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Chrysocolla from
Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Comments:"Chrysocolla-like" mineral (Cannon, 2005).
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:698281
Long-form Identifier:1:3:698281:2
GUID (UUID V4):0aa08bde-970f-4379-a590-4b82c308b715
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
0.2km (0.1 miles) Schwarzenbach, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
4.0km (2.5 miles) Wanni glacier - Scherbadung area (Monte Cervandone), Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
4.5km (2.8 miles) Monte Cervandone area, Devero Alp, Baceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
4.6km (2.9 miles) Pizzo Bandiera, Monte Cervandone area, Devero Alp, Baceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
5.5km (3.4 miles) Gischi glacier (incl. Gischihorn), Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
13.5km (8.4 miles) Piano dei Camosci (Pian dei Camosci), Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
14.6km (9.1 miles) Morasco area, Formazza, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
16.9km (10.5 miles) Alfenza Mine, Crodo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
43.2km (26.9 miles) San Pietro Quarry (San Pietro Oratory), Nibbio, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
47.1km (29.3 miles) Garboula Mine, Saint-Luc, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry in the metamorphic Lengenbach sulfide deposit, Switzerland: Thallium-isotope fractionation...Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany 1 Abstract The Lengenbach (Switzerland) Pb-As-Tl-Zn deposit was formed from a...from the Alpine metamorphic Lengenbach deposit in the Binn Valley of Switzerland, the non-metamorphic Wiesloch...SW of the Lengenbach deposit, which has been discussed as potential source of the Lengenbach metals. (2)...(2) LA-ICP-MS analyses of micas from the Lengenbach deposit and surrounding country rocks between the
Journal (issue)
and A. Palmstrom The Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland......................Joseph Imhof Famous Mineral Localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland 275 by Stefan Graeser Rare Earth Minerals...Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...g e n b a c h q u a rry , B in n a V a lle y , Valais, S w itz e rla n d (see a rtic le s in th is issue...KELLER-WILDI, W yhlenweg 40 CH 4 1 2 6 Bettingen, Switzerland ★ Cabinet specimens ★ Miniatures ★ Thumbnails
Catalog/List
crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent...sparse in I cm £7 Gold Blttff Prospect Maquette CHRYSOCOLLA attractive bllue botryoidal over undulating 2x4...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 21. HYDROZINCITE visible with...colourless glassy crystals on large Ixl inch rock osa quarry near Rome Italy £8 Fluorescent green with short...dolomitic marble with some pyrite micros Lengenbach mine, Binn ,Switzerland £3 34. CORUNDUM well formed pale
Book (edition)
grey; 4 Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches suggest...oxidised iron grain, silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl, Weimar near Kassel, Hessen, Germany (sample:...goethite (?, dark line), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany (sample: Hanel/Altherr);...part of grain), silicate matrix (dark grey); Stahl quarry, Dörrmorsbach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franken...bornite (pinkish), dolomite (dark grey); Dolomite quarry, Rędziny, Czarnów, Rudawy Janowickie Mts., Lower
Journal (issue)
de hoofdstraat was afgezet met grote blokken chrysocolla. Pas na 38 pagina’s komt het eerste hoofdstuk...and fluorescent minerals at the Omya White Know quarry, San Bernardino Mts., Southern California 26-35... Pekov (1989), Minerals first discovered in Switzerland and minerals named after Swiss individuals van...Mineralogische Kring Antwerpen. Typevindplaats: Diamond Jo Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA...Typevindplaats: Groeve Lengenbach, Imfeld (Im Feld; Feld; Fäld), Binn Vallei, Wallis (Valais), Zwitserland. Gepubliceerd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from various places (e.g., the Lengenbach quarry, Valais, Switzerland, where crystals to 5 mm are common)...Gemstone Bowls Unusual Cabochons Szenicsite Drusy Chrysocolla Amethy st/Quartz Fossils I Krebs 5000 Cleaning
Catalog/List
silvery small plates on 1cm rock with minor Chrysocolla. (Clara Mine. Wolfach Germany) £3.50 338 NATIVE...Oberschulenberg Harz Mts ,Germany) 2cm £4.50 131 CHRYSOCOLLA Cu Al Silicate attractive blue platy in white...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near Zermatt,Switzerland) S x H £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate
Catalog/List
silvery small plates on 1cm rock with minor Chrysocolla. (Clara Mine. Wolfach Germany) £3.50 497 TELLURITE...CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Very rare. Light green massive in fluorite with Chrysocolla. quite rich pieces H x K £5 (Rawhide Mine,Mohave...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near.Zermatt,Switzerland) W x « £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate
Journal (issue)
autuniet), en cassiteriet, chalcedoon, chalcopyriet, chrysocolla, enz . Een draagbare Geigerteller en dito UV-lemp...(vroeger) een aantal erg interessante mineralen : chrysocolla, clinaclaas (dat inmiddels peperduur i s geworden)...de vallei van de Tamar vind je er torberniet, chrysocolla, pseudomalachiet, cornwalliet, tetrahedriet,...zijn ee n bezoek waard . Men vindt er fluoriet, chrysocolla, malachiet, chalcopyriet en diverse andere mineralen...min of meer mee vertrouwd zijn is deze van de Lengenbach-sulfa-zouten . Oorspronkelijk waren in de dolomiet
Book
10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293...ANALCIME Natrolite and analcime from Eckman Creek quarry. Waldport. Oregon (by M. Groben) 1:153, 1:173,...23:88-90 ANCYLITE Calcian ancylite from [the Keystone quarry near Cornog,] Pennsylvania: new data (by F. A....13:107-112 ANDERSON, WAYNE --and R. Stinchfield: Pint's quarry. Black Hawk County, Iowa 20:473-479 ANDOVER MINE
Catalog/List
ALBITE vari ety PERI CLINE. Binnental , Valais , Switzerland. Sharp lustrous creamy coloured crystals...ece . 4x~", £28 .1"0 10 . AXIN ITE. Briti sh Rail Quarry , Meldon , ' De von . Specimen A: Bright, sharp...men B: 1 ~x1 ~", £ 3 . 75p 14 . BAUMHAUERITE . Lengenbach Qua rry , Bi nne nt a l , Swmtze r land. Spec...broas mass , 35. NATIVE COPPER. Cot;.ntyllddge QUarry , 'bo!1hilly Dm:n , ,Lizard, Cormlall. Hackly masses...sheets ,'ri th dc.d: red cupt'i t& and gree'l chrysocolla on ser!,entine matrix" 3~x2", £4 . 50)? 36. N1\TIVE
Journal (issue)
specimen. It was collected from the Lengenbach Quarry near Wallis, Switzerland (in the Alps), that MinDat describes...sulphosalt/sulfide deposit in sugary dolomite.” The quarry has yielded an amazing number of minerals (141)...(141) with 39 of these minerals claiming Lengenbach as their Type Locality (including jordanite). As best...best that I can determine, the quarry wall rock was originally Triassic in age until metamorphosed during...with pieces of raw native copper and nice blue chrysocolla. In addition, after cleaning up a “piece of copper”
Book (edition)
(brownish pleochroism), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // C Iron (dark...(brown and multicolour internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 20 Iron...iron (light grey), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // B Schreibersite...silicates (brown internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 34 Schreibersite...Poland (Ramdohr’s description points to the dolomite quarry near Redziny, Czarnów) [j]; Nic. // B Euhedral
Journal (issue)
by C. J. Stefano & J. Betts The Irving Materials quarry, Anderson, Indiana ..............................enjoyed special free access to the Prospect Park quarry near Paterson, New Jersey, and built up a fine...minerals. He vividly recalled digging around in a quarry one day and opening up a big vein lined with brilliant...8 (3), 87–90. HUIZING, M. (2005) Chips from the quarry: 2005 William Pinch Medal awarded. Rocks & Minerals...volume 53, March–April, 2022 Figure 9. View of the quarry wall with the network of quartz veining and silicification
Journal (issue)
the cut is currently stockpiled in and around a quarry about a mile to the south, where it will be crushed...Pina Co., Arizona had supplied radiant blue chrysocolla stalactites. Mostlr arou!1~ 3/? inch (_1cm) in...and a few cm long, some m cav1tJes m massive chrysocolla. You would spot those across a darkened room...CrystalLocalities Fig. 1 Turquoise, Kvartsbrudd (quarry), near Notodden, Norway, photo by Frede Andersen... l\lincral News 8 Fig. 2 Turquoise, Kvartsbrudd (quarry), near Notodden, Norway, photo by Frode Andersen
Book (edition)
common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}...mineral of alkaline rocks in the Point of Rocks quarry, Colfax co., New Mexico, with aegirine and arfvedsonite...SwitzerlandItaly, overlooking Binntal, Valais canton, Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley
Journal (issue)
171 20.15 h Bart DE WEERDT "De mineralen van Lengenbach" Het is een waar genoegen voor de MKA om deze...Anatas und Rutil 5-6 Adulaires au Blinnental, Haut Valais 7-14 Unterwegs nach Kristallschätzen im Göschenertal...Smoky quartz and associated minerals from Blue Hill quarry, Oberon, NSW, Australia 53-57 The mineralogy of...noemen: Langban, Tsumeb, Franklin-Sterling Hill, Lengenbach, Lavrion, enz. Eén ding is zeker, het boek is...afkomstig van de volgende vindplaatsen. Prospect Park Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey Deze groeve
Book
Staurolite (brown) in Mica Schist. Monte Campione, Switzerland. 6 x 8 cm. Becausethey form exclusively under...I have ever visited was exposed by the Francon quarry on Montreal P L AT E 1 4 Pyrochlore crystals...technology. P L AT E I S Weloganite. Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. 4.s-cm crystal. Named for W...Unlike most carbonatites, those in the Francon quarry occur assills. A sill is a flat, sheetlike intrusion...example. Because the carbonatites in the Francon quarry formed sills, when the magma intruded the enclosing
Book
Bauditz, Vejby, Denmark; Pierre Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen...Ca)5Ali2(P04)8(0H)22*32H20, 0 Orth. Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H=...Sub-translucent dirty yellow, brownish-yellow, green. Vilate quarry, Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. H= 5-5.5, Djn=3...Translucent yellow. Cherbadung, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 6.5-7, Djj4=3.70, Dg=3.71, VIID...white in reflected light. Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 3, Djjj= 5.329, Dc=
Catalog/List
'l • £3. 12. BAUMHAUERITE. Lengenbach Quarry, Binnental, Switzerland. Rich, metallic grey masses aggregated...Limonitic gossan. 2xlt". £2. 18. BUSTAMITE. B.R. Quarry, Meldon, Nr. Okehampton, Devon. Fine, pure, divergent...B - InteL'b3r,ded, brilliant turquoise blue Chrysocolla with li.;ht green 1i:J13chite :md fragments of...cellular Lir.nnitic GJssan. 3txlt". £2.50. CJlcerrJw Quarry, Luxulyan, CJrnwall. n very interesting and unusual
Book
and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite with chrysocolla, Majdanpek, Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite...Quartz (smoky variety), St. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland « 4x 8 x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING... Quebec. USA: Climax Lake, Colorado; Frankford Quarry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Europe: Carrock Fell...Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany; Lengenbach Quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland; Cavnic and Sacaramb, Romania...Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey; Arlington Quarry, Leesburg, Virginia. Latin America: Asunta Mine
Journal (issue)
..... 20 Cave mineralisation at Hampstead Farm Quarry, a lecture by Pro£ Rankin; report by Frank Sharp.................. ...... 29 The Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland by Steve Laurie .................were notable. Some excellent material from Manod Quarry was on view, notably a fine synchesite-Ce and some...From Cornwall there was apatite from Meldon CAMASS Quarry, copper and cuprite from Prince ofWales Mine, prehnite...terminated natrolite and possible mesolite from Dean Quarry, hetaerolite crystals from Kennack Sands, mixite
Book (edition)
Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...thaleniteM crystals from the NYF-pegmatite at Askagen quarry, Viirmland, Sweden, in tiny metamict crystals to...fluorapatite in a phosphate zone in the Penrice marble quarry, Angaston, near Adelaide, South Australia. MM 72...polybasite-Tac. AM 92, tmanntal Valley, Valais canton, Switzerland. AM 96, 918-925, 2007. 1894-1900, 2011...chemovite-(Y) in Mn- etc. in NYF pegmatite in the Stetind quarry, Tysfjord, rich nodules in metasediments from the
Journal (issue)
Mexique des minéraux . Minéraux de la vallée de Binn (Suisse) . Anciennes mines basques . Lantignié (Rhnne)...81)ndner- und des Cip6-Habitus . Alte und neue Lengenbach-Funde . Ads alten Mineralogie-B0chern II . Caloitkristalle...the Mineral Park mine , Mohave Co ., Arizona . Chrysocolla pseudomnrphs from Ray, Arizona . The Tumbstone
Book (edition)
(in alphabetical order): Thomas Armbrusler (Switzerland). Daniel Atcncio (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada)...tric .. rclated to Tbomasclarklte-(Y), Pouelrette quarry. Moni Saint-llilairc. RoU\,ille County, Qu bec...K)AISi:0 6, tel., compare Leucite. Tataraza\\a quarry. Fujioka, Gunma Prcfccturc, Japan. MR 30, 5--6...CaAl(Si.Al),O,(OH},·(I 11O,CI). mon., Graphitc quarry. Amstall. lowcr Austria, Austria. 73. 1492. NJMM...Cherbadung. Binntal (Binnatal), Canton Wallis, Switzerland. 52. 1583, 55, 1818. MM57, 315-322 (stt.) D
 
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