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Gypsum from
Moresnet, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium


Locality type:Sub-municipality
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Comments:Misinterpretation of the reference, the authors are implying the Moresnet mining district, not the village itself.
Habit:Coatings with small crystals and fine needles on galena (Cesàro, 1898)
Confirmation
Validity:Erroneously Reported
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moresnet, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1352321
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1352321:9
GUID (UUID V4):3e41def5-e0c3-41df-af78-caabcb76a9f9
Nearest other occurrences of Gypsum
1.6km (1.0 miles) Altenberg mine, Kelmis, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
2.0km (1.2 miles) Bleyberg mine, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
2.3km (1.4 miles) Bleyberg zinc and lead smelter slag locality, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
2.6km (1.6 miles) Schmalgraf mine, Kelmis, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
4.7km (2.9 miles) Terbruggen, Sippenaeken, Plombières, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
6.1km (3.8 miles) Rabotrath mine, Walhorn, Lontzen, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
13.2km (8.2 miles) Val-Dieu, Aubel, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
15.0km (9.3 miles) Willem-Sophia mine, Kerkrade, Limburg, Netherlands
17.1km (10.6 miles) Münsterbusch zinc smelter slag locality, Stolberg, Aachen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
17.7km (11.0 miles) Breinigerberg Mine, Breinig, Stolberg, Aachen, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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system. www.bruker-axs.com/d2phaser.html BRUKER BELGIUM s.a./n.v. bruker@bruker.be WWW.BRUKER.COM Tel:...het eerst gebruikt werd in 1455. De mijnbouw bij Moresnet heeft een zeer lange en ingewikkelde geschiedenis...Verenigde Nederlanden. Moresnet ligt vlak bij Kelmis, en is nu een deelgemeente van Plombières (Nederlands: Blieberg...Blieberg, Duits: Bleyberg of Bleiberg). Moresnet ontstond doordat Pruisen en het Verenigd Koninkrijk der...oktober 2013 Moresnet deel van het Verenigd Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, Neu-Moresnet (nu een deelgemeente
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The “calamine” nonsulfide Zn–Pb deposits of Belgium: Petrographical, mineralogical and geochemical...Germany c Geological Survey of Belgium, 13 Rue Jenner, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium d Geologisch-Paläontologisches...4 to − 14.7‰. The metallic deposits of Eastern Belgium have undergone a polyphase history, which started...2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Belgium; Zinc; Nonsulfide; Calamine; Mineralogy; Geochemistry;...Zn ore began in many parts of Europe, including Belgium, during the Roman period and continued through
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en wordt meestal vergezeld van colemaniet. - US Gypsum Co. Quarries, Southard, Blaine Co., Oklahoma. -...belangrijk voor ceramiek. Willemietkristallen van Moresnet, Liège, België. Kristalletjes tot ongeveer 1 mm lang...Dillen. Kristaltekening van willemietkristal van Moresnet naar Buttgenbach, 1947. Geonieuws 32(1), januari...monokliene stelsel; het Destineziet van Richelle, Liège, België. Aggregaat van ongeveer 8 cm. Verzameling...orosilicate mineral from the Stavelot Massif, Belgium", Eur. J. Mineral. 17, 703-714. Bernard, Jan H
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for the History KriJgslaan 281 S30 B-9000 Gent Belgium F (+32) (0)9 264 49 73 T (+32) (0)9 264 49 30 be...are distributed by: The publications of Academ Belgium: Booksellers J. Story-Scientia Scientific Sint-Kwintensberg...Stoops proposed to work around nerals related to Belgium. They pointed out, that in the past some renowned...0 --4 m 5 6 PREFACE Minerals occurring in Belgium have amply and comprehensively been documented...evolution of mineralogical science and knowledge in Belgium through the last 60 or so years. As most books
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phically,including: calamine from Moresnet with the form/,'gypsum from Corphaliewith the form-e; aragonite...Apophyllite, new to Belgium, has been found at Quenast,and zonal groupings of hopeite at Moresnet. A complex clay
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de vindplaats . Reisweg : via autosnelweg naar Liège -> E25 richting Bastogne -> uitrit 50 (Baraque d...en fossielenbeurs van A .G .A_B_ (Liège ) Palais des Congrès, Liège (centrum ) 5 en 6 november 1994, 10-18...verzamelingen van de Université de Liège , afkomstig van Moresnet . dat als brauniet gekatalogeerd was...omgedoopt tot hetaeroliet (Buil . Soc . roy . Sci . Liège 44, 157 (1975)) . Indien verzamelaars toevallig...zouden beschikken over een oud stuk "brauniet" van Moresnet da n laten zij dat best grondig onderzoeken door
Journal (issue)
Grandjean Faden quartz from Bierghes, Brabant, Belgium ...................................... 441 by H...Middle Devonian. Reef complexes, beds of nodular gypsum, collapse breccias, and fracture zones provided...437 Faden Quartz From Bierghes, Brabant, Belgium Harjo Neutkens1 Stijn Claeys2 Tom Costes3 The...The finest faden quartz specimens ever found in Belgium, rivaling the best from any classic locality worldwide...habits have been found there as well. INTRODUCTION Belgium: a haphazard collection of Walloon (French), Flemish
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f copper and iron ores, limestones, dolomites, gypsum, and other rocks. A collection of copper ores,...ores i n the Kama area, and Orenburg territory 94. Gypsum (rose). 20 x 22 cm. Caspian Depression, Russia...KP985/GP562/1-4, Zh.T. Shaikhutdinov donation, 2014. 96. Gypsum rose. 13 x 11 cm. Bogdo Mt., Ural river basin,...in gypsum. The Museum displays a wealth of varieties of this widespread mineral: beautiful gypsum rosettes...which is often found in association with snow-white gypsum and black chalcedony in the form of ellipsoidal
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voorgesteld naa r plaatsen als Beez, Namêche, Fleurus, Moresnet, Ovifat . e 3 . Varia . - De MKA zal een schenking...pseudomorphs after gypsum in the lower car boniferous of the Vesder region (Belgium ) 251-254 Presentation
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Bender) MKA-gezelschap in Schmalgraf, Neu-Moresnet, Liège, België (1978, foto Rik Dillen) Geonieuws...UV reactions 8-9 The many faces of fluorescent gypsum 14-15 The interaction between calcite from the...Orneau-vallei Ovifat Plombières/Bleiberg Resteigne Rumst Salmchâteau Schmalgraf/Neu-Moresnet Sclaigneaux Sclayn...www.bruker-axs.com/d2phaser.html 210 BRUKER BELGIUM s.a./n.v. bruker@bruker.be WWW.BRUKER.COM Tel:
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Montana Grossularite after Diopside. Vask6, Hungary Gypsum after Aragonite. Bastennes, France Magnetite after...or azurite, (b) the gain of a constituent-e.g., gypsum after anhydrite and malachite after cuprite, and...cerussite, barite after witherite, barite after gypsum.) The importance of the solubility of the adsorption...malachite after barite, calcite, cerussite, dolomite, gypsum; chrysocolla after barite, calcite, dolomite, siderite...possibly the incrustation types of smithsonite after gypsum, calcite, galena; and calamine after dolomite,
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Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof, Pretoria Belgium: Paul Van Hee Mariaiei 43 B-2120 Schoten Italy:...formed in flexures of the ‘D’ bed footwall. Pyrite, gypsum, quartz, hematite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and...were associated with clear sword-like crystals of gypsum. Most collectors agree that these are the best...Enargite Famatinite Fluorite Galena Gold Grossularite Gypsum Halloysite Hematite Hemimorphite Hydrozincite Limonite...and 87 Figure 5. Geology students collecting gypsum pseudomorphs after glauberite on slopes of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sesquioxidestate. TE E A M ERIC A N M I N ERA LOGIST Gypsum Hancockite Hardystonite Hedyphane Hematite Hetaerolite...description of the well-known zinc deposits at Moresnet, Belgium. Here there are vast sphalerite replacement
Catalog/List
sharp cubo-dodecahedral boracite crystals (7 mm) in gypsum matrix (2 x 2 cm) ••• $40.00 81B16 MONTEBRASITE...Large (9 rmn) cube-dodecahedral gray boracite in gypsum (4.5 x 4o5 cm) ••• $55.00 (L) 81B60 STIBARSEN,...81B82 WILLEMITE, Vieille Montagne, Moresnet, near Aix-La-Chapelle, Belgium. (a) very nice crystallized gemmy
locally contains remnants of evaporitic minerals (gypsum crystals and anhydrite concretions, Fig. 3F). The...(lower Ferrobamba Formation); F) pseudomorphs of gypsum/anhydrite concretions within the limestone of the...zinciferous nonsulfide ore deposits in Europe. In Belgium the sauconite was recognized by Coppola et al....“moresnetite” by the local miners in the Zn deposit of Moresnet-Altenberg (La Calamine) and consists of a mixture...2008, The calamine nonsulfide Zn-Pb deposits of Belgium: Petrographical, 1757 mineralogical and geochemical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locally contains remnants of evaporitic minerals (gypsum crystals and anhydrite concretions, Fig. 3F). The...(lower Ferrobamba Formation); F) pseudomorphs of gypsum/anhydrite concretions within the limestone of the...zinciferous nonsulfide ore deposits in Europe. In Belgium the sauconite was recognized by Coppola et al....“moresnetite” by the local miners in the Zn deposit of Moresnet-Altenberg (La Calamine) and consists of a mixture...2008, The calamine nonsulfide Zn-Pb deposits of Belgium: Petrographical, 1757 mineralogical and geochemical
Journal (issue)
of zinc in Europe was:- Prussia, 32, 000 tons; Belgium, 15,000 tons; Russia, 4,ooo tons; England, 1,000...Sedalia Mine, Colorado; Altenberg, Germany and Moresnet, Belgium. A type of willemi te found at Sterling Hill...along the cleavage. The crystals easily scra,tcb gypsum; calcite can be scratched by rubbing it across
Report (issue)
anomite, biotite, musGrossularite covite, phlogopite) Gypsum Microeline Hastingsite Millerite Hedyphane Molybdenite...SURVEY a more recent date were first mistaken for gypsum .because of the habit of the crystals and their...Levy discovered and named'willemite from Moresnet, Belgium. Troostite and willemite have been proved... Levy discovered and named the willemite from Belgium. Many later investigators discovered Thomson's...York; Salida, Colorado; Sinaloa, Mexico; Moresnet, Belgium; Musartut, Greenland; and Tchioumba, French
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of sphalerite decomposition in the presence of gypsum. The type specimen of boyleite has a chemical composition...and the Geul Valley goslarite locality near Moresnet, Belgium (Schuiling * E-mail: peterson@geol.queensu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Triassic variegated shales associated with gypsum (Fig. 2c). Following exploration campaigns in the...(undifferentiated Sinemurian) Triassic shales (including gypsum beds) and lavas Fig. 1 a Simplified tectonic map...clays, Dol dolomite, Gn galena, Gth goethite, Gp gypsum, Hem hematite, Qz quartz, Wil willemite Here,...including both calcite and dolomite (Fig. 4a; Table 1). Gypsum is also present in some samples. The major element...mineral), was found in supergene zinc deposits in Belgium Miner Deposita (Fransolet and Bourguignon 1975)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bornite,covellite,chalcocite andcuprite......... 644 Gypsum by anglesite, with remarkson volumechanges ......sphaleritelayers from a specimenof "schalenblende" from Moresnet. The possibilityof this kind of inherited structure...weenthe newly formed anglesiteand the original gypsum. The crystals of "anglesite" had assumedidiomorphicforms...experimental data, is the following. A smallblade of gypsum,with its two parallelfaces,was clampedbetweentwo...composed respectively of chalcocite, galena and gypsum,were mountedand fixed one uponthe other. Next onesideof
Book
there are important deposits in western Germany, Belgium, Northern France, and Great Britain. They are mostly...from Skyros, Greece, and a number from France and Belgium. Most of these are used for interior decoration...interbedded with sedimentary rocks, such as shales. Gypsum or anhydrite are common associates, and more rarely...extraordinary thickness, (2) the association of gypsum, either above or below the salt, and (3) the presence...most deposits of rock salt or of rock salt and gypsum have been formed by the evaporation of oceans or
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e Joseph J. Lhoest P.O. Box 141 B-4000 Liege, Belgium Kipushi is famous as a rich pipe-like deposit...the mid 1970’s, mainly at the School of Leuven, Belgium (Ottenburghs, 1964; Viaene and Moreau, 1968; Devos... Figure 41. Cuprite in acicular crystals with gypsum , 3 cm across; M. Houssa collection; Lhoest photo...remnants of “organites” (Devos, 1973). Gypsum C aS 0 4-2H20 Gypsum as transparent needles to 2 cm is commonly...twinning on (001) reported by Levy in 1843 from Moresnet, Belgium (Goldschmidt, 1913, and others), was not observed
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t e n contains micro rods and plates of mangano gypsum in brilliant xls. Thomas' Lapidary, 7 0 6 Church...Beryl Borax Halite Pyrite Sulfur Quartz Galena Gypsum Barite Bauxite Calcite Brucite OF ECONOMIC INTEREST—70...quartz. 2 ' / 2 x 3V2, $5.00. Sphalerite. Moresnet, Belgium. Section of round ball 4 inches diameter showing
Report (issue)
cement-making materials 36, dolomite 1 4, china clay 1 3, gypsum 7, barytes 6, iron-ore 6, fireclay 5, salt and...of further exploratory borel1oles at Mountfield Gypsum Mines. Messrs. Holmes, \Vorssam and PRIMARY S...slcerry bands, but with no evidence of associated gypsum. Mr. Smith, however, was able to EAST RETFORD (SHEET...between Gringly on the Hill and Misterton sporadic gypsum horizons, though only where they were exposed or...stratigraphical sequence. Study of material from the Gypsum Mines Co., Ltd. borings and from the beds exposed
 
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