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Orthoclase from
Gravel quarry, Ruhlsdorf, Eberswalde, Barnim, Brandenburg, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gravel quarry, Ruhlsdorf, Eberswalde, Barnim, Brandenburg, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:304539
Long-form Identifier:1:3:304539:8
GUID (UUID V4):50284449-0459-49c6-8c23-531b76d80fb3
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
than 50% is exported, generally to Poland and Germany. Keywords: feldspar; feldspathoid; mine production;...low melting points, such as alkali feldspars (orthoclase and microcline) and Na-rich plagioclase (albite)...O Na2 O CaO Al2 O3 SiO2 Alkali Feldspars Orthoclase Microcline Albite KAlSi3 O8 KAlSi3 O8 NaAlSi3...of which four are exploited (mainly as sand and gravel for construction). Other types of feldspar deposits...In the first place, it is mining by an open pit (quarry) with the use of blasting and subsequent treatment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cavities ar( Oslo Region, Norway. The Mineralogical orthoclase, albite, quartz, epidote, fluoritc Record,Vol...berg in prism and Vestfold pinacoicl. county. The quarry was Pyramitl opened in faces art not obserthe early...thint#..:!lr $llll r ff#l s Lirl n t, /f, tabular of gravel tf,.+i:lr Is ti,,Fl r 2, Gtclorkrl mrp od dE R...areas up till one cm. exported to Denmark and Germany. Geologically the stone quorry lies within the...lavas, most rhomb porphyries. In the Himberg stone quarry the rock type is mainly a pyrite, sphalerite, stilbite
Report (issue)
then at Pittsburg, Pa., large quantities of sand, gravel, and crushed stone have been needed from time to...besides samples of building stone, clays, and other quarry products. In many instances it has been necessary...necessary to obtain single samples of sand, gravel, or crushed stone in lots of 1 to 3 carloads. For obvious...fixtures, etc. II. Material for concrete: A. Sand. B. Gravel. C. Crushed stone, slag, cinder, shell, etc. D...common points considered with regard to stone, gravel, clay, gypsum, etc., were noted on special forms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formations show maximum contents of coarse sand and gravel in their upper parts, often deposited under upper...conditions Moreover, their cappings of winnowed gravel ('top pebble beds') record the removal of still...transformed the muddy swamps into alluvial sand and then gravel plains. Relics of this environment now form the...Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation. Philpots Quarry, West Hoathly. A shows stem cut of by erosion surface...Lower Tunbridge Wells Sand Formation at Philpots Quarry, West Hoa thl y, Sussex. Three incomplete micro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Belmont area: fluorapatite (blue-green), and orthoclase (road cut, village bypass), epidote, garnet,...243 Figure 3. Quartz, 6.6 cm tall, Government Gravel pit, North Conway, Carroll County. Jeff Scovil...(Hollmann 1987; Smith 2001a). Albany, Passaconway gravel pit, 12 miles W of Conway near Downes Brook Crossing...(crystals, fluorescent) (Gallant 1960). Conway, Lovejoy gravel pit, about 2 miles NW of Conway, miarolitic cavities...1955). Conway, Redstone granite quarry (includes Redstone Green granite quarry located 800 feet WNW), 1 mile
Report (volume)
VI. A, Belle Island granite quarry and crusher; B, Smith granite quarry, 2 miles above Richmond, Va....McGowan granite quarry, 3 miles south of Manchester, Va.; B, Richmond Granite Co. quarry, 4 miles northwest...northwest of Richmond, Va. VIII. A, Granite quarry of J. A. McCloy, in western part of Richmond, Va.; B,...on granite thinly covered with clay, sand, and gravel. A portion of this terrace lies on the north side...Topography by M.Hacket-t and L.C.Barnard. X D Gravel pit Pits tin molding sand MAP SHOWING ECONOMIC
Report (issue)
evolving as man digs and probes the earth. Whenever a quarry is opened or an old one deepened, a ledge of stone...blasted, a test core drilled, a mine shaft sunk or a gravel pit dug—additional mineral discoveries may be made...my gratitude. I also wish to thank the many quarry, gravel pit and mine operators in Iowa, and many private................................... Minerals from gravel deposits and drift boulders Epidote.......................................................... Orthoclase.............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
take a fishing pole." CONNECTICUT-From a limestone quarry near Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., we have a very...SFC. William J. Malarkey, who is stationed in Germany, we have the following item: "While stationed at...a large gravel pit near Monroe, Ouachita Parish, La. 122 MAINE—Small white xls (orthoclase) associated...MICHIGAN—"Orange colored sheets of selenite are found in the quarry at National City, Iosco Co., Mich. These sheets...at Rolla, Mo."— on label. MONTANA—From a rock quarry near Livingston (Park Co.), M o n t , in cavities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sand-pit showing highly-inclined beds of sand and gravel, with pipe-clay and traces of coloured clays, dipping...deg., and resting against Devonian slates. The gravel yielded fragments of veined grit, chert, igneous...hea vy and continuou s rain. In the old alluvial gravel of the Tei gn, at the Zith erixon pit, which lies...through his picturesque grounds, in which an old quarry and another cavern are situated; then a halt was...adjacent to the Palace quarry, and a little above the Chudleigh waterfall. In this quarry fine examples of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
creation of gravel pads to elevate workings above the heaving effects of ground ice. These gravel pads can...pyrite-bearing shale originating from sub-Arctic gravel pad sites were subjected to leaching tests for...extensive ground stabilization and construction of gravel pads above the tundra to host drilling equipment...undertaken on gravel construction pads in Arctic or sub-Arctic regions. As shale from gravel pads on oil...depth of approximately 10 cm, and consisted of gravel (2–50 mm b-axis diameter). The samples were not
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
another one for the American Museum, though the quarry has been posted. I intend to discuss the matter...should have mentioned the fact that the Strickland quarry is being completely pumped out, so it ought to...here. "Guy Osborn, operator of the Osborn Sand and Gravel Company of Rochester, reported that his sand dredge...that it was collected in a gravel pit in Sec. 36 of Grant Parish, La. The gravel pit is approximately 140...well-defined, one-inch modified black octahedrons in orthoclase. Specific gravity has not been checked closely
Report (issue)
resistant character of the southward-dipping beds of gravel, tuff, and sand of the Woodbine and Tokio formations...northern McCurtain County,. Okla. 9 ; quartz-orthoclase pegmatites of Carboniferous. age, also in northern...Carboniferous, though thin. beds of Quaternary gravel and alluvium are found in places, especially along...Veatch). J l ------1 Woodbine formation \ Gravel; gray crOSS-bed_) ded quartz sand; lig­ nltlc material;...o ! 'l'rinlty formation. G) .g = El o o gravel lentil. Ultima Thule (60-72) ~IIIIIII Dierks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
identifying it as "Moonstone—Orthoclase". I brought other local cutters into the quarry and we learned that it...Lake Placid in 1963, was a moonstone cut from this quarry. Mr. Ed Leib owned the land so Vern Sawyer and...and I approached him in order that this quarry might be opened to Rockhounds for collecting. He agreed and...moonstone and the many other minerals found in the old quarry and in the dumps. Some very nice xls were found...in a matrix of white orthoclase feldspar showing xl faces. Some nice orthoclase xls up to 4 " across
Book
Furthermore, unconsolidated aggregates like sand, gravel, and earths are also included here. Metamorphic...tribal peoples: bojite (Boii, Celtic tribe in Germany), gondite (Gonds, central India), onkilonite (Onkilones...salts overlying rock salt deposits at Stassfurt, Germany. [G. Abraum, refuse; the salts were originally...feldspar, in a groundmass of labradorite with orthoclase rims, olivine, augite, and some leucite. [ Absaroka...(scyelite), hornblende-biotite-pyroxene rock, orthoclase sodie-plagioclase rock (perthosite). [Ach-uaine
Report (issue)
Section 1: 3 Ottawa - North Bay South March quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MacMillan quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hanna quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pakenham quarry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jamieson quarry. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .• . . .
Report (issue)
include dimension stone, silica sand, sand and gravel, aggregate and road metal, gypsum, barite, and...granite, granitic gneiss GRF graphite SDG gravel (see sand & gravel) G^P gypsum, anhydrite H/iL halite HE...halite) Code SDG SAM SST Commodity sand and gravel sand, molding sandstone (see silica, stone, quartzite)...AFFILIATION: USGS SITE NAME: UNIDENTIFIED STONE QUARRY COMMODITY TYPE: NONMETALLIC LOCATION INFORMATION...AFFILIATION: USGS SITE NAME: UNIDENTIFIED DIORITE QUARRY COMMODITY TYPE: NONMETALLIC LOCATION INFORMATION
Report (volume)
tentatively assigned to the Paleozoic era. In the quarry on the hill about half a mile southwest of the...fluvioglacial .deposits;.marine-terrace boulder gravel; and Recent unconsolidated beach, delta, lagoon...plagioclase and magnetite granules and interstitial orthoclase(?). The andesite porphyry domes intrude the Finger...ADAGDAK. The marine terrace, covered by boulder gravel, is built on mudflow. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...magnetite granules in a mosaic of quartz and orthoclase. This sequence of flows accumulated against a
Report (volume)
............................................ Orthoclase................................................slates, and in beds of the slates themselves, and in gravel deposits, the de"bris of the decomposed rocks and...with monazite, zircon, etc., in the auriferous gravel of Burke County. It was in the form of small malleable...sometimes with monazite and other rare minerals, in gravel beds resulting from gneissic rocks, but it has...County ; Asbury mine, Gaston County; Soapstone quarry, 12 miles northeast of Statesville; Silver Hill
Book
roadstone . Penlee Quarry remains open, producing aggregate, and C,1stle an Dinas Quarry is worked intermittently...in south-west England and the Harz Mountains in Germany. More recent attempts to understand the Devonian...intrusior1 exposecl in Penlee ( formerly Gwa\1as) Quarry [ 468 2 781 is uniform ir1 appearance throughout...coarse grained, with a variable proportio11 of orthoclase megacrysts up to 120 rr11n lor1g (Figure 3)....plagioclase and biotite. The potassium feldspar is orthoclase perthite, but in areas af­ fected by mineralisation
Report (issue)
body of marble could be obtained in an open-cut quarry, but ultimately the rock would have to be mined...crushed stone have been excluded, but the felsite quarry of Revere has been included, although it is not...muscovite-biotite granite gneiss of the Rafferty quarry, in Groton (p. 264), contains several inclusions...muscovite-biotite-quartz monzonite gneiss of the Palmer quarry, in Westford (p. 271), has a lenticular inclusion...sedimentary origin. The gneiss at the Oak Hill quarry, in the same town (p. 267), also contains smah1
Book (volume)
rampart, Moultonborough, 310 . 63, Section in gravel, Whitefield, 311 . 64, Section of Bald mountain... 284 F ‘ ‘ . 288 F Bartlett boulder and gravel cut at Crawford house, Boulder in sand, and ice-drift...under this title are the water-worn and stratified gravel, sand, and clay or silt, which occur abundantly...form a part successively of the coarse rounded gravel, sand, and silt, over which the river flows on...extensive and thick deposits of stratified gravel, sand, and clay which we now find in New Hampshire
Report (issue)
Sutton quarry . Other quarries The Crabtree quarry : Rolesville granite area Dimension stone quarry Lassiter...Lassiter quarry Wendell granite area '. Knightdale granite area Abandoned quarry Other granite and granite-gneiss...CONTENTS—CONTINUED Vance County Greystone quarry Middleburg quarry : Other granite areas in Vance County...stone quarry Basic dikes Warren County Warrenton area Warren Plains area Warren County State quarry Old...Old quarry Granville County State quarry Northampton County The Henrico area Orange County The Bacon quarry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
remember the 'experts' have it that good Xls. of Orthoclase Feldspar are seldom found in pegmatite formations...Arizona's pegamtites excellent terminated Xls, of Orthoclase are not at all uncommon. Agates (cutting grade)...this area. Another way into this territory is by gravel road, turning off at Morristown, Arizona, eastward...sized "pocket" in a bank of mostly small sized gravel and sand, not far underground, and where plant...plant roots had penetrated. Amid this same gravel and sand, were several thousand tiny but regular quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
slides examined from this part of the district. Orthoclase is the predominant felspar; but the rock a short...with 1part of the gravel on Shooters Hill (2 miles distant) at 424 O.D. The gravel at Shooters Hill has...detailed here. I t consists of a coarse, clayey gravel of rounded flint pebbles and beds of sand. Some...and serve to give a characteristic feature to the gravel, and to distinguish it from the other ' Hill',...' gravels of the surrounding district. Shooter Gravel London WWWWWWW^ Section from Shooters Hill to
Journal (issue)
Number BP. 4 BP.17 BP.31 BP.45 Ref. O.S. Old Quarry, Wollaston Ridge, nr. Stourbridge Ridge Street... of Stourbridge Blackhills Quarry, Swindon, 5 miles NW. Star Gravel Pit, Great Barr Queslett Keeper's...BP.68 BP.61 Bristnall Fields, reservoir) Old Quarry by schools, Warley Oakamoor, E. of Cheadle 1 mile...particular about exact identifications. The name " orthoclase " for instance is used in an old-fashioned way...in 8. 670. BP. 4/1., from Wollaston Ridge, Old Quarry. This is a compact, finegrained, light russet vinaceous
 
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