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Andalusite from
Ottré, Bihain, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Andalusite
Formula:Al2(SiO4)O
Comments:Hercynian metamorphism: 1-2 kb, 380°C. Langer et al. (1984) have shown that the blue colour is due to a charge transfer between Fe2+ and Fe3+.
Colour:blue
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Andalusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ottré, Bihain, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:71776
Long-form Identifier:1:3:71776:6
GUID (UUID V4):883bf074-4eff-4d2d-905f-e391923bfd65
Nearest other occurrences of Andalusite
3.4km (2.1 miles) Thier del Preu quarry, Petit-Sart, Lierneux, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
3.5km (2.1 miles) Regné, Bihain, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
5.3km (3.3 miles) Salmchâteau, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
5.4km (3.4 miles) Coticule mines (west), Salmchâteau, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
5.5km (3.4 miles) Le Coreux, Salmchâteau, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
5.9km (3.7 miles) Coticule mines (east), Salmchâteau, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
6.8km (4.2 miles) Thier des Carrières, Cahay, Vielsalm, Luxembourg, Wallonia, Belgium
17.5km (10.9 miles) Recht, Sankt-Vith, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
17.7km (11.0 miles) Margraff quarry, Recht, Sankt-Vith, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
30.6km (19.0 miles) Sart-lez-Spa, Jalhay, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
K-Mn oxides from the Stavelot Massif (Ardenne, Belgium): Insights into Oligocene to Pliocene weathering...University of Namur, 61 rue de Bruxelles B-5000 Namur, Belgium Géosciences Montpellier, UMR-CNRS 5243, Université...Wallonie, 14 Avenue Prince de Liège B-5100, Jambes, Belgium d Laboratoire de Minéralogie, Université de Liège...Liège, 14 allée du six août B-4000, Liège, Belgium b c ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Manganese deposit...sediments (Ottré Formation, Salm Group) in the Stavelot inlier (NE Ardenne, Rhenish Massif, Belgium) has drawn
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fluorescence of gypsum from Betekom, Flemish-Brabant, Belgium [Axel Emmermann] 10-15 Radioactivity: -decay and...ottréliet, mangaansilicaat uit de leisteengroeven van Ottré (1833); […]'. Daarmee wordt ottréliet zwaar onrecht...eerst een gesteente, genoemd naar de vindplaats Ottré. Die bovenvernoemde publicatie uit 1833 is het 'Essai...Cette roche remarquable, découverte à Ottré (grand duché de Luxembourg) [zie kader volgende blz.], en 1809...l'Epoque contemporaine' uit 1976 werd de schist van Ottré reeds door de Romeinen gebruikt zonder evenwel te
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localités minéralogiques bien connues de Bihain, Regné et Ottré. Cet article met également en évidence...mineralogical variation of each of the three members of the Ottré Formation at Grand-Sart, and develops a comparison...coticule situé plus au sud, aux Thiers de Regné et de Bihain. Deux collines d'une altitude de plus de 520 m...Massif de Stavelot, comme par exemple Bihain, Ottré, Regné et Vielsalm-Salmchâteau (Blondieau et al., 2017)...siècle, cet endroit était situé en province de Luxembourg sur la commune d’Arbrefontaine. Plus tard, il
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES OF COPPER SULFIDES AT VIELSALM, STAVELOT MASSIF, BELGIUM FRÉDÉRIC HATERT§ Laboratoire de Minéralogie...Université de Liège, Bâtiment B18, B–4000 Liège, Belgium ABSTRACT Bornite, chalcopyrite, idaite, covellite...identified in quartz veins from the Vielsalm area, Stavelot Massif, Belgium. The identification of these copper...sulfides, transformation sequences, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Belgium. SOMMAIRE L’observation des sections...provenant de veines de quartz de la région de Vielsalm, Massif de Stavelot, Belgique, a permis de reconnaître
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system. www.bruker-axs.com/d2phaser.html BRUKER BELGIUM s.a./n.v. bruker@bruker.be WWW.BRUKER.COM Tel:...(1828) Description géognostique du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, suivie de considérations économiques sur ses...d'une description géognostique du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Bruxelles, M. Hayez, 88 p. Van Der Meersche...gebieden : de streek rond Luik, en een gebied rond Vielsalm. Daarbuiten zijn er nog Bertrix (in de buurt van... Blaton, Mons Salmchâteau, Vielsalm, Massief van Stavelot Ottré, Vielsalm, Massief van Stavelot Hourt
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new arsenate mineral from the Stavelot Massif, Belgium FRÉDÉRIC HATERT1,*, PIERRE LEFÈVRE1, MARCO PASERO2...Minéralogie, Université de Liège, B.18, B-4000 Liège, Belgium di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via...new mineral species from Hourt, Stavelot Massif, Belgium. It occurs in the most altered parts of a Devillian...REE, crandallite group, Hourt, Stavelot Massif, Belgium, crystal structure. Introduction In the southeastern...honorary Director of the Geological Survey of Belgium, particularly for his contribution to the geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Laboratoire de Minéralogie B18, B-4000 Liège, Belgium Encarnación RODA-ROBLES Dept. de Mineralogía y...2012). André-Mathieu Fransolet was born in Heusy (Belgium) in May of 1947. He took his degree in Geology...systematic mineralogy of Belgium and published numerous papers on the mineralogy of Belgium (Fransolet 1972,...orosilicate mineral from the Stavelot Massif, Belgium. European Journal of Mineralogy 17, 703–714. Černý...granitiques. Thèse de doctorat, Univ. Liège, Liège, Belgium. Fransolet, A.-M. (1977a) Intercroissances et inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orosilicate mineral from the Stavelot Massif, Belgium HEINZ-JÜRGEN BERNHARDT1, THOMAS ARMBRUSTER2, ANDRÉ-MATHIEU...Liège, Bâtiment B 18, Sart Tilman, B-40000 Liège, Belgium 2Laboratorium Abstract: Stavelotite-(La), simplified...Ordovician age at Le Coreux near Salmchâteau, Belgium. Accompanying minerals are hematite, braunite,...vein. Stavelot is a historical town in eastern Belgium. The mineral and its name were approved by the...Thin section Cor 8-2 of sample 25169. Le Coreux, Belgium. In air. Fig. 2. Reflected-light photograph of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formed as a hydrothermal alteration product of andalusite and spodumene (Lazarenko 1940). At the type locality...also been observed as an alteration product of andalusite at Szabo Bluff, Scott Glacier, Antarctica (Ahn...low-grade metamorphic environments (for example, at Ottré, Belgium, and the Ohhira-Imazaki pyrophyllite mine,... D. Burt, and P. Buseck. 1988. Alteration of andalusite to sheet silicates in a pegmatite. American Mineralogist
Journal (issue)
gemaakt. Naargelang van T en p bekwam me n \ . Andalusite 200 •* +t ,.. o >1( o 80 0 andalousiet (x)...Regné , Salmchàteau (variëteit viridien), Ottré, Vielsalm . Van tijd tot tijd wordt op de beurs (o .a...ses phases de transformation dans Ia région de Vielsalm", Ann Soc. géol . Belg. 93 363. Figuur 12 Chiastoliet
Book
Europe: Chessy, near Lyon, Rhone, France; Moresnet, Belgium; Iglesias, Sardinia, Italy; Bleiberg, Carinthia...several localities in Cornwall, England; Ottré, near Vielsalm, Belgium. Asia: Madan, Iran. Australia: Narooma...Alston Moor, Cumberland, England; Aachen area, Belgium and Germany; Almeria and Santander provinces, Spain...chemical variations among some of the species. Andalusite is a common regional metamorphic mineral that...minerals kyanite and sillimanite are polymorphs of andalusite, meaning that they all have the same mineral
Journal (issue)
unusual mineral occurrences such as Mn-bearing andalusite (Schnellrath 1989). Besides gems, this region...(Figure 6a) and sometimes green (Mn-bearing) andalusite (cf. Schnellrath 1989; see Figure 6b). Indeed...scale of this type of mineralisation. Mn-bearing andalusite has also been found in alluvial deposits at Paramirim...area contains concentrations of green Mn-bearing andalusite. Photo by J. Schnellrath; image width 11.2 cm...black shales. Our analyses of green Mn-bearing andalusite from Paramirim das Crioulas (in the municipality
Book
common; Altenberg near Aachen (FRG), Angleur (Belgium), Michalovce (Czechoslovakia), Tarnowice (Poland)...Sutherland (Great Britain), Hirvivaara (Finland), Ottré (Belgium), Sacaramb (Romania), Beresovsk, Urals (USSR)...(472) e Occurrence: rare; Berneau near Liége (Belgium), Zeleznik and LitoSice (Czechoslovakia), Nassau...Sitiavnica (Czechoslovakia), Cavnic (Romania), Rhisnes (Belgium), Derbyshire, Cornwall and Cumberland (Great Britain)...(Czechoslovakia), Leoben (Austria), (France), (Belgium), (USA). Phosphate Cacoxenite (Kakoxen) 246
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scotia (data from 41) and some intercalations in the Ottré Formation of the Venn-Stavelot Massif, Ardennes...21, 22 320–300 21, 22 Biotite- and biotite-andalusite granites; crustal melting of meta-igneous and...Ardennes Variscan fold-and-thrust belt (N France–S Belgium). Journal of Structural Geology 27, 1788–1802....in the Lower Ordovician of the Stavelot Massif, Belgium. Journal of the Geological Society Memoirs 143...model for the Lower Palaeozoic Anglo-Brabant Belt (Belgium) based on potential field data. Geological Society
Book (edition)
Finland, Espoo, Finland. Joseph Lhoest: Liege, Belgium. John C. Lucking: Phoenix, Arizona. Emil Makovicky...Snohomish, Washington. Lourens Wals: Turnhout, Belgium. Terry C. Wallace: Dept. of Geosciences, University...In large sharp crystals in pyrophyllite with andalusite at the Champion 4.41.3 Striverite 237 mine...Near lazulite in quartz—mica and llite, CA, with andalusite, corundum, pyrophy clays of AR and MO. ous alumin...ejected blocks on Mt. Somma, and with sillimanite, andalusite, and cordierite in andesite on the Lipari Islands
Book
minéralogiste américain B. Silliman (1779-1824). Andalusite en anglais De haute température L’andalousite...(Karkaralinsk), Liskeard (Angleterre), Belgique (Ottré, Vielsam). En France, on l’a rencontrée à Montebras...sciences naturelles : www.sciencesnaturelles.be Luxembourg, Musée national d’histoire naturelle : www.mnhn
Book (edition)
Bergisch-Gladbach, Germany; Osaka Prefecture, Japan; Visé, Belgium; and Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California...583-588, New York, Wiley, 1944. 27, ANDALUSITE Al,SiOs Andalusite-Kanonaite Series ‘rimorphous with...colorless crystals up to one inch in size at the andalusite ore body at White Mountain, Mono County, California;...in placers as water-worn pebbles with quartz, andalusite, kyanite, diaspore, eskolaite, cassiterite, and...southwest Texas, and in sands of the Owithe Valley, Belgium. SELECTED REFERENCES: Winchell and Winchell, Elements
Book
MnO6 octahedron Al–O 600–715 In augelite, andalusite and vyuntspakhkite-(Y) 610–620 Isolated octahedron...(Fig. 2.502) Locality: Ottré, Vielsalm, Stavelot massif, Luxembourg province, Belgium (type locality). Description:...Mn2+Al6Si4O17(OH)2 (Fig. 2.537) Locality: Ottré, Stavelot massif, Province of Liége, Belgium (type locality). Description:...association with quartz, pyrophyllite, kaolinite, andalusite, ottrelite-chloritoid, sudoite, hematite, pyrophyllite...(Fig. 2.539) Locality: Bertrix, Ardennes Mts., Belgium (type locality). Description: Radiating fibrous
Journal (volume)
described a new hydrous phosphate of iron from Visé in Belgium. It occurs in spherical groups of radiating, nearly...Russia, with a table of comparison with the beds of Belgium and Eifel. It appears that the Russian beds belong...Aphanistis, Catenaria and Ancylistis. The annals of the Belgium Royal Museum of Natural History, 1883, contain...of the fauna of the Carboniferous Limestone of Belgium. This part is devoted to the Gastropods. Among...dumortierite, fibrolite, cyanite and bucholzite, andalusite, topaz, the zircons and anthosiderite. The relations
 
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