| Locality type: | Canton |
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| Species: | Quartz |
| Formula: | SiO2 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Chlorite Group | 56 photos of Quartz associated with Chlorite Group at this locality. |
| Fluorite | 49 photos of Quartz associated with Fluorite at this locality. |
| Adularia | 29 photos of Quartz associated with Adularia at this locality. |
| Albite | 15 photos of Quartz associated with Albite at this locality. |
| Calcite | 15 photos of Quartz associated with Calcite at this locality. |
| Anatase | 10 photos of Quartz associated with Anatase at this locality. |
| Rutile | 9 photos of Quartz associated with Rutile at this locality. |
| Hematite | ⓘ8 photos of Quartz associated with Hematite at this locality. |
| Brookite | 8 photos of Quartz associated with Brookite at this locality. |
| Ankerite | 8 photos of Quartz associated with Ankerite at this locality. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Quartz data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Uri, Switzerland |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (6 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 47322 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:47322:4 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 3291ae55-a4ee-4586-b6c3-317e0b90174e |
| Localities for Quartz in this Region |
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| Susten pass, Meien Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Amsteg power station, Amsteg, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Control room construction site, Amsteg power station, Amsteg, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| NEAT Access gallery, NEAT Construction site, Amsteg, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| St Gotthard basis tunnel (north section), NEAT Construction site, Amsteg, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Bristenstock, Bristen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Felli Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Fedenstock, Felli Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Rot Wichel, Felli Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Schattig Wichel (Piz Giuv), Felli Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| West slope, Schattig Wichel (Piz Giuv), Felli Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Pressure duct, Göschenen power station, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Feldschijen, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Feldschijen glacier, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Lochberg, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Planggenstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Voralpreuss water tunnel, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Winterstock, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Spitzberg range, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Sandbalm, Voralp Valley, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| St Gotthard Highway tunnel (north section), Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| St Gotthard Railway tunnel (north section), Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Aeschenwald, Gurtnellen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Intschi Tobel (Intschialpbachtobel), Intschi, Gurtnellen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Teif Valley, Meitschligen, Gurtnellen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Riedertobel, Ried, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Bächenstock, Rien Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Rientallücke, Rien Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Rienzenstock, Rien Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Schijenstock (Schyenstock; Schirstock), Rien Valley, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Brunni Valley, Schächen Valley, Uri, Switzerland |
| Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Chäs Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Chli Mutsch, Etzli Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Chrüzlistock north slope, Etzli Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Stockeggen, Etzli Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Fruttlaui Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Stein Valley, Golzern, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Windgällen lodge, Golzern, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Griesseren Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Hoher Schnabel, Griesseren Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Lungen Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Stalden Valley, Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland |
| Altchilch, Andermatt, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Rossbodenälpetli, Unteralp Valley, Andermatt, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Hospental, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Großtal, Zumdorf, Hospental, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Furka basis tunnel (east section), Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Deieren, Furka pass area, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Garschen, Furka pass area, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Chli Bielenhorn, Tiefenbach, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Galenstock, Tiefenbach, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Smoky quartz cleft, Gletschhorn, Tiefenbach, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Gross Bielenhorn, Tiefenbach, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
| Tiefen glacier, Tiefenbach, Realp, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland |
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The reasons for this are partly because they...rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...Mineralogical Museum, University of Bonn. 22 Quartz (Rock crystal), of Dauphine habit, from the classic...FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorite from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel, Switzerland.............................................619...for the Discerning Collector Imperial Topaz in Quartz Pocket - Ouro Preto, Brazil Dallas, Texas and Guilin...meters. The largest of these faults is occupied by a quartz-ankerite vein, here called the “Brandy Gill vein...wide. 576 The veins consist almost entirely of quartz, either spongy or hard and white, in association...of soft pale ‘muck’—a mixture of sand, clay and quartz—on the foot-wall. Good white baryte occurs on the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ashcroft (second from left) on a collecting trip in Switzerland. I t is a strange fact that one of the most...a holiday with his family, and they visited Switzerland. He noticed that although Swiss minerals were...documented from any area. During summer visits to Switzerland over the next eighteen years-apart from 1929...some specimens purporting to have been found in a quartz band at IntschialpbachTobel. He later wrote: “I...hexagonal crystals of a delicate pinkish hue set among quartz crystals, which Tresch had found at Intschialpbach |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | remarkablespecimen, from an alpine vein at Uri, Switzerland,in which small pyrrhotitecrystalsgavea uniquediffraction...of the hydroelectric regionof the Aar Massif.In Uri in the west-central associationwith the pyrrhotitewe...albite, apatite,calcite,chlorite (chamosite),pyrite, quartz, sphalerite, and sphene. The unique 5C pyrrhotite...both primary and and secondaryorigin occurin the quartz,feldspars, and limited studiesof these calciteof...pyrrhotiteareinvisible,it is parageneticallybracketedby the quartz and adularia and thusto a fillingtemperature rangeof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arizona 85011 jeffscovil@earthlink.net Figure 1. Quartz (4.8 cm) from Middleville, Herkimer County, New...faces (fig. 5), but skeletal quartz (also called fenster or window quartz) (fig. 6) is an even better...Windler specimen. Figure 6. Skeletal crystal of quartz (9.7 cm) from Treasure Mountain North, Manheim...20 December 2017 each other by a void. Skeletal quartz from North Carolina and Porretta Terme, Italy,...symmetrically different faces. Figure 9. Rutilated quartz crystal (11.3 cm tall) with a large rounded triangular |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Belemnite Deformation at Fernigen, Switzerland By M. R. W. JOHNSON (PLATE XIII) ABSTRACT Elongated...belemnites from Jurassic rocks at Fernigen, Canton Uri, Switzerland. Their specimens were collected on the south-east...104 NO. 3 Belemnite Deformation at Fernigen, Switzerland 269 II. NEW EVIDENCE Recent work by the author...composed of calcite along with minor amounts of quartz (cf. Badoux, 1963, Fig. 1). Microscopic examination...and Badoux's (1963) view that the carbonate and quartz in the white areas has been introduced into the |  | | Journal (issue) | | after all, a legitimate variety of quartz, cryptocrystalline quartz to be exact. So, what inspired me...retrieve some quartz data. In their discussion on quartz under the heading Cryptocrystalline quartz, the first...you might want to check the location. Figure 3 – Quartz var. Flint, 26 x 11 x 11 cm, Dover, Kent, England...2021, personal communication. Mindat.org, 2021, Quartz. Sencicle, Lorraine, 2021, Shipbuilding Part IV...driving of a new highway tunnel in the Alps of Switzerland have to do with minerals or collectors? Everything |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Markus Uebelhart. A Figure 2. Rutilated quartz, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 cm. fter purchasing a...presently painting landscapes of his native Switzerland and also is experimenting with abstract art....photo enlargements of specimens such as rutilated quartz, aragonite, and other species to help him capture...(Friends of the Uri Canton), no. 2, 1990. Uebelhart lives in Steinhausen, Switzerland, with his wife and |  | | Report (issue) | | Nanjingqiao deposit near Pinjiang, Hunan Province, where “quartz vein-type uranium mineralization [occurs] in the...com) likes quartz, and his dealership is so named because he also likes to show his quartz (and other)...Herkimer-type quartz crystals set lightly on beds of smaller (not quite small enough to be “drusy”) quartz crystals... ============================================================ Quartz, 4.7 cm, from Area 51, Diamond Acres, Fonda, New...Movies specimen and photo. Below is a giant Chinese quartz specimen, beautiful also but in a quite different |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Included were outstanding specimens from classic smoky quartz localities in the Swiss Alps, Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan...smoky/amethyst quartz, 17 cm wide, from Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Left: Smoky quartz on milky quartz, 19...19.5 cm tall, from Furkahorn, Uri, Switzerland. and the United States (California, Montana, Arkansas, |  | Ricchi, E., Bergemann, C.A., Gnos, E., Berger, A., Rubatto, D., Whitehouse, M.J. (2019) Constraining deformation phases in the Aar Massif and the Gotthard Nappe (Switzerland) using Th-Pb crystallization ages of fissure monazite-(Ce) Lithos, 342. 223-238 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2019.04.014 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | phases in the Aar Massif and the Gotthard Nappe (Switzerland) using Th-Pb crystallization ages of fissure...phases in the Aar Massif and the Gotthard Nappe (Switzerland) using ThPb crystallization ages of fissure monazite-(Ce)...phases in the Aar Massif and the Gotthard Nappe (Switzerland) using Th-Pb crystallization ages of fissure... 1 Switzerland Natural History Museum of Geneva, Route de Malagnou 1, 1208 Geneva, Switzerland RI...University of Lausanne, Geopolis, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Institute of Geological Sciences, University |  | | Catalog/List | | �ta4 ���.. PHONE PYRAMID 3-1300 ADULARIA, Kanton Uri. Large crystals with green chlorite coating, lx2...lxl, Sl.00; l¾xlt to 1tx1t, $2.00. ANATASE, Switzerland. A ½" incomplete brown crystal on matrix, lxl...crystallized masses, lxl, S5.00. crystals up to -¼- 11 on quartz crystal matrix, lx2, 15.00. DOLOMITE, Oberdorf...½" blue-green cube on matrix, lxl-1-, S2.00. Switzerland. Pink octahedrons on matrix, 2x3, Sl0.00. A 3/4...1948. Brown lllDll xl plates sparsely scattered in quartz. Some associated with green gahnite, 3/4", 50¢; |  | | Report (issue) | | Pb4 AgBi3 S9 . Occurrence: In high-temperature quartz veins. Association: Pyrite, sphalerite, galena...chalcopyrite, covellite, bursaite, arsenopyrite, siderite, quartz, albite, microcline. Distribution: In the Czech...Romania. In the Furka Pass, Uri, and at Goppenstein, Lotschentnal, Valais, Switzerland. From Rauriser Goldberg |  | | Report (issue) | | organic material. Association: Siderite, kaolinite, quartz, magnetite, pyroxenes, plagioclase, olivine, calcite...From Chamoson, Valais, and in the Maderantal, Uri, Switzerland. At He·rmanovice and Kladno, Czech Republic...Canada. Name: For the locality at Chamoson, Switzerland. References: (1) Dana, E.S. (1892) Dana's system |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | epidote + quartz + H2O = laumontite + prehnite, at low-pressure end and epidote + chlorite + quartz + H2O...pumpellyite at high-pressure end; (2) laumontite + quartz + H2O = heulandite (Cho et al., 1987). Dashed arrow...cooling path derived from fluid inclusions in fissure quartz (Mullis et al., 1994). low pressures (<200 MPa)... Bern; GL, Glarus; GR, Grisons; TI, Ticino; UR, Uri; VS, Valais). Major associated fissure minerals. c...et al. (1994) determined formation conditions of quartz-veins ranging from 400 to 430 C at fluid pressures |  | | Journal (issue) | | Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175; Aquamarine-Wally...unearthing many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across...Streeter, R. L. Parker found a piece of "heavy quartz" in a stream bed. lt proved to be topaz from a...medium-violet arnethyst crystal specimens from quartz veins. And textbook-sharp, colorless and transparent...minerals found in Texas. Top row (from left): Smoky quartz, 5.5 cm, from Llano County; Bill Morgenstern photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 00:22 05 January 2015 CAVRADI, SWITZERLAND A mong the few black minerals eagerly sought...fluorite, sphalerite, galena, pyromorphite, cuprite, quartz, feldspars, garnet, and others. Hematite is one...County. This unusually h e specimen of hematite on quartz with rutile DI:Robert B. Cook, an executive editor...MINERALS was found in Cavradi Graiibunden, Switzerland, by Teodosi Venzin. It was acquired by well-known...exceeding 10 cm on edge associated with rutile and quartz, have been found (see fig.); at Binneltini and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the determination of silica in quartzose rocks D URI N G the author's research work on the geochemistry...decided to experiment by spiking samples of pure quartz with varying amounts of fluorine (as NaF) in order...gravimetry, and photometry. The results are: Wt. quartz (gin.) %F (as NaF) Wt. % SiO~ (gray., insoluble)...Studentship. Route de Villars-Vert 24 I7oo Fribourg, Switzerland W. C. E. HARMER SHORT C O M M U N I C A T |  | | Catalog/List | | calcite. 14 Africa Liddicoatite Tourmaline with Quartz Anjanbonoina, Antananarivo Prov., Madagascar 7...extreme rarity. This rubellite red liddicoatite and quartz was mined in 2018. It was part of a small pocket...large crystals of wine-red tourmaline with smoky quartz and cleavelandite that rival the great historical...Asia 27 AT L A S La Viesca, ES La Viesca Mine Uri, CH Tiefen Glacier Chamonix, FR Sardinia, ITA ...separate distinct group known as “Alpine Minerals.” quartz gwindels for which the region is known. For mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...sio2ga@bellsouth.net Terry Ledford P.O. Box 239 Little Switzerland, North Carolina 28749 wiscottawatta@wmconnect...with relatively little smoky color compared to the quartz from other Piedmont amethyst occurrences. Hundreds...a depression that would contain colorless drusy-quartz-lined vugs containing nice clusters of gemmy amethyst...could be seen in these pockets, where the clear quartz druse lining the wall rock had separated from its |  | | Report (issue) | | Association: Anatase, rutile, titanite, orthoclase, quartz, hematite, calcite, chlorite, muscovite. Distribution:...d’Oisans, Isère, France. In Switzerland, in the Maderanthal and Griessertal, Uri, at Salvan, Valais, and |  | | Report (issue) | | deposits; a cement in sandstones. Association: Quartz, dolomite, calcite, barite, celestine, sulfides...Chamonix, Haute-Savoie. On the Göscheneralp, Uri, Switzerland. From Wölsendorf, Bavaria, and in the Clara |  | | Report (issue) | | datolite, tourmaline, vesuvianite, calcite, albite, quartz. Distribution: Many localities, even for ¯ne crystals...d'Oisans, Isµere, France. In the Maderantal, Uri, Switzerland. Extraordinary crystals from the Puiva deposit |  | | Journal (issue) | | For YourBookshelf 18 Bwlchglas Mine 20 Alpine Quartz L. Gautron 29 Muirshiel Mine 40 The Copper...smoky quartz. Mont Blanc, France. Pink fluorite is one of the most prized associates of quartz in Alpine...sits on a small group of doubly-terminated smoky quartz. Frederic Escaut collection. Photo: Mick Cooper...discussed as we go to press. Only the smoky variety of quartz specimens were now available throughout the world...many fine tourmaline crystals, either loose or on quartz, including the highly prized pink and green bicoloured |
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Feldschijen glacier, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri, Switzerland