north. Thicknesses
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1984 Printed in Germany The use of registered names, trademarks, etc....1981). Evaporites occur as crystal molds after halite or gypsum in the Denault Formation, the Knob...are over 1870 m.y. old (Criek and Wells 1981). halite were in the Pine Formation, Muir 1979, Riphean...the upper part of the cycles. There are scarce halite crystals. Late Precambrian gypsum-bearing deposits...Precambrian evaporites, containing gypsum interbeds and halite crystal molds, were registered in the upper Merkbjorn
Report (chapter)
(Kupfer 1968; Talbot 1979; Woods 1979; Richter-Bernburg 1980; Talbot & Jackson 1987), little work has...evaporitic sediments of this macrocycle are mainly halite with interbedded potash levels on top of a 5-10...and is formed by alternating lutite and halite layers. Halite lamination is 6 cm thick and grey in colour...crystals of halite characterized by sunken depressions on the crystal face (hopper crystals). The halite is lighter...consisting of halite and sylvite (KC1)), carnallite (K MgC13 6H20), halite and lutitic laminae. The halite laminae
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
study ~s carried out on the carnalhtebearing deck halite ( = Deckstemsalz, RichterBernburg, 1955) Na2r cut...quartz crystals The number of crystals m the deck halite-salt clay, Na2r-T3, is more t h a n 10 times as...by the strongly tectornzed K-rich coloured deck halite N&r and salt clay T3 The Nos 2, 3 and 4 refer to...re-formed, but carnalhte, tetrahydrate, sylv:te and halite precipitate The sohd/hquld ratm :s shghtly diminished...sediments m the Mors area (F:g 1) Accordmg to R:chter-Bernburg (1981), the first halokmeslc movements took place
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sedimentology of evaporites (gypsum, anhydrite, halite). A major rejuvenation of thought developed with...water depth, and degree of agitation (Richter-Bernburg, 1955). Jung (1958) postulated a concretionary...in the Permian Zechstein Formation of Germany (Richter-Bernburg, 1955,1957,1958; Anderson and Kirkland...Formation of Germany have been correlated for distances of as much as 290 km (Richter-Bernburg, 1957, 1958;...U.S. Govt. Printing Office, p. 673694. Richter-Bernburg, G., 1955, Uber salinar sedimentation: Deutsch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
laminae grade upward into bedded anhydrite and halite deposits, the same subaqueous environmental interpretation...pass upward gradationally into thick anhydrite and halite deposits of the evaporite sequence. Because of...of Shearman's recent description of supratidal halite deposits from Baja California (1970), this thesis...alternative to deep-water deposition of anhydrite and halite. It is the theme of this paper, however, that the...evaporite deposits have been established by Richter-Bernburg (1957, 1960) and Anderson and Kirkland (1966)
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reaching several meters down into the pre-existing halite sediment. And thatone may be recrystallized in...Anschrift des Verfassers: Prof. Dr. G. BICHTEtl-BERNBURG,Haarstr. 8, 8000 Hannover 1. Band 68, Heft 8,...gisements de halite des structures en pilliers polygonaux de quelques m6tres de puissance, off la halite peut...SalemiGibellina). Da es sich u m recht unreine Halite gehandelt hatte, blieben einige Meter eines R e...Ronnenberg/Hannover, Sarstedt, Salzdetfurth u n d Bernburg. Bei allen genannten Lokalit~ten beschr~nkt sich
 
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