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Azurite from
Marble quarry, Gummern, Weißenstein, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Gummern, Weißenstein, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:222151
Long-form Identifier:1:3:222151:9
GUID (UUID V4):d8d51e57-3d14-4e7a-96da-d9fc5111effe
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
2.8km (1.8 miles) Marble quarry, Kras, Treffen am Ossiacher See, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
3.8km (2.4 miles) Oswaldiberg tunnel (A10 Highway tunnel), Oswaldiberg, Villach, Carinthia, Austria
6.1km (3.8 miles) Tischlein (Tschlein?), Treffen am Ossiacher See, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
12.1km (7.5 miles) Pöllaner Höhe, Pöllan, Paternion, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
14.4km (9.0 miles) Altenberg, Pöllan, Paternion, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
15.2km (9.4 miles) Latschach, Mallestiger Mittagskogel, Finkenstein am Faaker See, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
17.8km (11.0 miles) Riednock (Aichach; "Schlund"), Ried, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
19.7km (12.3 miles) Tratten, Sankt Stefan im Gailtal, Hermagor District, Carinthia, Austria
23.9km (14.9 miles) Rote Burg, Mallnock, Bad Kleinkirchheim, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
28.0km (17.4 miles) Kapeller Alp, Stockenboi, Villach-Land District, Carinthia, Austria
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gilgen Windows Alps-The Hallein District I . Alps-The Hallein District II . Alps-The Lammertal and Gosau... near Salzburg, the next five on Spittal, in Carinthia, and the last two on Leoben and Vienna respectively...Geologists' Association 1966 Field Meeting in Austria. The form of the orig inal Guide has been retained...Salzburg, five days based on Spittal, in Karnten (Carinthia), one day in Leoben and one in Vienna (Fig. I)...of one of the numerous good tourist guides to Austria. The present Guide is intended for use in conjunction
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minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first case,...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...sedimentary rocks are formed. Deposition may take place on land, in rivers, lakes, or in the sea. The majority of...Garnet-rock, hornfels, calc-silicate rock, slate or marble may be formed with beautiful large crystals of... Katazone limestone ,alcite marble calcite marble rakite marble calcite quartz sandstone 9uart:nte
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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...from many These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to...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...map that is on the folder around Hiittenberg in Carinthia. Mica of each map. The map numbers appear (phlogopite)
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crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 21. HYDROZINCITE visible with...fluorescent coating, large I x2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 22. HYDROXYL-HERDERITE good pale pinkish...pinkish crystal about half inch size (Linopolis district, Divino das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil) ...colourless glassy crystals on large Ixl inch rock osa quarry near Rome Italy £8 Fluorescent green with short
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Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...............................(1972) gives a detailed description of this unique quarry and its yttrium-niobiumbismuth-vanadium mineral...Hechtsberg quarry, Hausach NAMIBIA 10Khorixas UNITED STATES 3Stewart mine, Pala district, California...or pneumatolytic origin Mica Lode-Meyers Ranch quarry, 8-Mile Park, Colorado Beyerite, schumacherite...schumacherite Pegmatite 4 White Queen mine, Pala district, California NEW OCCURRENCES Pucher shaft, Schneeberg
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Articles Famous mineral localities: Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria ...........................................6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner Lieber. For a detailed review...1 famous mineral localities: Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria Gerhard Niedermayr* Department of Mineralogy-Petrology...History Museum of Vienna Burgring 7, A-1014 Vienna, Austria leiberg is among the most famous o f European...Bleiberg is located in southern Austria, in the province of Karn;n (Carinthia), just a few kilometers north
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MONTHLY CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1945 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................···································· 471 BLEIBERG, AUSTRIA .................................................SPECIMEN FROM PENN. ........ 479 BRENNER PASS OF AUSTRIA ··············································...(township) ; and Dexter Lime Quarry, Lincoln township. The latter quarry is not usually ascribed to any...shelf of the quarry lies some 35 feet below the water level, the bottom much more. The quarry was first
Catalog/List
............................ __··---·9000. 3. AZURITE, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona...... 2500. 7. BERYL variety MORGANITE, Gillette Quarry, Haddam, Connecticut. Possibly the finestof this...magnificent and extrcmely rare example of ruby on a white marble matrix. The crystals are long and slcnder and bright...attractive specimen. 3-1/2xl-3/4xl-1/4 ....._$1800. 12. AZURITE,• Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona........... $2500. 24. CERUSSITE, Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Minute white, some radiating, crystals completely
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Cerussite 46 Sapphire Quartz Malachite 47 Azurite 48 Rock crystal 88 Selenite 52 91 Celestite...Calcite 79 80 81 Cobaltocalcite Onyx marble 82 83 Landscape marble Smithsonite 85 84 108 102 Introduction...although a few rocks consist of one mineral only (e.g. marble, which in its pure state consists entirely of calcite)...water and glaciers and deposited in the sea, on land, and in lakes and rivers. They are eventually compacted...some other mineral. Some of these, such as fire marble and wood opal, make attractive ornamental stones
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metamorphosed sandstone and forms a hard rock. Marble forms from the metamorphosis of limestone and may...16 Phyllite Gneiss Homfels 17 Quartzite Marble Skam 18 Sedimentary Rocks Sandstone Travertine...mineral deposits are owned by someone - there is no land without an owner - and farmland can often be seriously...rubbish which may harm animals. If the site is a quarry careful arrangements with respect to equipment...forms part of an important and extensive mining district. Details of the names of species are taken largely
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xtl with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright...£32. (am9) 2. ~ ~ I,. "POTATO STONE", Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE... £36. 13. ARTHURITE AND ARSENOPYRITE, Hingston quarry, Cornwall. 2.4x2.3x 1.5cm. A light grey crystalline...green to one end. £2. 15. AURICHALCITE, Machen Quarry, Gwent, Wales. 6.7x5.5x4.5cm. A mottled green,
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Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan...In U.S., very abundant in Tri-State lead-zinc district as cockscomb forms. Very excellent cockscomb crystals...found in schists at Mitterberg, Austria, and in the Trentino district, Italy. 40 Arsenopyrite (Metallic
Catalog/List
crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...with short wave, UV large Ix2 inch Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria £7 70. HYDROXYL-HERDERJTE two or three pale...pinkish crystal about half inch size (Linopolis district, Divina das Laranjeiras, Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Journal (issue)
Fat Jack m ine (A Z), M onitor-M ogul (N V ), azurite, Scandinavia $10 v .2 2 /# 2 M ezica m ine (Y...3 /# l D ohrm ann G old collec­ tion, G illette quarry (CT), Spanish fluorite $12 H ouston M useum Catalog...Chalcopyrite Room is restricted to the Franklin Marble, at and near the hanging wall contact of the orebody...(1) in a shallow trough in the ore-marble contact, generally in marble breccia lying along the contact,...formed by open-space filling and by replace­ ment of marble and of one another. They occur as discontinuous
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determining characteristic such as in the case of blue azurite, green malachite, yellow sulphur or red cinnabar...Nitrate, Carbonate, Borate Ankerite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, cerussite, dolomite, magnesite, malachite...according to the albite law. Occurs in Switzer¬ land, Urals, Norway, UK. Feldspathoids are minerals of...muscovite (No. 13). Rare. Specimen from the Tyrol (Austria). 10 Biotite is the most common mica, named after...irregular tablets. Occurrence: Eifel (Germany), Carinthia (Austria), Norway (No. 10). 11 Zinnwaldite (lithium
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is best known fo r superb crystallized copper, azurite, cuprite and malachite specimens. INTRODUCTION...south-southeast of Brad, Transylvania, Europe Ukraine Austria Romania Figure 2. Location map. Croatia sloping...yards. Many of these small plots of agricultural land have been worked for centuries and still are by...concentration plant, and many small coal mines in the district. During its operation, the mine was the tow n’s...ia Western district of Royal Mining Towns in northern Hungary Nyitrv Eastern district of Royal Mining
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Habsburg dynasty elite to the Lower Hungarian mining district around Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz, Slovakia):...Johannes Mattes, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, johannes.mattes@oeaw.ac.at, 0000-0002-8546-7149...die Universalmassa des Geldes und des Reichtums im Land vermehret, gewiß nicht unter die geringste Vortheile...Bergwerken sehr groß und deren Nutzen sowohl für das Land als für die Gewerken, wie nicht weniger für den...non-Hungarian mining districts such as in Bohemia, Carinthia, Styria, and Tyrol were added towards the end
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mineral has only been found in The Mendips. (Merehead Quarry Mendips Somerset) f3.50 C273 COLORADOITE Mine...areas in matrix XRD) A W matrix (Bessie Tyube Quarry on Basalt.(Island "B" - C278 GOETHITE really...masses richly scattered in white (Meldon Aplite Quarry, neax Okehampton Devon) lxl SOp lx2 fl.00 2x2 f2...f.3.20 lxl C297 TOBERMORITE white (Crestmore Quarry, ~reas in california C298 TOURMALINE very Tourmaline...TYCHITE crystals.2 C300 URALOLITE creamy Koralpe, Carinthia, C301 UVAROVITE dar!~ green J to Diopside with
example, limestone heated and recrystallized to marble). Regional metamorphism ts large-scale alterations...aragonite, or rocks such as limestone, dolostone, and marble. Streak plate: Use a piece of unglazed porcelain...dolomite, siderite, rhodochrosite, malachite, azurite, gypsum, anhydrite, baryte, apatite, turquoise...238 vesuvianite (green, brown), p. 182 Blue azurite (dark blue), p. 156 lazurite (blue), p. 236 chrysocolla...Rocks Grain size Colour Light Coarse Fine marble (p. 294) quartzite (p. 294) granite gneiss (p
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inch matrix with minor Hydrozincite Bleiberg Carinthia Austria £6 23. HUNTITE white chalky massive areas...small stilbite crystals 3x2 inches £25 Wagholi Quarry, Poona ,India The name reflects the formula of...very slight damage which is not obvious. Boyleston Quarry Glasgow, Scotland £9 31. ZOISITE variety THULITE...stock of Hilary Corke. (he called it Youlgreave Marble) £10 33. VANADINITE small display piece of orange-brown...1x 1.5 inch surface of grey · Phonolite. (Arris Quarry, Windhoek,Namibia) £ 10 39. MELANOPHLOGITE a rare
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colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway airport at rd...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...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...Tate, Bethany Church, Dug Gap, Federal School, marble Hill, Dawsonville and Holcomb Post Office. CLARKE
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CONTINENTS AND PLATES The division of the world into land and sea seems so natural and so timeless that it...(million years ago) at the end of the Permian, all land was joined in one supercontinent geologists named... beautifully simple life history for ranges on land, however, occur where terms. The Himalayas, the...to pose the same problems, because volcanoes on land produce only small volumes of lava. Yet not only...water. Without running water to inches a year on land. At that rate, even physically by, for instance
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'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high...Meteoric Stone, or Iron Moes, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. Meteorites, Canon Diablo, Arizona. Kiowa...the crystals sandstone allows cabinet are is Austria-Hungary, brown coal formation.” am cases and...are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals
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Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part
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"PLUS-. 9"production. Photo: М. Leybov. Cover 4 Azurite & malachite breccia. Morenci, Arizona, USA. Field...n e s : Chrysocho]1a in quartz, chrysocholla, azurite, sugilite, charoite, turquoize. ALSACE F'RANCE'S...Phone: 203-235-5467 • WA N T E D : Exceptional Azurite and Cuprite specimens from Chessy, France. Ken...Karslve!! 5. Khyr-Ptlуаki б. Nauchпyi 7. Pervamarskil Quarry 8. Baklа Mountain 9. Klzilovka (former Karagºch)...Ravine 12. Petropºvlovskii Quarry 13. Lozovskoi Quarry 14. B1yuk-Yankoiskii Quarry 15. Ауи-Dag mountain 16
 
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