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Sphalerite from
Arsenic mine, Lower Rotgülden lake, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyrite5 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Calcite3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomite3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Arsenopyrite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Chlorite Group2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Galena2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Galena at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrrhotite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Arsenic mine, Lower Rotgülden lake, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
Photo GalleryView Gallery (17 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:23566
Long-form Identifier:1:3:23566:0
GUID (UUID V4):0004424f-cc2d-41a0-bb36-44ec5848bd6c
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Gfrererkar, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
2.7km (1.7 miles) Silbereck - Altenbergkar area, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
3.0km (1.8 miles) Schurfspitze (north slope), Silbereck - Altenbergkar area, Rotgülden, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
3.4km (2.1 miles) Sprinzgasse Mine, Rotschopf Alp, Muhr, Tamsweg District, Salzburg, Austria
3.9km (2.4 miles) Schurfspitze (Egydi adit; Ochsenleiten), Lanisch, Pölla valley, Rennweg am Katschberg, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
4.3km (2.7 miles) Stubenriegel (Herrenbau; Seekar), Lanisch, Pölla valley, Rennweg am Katschberg, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
4.5km (2.8 miles) Wastlkar, Kölnbreinspitze - Lausnock area, Malta, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
4.7km (2.9 miles) Wastlkar, Petereck, Malta, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
4.8km (3.0 miles) Aloisi adit (Aloisy adit), Arsenic mine, Lanisch, Pölla valley, Rennweg am Katschberg, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
5.0km (3.1 miles) Kölnbreinkar, Kölnbreinspitze - Lausnock area, Malta, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orogenic-type copper-gold-arsenic-(bismuth) mineralization at Flatschach (Eastern Alps), Austria Johann G. Raith...mineralization in the historic Flatschach mining district (Styria, Austria) occurs in a NE–SW to NNE–WSW oriented...minerals include alloclasite, enargite, bornite, sphalerite, galena, bismuth and matildite. Gold in this...Leoben, Leoben, Austria 2 Pezoltgasse 46, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria 3 Salinen Austria AG, Bad Aussee...Aussee, Austria chalcopyrite with pyrite or arsenopyrite. Sericite-carbonate alteration is developed around
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold-oxysulphides in copper deposits of the Greywacke Zone, Austria: A mineral chemical and infrared fluid inclusion...Leoben, Peter Tunner-Straße 5, A-8700 Leoben, Austria a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received... Veit im Pongau, and Mitterberg (all Salzburg Province, Austria). Fluid inclusions in tetrahedrite, which...Reviews 35 (2009) 87–100 et al., 1994), the Amelia Mine, Southwest Wisconsin (Kucha and Barnes, 1995) as...thiosulphate complexes of gold can be expected to occur in lower temperature hydrothermal to supergene ore deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Ames, IA 50011-3212, USA Abstract Arsenic-copper-gold-bismuth mineralization in the Stanos...formation of chalcopyrite, minor sulfides (galena, sphalerite, and molybdenite), and Bi-Cu-Pb-Au-Ag-Te minerals...conditions (600–650 °C, pressures of 7–8 kbars), (3) lower amphibolite facies (quartz + muscovite + staurolite...500–550 °C and pressures of 4–5 kbar), and (5) lower greenschist facies (quartz + muscovite + Fe-chlorite...that includes pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and magnetite (stage I), followed by chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
this study, were described for the Christbescherung mine near Großvoigtsberg in Saxony, Germany (Witzke and...copiapite, melanterite, and jarosite in the lake pit of the former mine Getchell in Nevada (USA) (Bowell and... Bukovskýite was also found at the Golden Point mine in New Zealand, where it occurs together with scorodite...mines near the Unterer Rotgüldensee lake near Salzburg (Austria) (Paar et al., 1993), dumps of the mines...during bacterial oxidation of gold ores (São Bento Mine, Brasil, Márquez et al., 2006) or in ferruginous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINPET 2017 INNSBRUCK / AUSTRIA SEPTEMBER, 6th - 9th 29 MITT.ÖSTERR.MINER.GES. 163 (2017) HIGH-TECH...HIGH-TECH METALS IN SPHALERITE AND CHALCOPYRITE FROM LEADZINC-COPPER ORE IN THE ÖTZTAL-STUBAI COMPLEX Angerer...Institute, Innsbruck University, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria. Department of Applied Geological Sciences and...and Geophysics, Montanuni, 8700 Leoben, Austria. 3 GeoZentrum Nordbayern, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Schlossgarten...dominant host for rare metals in sulphide ore is sphalerite, but also chalcopyrite is a significant host
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pb–Zn–Ag±Au deposits in the Kamariza area, Lavrion district, Attica, Greece, are genetically related to the...(pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, gers- Editorial handling: P. Garofalo P. Voudouris...enargiteluzonite and both low-Fe and Fe-rich sphalerite in the same samples. Microthermometry of fluid...al. 2007; Voudouris et al. 2007). The Lavrion district is part of the AtticCycladic metamorphic core...Hellenic subduction zone (Neubauer 2005). The Lavrion district includes two extensive mining centers, Plaka and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal zinc-lead deposit. Here occur: galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, jamsonite, bournonite, pyrite...discovered minerals: annabergite (nickel mineral), arsenic, polybasite, bizmuth, heidenbergite, uranium minerals...Harz mountains, hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits: sphalerite xls, tetrahedrite, galena xIs, bournonite, calcite...found jordanite with thalium. STRZEGOM (Strigov), Lower Silesia, Poland. In granite quarries occur large...name. WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland, oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large halite xls, anhydrate
Book (edition)
hedenbergite), b) its meaning may shift over time - sphalerite, for instance, was dumped by early miners, while...Polymorphism as, for instance, found in the ZnS system (sphalerite/wurtzite), is often difficult to discern: Changes...replaced by sphalerite. Only under XPL it stands out from the lighter coronal sphalerite overgrowth by...to the next). Left: Galena (lighter grey) and Sphalerite (darker grey). When minimum/maximum values are...grains. Left: Simple (upper right) and complex (lower left) twinning of gudmundite (blue and brown anisotropy)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Florida] at 23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province, China T here has been...minor amounts of arsenic, including that from natural sources. Consequently, arsenic minerals that have...environmental community as a whole. Although the list of arsenic-rich minerals is not particularly long, their individual...inclusions in other minerals. Realgar is simple arsenic sulfide (AsS). Published chemical analyses typically...commonly together with another poorly described arsenic sulfide. Yet another red polymorph known as beta-AsS
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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...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...without causing obvious changes in the mineral. Sphalerite, ZnS, practically always contains some iron,...separate species but remains a variety (p. 29). Sphalerite never contains more than about 20 per cent of
Journal (issue)
Metaliferi Mts. 15 4. Baia Mare metallogenic district 64 5. Other sources of native gold from Romania...metal gold pans, as well as a replica of the famous mine carriage which is considered to be the oldest of...calcite, baryte, fluorite, clay minerals, native arsenic, etc. There are many samples with gold, silver...unit. For instance, in BradSăcărâmb metallogenic district, the Au:Ag ratio is relatively uniform (45% to...metallogenic criterion: province, subprovince, district, sector, field/ node (Fig. 2) . 7 Fig. 1. Example
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results in a pseudo-symmetry, i.e. crystals of lower symmetry are twinned in such a way that they form...between that of the sample and that of the next lower grade. In this case we consider the hardness to...Different scratch hardness on kyanite 20 somewhere lower grade adding a half-grade to it. Although the determination...fibrous and porous aggregates often seem to have a lower hardness because of the blank spaces between individual...another large group of minerals, such as the dark sphalerite, cassiterite, rutile, etc., it is rather difficult
Mineralogy), University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria 2 Department of Mineralogy...silicified matrix of the specimens has veinlets of sphalerite, with rare inclusions of galena and various (Cu)-Pb-As(Sb)...WORDS : daliranite, sulphosalt, lead, mercury, arsenic, Zarshouran deposit, West Azarbaijan province,...within the collection of Dr E. Lopatka (Eichberg, Austria). They were acquired by him from Dr H.-J. Wilke...Engineering and Physics (Mineralogy), University of Salzburg, Austria. A cotype specimen has also been deposited
Book
mineral collection. se rs eee 7 ar oltre) LAKe sho 363.8 oe saline 3 re Campus eTTTT 16.2...the earth’s surface, where the temperature was lower and the intense pressures gone. Prior to and during...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal
Book
the earth’s surface, where the temperature was lower and the intense pressures gone. Prior to and during...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...aggregate were the primary sulfides of galena and sphalerite with the mineralized mass surrounded in part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Karl-Lötsch-Strasse 10, A-4840 Vöcklabruck, Austria Pezoltgasse 46, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria Natural History Museum, Cromwell...and bornite, chalcocite, digenite, covellite, sphalerite, tennantite, luzonite, wittichenite, thalcusite...studies (R1 = 0.023) revealed the structure to be a sphalerite derivative identical to that of stannoidite....crystal structure, La Rosario vein, Capillitas district, Catamarca Province, Argentina. Introduction OMARINIITE...vein-type Ag-Pb-Zn (-Cu) deposits (e.g. Freiberg district, Saxony, Germany; Höll et al., 2007). The mineralogy
Book
A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
Book
results in a pseudo-symmetry, i.e. crystals of lower symmetry are twinned jn such a way that they form...that of the next lower grade. In this case we consider the hardness to be of the lower grade adding a half-grade...fibrous and porous aggregates often seem to have a lower hardness because of the blank spaces between individual...another large group of minerals, such as the dark sphalerite, cassiterite, rutile, etc., it is rather difficult...is harder (6) than chalcopyrite (4.5). Black sphalerite and black cassiterite display the same submetallic
Catalog/List
.... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on limonite gossen...silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite . ...Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite PERICLINE Italy, Austria, Switzerland...opalescence I. 00 ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg...Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable mass in quartz
Book
specific gravity are again defined as groups for the lower section of the multicolored margin bar. As man y...minerals as possible are included in each group. The lower section of the margin bar is fitted with a scale...crystals, and weathered surfaces can give a false lower hardness. After the test scratch, a powder-like...zircon and sphene, where double refraction at the lower edge of the crystal can be observed with the naked...fibrous, crumbly, powdery, as crust; present in salt lake beds, hot spring deposits, and volcanic vents. Accompanied
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one that will again defined as groups for the lower sec- 2< make a positive identffica- tion of the...characteristic—also weight of a specific mate- The lower section of the margin bar is rial compared with...crystals, and weathered surfaces can give a false lower hardness. Metal holders in which mineral chips...Tarnish, discolorations, and weathering tion at the lower edge of the crystal can be observed with the naked...fibrous, crumbly, powdery, as crust; present in salt lake beds, hot spring Mohs' hardnes_s^ deposits, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
105, pages 727–744, 2020 Formation of native arsenic in hydrothermal base metal deposits and related...D-72074 Tübingen, Germany 1 Abstract Native arsenic is an occasional ore mineral in some hydrothermal...arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite, or chalcopyrite, for example) is surprising, as arsenic is a common constituent...formation must be quite special to precipitate native arsenic. An ideal location to investigate the formation...southwest (SW) Germany. Here, galena, sphalerite, and native arsenic are the most abundant ore minerals
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industry for thousands of years. Two forms of arsenic sulphide, realgar (top-left) and orpiment (bottom)...clay. As a river washes into the sea, or into a lake, the heaviest quartz grains are dropped nearest...out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural...be washed down through the rock to be deposited lower down as different minerals which become often valuable...thicker E.g barite, linante. r& iJ NDE RSTA NDING MINE RAL S MI NERAL PROPERTIES: PHYSICAL Every 1nineral
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specific gravity are again defined as groups for the lower section of the multicolored margin bar. As many...minerals as possible are included in each group. The lower section of the margin bar is fitted with a scale...crystals, and weathered surfaces can give a false lower hardness. After the test scratch, a po}Vder-like...zircon and sphene, where double refraction at the lower edge of the crystal can be observed with the naked...fibrous, crumbly, powdery, as crust; present in salt lake beds, hot spring deposits, and volcanic vents. Accompanied
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specific gravtly are again defined as groups for the lower sectton of the mulucolored margin bar. As many minerals...minerals as possible are mcluded m each group The lower section of the margm bar is fitted w1th a scale...crystals. and weathered surfaces can g1\'e a false lower hardness After the te\l scratch, a powder-hke residue...zircon and sphene, where double refraction at the lower edge of the crystal can be observed with the naked...fibrous, crumbly, powdery, as crust; present in salt lake beds, hot spring deposits, and volcanic vents. Accompanied
 
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