 | | Book | | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...higher degree of symmetry, as is the case in aragonite or chrysoberyl (Pl. 12, (p. 64). In both cases...it may also occur as the orthorhombic mineral, aragonite. Strictly speaking these are two different mineral...usually below 5 mm. in diameter, of calcite, aragonite, lirnonite, pyrolusite, or other minerals. Tabular...fibrous sphalerite from Diepenlinchen, near Aachen, Germany. PLATE Vo I~ .·• / ~1 rhyolite 37 r . |  | Pekov, I. V., Chukanov, N. V., Britvin, S. N., Kabalov, Y. K., Göttlicher, J., Yapaskurt, V. O., Zadov, A. E., Krivovichev, S. V., Schüller, W., Ternes, B. (2012) The sulfite anion in ettringite-group minerals: a new mineral species hielscherite, Ca3Si(OH)6(SO4)(SO3)·11H2O, and the thaumasite–hielscherite solid-solution series. Mineralogical Magazine, 76 (5) 1133-1152 doi:10.1180/minmag.2012.076.5.06 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Helmholtz Platz 1, D-76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany NPP ‘‘Teplokhim’’, Dmitrovskoye Avenue 71, 127238...Straubenpesch 22, 53518 Adenau, Germany Bahnhofstrasse 45, 56727 Mayen, Germany [Received 22 April 2012; Accepted...found at Graulay quarry near Hillesheim in the western Eifel Mountains, Rhineland-Palatinate, where they occur...chabazite-Ca and gypsum in cavities in alkaline basalt. Sulfite-rich thaumasite has been found in hydrothermal...volcanic regions of Germany: it is widespread at Graulay quarry and occurs at Rother Kopf, Schellkopf and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fibrous or euhedral rhombohedra have been found in basalt, andesite, and diabase. It is a rare constituent...from a silicocarbonate sill exposed at the Francon quarry and from the alkali syenite complex notably exposed...of siderite after serandite from the Poudrette quarry, measuring 22.5 cm high (fig. 7). (Katherine Dunnell...(left). Siderite after serandite, from the Poudrette quarry, Quebec Province, Canada. The specimen is 22.5...combinations. As with England, the list of localities in Germany would require a separate article to cover adequately; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locality of Ettringen, near Mayen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Dan Behnke specimen and photo. ter...volcanic rock) from Ettringen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, where the clear to white crystals reach...also come from quarries around Bellerberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, where it occurs as colorless to white sprays...crystals from the Clara mine may be mistaken for aragonite, and vice versa. Italy has produced some great...crystals to 1 mm or slightly larger in amygdules in basalt. It is also found at San Vito, Monte Somma, Naples |  | | Catalog/List | | Ems , Lahn .Rhineland-Palatinate Germany £18 7 SULPHUR small crystals in cavities in Basalt 1x2cm PicoPesquero...small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich...£5 34 PHILLIPSITE colourless micros on 1x1.5cm basalt Barranco Parado, Playa Quemada, Lanzarotte Canary...Piedmont Italy 5x2.5 £12 Sample b) .5x1.5 £ 36 ARAGONITE 3 to 4mm size orange-brown crystals covering most...HARMOTOME, clear micro crystals on 1x2 cm Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor Powys £5 54 HEMIMORPHITE good covering |  | | Report (issue) | | specimens of grayish green, botryoidal, copper-rich aragonite collected in 2012 on levels 07-08 of the Lina...job of augmenting one’s suite of “odd-looking aragonite” (this could be a major collecting specialty)...after azurite specimens from Chessy, France. Aragonite (copper-rich), 7 cm, from the Lina mine, Alzen...Gremmelsbach, Oberrötenbacher Tal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mintreasure specimen and photo. And before leaving...the Daybreak mine, Washington; or the Streuberg quarry in the Vogtland region of Saxony; or from hard-to-remember |  | | Book (volume) | | (Specord 75 IR or Specord M80, Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany), Perkin Elmer 1600 Series FT IR spectrometer or...FT IR spectrometer (Bruker Optics, Ettlingen, Germany). IR spectrum of a pure KBr disc was subtracted...Mg3B7O13Cl Locality: Wandsleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Description: White to beige fine-grained aggregate...Lüneburger Kalkberg, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany (type locality). Description: White fibrous aggregate...Locality: Kohnstein Quarry, Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia, Germany. Description: White |  | | Book | | give rise to various other minerals, such as aragonite or geyserite. In places where hot solutions and...modifications, e.g. diamond — graphite, calcite — aragonite, pyrite — marcasite, quartz — cristobalite — tridymite...higher symmetry. For example, the orthorhombic aragonite often Twinned Crystals of (from left to right):...should preferably be more detailed, e.g. walls of a quarry, or refuse heap specimen, so that one could find...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) Harzgerode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey metallic opaque |  | Chukanov, Nikita V., Aksenov, Sergey M., Rastsvetaeva, Ramiza K., Blass, Günter, Varlamov, Dmitry A., Pekov, Igor V., Belakovskiy, Dmitry I., Gurzhiy, Vladislav V. (2015) Calcinaksite, KNaCa(Si4O10) H2O, a new mineral from the Eifel volcanic area, Germany. Mineralogy and Petrology, 109 (4) 397-404 doi:10.1007/s00710-015-0376-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | H2O, a new mineral from the Eifel volcanic area, Germany Nikita V. Chukanov 1 & Sergey M. Aksenov 2 & Ramiza...volcano, Eastern Eifel region, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. It is associated with wollastonite, gehlenite...Ca2SiO4 (larnite or calcio-olivine), quartz, aragonite, calcite, jennite, tobermorite and ettringite...117333 3 Merzbachstrasse 6, 52249 Eschweiler, Germany 4 Institute of Experimental Mineralogy, Russian...Introduction The Laacher See area (Eifel Mountains, Germany) is the type locality for more than 20 mineral |  | | Book | | even though they do contain fibrous crystals of aragonite secreted by the organisms. But there are exceptions...collectors and often used as decorative items. Basalt is the most abundant volcanic rock on Earth’s surface...rock, created when hot gases were trapped in the basalt lava as it crystals (page 210), and the layered...solidify into an extrusive igneous rock such as basalt. Magma may also solidify very slowly beneath Earth’s...tightly packed spheres, there are layers of platy aragonite crystals in fossil ammonites, and the feldspar |  | | Book | | each fine mineral specimen recovered from a mine, quarry, or canyon wall there must be millions lying hidden...isometric * lead sulfide Neudorf, Harz Mountains, Germany One of the obvious properties used in characterizing...two individuals in a cyclic fashion) is seen in aragonite (15) and chrysoberyl (16). With these minerals...mineral. 15. Aragonite * orthorhombic ° calcium carbonate Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Aragonite is the most...structurally similar carbonate minerals known as the aragonite group. All have the tendency to form twins at |  | | Book | | by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...quartz after barytes)/ bottom right radiating (aragonite) Minerals 13 (Table of Chemical Elements,...trigonal, or, under different conditions, as aragonite (orthorhombic). They are called polymorphs of...left mammillary limonite; bottom right oolitic aragonite 18 Minerals It is not only the native metals |  | | Book | | zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets...river) contains highly altered vesicular blocks of basalt (containing phillipsite and tiny rhombohedra of | | | Book | | zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets...river) contains highly altered vesicular blocks of basalt (containing phillipsite and tiny rhombohedra of | | | Book | | even though they do contain fibrous crystals of aragonite secreted by the organisms. But there are exceptions...collectors and often used as decorative items. Basalt is the most abundant volcanic rock on Earth’s surface...rock, created when hot gases were trapped in the basalt lava as it a specimen. The minerals may have grown...solidify into an extrusive igneous rock such as basalt. Magma may also solidify very slowly beneath Earth’s...tightly packed spheres, there are layers of platy aragonite crystals in fossil ammonites, and the feldspar |  | | Catalog/List | | Manganite from Ilfeld in the Harz Mountains of Germany, with crystals up to 1.88 inches (4.74 cm) long...namesake for Heulandite - who was born in Bayreuth, Germany in 1778. Since he died in 1856, it is clear that...across are scattered over the top of a Calcite or Aragonite layer showing white fluorescence under SW UV The...Wolkenstein, Marienberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany Although this particular specimen’s locality isn’t...| 12:00 PM CT 23 52023 SÉRANDITE Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM |  | | Book | | Sicily AUSTRIA Fassatal, CZECHOSLOVAKIA Assig, GERMANY Causeway, Antrim Kilpatrick Hills Austrian...Savoie, France St. Turpet, (Black Forest area) Germany CLEANING: Caution: Avoid use of strong detergents...IDENTIFIED: 1788, in Oberstein, basis in an ancient Germany. One theory about the name has its Greek Poem...cavities and is abundant in basalt, than most zeolites, - 12 - in some basalt and is found in other ...Uneven DENSITY 2.05-2.15 LOCATIONS: EUROPE GERMANY Rhineland, Oberstein, Hoenwiel, Swabia, Rauschermuhle |  | | Journal (issue) | | Three Interesting Silicates from the Laytonville Quarry, California Robert J. Lauf Oak Ridge, Tennessee...silicate minerals were discovered at the Laytonville quarry, Mendocino Co., California, Agrell and coworkers...collector. Geology of the Laytonville Quarry The Laytonville quarry, Mendocino Co., California, contains...aegirine, grunerite, and aragonite (Agrell, Bown, and McKie 1964). The Laytonville quarry exotic block represents...French-Italian Alps; in meta-ironstone at Laytonville quarry, California (TL); and in quartzite near Sagarianis | | | Book | | give rise to various other minerals, such as aragonite or geyserite. In places where hot solutions and...modifications, e.g. diamond — graphite, calcite — aragonite, pyrite — marcasite, quartz — cristobalite — tridymite...higher symmetry. For example, the orthorhombic aragonite often Twinned Crystals of (from left to right):...should preferably be more detailed, e.g. walls of a quarry, or refuse heap specimen, so that one could find...Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) I Lu erode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey greyish black metallic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sicily, and Capo di Bore, Rome, from Weilberg, Rhineland, and from K15eh, Styria. Three chemical analyses...spherules, up to 89 inch in diameter, on a vesicular basalt, and is accompanied by needles of calcite, small...ON of phillipsite in a cavity in basalt from Weilberg, Rhineland (B.M. 1908, 308(20)). About the same...time, one of us (H. M.) observed a zeolite in the basalt of K15ch, Styria, whi(:h gave X-ray powder photographs...indices. GONNARDITE 269 The zeolites of the KIdch basalt (H. M.). All the new occurrences of gonnardite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu AR AGONI TE PART 1: ARAGONITE FROM WESTERN EUROPE T here are many collecting...been a particular love. A galena from Neudorf, Germany, for example, gets my heart beating a smidge faster...of classic localities is aragonite, this column’s featured mineral. Aragonite is an orthorhombic mineral...mineral with point group 2/m 2/m 2/m. Aragonite occurring as untwinned crystals is rare; its normal occurrence...stalactitic. As mentioned, twinned crystals of aragonite are common. Repeated twinning on {110} yields | | | Book | | niodifications, e.g. diamond - graphite, calcite - aragonite, pyrite - marcasite, quartz - cristobalite - tridymite...higher symmetry. F or exam ple, the o rthorhombic aragonite often Twinned Cry stals of (from Left to right):...should preferably be more detailed, e.g. walls of a quarry, or refuse heap specimen, so that one could find...Harzgerode, Harz, Germany - CHLOANTHITE . NiAs3 (W hite Nickel) Schnee berg, Ore Mountains, Germany - ARSENOPYRITE...Pyrite, Mispickel) >-Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany S K UTTERUDITE CoAs (Smaltite) Bou Azzer, Morocco |  | Köster, H. M., Ehrlicher, U., Gilg, H. A., Jordan, R., Murad, E., Onnich, K. (1999) Mineralogical and chemical characteristics of five nontronites and Fe-rich smectites. Clay Minerals, 34 (4) 579-599 doi:10.1180/000985599546460 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Aussenstelle Bamberg, Concordiastr. 28, D-96049 Bamberg, Germany (Received 2 September 1998; revised 3 March 1999)...Dransfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany The Hoher Hagen is a mid-Miocene alkali olivine basalt dome located ~15 km...Society 580 H. M. KoÈster et al. overlying basalt (Bolter, 1961; SchneiderhoÈhn, 1965). Nontronite...near Hundsangen, Nontronite from O Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany È lberg, located ~10 km northwest of...fresh-looking basalt. Fe-rich smectite from Oberpullendorf, Burgenland, Austria The late Miocene basalt stock |  | | Catalog/List | | 5mm£3 Hannover Cove.St Agncs, Comwall Wagholi Quarry,Poona,India lxl £3 Funauchi Mine, Aikta Prefecture... Bayerland Mine, Ix½ £5 Waldsassen, Oberpfalz,Germany. Maize, Antsirabe, Madagascar ½ x½£3 Ix½ £5 St...HYDROXVAPOPHYLLITE rich crcmny crystalline masses on basalt. K Ca SiO (OH,F) H/2 0 Pure while tabular plnly... Brosso Minc,lvrca.ltaly lxl £5 Boghill Road Quarry, Glengonnley, County Antrim, Yaknl Mine,Bigndic...Claims, Gila County, Arizona U.S.A Haury Quarry, Black Forest, Germany Ayama Bolivia ½x½£1.50 Ix½ £2.50 lxl |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sicily; Capo di Bove near Rome; Weilberg, Rhineland, West Germany; and K l o c h , Styria, Poland. The Sicilian...spherules, up to Vz inch in diameter, on a vesicular basalt, and is accompanied by needles o f calcite, small...is of Ordovician age. The gravel pit (actually a quarry) is 3 miles north of Mount Ida off U.S. 270 near...stable matrix. Variscite has been reported from the quarry, but none was observed in recent material. A few...oxalic acid. If there is continued use of this quarry, no doubt good quality specimens of wavellite from |
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Basalt quarry, Malscheid, Herdorf, Daaden-Herdorf, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany