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Talc from
Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland


Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:Talc
Formula:Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Talc data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maderanertal, Silenen, Uri, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:559141
Long-form Identifier:1:3:559141:1
GUID (UUID V4):869c22a7-a678-4ce3-811d-7595e2312410
Nearest other occurrences of Talc
11.8km (7.3 miles) Scaleglia (Ragisch), Mompé Medel, Disentis, Surselva Region, Grisons, Switzerland
21.2km (13.2 miles) Gigenstafel, St Annabach, Hospental, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland
22.5km (14.0 miles) Serpentinite quarry, Chämleten (Kemmleten), Hospental, Urseren, Uri, Switzerland
30.8km (19.1 miles) Olivone, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
37.3km (23.2 miles) Pizzo di Röd, Fusio, Lavizzara, Vallemaggia, Ticino, Switzerland
37.7km (23.4 miles) Gere Valley (Geren Valley), Gere (Geren), Oberwald, Obergoms, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
43.7km (27.2 miles) Zapporthorn whiteschist outcrop, Mesocco, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland
46.6km (29.0 miles) Loderio, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
47.6km (29.6 miles) Piano dei Camosci (Pian dei Camosci), Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
47.7km (29.7 miles) Morasco area, Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
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from a geotraverse through the Central Alps, Switzerland * JOSEFMULLIS, ’ JEAN DUBESSY,’ BERNARD POTY...Institut, Bernoullistrasse 30, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland 2CREGU-BP 2344501 Vand~uv~-tenancy Cedex, France...along a geotraverse through the Central Alps, Switzerland. The methods employed include microthermometry...Waldnacht 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Brunnital Maderanertal Windgallenhijtte S Griesertal Amsteg Chalchtalfirn...200 Bundnerschiefer, talc. mica schists Bedretto zone, Btindnerschiefer, talc. mica schists Bedretto
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Rose fluorite and quartz, Goscheneralp, Canton Uri. Fluorite octahedron about 8 mm across. Private collection...CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...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...of years. This mining activity, at least in Switzerland, came to an almost complete end after World War
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Sagenit aus dem Stubachtal (A ) 81 Brookit vom Maderanertal (CH ) 84-90 ih 30-33 34-44 * 83 84-85 *...Mn-rich red tourmaline from th e 327-331 Fowler talc Belt, New York . The character of the cencrinite333-340...Malachit-Spirale vo n S chwaz, Tirol . Britten (Maderanertal, CH ) Von millerit und hauchecorni t (Siegerlar
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tourmaline, cordierite, sillimanite, augite, hornblende, talc, muscovite, blotite, chlorite, serpentine, clay...gneiss, garnet amphibolite etc. Further kinds are: talc schists, frequently with crystals of magnesite (epizone);...8 The 10 minerals of Mohs' scale of hardness 1 talc Mg 3 Si 4 0L 0 (0H) 2 gypsum CaS0 4 .2H 2 0 3 calcite...trapezohedron faces (cp. Fig. 17, p. 131) . Switzerland. Be/,;w Elongated prismatic crysffiis (cp. Fig...cavities of Alpine type around the Gross Venediger. SWITZERLAND - Riffelberg near Zermatt. 77 ARGENTITE Ag
Journal (issue)
Ein Interessanter Fund uus dem Grie :ssartol (Kt-Uri ) (ilmeniet, rutiel, enateas, brookiet) , 3 -11 Anleitung...Meerbusch 1 . 20-21 augustus : 8risten (CH), Maderanertal, Schulhaua, 14 tot 18 resp . 10--1 7 Inlichtingen...physiques des mineraux ; Les météoritee ; La Cerriére de talc de Luzemac (Ariége, F) ; Les environs de Uitoria
Book (edition)
3-85977-002-0 Copyright by Wepf & Co., Basel Printed in Switzerland Buchdruckcrci Birkhauser AG, Basel inTIWNRI...Schreibweise) in den zwei wichtigen Gebieten Maderanertal und Tavetsch leisten sie wertvolle Dienste....und GoUhardmassiv 38 Fundgebiet 1 : Amsteg-Maderanertal-Val Cavrein (H. A. Stalder) . Fundortgruppen...Beschreibung vorausge­ schickt. Fundgebiet 1 : Amsteg-Maderanertal-Val Cavrein Die Namengebung des Fundgebietes...mit einfachster Formentwicklung, wie sie im Maderanertal und anders­ wo hiiufig auftritt. Formen : c
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scale, which goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite;...means that a mineral that scratches as easily as talc has a hardness of 1, while a mineral with a scratch...Franklin, New Well-shaped crystals at Binnatal, Switzerland. 22 Green Jersey. 6x (Grey crystals crystal...springs in Yellowstone Park. Also at Binnatal, Switzerland; at Nagyag, Rumania. Realgar (Long red to orange...Mexico. U.S.S.R. and Hematite roses occur in Switzerland. Also in and at Bim- and Romania. elsewhere
scale, which goes from soft to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite;...means that a mineral that scratches as easily as talc has a hardness of 1, while a mineral with a scratch...New Jersey. Well-shaped crystals at Binnatal, Switzerland. 22 Sphalerite (Grey crystals beneath crystal...springs in Yellow¬ stone Park. Also at Binnatal, Switzerland; at Nagyag, Rumania. 42 Realgar (Long red...at Durango, Mexico. Hematite roses occur in Switzerland. Also in U.S.S.R. and Romania. Nice clusters
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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...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...1-2 Etiro mine, Namibia 1-5 Binntal, Wallis, Switzerland 11-2 lbbenburen, Osnabruck, FRG IV-1 Otjimbojo
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Crystals of binnite -in Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland, up to 30 nun (P/16 in). Crystals up to 20 1nm...Massachusetts, USA; also Val d' Anniviers, Wallis, Switzerland. Massive aggregates come from Doliina, Slovakia;...cavities in dolomite from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. Livingstonite HgSb4Sg MONOCLINIC pyrargyrite...Luis Potosi, Mexico. Rathite, 60 mm, Binntal, Switzerland Sartorite PbAs2S4 Rathite •• MONOCLINIC ...mm (4 in) long come from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. It was also found in the Zuni mine, Colorado
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proportion Rosiwa l 100 1000 10 000 100 000 talc gypsum calcite fluorite -- apatite orthoclase...copper and gold. Soft minerals such as aluminite and talc split into powder under a hammer blow, while brittle...hardness such as kaolinite, feel rough; others (eg talc) feel greasy and smooth. An experienced mineralogist...Andreasberg - Harz (FRG), Imfeld and Binnental (Switzerland ) • Application: As ore (extraction of As), in...Allchar (Yugoslavia), Cavnic (Romania), Binnental (Switzerland), Suchumi - Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm
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copper and gold. Soft minerals such as aluminite and talc split into powder under a hammer blow, while brittle...hardness such as kaolinite, feel rough; others (eg talc) feel greasy and smooth. An experienced mineralogist...Andreasberg — Harz (FRG), Imfeld and Binnental (Switzerland) e Application: As ore (extraction of As), in... (Yugoslavia), Cavnic (Romania), Binnental (Switzerland), Suchumi — Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm...clean with distilled water e Similar minerals: talc (41), pyrophyllite (42) e Distinguishing features:
Book (edition)
reflected light (e.g. micas). or flexible (e.g. talc) minerals. In crystal optics for reflected light...ability of a mineral to scratch another one: 1 - talc, 2 - relative ability of an opaque mineral to reflect...common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...of some skarns and eclogites. With anthophyllite, talc, chromean spine!, and magnetite in desilicified...Hampshire co., Massachusetts, in very broad blades with talc at Chester, Windsdor co., Vermont, at Wrightwood
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Hopper faces in a quartz crystal (St. Gotthard, Switzerland) Furthermore, the external form of minerals...association of rutile crystals on hematite (Grigioni, Switzerland). 35 Examples of twins: (1 , 2) Interpenetrating...MOHS TABLE OF HARDNESS minium powder ( + 1. TALC 6. 2. GYPSUM 7. ) 3. 4. 5. sulfur ^/sjpowder...(cerargyrite and gypsum). Other minerals are flexible (talc, molybdenite); others elastic so that if bent and...Mother-of-pearl or pearly (the micas and which talc), is slightly iridescent because part dispersed
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Petrographie Universitat Perolles CH-1700 Fribourg Switzerland Prof. Dr. FRANZ NEUBAUER Institut fur Geologie...Pre-Alpine Basement ofthe Brian~onnais (Wallis, Switzerland) .......... 297 P. THELIN, M. SARTORI, M. BURRI...Austro-Alpine Nappes in the Bernina Massif (Grisons, Switzerland; Valtellina, Italy). . . . . . . . . . . . .... GEOTEST, Birkenstr. IS CH-30S2 Zollikofen, Switzerland BIINO,G. Institut fUr Mineralogie und Petrographie...Petrographie, Balzerstr. 1 CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland BONIN,B. Dept. de Petrologie - Volcanologie, Biitiment
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Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns...crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug in 1997...1971; Pimentel er al., 2009). SWITZERLAND Maderanertal east of Arnsteg, Uri. In the world of classic Swiss...localities in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts...paragenesis are widely exposed (Weibel, 1980). The Maderanertal drainage flows west-southwest from a mountain
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Crystals of binnite in Lengenbach, Binntal. Switzerland, up to 30 mm (l'/i6 in). Crystals up to 20 mm...Massachusetts, USA: also Val d'Anniviers, Wallis, Switzerland. Massive aggregates come from Dobsina, Slovakia;...cavities in dolomite from Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland. Livingstonite HgSb4S8 MONOCLINIC pyrargyrite...known in metamorphic veins in Val d'Anniviers, Switzerland. Betekhtinite Cu| 0 (Fe,Pb)S 6 ORTHORHOMBIC...Sartorite, 4 mm x. Binntal, ret MONOCLINIC • • Switzerland sphalerite, pyrargyrite, pyrite and other minerals
Journal (issue)
Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...however, it is obviously Alpine. The area is north of talc, known locally as gavite, which often encrusts the...localities in Austria (Stubachtal, Kraubath, etc.), Switzerland (Zermatt), Val Malenco (Coma Rossa) and in Val...Natrolite Pectolite Perovskite Prehnite Scapolite Talc 88 uncommon Ala-Tal, Val Malenco and St. Vincent...MINERALIENFREUNDE Postfach 219 6460 Altdorf-Uri, SWITZERLAND E urope’s new journal for minerals and gems
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Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland................................................Imhof Famous Mineral Localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland 275 by Stefan Graeser Rare Earth Minerals in...Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...KELLER-WILDI, W yhlenweg 40 CH 4 1 2 6 Bettingen, Switzerland ★ Cabinet specimens ★ Miniatures ★ Thumbnails...silicate with a basal spacing of about 9.6 A, (between talc and mica); it may be a sodium-rich mica. There are
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Mineralogical Institute of the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Photo: James G. Perret, Lucerne. rare crystal...Malachite/rhodonite GRINDING HARDNESS Scale of hardness (Rosival) Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorspar Apatite Feldspar Quartz... 175 SCRATCH HARDNESS Scale of hardness (Mohs) Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorspar (fluorite) Apatite Feldspar...scale. It is approximately 200 times harder than talc, the softest mineral, and approximately 5 times... The ten degrees of hardness are represented by talc (1), gypsum (2), calcite (3), fluorite (4), apatite
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a vein of quartz near the Tiefen Glacier, in Switzerland, discovered in 1867, afforded smoky quartz crystals...wollastonite (tabular spar), some varieties of gypsum, talc, etc. are approximately parallel about a common...smooth determined by observing sista'nc^ that of talc impressible diamond. To by he fingeaa, to that...universally accepted. PHYSICAL MINERALOGY 192 1. 2. Talc. Gypsum 6. Orthoclase. 7. Quartz. 3. Caltite...remain bent after the bending force is removed, as talc. The tenacity of a substance is properly a consequence
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minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293...Record bookshelf-A Guide to rite Minerals of Switzerland; Connecticut Mines and Minerals; Mineral Collecting...minerals in the Alpine and Subalpine region [Switzerland, Austria and Italy] (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293...14:7-12 CENOSITE Cenosite from [Val Cumera,] Switzerland (by M. Weibel) 1:98-100 CENTREVILLE Minerals...8:72-77 Famous mineral localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland (by S. Graeser) 8:275-281 Minerals of the Benitoite
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mineralogist, proposed that ten minerals, ranging from talc, the softest, to diamond, the hardest, be used as...Cassiterite Anglesite Pyromorphite Pyrolusite Serpentine Talc Dolomite Magnesite -➔ after--+ Replaced Mineral...Port Richey, Pinellas County, Florida. Bottom left: talc replacing enstatite crystals; Odegarden, Bamle,...to it. MOHS SCALE OF HARDNESS (DESIGNATED BY 1. Talc (softest) 2. 3. 4. 5. Gypsum Calcite Fluorite...single crystals, lenses, stringers: garnet, graphite, talc, pyrophyllite, serpentine, chlorite, magnetite,
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mineralogist, proposed that ten minerals, ranging from talc, the softest, to diamond, the hardest, be used as...(Figure 34) Galena Galena Manganite Serpentine Talc Dolomite Magnesite Olivine, calcite, pyroxenes...to it. Mous 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. SCALE OF HARDNESS Talc (softest) Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite (DESIGNATED...countries. A notable exception to this rule is Switzerland, where very few economic metallic veins of any...pyrolusite, siderite, silver, sphene, tourmaline, talc, stilpnomelane, stevensite, ulexite MINERALOGY
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eralogist, proposed that ten minerals ranging from talc, the softest, to diamond, the hardest, be used as...hematile (specularite), chlorite. Foliate, Lam ellar Talc, mica. Bladed Kyanite, stilbite. Arborescent CojJper...S U ITE The standard hardness minerals, namely, talc, gypsum, calcite, fiuorite, apatite, fe ldspar,...metallic, copper, pyrite, chalcopyrite. Sheens: pearly, talc, apophyllite, heulandite, 1nica; schiller, hypeTsthene;...stilbite, serpentine (massive and asbestiform), talc, muscovite (cleavages), chlorite, tremolite or aclinolite
 
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