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Limestone from
Gypsum mine, Moosegg, Grubach, Scheffau am Tennengebirge, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Limestone
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limestone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gypsum mine, Moosegg, Grubach, Scheffau am Tennengebirge, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1605713
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1605713:3
GUID (UUID V4):1cf86928-6afb-41dc-b181-665fb53ce97e
Nearest other occurrences of Limestone
3.5km (2.2 miles) Limestone quarry, Sankt Koloman, Hallein District, Salzburg, Austria
41.5km (25.8 miles) Limestone quarry, Rauriser Höhe, Taxenbach, Zell am See District, Salzburg, Austria
52.2km (32.5 miles) Summit Cleft, Weißeck area (incl. Rauchkopf; Riedingscharte), Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
82.1km (51.0 miles) Limestone quarries, Großer Pölven, Bad Häring, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria
82.6km (51.3 miles) Limestone quarry, Spital am Pyhrn, Kirchdorf an der Krems District, Upper Austria, Austria
83.4km (51.8 miles) Gaisberg limestone quarry, Molln, Kirchdorf an der Krems District, Upper Austria, Austria
86.7km (53.9 miles) Pfaffenboden limestone quarry, Molln, Kirchdorf an der Krems District, Upper Austria, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z...Z B U R G (Land Salzburg) (Part II) T h i s refers to the Province of Salzburg X l s ( C l e a r )...Epidote X l s : Calcite which contains the city of Salzburg. Many people are familiar with this city but not...e old emerald Venediger and Hohe Tauern form the Mine is about 7 M i from Habach. T h e trail leaves the...Alpenrose going E and then N . The crystalline Alps. Mine is a few hundred yards beyond the I f we come in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St. Gilgen Windows Alps-The Hallein District I . Alps-The Hallein District II . Alps-The Lammertal and...Erzberg at Eisenerz .,. Day 12: Veitsch Magnesite Mine-Vienna .,. Day 13: The Flysch and Calcareous Alps...eastern end of the Tauern Window and runs from Salzburg in the north to the Italian border in the south...first six days of geology are based on Hallein, near Salzburg, the next five on Spittal, in Carinthia...Strobl Window (Day I) ... The Hallstatt Zone near Hallein (Days 2, 3) .,. The Grunbach Valley (Day 2) ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Haselgebirge mélange in the Northern Calcareous Alps (Austria) Received: 11 November 1997 / Accepted: 25 June...Universität Innsbruck, Innrain 52, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria e-mail: christoph.spoetl@uibk.ac.at C. Hasenhüttl...Leoben, Peter-Tunner Strasse 5, A-8700 Leoben, Austria Introduction The importance of evaporite successions...belt of the Northern Calcareous Alps (NCA) of Austria and southernmost Germany contains a thick succession...Austroalpine thrust wedge extending all across Austria and passing over into equivalent units of the western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derby, N . H., 0 3 0 4 1 ( P A R T III)...(black) ; Greenockite coating sphalerite (yellow); Gypsum; Hydrozincite on calamine (White powder and efflorescence);...amethyst); Anhydrite; "Fasersalz". Bad Ausc-e. Gypsum; Mirabilite; Dopplerite (in peat beds); Anhydrite...to enter is difficult to se­ cure. Mountain and mine can be seen to the S of the village. Siderite X...16 Miles Do not scale. Uooer Austria Altaussee tsch# Lower Austria Yugoslav! VII STYR1A ROCKS AND
Catalog/List
substance. 8. L. Hallein, 9. L. Hallein, Lower Lower Austria. Fibrous. Austria. Lamellar, color...sky blue and white. 10. L. Ischel, Upper 2 Austria. Color red. Mineralogical Cabinet. Genps V...Triv. Blue Vit- Chem. Sulphate of Copper. Parys mine, Anglesea. 13. L. 14. Ar. Genus VII. Sp. 1. ...Epsom Salt. Chem. Sulphate of Magnesia. 15. L. Salzburg. Near Albany, New- York. 16. L. and may be...Upper Austria. CLASS ORDER Genus 28. L. 29. L. 30. L. HJILOIDE. GvFSUM-HALomE. Triv. Gypsum. Chem
Report (chapter)
in carbonate rocks, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria CHRISTOPH S P O T L l, M I C H A E L & FRED J...Universitgtt Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 2US Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center, Mailstop...in carbonate rocks, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria. In: PARNELL,J. (ed.) 1998. Dating and Duration...eastern portion of the Northern Calcareous Alps in Austria, showing the distribution of evaporitic rocks of...outcrops of Webing, Wienern and Pfennigbach. In Moosegg, Trag6B-Oberort and Wolfbauer, both K- and Na-feldspar
Book
.~~ Salt miners at work in the Diirrnberg-Hallein mine (1756) (see also comment on copyright page)...Durrnberg-Hallein mine (1756). Oil painting in the ancient mine office at Hallein Salzburg. The picture...occasion of a visit to the mine by the Prince Bishop Sigmund III. of Salzburg on 5th of May 1756 (bottom...At the top of the painting and on the steps are mine surveyors and a miner at work. Note the romantic...heldatBled/Yugoslavia 3-7, 1977, held at Leoben/ Austria 5-10,1981, held at Berchtesgaden/Bavaria, FRG
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that the uninteresting-looking grey piece is limestone. There is nothing to be seen on it, is there?...feldspar. The whole specimen is called granite. Limestone and granite you will already have heard about...three minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...instance, in various parts of the Austrian Tirol and Salzburg. Much tin ore came from Britain so that brisk
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48 and 49 AUSTRALIA: Weebubbie Cave, Nullarbor AUSTRIA: Dachstein Eishohle BELGIUM: Grotte de Pére Noel...reader with an insight to the wealth of caves and limestone regions around the 12 The Underground Atlas...yield water supplies for people living in some limestone areas, and they provide sport for the growing...paragraphs outline the broad distribution of limestone, karst and caves across the continents of the...second largest continent is poorly endowed with limestone and even less so with karst. Major regions, often
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for tl1c Gcologi l\ As ociation Field Meeting in Austria, 1966. This article is planned, hO\\C\er. in ·uch...Central Gnei s, D=ichstcinkulk G'i Dacl1 tcin Limestone, Ko scncrschicl1tcn u Kti en Bed·. On tl1\! otl1cr...rather th~\n r~pcat~dl)1 throughout the article. I am gln...the are. • described 1 E. R. OXBURGH 4 below. I am also indebted to Dr. Fischer for the original skctcl1...Plochinger and Dr. J. Watson, to all of \Vl1on11 am grateful for their constructive comments. The folio
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intimately from direct observation, including a district already treated more in detail by Prof. Bonney...which is here advanced is new to geology, or that I am able to give an exhaustive account of all the agencies...subsidence extending over hundreds of miles in a district abot~nding in lakes. The materials of which the...character, the strata being often almost pure limestone or dolomite. There is no necessity for explaining...Again, in this very region beds of rock-salt and gypsum abound, some of them of great dimensions. The lateral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geographic areas. Triassic samples consist of limestone (48 ) and megafossil ( 1) materials from 5 states...Appendix A). Jurassic samplesconsist of limestone (49 ) , gypsum (4) and megafossil (26) materials from...SWITZERLAND 2 3 4 5 6 7 5 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 AUSTRIA FRANCE GERMANY GREAT BRITAIN ISRAEL MOROCCO MEXICO...some samples. NEW MEXICO OREGON UTAH WYOMING AUSTRIA H 4) + D AND OTHERS, (I) 6 1987 6 8 ‘=...limestones ( N 76%), carbonate megafossils ( N 21%) and gypsum ( N 3%). According to the textural classification
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fissures and cracks in sedimentary rocks such as limestone, they dissolve the rocks giving rise to new secondary...affect the neighbouring calcite, changing it into gypsum or into a whole series of other sulphates. Opals...in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such as chamosite...substances dissolved in water. Coral islands and limestone bodies are the product of living organisms. New...soft, yielding environment, such as crystals of gypsum in soft clay. Crystals may also develop freely
Journal (volume)
STREET , 1818 . P19London W /hillip 7.10 A WHERRY MINE ,M OUNT'S C ORNWALL .BAY MAMAY MAMW Ronat TO...a knowledge of Mi neralogy and Geology , in a district so inex haustibly rich in all the varied treasures...Society P. 98 CONTENTS . xxi X1 . Notes on the Limestone Rocks in the Parish of Veryan. By S. J. Trist...remarkable Phänomena attending the Lodes of Polgooth Tin Mine. By John Hawkins , Esq. F.R.S. & c. & c. Member...the Salt Mines of Wielitska in Poland , and of Salzburg in Germany . By John Henry Vivian , Esq. M.G.S
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fissures and cracks in sedimentary rocks such as limestone, they dissolve the rocks giving rise to new secondary...affect the neighbouring calcite, changing it into gypsum or into a whole series of other sulphates. Opals...in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such as chamosite...substances dissolved in water. Coral islands and limestone bodies are the product of living organisms. New...Bj I I I 14 rhodonite axinite a II o gypsum wolframite ntanite augne orthoclase barytes
Book (volume)
transparent and transparent. It is as hard as gypsum , or even harder, but not so hard as calcareous-spar...Situation . It is sometimes found in transition gypsum in the tran sition -slate of the Allee Blanche...black transition limestone near Bex, below the Dent de Chamossaire ; in alpine limestone , at Hall in the...; and small quantities of it occur in the flætz gypsum in the Segeberg , near Kiel in Holstein . Geographic...tain compact, foliated , granular, and radiated gypsum . Rock -salt also occurs at Droitwich in Worcestershire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reading through some of the species descriptions, I am amazed just how much classic material is still available...aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. In...1998; Nesse 2012). Associated minerals include gypsum, goethite, siderite, calcite, glaucophane, lawsonite...Alston Moor (Tindle 2008). The Yorkshire Silverband mine, Cronkley Fell, Durham, has produced interesting...particularly from the Botallack mine, Wheal Owles, and Wheal Cock, St. Just district, as well as Wheal Edward
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
few years ago, in which a great portion of the limestone strata of the Alps was comprehended under the...that in places [e.g. in the Gailthaler Gebirge) limestone-strata containing marine fossils occur, which...which form the principal feature of the Bozen district. Here we find probably the most extensive display...of the Rittner Horn, the culminating peak of a district between the valleys of the Sam and the Eisack..." The oldest porphyries present (in the Bozen district) are younger than the clay-slates through which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
where it is transformed by dehydration from primary gypsum (CaSO4 · 2 H2 O) during burial at moderate temperatures...temperatures. In turn, it is again replaced by gypsum when in contact with groundwater. At metamorphic conditions...Anhydrite rock from the Gipswerk Moosegg quarry near Golling, Salzburg, Austria is used as starting material...Gutenstein formation, mainly composed of bituminous limestone and dolomites. The anhydrite rock (sample #14247...Microstructure of anhydrite rock from Gipswerk Moosegg (sample #14247, Mineralogical Collection, Ruhr
Catalog/List
Sphene micros in one area (Sonnblick, Rauris, Salzburg,Germany) £15 ALMANDINE, quite sharp dark red single...to translucent crystal group 2x2 inches (Hilton Mine Cumbria) £15 BARYTES small platy white-creamy crystals...(Witherite is a poisonous mineral) 5x3 £15 Settlingstones Mine , near Hexham Northumberland CACOXENITE golden micros...cacoxenite rich area on magnetite lxlxl .5 Levaeniemi Mine, Norbotten Sweden £6 CALCITE good covering of white...massive with a hint of crystalline structure Geevor Mine Cornwall 4x2 £15 lx2 £5 --- CERULEITE small blue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph. "I am taking the liberty of forwarding you a specimen of...matrix, was recently found in the vicinity of the Gem Mine (benitoite locality), San Benito County, Calif....triboluminescent sphalerite is a lead-silver mine in the Silverton district, San Juan County, Colo. The mineral...Eugene VanderWender, Harrington, Kent County, Del. District of Columbia—French Morgan, of Washington, D. C...another very unusual find of petrified wood, in the District this time, and within a half mile of where I live
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do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x 10.5 em Page 252: Gypsum rosette, Red River floodway, Winnipeg, Manitoba...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...resulting in well-formed collectible crystals such as gypsum (page 252) and epidote (page 221). Solid crystal-filled...by the calcium carbonate can eventually form limestone. Sedimentary rocks made in this way are known...small calcite crystals in the sedimentary rock limestone change into larger crystals in the metamorphic
Book (volume)
sandstone This well as of state diamond itself district, quartz-veins occurs). monazite, the however...find Kimberley. Colony The projected the Du mine, serpentine and and where absence beginnings...and depths therefore in rush the afterwards mine, completely brecciated and fragmented, to in...discovered at of Vaal Kimberley mine when steam magnesium silicate, mine, and water funnel all of...to famous weathering unknown the Their and mine the and India, shown at the Paris Exhibition
Book (edition)
goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6)...Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in Montana and Arizona. Also in Ural Mts., U.S.S.R.; and at Waihi Mine, Mine...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...volcanic regions. Also found associated with limestone and gypsum. In the U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana...and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to the general...two or more until a more rounded text results. Austria is defined here as what is localities. presently...mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria in­ which the best is the Natural History cluded...Nature Geologically, it has a beautiful sim­ in Salzburg has a fine collection which is plicity. There
 
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