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Rhodonite from
Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Rhodonite
Formula:CaMn3Mn[Si5O15]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Falotta, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:39472
Long-form Identifier:1:3:39472:3
GUID (UUID V4):966a584f-a324-402b-b3e0-1f3f8284106f
Nearest other occurrences of Rhodonite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Alp digl Plaz deposit, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
3.6km (2.2 miles) Parsettens Alp, Tinizong (Tinzen), Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
8.7km (5.4 miles) Bercla Valley, Mulegns, Surses, Albula Region, Grisons, Switzerland
11.4km (7.1 miles) Schmorrasgrat-North, Ausserferrera, Ferrera, Viamala Region, Grisons, Switzerland
11.6km (7.2 miles) Schmorrasgrat-South, Ausserferrera, Ferrera, Viamala Region, Grisons, Switzerland
14.1km (8.8 miles) Fianel, Ausserferrera, Ferrera, Viamala Region, Grisons, Switzerland
17.9km (11.1 miles) Furtschellas deposit, Piz Corvatsch, Samedan, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland
23.7km (14.7 miles) Muretto Pass, Muretto Valley, Val Forno, Upper Val Bregaglia, Bregaglia, Maloja Region, Grisons, Switzerland
24.6km (15.3 miles) Mt. Forno, Muretto Valley, Chiesa in Valmalenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
24.8km (15.4 miles) Tanatz Alp, Splügen, Rheinwald, Viamala Region, Grisons, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nine of which tinzenite is found with quartz, rhodonite, Mn-bearing calcite or rhodochrosite in veinlets...Alp Parsettens and Falotta near Tinizong village, Oberhalbstein, Grisons, Switzerland. The mineral was...was named after the old designation for Tinizong  Tinzen, a village near to the type locality (Roth, 2007)...(2001) refined the structure of a tinzenite from Falotta and also reported a high degree of order at the...analysis Falotta and Alp Parsettens mines near Tinizong (Tinzen), Oberhalbstein, Grisons, Switzerland (type)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mangan6sif6res m6tamorphiques de Falotta et de Parsettens (Grisons-Suisse) E.A. Perseil et L. Latouche...manganese ores of Falotta and Parsettens (Oberhalbstein, Grison Canton, Switzerland) are enclosed in...todorokite and birnessite through the oxidation of the rhodonite veinlets. This is apparently the first observation...increase in flattening and intensive schistosity from Falotta to Parsettens may be related with the enrichment...even for the Falotta ore, in which the best-preserved primary microstructures exist. In Falotta as in Parsettens
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Geochemistry, University-BFSH 2, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 3 Institute for Crystallography, University of...of Lausanne, BSP, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland 4 Institute for Mineralogy and Petrography, University of...of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 30, 4056 Basel, Switzerland 5 Laboratory for Chemical and Mineralogical Crystallography...University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland 2 ABSTRACT Cabalzarite, M1CaM2(Mg,Al,Fe3+ )2(XAsO4)2(H2O...group occurring in altered Mn ore at the abandoned Falotta mine (Swiss Alps). Together with other arsenates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...the Alps-and spent most of his spare time in this region and who, moreover, dedicated most of his scientific...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding...underlying calcareous marine sediments in the nappe region. Consequently, the water was greatly enriched in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral from Fianel, Val FerreraoGraubiinden, Switzerland JoEr, BnuccER ANDPnrnn Bnm,rpscrr Mineralogi...Institut, Bernoullistrasse30, CH-4056 Basel,Switzerland AssrRAgr Fianelite occurs in iron and manganeseores...Fianel, a small mine in Val Ferrera, Graubiinden, Switzerland. It is associatedwith quartz, aegirine,and limonite...in thin open fractures crosscutting quartz + rhodonite + kutnohorite + palenzonaite + aegirine + parsettensite...Fianel, a mine in Val Ferrera, Graubiinden, Switzerland. The mineral and the name have been approved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
radiolarite-hosted deposits at Falotta in the Oberhalbstein, Switzerland (Geiger 1948), at Praborna in...Hautes-Pyrénées, Franklin (Essene & Peacor 1987), and Falotta (Graeser 1995), whereas W and LREE minerals were...deposits in Val Ferrera, eastern Central Alps, Switzerland. We 1075 38#5-oct.00-2188-03 1076 present...source of a tributary to the Rhine in Graubünden (Switzerland), belongs geologically to the Middle Penninic...ALPS Germany Ore deposits Austria France Switzerland 1: Piz La Mazza 2: Fianel 3: Starlera 4: Bergwiesen
Report (issue)
(Sjö mine, Sweden); tephroite, pyroxmangite, rhodonite, spessartine, rhodochrosite, tiragalloite (Ködnitz...berzeliite, tilasite, rhodochrosite, braunite (Falotta mine, Switzerland); eveite, adamite, willemite, allactite...Tirol, Austria. At the Falotta mine, Oberhalbstein, Graubünden, Switzerland. From Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg
Report (issue)
Association: Gonyerite (Lº angban, Sweden); calcite, rhodonite, lead, sarkinite, brandtite (Pajsberg, Sweden);...Sweden); manganoan calcite, tirodite, rhodonite, jacobsite (Bald Knob, North Carolina, USA). Distribution:...Liguria, Italy. At the Falotta mine, Oberhalbstein, GraubÄ unden, Switzerland. In the KÄo dnitz Valley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zurich, Switzerland Musée Cantonal de Géologie, Université de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland; nicolas...Terre, Muséum d’histoire naturelle, 1208 Genève, Switzerland; cedric.schnyder@ville-ge.ch Associazione Micromineralogica...occurs in the Fianel mine, in Val Ferrera, Grisons, Switzerland, a small Alpine metamorphic Mn deposit....from the Alpine manganese mineral deposits of Grisons. Minerals 2020, 10, 960; doi:10.3390/min10110960...vanadium; arsenic; crystal structure; Fianel mine; Switzerland; Valletta mine; Italy 1. Introduction In 1996
Journal (issue)
Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...beauty or rarity. LOCATION The northern coastal region of the Tyrrenian Sea is called Liguria: the name...time the region has had a complex history. Genoa is the main city and the main harbor of the region; the...are still visible and testify to the past of a region which hosted an important manganese deposit. Exceptional...period nice specimens of tinzenite, sursassite and rhodonite were relatively common, and rare species were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE BARRHORN UNIT, TURTMANNTAL, CENTRAL ALPS, SWITZERLAND Joël BRUGGER§ School of Earth and Environmental...Géochimie, UNIL-BFSH2, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland Abstract The Triassic carbonates of the Briançonnais...to the Rhone Valley in Canton Wallis, Western Switzerland, belongs to the Middle Penninic (Briançonnais... mn-rich assemblages in the barrhorn unit, switzerland 231 Fig. 1. Location of the occurrences of... mn-rich assemblages in the barrhorn unit, switzerland Oxide layers Jacobsite forms xenomorphic aggregates
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Sierra Gorda, northeast of Antofagasta, 2nd region, northern Chile. Occurrence: In a quartz – feldspar...The abandoned manganese mine near Falotta, Graubünden, Switzerland. Occurrence: In manganese ore consisting...consisting of braunite, rhodonite, spessartine, tinzenite, parsettensite, sursassite and strontian piemontite...(b. 1919), an amateur mineralogist of Chur, Switzerland, who contributed to the mineralogy of the canton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
average) from the type locality Fallota deposit in Switzerland (Belokoneva et al. 2001). In the case of the...(Si, Al, K), andradite (Ca, Fe), albite (Na), rhodonite (Mn), olivine (Mg), hornblende (Ti), Table 1...Merelani Hills, Malešov, Uchaly, Falotta, Tanzania Czech Rep. Russia Switzerland Source§ PB U.K. 19288 BEL BEL...divided into three temperature regions, whereby each region was fitted individually, but a certain overlap...manganaxinite, and tinzenite in the low-temperature region 0–15 K and functions used to extrapolate CP to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andradite (Ca, Fe), jadeite (Na), almandine (Al), rhodonite (Mn), synthetic TiO2 (Ti) and chromite (Cr) were...ferroaxinite was recorded in the 4000–400 cm–1 spectral region using a Perkin Elmer FTIR 1760X spectrometer equipped...of sharp bands in the 1200 to 400 cm–1 spectral region, corresponding to fundamental Si–O, B–O, Al–O,...1997). The spectrum in the OH-stretching frequency region consists of a sharp (FWHM ~40 cm–1) absorption...high background in the 3000 to 3700 cm–1 spectral region and the weakly pronounced band at ca. 1600 cm–1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Géochimie, UNIL-BFSH2, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland MICHAEL ANDRUT Institut für Mineralogie und...Géochimie, UNIL-BFSH2, CH-1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Switzerland PETER C. BURNS Department of Civil Engineering...the Starlera Mn deposit in the Eastern Alps of Switzerland. Manganlotharmeyerite and the associated arsenates...NEW SPECIES FROM THE STARLERA DEPOSIT, SWITZERLAND Switzerland (MGL #54000; cotype specimen MGL #54014)...the main ore-mineral, whereas the Mn-silicates rhodonite and spessartite are absent. Numerous discordant
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the private Bally foundation at Schonenwerd, Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because...Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly because they...should be of specimens from localities within the region of that museum, or at least from the country concerned...rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento
Catalog/List
11 ,C,12 .00. 96. TILASITE. Falotta,Alp Porse.ttens,Timzeh,Switzerland, Tiny whitish xtls scattered...xtl on 2x1~-rr r.1atrix bc1se 1 t:,1. 00. 78. RHODONITE. Treburland Mine 1 Corn~:.1.ll. Pure granular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
known only from the Falotta mine, Oberhalbstein, Graubunden Canton, Switzerland (Graeser et al., 1984;...tectonostratigraphic units (∼650 km2) of the Sudetes, the region that forms the NE margin of the Bohemian Massif...PET, 0.04), fluorapatite – P (Kα, PET, 0.03), rhodonite – Mn (Kα, LIF, 0.06), hematite – Fe (Kα, LIF,
Catalog/List
tabular cltavage on matrix. confirmedmaterial (Falotta Switzerland) fxl E4.00 067 BRAUNITE rich black masses...in½ ins natrix. A rare mica (Binntal wallis Switzerland) }§ ins f4.50 PROUSTITE micro red cleavge spot...(Antsirabe Madagascar 3 to 4 mmsize E3.50 349 RHODONITE pinkish-grey massive with minor Pyrolusite. (Treburland... 378SPESSARTINE attractlve orange masses in pink Rhodonite. Somewith Braunite.(Brandsnuten,Norway) ~ ins...GunnislakeMineCornwall) ½ ins €4 lxl E5.50 lx2 E9.50 545 RHODONITE pinkish grey massive with Pyrolusite. (Treburland
Journal (issue)
the Chivor Emerald Mine’s History, and Swiss Rhodonite… Duncan Pay FEATURE ARTICLES 2 A Quantitative...archival records. 110 Rhodonite-Pyroxmangite from Tanatz Alp, Switzerland Franca Caucia, Luigi Marinoni...physical, and gemological properties of attractive rhodonite-rich rocks from this Swiss deposit. p. 92 REGULAR...Nicholas Sturman Carlsbad, California Lucerne, Switzerland Bangkok, Thailand John L. Emmett Ren Lu Fanus...the Chivor Emerald Mine’s History, and Swiss Rhodonite… Welcome to the Spring Gems & Gemology! Publication
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
standards were used: Fe2O3 (Fe), Al2O3 (Al), rhodonite (Mn), ZnS (Zn), wollastonite (Ca), periclase (Mg)...spectrum shows two distinct bands in the OH-stretching region, the relatively low frequencies (3385 and 3275...interpreted as a H2O band. In the H O H bending region, there is a very weak band at 1690 cm 1, indicating...position of the broad ‘‘band’’ in the stretching region. The complex appearance of the <1200 cm 1 spectrum...measurement was S1 cm 1; the mean resolution for the region 400 1600 cm 1 was 0.8 cm 1. Wavenumbers of absorption
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Bauditz, Vejby, Denmark; Pierre Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen...grey in reflected light. Alekseev mine, Sutamskii region, Stanovoi Range, USSR. H= 2.3, Djjj=?, D(;=7.80...yellow. Cherbadung, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 6.5-7, Djj4=3.70, Dg=3.71, VIID 31. Graeser...K)2BaTi2(Si207)2, (SI Orth. Dark brown. Inagli massif, Aldan Region, Yakutiya, USSR. H= 5.9, Djjj= 3.432, Dq=3.46,...Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 3, Djjj= 5.329, Dc= 5.340, HD 05b. Solly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hero Town (420 m, 44 ~ west of south), QalaDizeh region, NE Iraq, in melilite skarn in contact with banded...1986. Zap. 115, 355. [XpoM~epna.] In the Kumak region, southern Urals, USSR, in goldquartz veins cutting...1986. Zap. 115, 355. [tBepxpor~m~.J In the Kumak region, southern Urals, USSR, in gold-quartz veins cutting...At the Mn-deposit near Falotta, Oberhalbstein, Grison (Graubfinden), Switzerland, as dark redbrown crystals...collection at Geneva Natural History Museum (Switzerland), as pale to reddish pink pseudo-octahedral crystals
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are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia)...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Kunlun Mts., near Hotan, Xinjiang Uygur Autom. region, China, also at Fengtien, Taiwan. Green at Ospinskoye...SwitzerlandItaly, overlooking Binntal, Valais canton, Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley, Salzburg
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Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As deposit, Takab region, Iran Grandviewite, 5 111111, Capillitas deposit...acic~- depo it, N of ofija, Vratsa-Izdremet ore region, Bullar crystals to I mm, pale yellow, transparent...the Alcaparrosa mine, Cerritos Bayos, Antofagasta region, Chile. MM 76, 851861, 2012. Aldrigeite (Cd,Ca)(Cu...2011. ANDREYIVANOVITE Iquique prov., Tarapaca region, Chile, at the Rowley mine, Maricopa co., Arizona...(Rio Tinto) mine, Sierra Gorda dist., Antofagasta region, Chile. Also at the Rowley mine, Maricopa co.,
 
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