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Uraninite from
Graphite quarry, Wollmersdorf (Zettlitz-Wollmersdorf), Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Graphite quarry, Wollmersdorf (Zettlitz-Wollmersdorf), Drosendorf-Zissersdorf, Horn District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1436933
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1436933:5
GUID (UUID V4):94a805d9-0875-4a01-ad21-6acb4c029aef
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
2.5km (1.5 miles) Hengl quarry, Eibenstein an der Thaya, Raabs an der Thaya, Waidhofen an der Thaya District, Lower Austria, Austria
47.9km (29.8 miles) Homolka Hill, Stráž nad Nežárkou, Jindřichův Hradec District, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
49.8km (31.0 miles) Blocherleitengraben, Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
50.3km (31.3 miles) Eichberg, Unterlembach, Großdietmanns, Gmünd District, Lower Austria, Austria
62.5km (38.8 miles) Am Schuß quarry, Am Schuß, Weiten, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
64.7km (40.2 miles) In der Luck’n, Häusling, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
66.5km (41.3 miles) Graphite deposit, Hengstberg, Hafnerbach, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
73.8km (45.9 miles) Cyrilov phosphate pegmatite (Cyrillhof), Cyrilov (Cyrillhof), Horní Bory, Bory, Žďár nad Sázavou District, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic
83.5km (51.9 miles) Drahonín uranium mine, Drahonín, Brno-Country District, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic
84.8km (52.7 miles) Bukov Mine, Rožná deposit, Rožná, Žďár nad Sázavou District, Vysočina Region, Czech Republic
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria Present address: Geoscience Center, Georg-August-University...5020 Salzburg, Austria 4 Department of Hard Rock Geology, Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38...Vienna, Austria 5 NAWI Graz Geocenter, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 26, 8010 Graz, Austria e-mail:...unit overlies both, the Drosendorf and Ostrong units. Although the Drosendorf unit was traditionally assigned... which confirms an Avalonian affinity of the Drosendorf unit (SORGER et al., 2020). The youngest detrital
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
664 Geevor mine, Pendeen, St. Just-inPenwith: uraninite, 654 Levant mine, St. Just-in-Penwith: danal-...azurite, olivenite, 428; coronadite, 343 Embleton quarry, Cockermouth: alunite, dickite, thaumasite, zunyite...scheelite, 921 Meldon aplite quarry, Okehampton: bavenite, 577 Meldon limestone quarry, Okehampton: scheelite...shore, Arran: andesine, 587 Tyndrum, Perthshire: uraninite, 654 Argyll Cnoc Rhaonastil, Islay: dolerites...nah' Achlaise, Ledmore: cromaltite, 767 Lettermore quarry, Loch Loyal: nordmarkite, 389 Loch Bad ham Ban
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bohemian Massif the most important uranium ore district in Europe. This paper deals with the Rožná deposit...deposit (a part of the Rožná-Olší uranium ore district, total mine production of 23,000 t U) located 45...mineralization was dated at 280–260 Ma (U–Pb, uraninite; Anderson et al. 1988). Fluid inclusions in host...the Bohemian Massif The Rožná-Olší uranium ore district lies in the northeastern part of the Moldanubian...Licoměřice deposit, 350 t U; 26 Příbram, 51,000 t U; 27 Lower Silesia, 500 t U, Kowary, Kletno, and Radoniów deposits
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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.... just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production...documented, if at all. Most of the material from the quarry was evidently used in the construction of an adjacent...Press. ON THE NATURAL OCCURRENCE OF SPHERICAL GRAPHITE. J. A. Janczuk, Department of Physics and the
Book (edition)
of pyrite (creme) is much higher than that of graphite (brownish grey), which shows grooves at the contact...main axes of the lattice, while the hexagonal graphite is made up of carbon sheets with very little bonding...(continued) Pressure twins are commonly found in graphite or molybdenite, where they are easily identified...grains. Left: Simple (upper right) and complex (lower left) twinning of gudmundite (blue and brown anisotropy)...longer fit into the same crystal lattice at the lower temperature; examples are, for instance, surplus
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A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...see it as being very dark or black (for example, graphite). Alternatively, if very little of the color in...anything at all through an opaque mineral such as graphite. Density is the mass per unit volume of a mineral...both diamond and graphite are made of carbon (C), diamond feels heavier than graphite because its carbon...centimeter of diamond than in the same volume of graphite. So although both minerals are made of the same
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining...Temple, 6 miles W of Temple in abandoned limestone quarry; marcasite* (spear-point crystals; groups up to...Minerals quarry), at Damon on Route 36, prominent hill, shallow piercement salt dome, open-pit quarry on N...an Indian stronghold. Sam Damon opened a small quarry in 1831, first oil well drilled in 1915. Sulfur...dard Sulfur, 1953-1957. Dresser Minerals opened quarry in 1976, active in 1989 by another operator producing
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shared by Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria, has been focused on these industrial minerals...with much success. The Hagendorf-Pleystein mining district consists of several pegmatites and aplites, including...The Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria. Together with their southern extension represented...Mountain Belt, extending from Switzerland, through Austria into Slovakia, this crustal section is host to...western edge of the Bohemian Massif. This mining district consists of several pegmatites and aplites, including
Book (edition)
01-50 V 76 78 80 82 Mineral Strunz-Group Graphite Sulfur Selenium Tellurium I/B.02-10 I/B.03-10...IV/D.29-20 Baddeleyite IV/D.31-10 IV/D.31-60 Uraninite IV/D.31-60 Thucholite 674 676 678 680 682 684...matrix (brownish grey), skutterudite (light grey, lower right corner); Core Drilling near Orahovac, Kosovo...(brownish pleochroism), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // C Iron (dark...(brown and multicolour internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 20 Iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alpine metamorphism reached upper greenschist to lower amphibolite grade. Geochemical data are used to...barite-pyrite while the reduced zone contains graphite or pyrrhotitepyrite and formally zerovalent As...1% range, T1 and Ag reach several hundred ppm. Uraninite is concentrated in silicate-rich bands and yields...30°C. SVSr/86Sr ratios of mineralised samples are lower than or equal to host dolostones, precluding major...collecting peaked around 1835 and 1900. Since 1958, the quarry has been operated for the exploitation of mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is present locally. It contains inclusions of uraninite, brannerite and noble metal minerals lcoated at...ANOMALY FIG. 1. A general map of Lubin mining district. and Pd are also recovered; however, recent estimations...ARL SEMQ probe at the Mining University, Leoben, Austria. The following conditions were applied: accelerating...concentrate areas of black shale - range; and in some lower figure Pd 2 -340 - average. 2.1 0.010.3 )...were made at the Institute of Geology, Leoben, Austria. The sample decomposition procedure was similar
Report (issue)
S. Geological Survey personnel of the various district offices. Each precipitation sample represents...tritium rainout for Denver and Albuquerque is also lower than expected and is due to low precipitation during...Recent data and results a symposium in Vienna, Austria, May 3-10, 1961: Tritium in the Phys. and Biol...___________________________-_--_------------_--_-2. Sketch of uraninite veinlets at the foot of Bard Falls ___ ____ ___...the Mountain City window, weakly metamorphosed Lower Cambrian rocks of the Rome Formation, the Shady
Journal (issue)
307 by ]. P. Cassedanne Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California..........................Ulrich Burchard on the Kremsmiinster museum in Austria was taken largely from his recent book, Mineral...Minerals Mineral & Needle Craft Creations, Inc. Quarry Enterprises Wallingford, CT Oceanside, NY John...the w o rld — with special emphasis on Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Articles on the fundamentals and...Rocks in the area belong to the Paraiba group, lower Precambrian in age (1980 m.y.). Mica-staurolite
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Liu, Yunbiao Peng & Jianxing Yang The oldest uraninite of the world from the Mpuluzi and Heerenveen granites/pegmatites...Michel ­Cuney, Mike Richards & Marc Brouand Uraninite chemistry as provenance tool ..................through polycyclic orogeny: the example of the Litsa district, Russia Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer, Michel Cuney...mantle-crustal ore-forming systems of the Pechenga ore district (Fennoscandian shield) ........................Proceedings, Volume 4 1799 Re-evaluation of Lower Palaeozoic limestones from the Prague Basin (Barrandian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cutting the Variscan basement and the overlying Lower Permian volcano-sedimentary cover (Collio Fm.),...Permian (Verrucano Lombardo, Bellerophon Fms.) and Lower Triassic (Servino Fm., Werfen Fm.) sedimentary sequences...siderite in the Variscan basement and in the overlying Lower Permian cover were derived from dominant fresh water...the basis of U-Th-Pb microchemical dating of uraninite associated with siderite in the Val Vedello and...siderite veins and conformable orebodies hosted in Lower Triassic shallow-marine carbonatic successions.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HUET Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria HEINRICH MALI AND PETER...Montanuniversität Leoben, Peter-Tunnerstraße 5, 8700 Leoben, Austria MONIKA HORSCHINEGG Department of Lithospheric...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ANDREAS ERTL AND GERALD GIESTER Institut für...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT In the Eastern Alps (Central Europe)...granulite or high amphibolite-facies conditions in lower crustal levels. In middle crustal levels at amphibolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small furnace in Gadsden. The mineral occurs in Lower Cambrian limestone, referred to as the Conasauga...Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) The Micanite pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central...village of Micanite. The pegmatite of the Micanite district contains unusually large 378 ROCKS AND MINERALS...Idaho, is operating a cobalt mine in the Blackbird district of Lemhi Co., Idaho. This mine is reported to...known for many years as occurring in the Blackbird district and it may be the chief cobalt ore mined by the
Book (edition)
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...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}
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Alteration and Mineralization in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, U.S.A. R.D...the Myrthengraben Gypsum Deposit, Semmering, Lower Austria W. Tufar (With 13 Figures) . . . . . . . . .... . . . . .. 374 Contents xv Chromite and Graphite in the Platiniferous Dunite Pipes of the Eastern...Emphasis on the Bavarian Pfahl of the Altrandsberg District) H.-W. Biiltemann and R. Hofmann (With 9 Figures)...Hydrothermal Ore Formation, Ticapampa-Aija Mining District, Cordillera Negra, Department of Ancash, Peru
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Alteration and Mineralization in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, U.S.A. R.D...the Myrthengraben Gypsum Deposit, Semmering, Lower Austria W. Tufar (With 13 Figures) . . . . . . . . .... . . . . .. 374 Contents xv Chromite and Graphite in the Platiniferous Dunite Pipes of the Eastern...Emphasis on the Bavarian Pfahl of the Altrandsberg District) H.-W. Biiltemann and R. Hofmann (With 9 Figures)...Hydrothermal Ore Formation, Ticapampa-Aija Mining District, Cordillera Negra, Department of Ancash, Peru
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A New Pegmatite M ineral Locality T he Estes quarry in southwestern Maine exposes a granite pegmatite...mineralized pegmatites in Maine and New Hampshire. The quarry has yielded fine specimens of eosphorite, fairfieldite...and vivianite. Locrtlon and Hlstory The Estes quarry is located on Route 5 in West Baldwin, Cumberland...Contractors of West Baldwin. This is a working quarry with high rock walls and unstable boulder piles...for permission. Prior to the opening of the Estes quarry, a gravel pit was being worked at the base of the
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properties. It is most evident in the case of graphite and diamond. Both are composed of atoms of carbon...seen. If the rhomb Fig. 6. Crystal structure of graphite (a) and diamond (b). is rotated, one of these...to (1) in hardness can be scratched by fingers (graphite), (2) can be scratched by a finger-nail (antimonite)...Geiger-Miller counter. Radioactive minerals, e.g. uraninite, contain radioactive elements, especially uranium...and its compounds, and in having a considerably lower content of arsenic, uranium and cobalt-nickel
properties. It is most evident in the case of graphite and diamond. Both are composed of atoms of carbon...seen. If the rhomb Fig. 6. Crystal structure of graphite (a) and diamond (b). is rotated, one of these...to (1) in hardness can be scratched by fingers (graphite), (2) can be scratched by a finger-nail (antimonite)...Geiger-Můller counter. Radioactive minerals, e.g. uraninite, contain radioactive elements, especially uranium...and its compounds, and in having a considerably lower content of arsenic, uranium and cobalt-nickel ores
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H/C ratios, and it contains cryptocrystalline graphite. Bitumen, present primarily as dispersed globules...mobility, the average of which is indicated by the lower concordia intersect of 550 + 260 Ma. The migrated...2.45 Ga old strata (KROGH et al., 1984) of the Lower Huronian Supergroup at Elliot Lake on the north...deposits. They have been regionally metamorphosed at lower greenschist facies and locally were contact metamo~hosed...Laser Raman spectroscopy of the cryptocrystalline graphite was carried out according to the procedure described
Catalog/List
five meters· and cabinet drawers loaded with uraninite register well below haza~dous continuous exposure...Comblain, is exceptional. Not only is the scien- Uraninite tific French relatively easy to read by non-Francophiles...classical mineral zonation starting from jet-black uraninite to band of massive orange curite (4 .2 x 0.8 cm)...crystalline carpet of rutherfordine on side of uraninite matrix (2 .7 x 2.5 cm). • 83B04 .. . . . . . ...meta-torbernite I), all on jet-black unoxidized uraninite. Minor orange fourmarierite crystals on back.
 
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