Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Azurite from
Dolomite quarry, Caaschwitz, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified, Dealer/Collection Label
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dolomite quarry, Caaschwitz, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1512566
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1512566:8
GUID (UUID V4):7c5b786e-c5fc-4f5b-a0db-bc6e0348509c
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
24.4km (15.2 miles) Loitsch Quarry, Weida, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
25.4km (15.8 miles) Mücke mine (Culmitzsch mine), Culmitzsch, Berga/Elster, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
37.3km (23.2 miles) Kahlleite quarry, Löhma, Seenplatte, Saale-Orla District, Thuringia, Germany
44.2km (27.4 miles) Reimersgrün Quarry, Limbach, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
48.4km (30.1 miles) Fromm Shaft, Kamsdorf, Unterwellenborn, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt District, Thuringia, Germany
54.0km (33.6 miles) Thiergarten, Plauen, Vogtlandkreis, Saxony, Germany
59.4km (36.9 miles) Ratssteinbruch, Hartmannsdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
59.9km (37.2 miles) Arme Hilfe Mine, Ullersreuth, Hirschberg, Saale-Orla District, Thuringia, Germany
60.5km (37.6 miles) Tännig, Bad Lobenstein, Saale-Orla District, Thuringia, Germany
60.6km (37.7 miles) Diethensdorf Quarry, Diethensdorf, Claußnitz, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
been hitherto unreported are: Brochanthite after Azurite. Good Springs, Nevada Cerussite after Fremontite...Natural History [Vol. LXVII after cuprite or azurite, (b) the gain of a constituent-e.g., gypsum after...accompanied by the peptization of the adsorbent (Dolomite after calcite type, also tetrahedrite after chalcopyrite...potassium nitrate on aragonite. Pseudomorphs of the dolomite after calcite type are characterized by a drusy...quartz or chalcedony after barite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, and barytocalcite.) The very common
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
superb example of the mineral. It was from Saxony, Germany, and was to me at that time a thing of beauty and...sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz. Associates...occurrence. Tetrahedrite may alter to malachite, azurite, bindheimite, chrysocolla, cuprite, and goethite...Colorado localities include the Silverton-Eureka district, San Juan County, where tetrahedrite is often...fluorite come from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (D. Bunk, pers. comm., 2010)
Journal (issue)
Barite-James and Charelle Webb collection, page 279; Azurite-Bob Howard collection, page 138; Calcite- Kevin...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...heulandite, 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don and Laura Aaron...Don and Laura Aaron photo. Barite on botryoidal dolomite, 16 cm, from Cavnic, Maramures, Romania. Don and...Brazil. Don and Laura Aaron photo. Malachite with dolomite, 9 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Don and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrargyrite, stephanite, polybasite in Obersachsen (Germany), Fresnillo in Zacatecas and acanthite appeared...pyroxenites with garnet also found in the Merehead quarry in England, and in are found in which pseudomorphs...which this pseudomorph appears is the Monolith quarry, in Albany Co., Wyoming. This last locality is...from specimens coming from Sangerhausen, Thuringia (Germany), who considered them pseudomorphs of calcite...pseudomorphs after azurite Malachite is more stable under atmospheric conditions than azurite and for this
Catalog/List
High quality specimen. LC,£105. APATITE/SIDERITE/DOLOMITE. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Portugal. Ex...Ex Juan Montal collection. Thin crystalline Dolomite wafer richly invested in pale-blue,gemmy,prismatic...of provenance detail keeps price down. TN,£4. AZURITE. [Chessylite Nodule]. Chessey des Mines,Lyon,France...specimen with Azurite xtls aggregat ed into nodules with minor Malachite. MIN,£45. AZURITE. Kamariza Central...xtls with gemmy faces.A choice specimen. SC,£45. AZURITE. Chessey des Mines,Lyon,France. Ex Jean Paul Francoise
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
open-pit at the southwest margin of Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany. Occurrence: In a uranium deposit in slates...K2MnV4O12, a new mineral from Ronneburg, Thuringia, Germany: description and crystal structure. American...NaY(CO3)2•6H2O T RICLINIC Locality: Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada...of Crystallography, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, and long-time collaborator with the crystallography...Ca3Ge(OH)6(SO4)(CO3)•12H2O H EXAGONAL Locality: Gioia quarry, Colonnata valley, Carrara basin, Apuan Alps, northern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Examples described in this report range from dolomite wood that contains quartz-filled fractures (Washington...silicified woods in detail, but also discussed calcite, dolomite, calcium phosphate, and various iron minerals...packed powders. 3. Carbonate Minerals: Calcite and Dolomite After silica, calcium carbonate is the most common...Calcite Calcite Calcite Calcite Calcite Dolomite Dolomite Dolomite Jurassic Cretaceous Cretaceous Eocene...Isle of Wight, England Kansas, USA Geiseltal, Germany British Columbia, Canada Ellesmere Island Arctic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as the Picher district, which is in the Oklahoma portion of the TriState. This district has probably produced...and Schleicher 1961). Watonga, Universal Atlas quarry, 6 mi. NE of Watonga, Nescatunga Gypsum of the...R.11W, plus others, Permian-age Cedar Springs Dolomite and Flowerpot Shale: malachite (Fay 1962, 1964)...1944). Canadian County Calumet, Scheiter gypsum quarry, 7.5 mi. N of Calumet, SE1/4 sec.2, T. 14N, R.9W...(Gilmore 1963). Fletcher, Texas Gypsum Company quarry, SW1/4 W 1 / 4 sec.11, T.4N, R.lOW, 60-foot gypsum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 11:59 03 August 2012 Figure 3. Wulfenite on dolomite (25 × 15 cm; D50729), Los Lamentos, Mexico. Figure...been used in breakwaters and came from Prospect quarry, near Parramatta in western Sydney. Unlike today...today, at that time the area around the quarry was bushland and well away from the demographic center of...rhodonite, cerussite, smithsonite, pyromorphite, azurite, anglesite, and spessartine, are among the best...the display area. The specimens are wulfenite on dolomite (25 × 15 cm) from Los Lamentos, Mexico (fig. 3);
Journal (issue)
botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and azurite from near Tucson in 1855. Other explorers reported...where ores from the various mines of tbe Silver District were treated. The now-famous Red Cloud rnine was...and 1889 he shipped 5,000 specimens of Silver District vanadinite back to Philadelphia. Around 1910 an...including the Flux mine, the Mammoth mine, tbe Silver District mines (including the Red Cloud), and mines in...generations. Huge cavems yielded malachite and azurite specimens in great abundance, and so many individual
Journal (issue)
copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently...sent it to my Representative, Mark Finchem (R-District 11, Oro Valley), asking him to be the primary... Mark Candee Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;...chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...in igneous and contact metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz... Found in nicely shaped crystals scattered on dolomite in Joplin area of Missouri. Fairly large crystals...Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from French Creek Mines, Pennsylvania. Also at
Book
by Dimitri lvanowitsch morethantwicethesizeof Germany but, Mendelejew,and it validated the rulesof with...SouthwestafricanMemories". He later returned to Germany,where he was appointed to chair the Upper Mining...the TechnischeUniversitat BergakademieFreiberg,Germany 25 ANGOLA -·-·-·+·-·-·-· :-· ·-·- •••••••••••····...KleineSpitzkoppe,which C.Hintze described,were brought to Germany by GOrich. He was also the author of the first...beingthefirstEuropean specimensfrom German South West Africa to Germany, including Topaz from the tain in Bethanien, fortheacquisition
Journal (issue)
5 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS FINE MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x...(“Notes from Mexico”), and Thomas Moore (“Notes from Germany”), with occasional guest columnists (especially...returning in 1991 from a 14-year residency in Germany, began writing more American and European show...of many minerals, including adamite, austinite, azurite, brochantite, conichalcite and olivenite have been...include adamite, arsendescloizite, austinite, azurite, beudantite, carminite, conichalcite, duftite,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
skeletal faces. Columbia brickyard pit, a former clay quarry, below a coal seam: PYRITE (nodules to 5 cm, incorporating...County Adrlan’s quarry (38-40-23N 092-13-54W), an agricultural and road limestone quarry between Ashland...Williamsville quarry, a limestone quarry northwest of Poplar Bluff CALCITE as yellow scalenohedra, DOLOMITE, goethite...rivers: aragonite, barite, CALCITE, CHALCOPYRITE, DOLOMITE, GOETHITE, GYPSUM, hematite, jarosite, KAOLINITE...mine): BARITE, CALCITE, cerussite, chalcopyrite, dolomite, HEMATITE, GALENA, kaolinite, malachite, pyrite
Report (issue)
============================================================ Azurite with arsentsumebite, 5.2 cm, from Tsumeb, Namibia...could not resist showing you: a sumptuous Tsumeb azurite with arsentsumebite ($3400): 2 =============...Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabroda, Vila Real district, Norte Region, Portugal. Fabre Minerals specimen...Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, Norte Region. These seven fluorite specimens...appear in supporting roles. The Vale das Gatas district is the subject of an article by Pedro Alves in
Book (edition)
Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits...Found in nicely shaped crystals scattered on dolomite in Joplin area of Missouri. Fairly large crystals...Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from French Creek Mines, Pennsylvania. Also Mexico
Journal (issue)
Saxon minerals in the Terra Mineralia Museum (Germany). A group of Italian mineralogists presents a new...Fluorite (with old labels). 7 x 5 cm. Schwarzwald, Germany. GM KFU #7461. 15-16. (on page 10). 15. Set of...Transbaikalia (label says "AdunChilon, Nerchinsky district; Siberia"), Russia. GMKFU #5753. 26. Beryl (emerald)...Mussin-Pushkin (1795-1862), trustee of schools in the Kazan district in 1827-1844, one of the first donators to Museum...was better understood largely thanks to Rudolf Germany (1805-1879), who was, for example, the first to
Catalog/List
Africa. Sea blue soild XN mass. GRF. SC. £8.00 4 AZURITE, Chingola, Zambia. Chalky blue pure rounded maS8...extensive mica. RF. LMI. £8.00 6 WOLFRAMITE on DOLOMITE & CHALCOPYRITE & QUARTZ, Kapnik, Rumanla. 9mm...Twisting leafy pure vein section. GRF. C. £12.00 18 AZURITE, Laurium, Attica Disbict, Greece. Very richly xtllized...D. Ml. £12.00 24 BISMUTHINITE & PYRITE, Shap Quarry, Shap, Westmoreland, SIivery metallic strip in...Bright silvery metallic. GRF. SM!. £14.00 32 AZURITE. South Caredon Mine, St Cleer, Cornwall. Blue chalky
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphic settings, such as the Swiss Lengenbach quarry, to straiform deposits in sedimentary rock, such...sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz. There...ferric arsenate-sulfate), erythrite, malachite, and azurite after tennantite have been reported (Palache, Berman...fingers black if handled carelessly. The Georgetown district, also in Clear Creek County, has produced some...to them.) From the Yankee Girl mine, Silverton district, San Juan County, tennantite has been found associated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks in...and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the Middle...future mining. Chalcocite, chalcopyrite, gold, azurite, malachite, cuprite, sphalerite, silver, pyrite...may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R.6E.: potassium
Book
immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...culture, derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric...formation. Calcite and dolomite are thus both trigonal, but the true symmetr:y of dolomite is lower than that...quartz, magnetite, hernacite calcite, magnesite, dolomite anh~drite, gypsum apatite olivine, andalusite...iron-rich crystals of spha!erite with brownish dolomite and calcite. Trepi"a, Yugoslavia. &low Fine-grained
Catalog/List
bright blue, choice, 2� x . 2�x 2", $7.60; blue azurite coaling with mala­ chite on rock 5�x 6x 2", $6...A handsome polished "button" H" in diameter or azurite and malachite, $2.50. BAKERITE California. \\'hite...25¢, 15¢ and 10¢ each. MANGANAPATITE Maine. AZURITE Gray m·asses in rock, 21x 3�x 2". $1.50. APOPHYLLITE...coating on rock, 3 x 46x 1", $1.00; 2! X 36", 75¢. DOLOMITE Missouri. Gi-oups of large pink cu!'ved xis,...with smaller xis on sulphur, 5 x 8 x 5", $5.00. Thuringia. $2.00. Trans1inrent xis grouped to 2� x 4 x
Journal (issue)
surface) have been found inside small pockets of dolomite and associated with quartz. These crystals are... Tennantite and dolomite. Level 1. Crystal of 3 mm. J. Vinyoles coll. Tennantite with dolomite. J. Rosell...Crystal of 3 mm. J. L. Garrido coll. Tennantite and dolomite. Level 1. Crystal of 3.5 mm. P. Mingueza coll...9.5 mm FOV. J. L. Garrido coll. Rosasite with azurite and mimetite Level 5. 8 mm FOV. J. L. Garrido coll...claraite, theisite and azurite. Level 4. 8.5 mm Fov. V. Bartulos coll. Azurite. Level 4. 8.5 mm FOV.
Book (volume)
colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway airport at rd...GRAYSVILLE, SE 1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple...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...Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline, Zeolites;  Rock Chapel Quarry, on N side of Arabia Mt.Calcite, Epidote, Fluorite
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 8, 2024 19:43:30
Go to top of page