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Microcline from
Pegmatite quarry, Ambach, Wölbling, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Albite2 photos of Microcline associated with Albite at this locality.
Muscovite2 photos of Microcline associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Microcline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Smoky Quartz1 photo of Microcline associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pegmatite quarry, Ambach, Wölbling, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:732039
Long-form Identifier:1:3:732039:2
GUID (UUID V4):41900cf4-c15b-4a5c-a99a-aef1779236e3
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
5.1km (3.2 miles) Granulite quarry (Asamer quarry; Wanko gravel works), Meidling, Paudorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
11.8km (7.3 miles) Knappenweg (Gründlweg), Alauntal, Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria, Austria
12.1km (7.5 miles) Graphite deposit, Hengstberg, Hafnerbach, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
15.5km (9.7 miles) Ritzlinggraben, Laaben, Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
15.8km (9.8 miles) Windeckberg, Miesling valley, Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
15.9km (9.9 miles) Radlbachtal (Radlgraben; Huthof), Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
16.9km (10.5 miles) Grimsing, Emmersdorf an der Donau, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
17.3km (10.8 miles) Unnamed quarry, Zintring, Maria Laach am Jauerling, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
18.7km (11.6 miles) Königsalm, Senftenberg, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
19.3km (12.0 miles) Wolfsberg (Zeindlhof), Bengelbach (incl. Mitterfeld), Mühldorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...................................by C. Auer M ineralogy of the Boqueiraozinho pegmatite, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, B r a z il......rare mineral generally occurring in granitic pegmatite and polymetallic quartz vein set­ tings. It is...containing copper, bismuth and vanadium and of pegmatite settings will probably reveal additional sources...consist of very thin tabular crystals. Evans-Lou pegmatite, Canada Namibite associated with native bismuth
Book (edition)
dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...near Sobotfn, Moravia, Czech Rep., in skarn at the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany...Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...Counties, California, etc. At Jordan6w Slcl5ki, Lower Silesia, Poland. The oldest known deposits of white
Journal (issue)
Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland, Sweden ........... 187 by L. Ohman...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ........................crystal, 5.5 mm; (lower left) IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac,...BASTDAS ffiIDES RIDDARHYTTAD ORE FIELD, BERGSLAGED DISTRICT, VASTffiADLADD, SillEDED Lennart Ohman Hi:igviltsvagen...1 meter in the dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and is reported from the Orchard quarry at Buckfield, the Noyes quarry at Greenwood, and the Burnell Hill...Mountain near Effingham, and the Hamm and Weeks quarry, Wakefield, all in Carroll County; and the Bean’s...It has been collected in the famous Strickland quarry at Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It...and Rutherford mine pegmatites, of the Amelia district, Amelia County, and as irregular grains replacing...reportedly reached 5 cm in length although the Amelia district is perhaps better known for micro-sized phenakite
Book
counterparts, are not considered to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om ...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...a fracture, producing such forms as aegirine pegmatite. As well, hot hydrothermal fluids often carry...Fluorapatite Topaz Hardness 6 Hardness 9 Microcline Corundum encke Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz...that crystallize in the triclinic system are microcline, albite, kyanite and talc. Orthorhombic Monoclinic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This...81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...summer of 1996, the author mapped the trails and quarry locations using an altimeter, a Global Positioning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
forms huge crystals. At Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal district, Russia, it forms large, dark red-brown (but surprisingly...known from a number of localities. At the Stewart pegmatite in Pala, California, compact lepidolite masses...lavender crystals are also found in the Varutrask pegmatite, Sweden. The several zinnwaldite species are less...Colorado, is well-crystallized zinnwaldite with blue microcline (amazonite). Chemical analyses of Pikes Peak...xanthophyllite, in blue calcite from the Crestmore quarry, Riverside County, California, are typical of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
points, such as alkali feldspars (orthoclase and microcline) and Na-rich plagioclase (albite). Major consumers...CaO Al2 O3 SiO2 Alkali Feldspars Orthoclase Microcline Albite KAlSi3 O8 KAlSi3 O8 NaAlSi3 O8 16.92...In the first place, it is mining by an open pit (quarry) with the use of blasting and subsequent treatment...hundreds of meters (e.g., [50]). The largest pegmatite body extracted in the past in the Czech Republic...the Oldřich dike in the Dolní Bory-Hatě pegmatite district, which was 630 m long and up to 30 m thick
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
South, Range 11 East), Temple Mountain mining district, Emery County, Utah, USA. Occurrence: In a silicified...core of a zoned pegmatite. Associated minerals are: zirsilite-(Ce), quartz, microcline, aegirine, stillwellite-(Ce)...strongly mineralized rischorrite – ijolite – urtite pegmatite. Associated minerals are: nepheline, sodalite...unmetamorphosed, poorly sorted argillaceous siltstones of the Lower Cambrian Parachilna Formation. Associated minerals...pegmatites. Associated minerals are: aegirine, microcline, lorenzenite, nepheline, lamprophyllite, murmanite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
muscovite with albite, 2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This...8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen...Newry (King and Foord 1994). The Black Mountain quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, was one of the biggest...fine transparent, gold-brown color. The BB No. 7 quarry in Norway, also in Oxford County, has produced...and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry, Chatham, Carroll County, has provided some excellent
Journal (issue)
from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected by Reinhold Bacher; Reinhold Bacher...Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing
Report (issue)
5371-2-7 Printed in Germany Above: Schor! and microcline from Pakistan's world famous Gilgit area. The...This 24 cm wide "schorl" specimen from Tyrol, Austria was part of the Gigot D'Orcy collection and is...no. 2.2200). The overall specimen is 4 cm wide. Lower: The matrix specimen was donated to Yale (cat. no...cm "water­ melon tourma­ line " from the Dunton Quarry in Newry, Maine. Woodrow Thompson collection; Jeff...rinds on pink cores of tourmalines from the Havey Quarry in Poland, Maine. The term was original­ ly coined
Journal (issue)
Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE CATALOG The University of New Mexico Geo1ogy Museum...and archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting...suites of samples from specific zones within the pegmatite; a variety of analytical data have been obtained...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cumberland Countv. Mahe A New Pegmatite M ineral Locality T he Estes quarry in southwestern Maine exposes...exposes a granite pegmatite hosting more than forty mineral species. This locality contains a suite of phosphates...mineralized pegmatites in Maine and New Hampshire. The quarry has yielded fine specimens of eosphorite, fairfieldite...and vivianite. Locrtlon and Hlstory The Estes quarry is located on Route 5 in West Baldwin, Cumberland...Contractors of West Baldwin. This is a working quarry with high rock walls and unstable boulder piles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitic pegmatites from the Moldanubian nappes, Lower Austria ANDREAS ERTL1,*, RALF SCHUSTER2, JOHN M. HUGHES3...Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria *Corresponding author, e-mail: andreas.ertl@a1...(Geological Survey), Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Wien, Austria 3 Department of Geology, University of Vermont...Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34, 5020 Salzburg, Austria 6 Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College...Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria 9 Mineralogisch-Petrographische Abteilung, Naturhistorisches
Book (edition)
departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...= 70°, (+). Pale blue under SW UV light. ln a microcline-calcite vein with aegirine, baratovite, etc....late-stage hydrothermal mineral in a syenite pegmatite at Tvedalen, Langesundsfjord, Vestfold, Norway...in thaleniteM crystals from the NYF-pegmatite at Askagen quarry, Viirmland, Sweden, in tiny metamict
Book
derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite...hornblende, Fig. 24 feldspar; triclink Pl. 44 microcline, Fig. 8 albite. No of axes - - - --Designations...symmetr:y ar:e no longer: present (Fig. 16a, p. 93). A lower: cr:ystallogr:aphic symmetr:y is often only shown
Journal (issue)
Continued on p. 239 Articles The Jaguaragu pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................Cassedanne & J. N. Alves Mineralogy of the Bennett pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine ..........................Microminerals Miscellany from France, the Eifel district, and Mont Saint-Hilaire ........................(first color special issue) $20 v .5 /# 5 Julcani District in Peru, Indian M tn. (A L), C apelinha (Brazil)...silicate, minasgeraisite. OCATION The Jaguaragu pegmatite is situated in the Piracicaba river valley a tributary
Journal (issue)
e r a lo j g ic a l Volume Eight/Number Two PEGMATITE ISSUE #1 p u b lis h e r ls * h n Q n i. • ;...New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...83 by R. Lasmanis The Clear Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas.............apatite H (actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display...newsletter, the Quarry. Some club newsletters are, frank­ ly, boring but the Quarry is alive and interesting
Book
MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...consists of ilmenite. magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CORDIERITE IN PEGMATITE NEAR MICANITE, COLORADO E. Wtu. Herwucn, UniversityoJ Michigan,Ann Arbor, Mi...Mi.chigan. ABsrRAcr The Climax pegmatite of the Micanite district in Colorado contains unusually large...is discussed. IurnooucttoN The Micanite pegmatite district iies acrossthe Park-Fremont County line in...recognizedcordieritein the Climax deposit. The pegmatite was studied by the writer in 1946 and 1949, at...metamorphic layers are numerous massesof granitic pegmatite, which, in general, are very irregular in shape
Report (issue)
topazes, weighing a total of 3.03 carats on the lower wings. The small stones in the wings, totaling 19...Topaz: St. Anne's Mine JAN KANIS 60. Brazil: The Land of Topaz DIETMAR SCHWARZ 68. Topaz from Russia...pinacoid {001} is conspicuous. Topaz crystals from pegmatite pockets are commonly etched, and crystals from...from Untersulzbachtal, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg, Austria The projection is down (100). Notice the ABCB...Gerais, Brazil; Kiyoshi Kiikuni collection and photo Lower left: Topaz and lepidolite, 3.2 cm tall; Virgem
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
igneous rocks are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone veins)...orangite, latapleite, eucrasite, veins of nephelin pegmatite. Kragero, S Norway, and Iviland, occurrence of...fergusonite. KIMOTO, S. W. Finland, large deposit of pegmatite: muskovite, beryl, topaz, tapiolite, tryphiline...(vivianite, triphylite, hagendorfite-rare mineral in pegmatite). JACHYMOV (Joachimstal), Czechoslovakia, important...STRZEGOM (Strigov), Lower Silesia, Poland. In granite quarries occur large xIs of microcline, smoky quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed...hornfels chill-zone is evident at both the upper and lower contact of the sill with the sedimentary rocks....lorenzenite, magadiite, makatite, mangan-neptunite, microcline, molybdenite, monazite, mosandrite, nacrite,...collecting may be possible. INVESTIGATION OF A PEGMATITE LOCALITY IN EAST MORRIS, CONNECTICUT. R. C. Huff...Connecticut, just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production
Journal (issue)
by K. L. Triscori & T. /. Campbell The Urucum pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil...........................307 by ]. P. Cassedanne Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California..........................Ulrich Burchard on the Kremsmiinster museum in Austria was taken largely from his recent book, Mineral...Minerals Mineral & Needle Craft Creations, Inc. Quarry Enterprises Wallingford, CT Oceanside, NY John...Hyde Park, MD Pawtucket, RI Facet Tool Co. Sea/Land Minerals Oceanside, NY Peekskill, NY Trafford
 
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