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Albite from
Diabase quarries, Herborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Comments:rock-forming
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diabase quarries, Herborn, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:163871
Long-form Identifier:1:3:163871:4
GUID (UUID V4):57433e64-8a52-443e-ac9c-000377b5c88a
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
15.8km (9.8 miles) Burgberg Quarry (Trautvetter Quarry), Steinperf, Steffenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
15.9km (9.9 miles) Dimmberg quarry, Steffenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
17.6km (10.9 miles) Obereisenhausen diabase quarry, Steffenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
29.9km (18.6 miles) Diabase works, Phillipstein, Weilmünster, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
44.7km (27.8 miles) Birkenkopf quarry, Mensfelden, Hünfelden, Limburg-Weilburg, Giessen Region, Hesse, Germany
51.3km (31.9 miles) Neumühlberg quarry (Steinsberg quarry), Biebrich, Aar-Einrich, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
57.6km (35.8 miles) Jammertal, Attenhausen, Bad Ems-Nassau, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
58.3km (36.2 miles) Kuhlenberg quarry, Silbach, Winterberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
60.5km (37.6 miles) Rossert meta-andesite occurrence, Eppenhain, Kelkheim, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
62.9km (39.1 miles) Clemensberg quarry, Hildfeld, Winterberg, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microscopical study of the interstitial chlorite in the diabase-minverite series of south-west England. These disprove...the comparatively low degree of alteration, the diabase-minverite series of North Cornwall and South Devonshire...minerals such as zeolites, calcite, analcite, and albite associated with it cannot be contemporaneous. Indeed...have probably crystallized a little earlier than albite, analcite, etc., and perhaps even overlap the chlorite...of chlorite from the chemical analyses of the diabase and minverite respectively. The results quoted
Report (issue)
Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS Illustrations... List of Figures Figure 1. Index map showing region covered in this report. Stfaded area is covered...Figure 2. Block diagram of the Washington, D.C. region showing physiographic provinces and major geographic...Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville...and locations of mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Triassic Diabase, Coopersburg, Pennsylvania Abstract: Veins, principally of prehnite, occur in diabase near...Pennsylvania. Early formed vein minerals are pyroxene and albite (An < 5) in which most of the crystals are choked...choked with fluid inclusions. Commonly, the albite has inclusion-free rims of the same composition as the...Minor quartz and calcite occur with the prehnite. Diabase near the veins shows three zones of alteration...chlorite. In the third zone the texture of the diabase is preserved, but hypersthene is altered to chlorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
poor color, scant spessartite and beautiful clear albite crystals (cleavelandite) in just a few hours. So...a good picture. The Fairfax-Loudon County diabase quarries are nearly all closed to collectors. Here
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
farming, is that connecbd with the diabase- or ' granib '-quarries at Porth Downloaded from http://jgslegacy...slates. on Trwyn Ellen and Trwyn Llwyd, but these quarries are now abandoned. The group consists of alternations...tramway-cutting which affords access to the diabase-quarries on Pen Clegyr. In this cutting the mudstones...the shore, though they may be seen in s m a l l quarries on the cliff above t~wll Llong. The dip of the...strike: there is one such deviation near the large diabase-mass of Pen Clegyr. Again, in its course of a few
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...numerous crystal pockets, associated with small albite crystals; the platy, flattened-rhombohedral ilmenite...Swiss hematite iron roses are quartz, ortboclase, albite, rutile, and zeolites (especially stilbite), whereas...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing
Report (issue)
limestones the shales, etc., most. effect of a diabase dike may be practically nil, where under other...pyroxenes: silicates, orthoclase, microcline, albite, oligoclase; Meta- hornblende; Orthosilicates...Trisilicates, feldspars: orthoclase, microcline, albite, oligoclase, andesine; Metasilicates: Orthosilicates:...Zeolites are of common occurrence in the Triassic diabase quarries of Adams, Lancaster, Berks, and ; Hydrous...Trisilicates, feldspars: orthoclase, microcline, albite, oligoclase; Mela- m pyroxenes: spodumene;' amphiboles:
Book
titan te i8 r.lative~1 large SJl.sunts. Grgit. Quarries (76(42 15'58",73000'43tt)~ 2 16'11",73 01'U tt...uaknown)16l,p.84)--Old Gross Quarry. Dolomite Harb e quarries (with variable amounts of calCite, phlogopite...limestone quarries 74(42 21' 34·',73 22'12"--Cone Hill )--One quarry at this location. Two quarries 260 feet...completely overgrown. The rock is a calcareous quartz-albite-muscovite. chlorite-clinozoisit. schist, and i8...Limo ite) Pit t,8(42 40'47",73 11'38")121) Marble Quarries area of 42 40'37 n ,73 11'02")114)--Twoquarries0
Report (issue)
quartz, stilbite, troilite, vivianite. HENRY COUNTY: albite, almandine, amethyst, andesine, andradite, anthophyllite...thenardlte. LOUDOUN COUNTY: actinolitc, adularia, agate, albite, andraditc, anhydrite, apophyllite, aragonite,...controlled is shown by such features as vcinlets of late albite within perthite. .MINERALS OF THE AMELIA DISTRICT—Data...considered to be possibly in error. Acrinolite Albite, calcic Albite, sodic (other than cleavelandite) Allanite...A R,a r,a R,a r,a A,A Oligoclasc (& oligoclasc-albite) (var. moonstone) Olivine A,A r,a a,C r,R Phcnakitc
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...slavia), C aldbeck Fells (England), SEM , Eugui quarries (Spain) $10 v .2 2 /# 3 M essina m ines (So....occurrences scattered throughout the Franklin-Sterling region (Cummings, 1978, 1988). The oxidation paragenesis...when several diabase quarries were opened in and near St. Peters in 1885. The diabase quarries produced paving...encountered. Drilling along the drift showed that the diabase was more than 30 meters below the gneiss footwall
Report (issue)
Gregory Herman6 and John Curran6 1A1-4G3 1. Diabase and Brunswick basalt in the Watchung zone 1A1-1F4...Apx-Apxiv Appendix 1. Diabase and Brunswick basalt in the Watchung zone 1A. Well 1 –- Diabase, Lambertville City....................... 1B. Wells 2 through 5 –- Diabase framework, East Amwell Township.................................................. 1C. Well 6 – Diabase, Hopewell Township............................................................... 1D. Well 7 – Diabase, East Amwell Township.........................
Book (edition)
opened or systematically worked, as in mines and quarries, the amateur is far better able to keep track...called perthite which consists of microcline and albite feldspars at low temperature but is a uniform crystalline...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits...carried out by Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations
Book (edition)
opened or systematically vvorked, as in mines and quarries, the amateur is far better able to keep track...called perthite which consists of microcline and albite feldspars at low temperature but is a uniform crystalline...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits...carried out by Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations
Report (issue)
and sheared lavas near Mothecombe. { Diabase and INTRUSIVE. diabase-hornfels. .!ltered rock ? proterobase...LITERATURE. In Lysons' ' Magna Britannia ' the slate quarries near Ivybridge and Cann quarry are referred to...schiefer, Andalusithornfels ; also the altered diabase and schal­ stein, and the presence of typical adinole...for instance : in the vicinity of the masses of diabase south of · Whympston House, bet�reen Modbury and...the Lower Devonian is incomplete, as many of the diabase patches shown on the ·map have not been examined
 
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