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Wad from
Clay pit, Vierstöck, Reichelsheim, Odenwaldkreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:'Wad' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wad data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clay pit, Vierstöck, Reichelsheim, Odenwaldkreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:740208
Long-form Identifier:1:3:740208:1
GUID (UUID V4):312e3207-022a-4b4a-bacc-0d8254a3184e
Nearest other occurrences of Wad
1.5km (0.9 miles) Berggeist Mine, Weiße Mauer, Ober-Kainsbach, Reichelsheim, Odenwaldkreis, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
16.5km (10.2 miles) Ludwig Mine, Wald-Michelbach, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
17.3km (10.8 miles) Glasberg quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Mühltal, Darmstadt-Dieburg, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
18.2km (11.3 miles) Morgenstern Mine, Straßburg, Wald-Michelbach, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
18.4km (11.4 miles) Aussicht Mine, Straßburg, Wald-Michelbach, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
22.9km (14.2 miles) Goldloch Shaft, Gorxheim, Gorxheimertal, Bergstraße, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
26.8km (16.7 miles) Ursenbach Mine, Ursenbach, Schriesheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
32.2km (20.0 miles) Porphyry quarry, Dossenheim, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
44.9km (27.9 miles) Fuchs Quarry, Hartkoppe, Sailauf, Aschaffenburg District, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
48.0km (29.8 miles) Wilhelmine Mine, Sommerkahl, Aschaffenburg District, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Mineralogic Relations and Ceramic Properties of Clay Deposits of Eocene Age in the Jackson Purchase Region...History of clay production______________________________________ General description of developed clay deposits..._____________________________________ Origin of clay deposits_________________________________________...ceramic properties, and potential use of undeveloped clay deposits---------------------------------------...samples and clay pits__________________________________________________ 3. Composition diagram of clay minerals
Report (volume)
....... 182 Nap and cross sections of main open pit of Mine Bank mine, Augusta County, Va........ 191...manganese oxide minerals psilomelane, pyrolusite, and wad are intermixed in several of the deposits with variable...are for the most part irregular bodies in residual clay of the Tomstown dolomite formerly called the Shady...expo- sures in this belt show gray, yellow, and red clay containing . residual lenses and nodules of silica...exposed thin beds of weathered sandstone and of clay carrying nodules and lenses of chert, which consists
Report (volume)
Woodrow, Haywood County___________ Mine of the Hand Clay Co. (Inc.)_____ 27 28 28 30 31 31 IV CONTENTS...Yancey County_____ 36 Job Thomas mine___ _ 36 Pit of the Clay Products Co_ 36 Sprucepine, Mitchell County...Property of the Cumberland Clay Co_ - ___-_____ Property of the Philadelphia Clay Co__________ Property of...Portland Cement Co_____ Henry Clay mine ______________1 _ _Property of the Holly Clay Corporation __... Beavertown...County_____________________ Pit of the Whittaker Clay Co_______________ Pit of the Diller Clay Co___________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shelbyville quarry, SE on U.S. 41A: rectorite (as main clay mineral in bentonite bed) (Elliott and Aronson 1987)...intersection with U.S. 127 near Litton: rectorite (as main clay mineral in bentonite bed) (Elliott and Aronson 1987)...gold (Neuman and Wilson 1960). Townsend, borrow pit near Townsend: smythite (D. Coskren, pers. comm.)...(Zeitner 1968). Carroll County Clarksburg area, unnamed pit in north valley wall of Cane Creek, 4 miles W of... 2.5 miles ENE of Vale: pyrite (nodules in gray clay) (Whitlatch 1940). Spencer Clark farm, 3.5 miles
Journal (issue)
PROFILE John Travis I grew up in Nottingham near large clay quarries and smoky collieries that held a fascination...Geological Survey collection Ludlow Hill brick clay quarry The clay pit lay close to the boundary between West...through West Bridgford. While it was being worked, the pit was photographed by the Geological Survey photographer...from Edwalton Station 1 km to the south-east. Brick clay in the Nottingham area has mainly been quarried...clays to be quarried with ease. The Ludlow Hill Pit exploited the mudstones immediately below the Cotgrave
Report (issue)
course of the few days devoted to this work several clay deposits in Garland County, outside the limits of...deposits. The latter group includes a few small clay beds which in places have been worked on a small'scale...was examined with some care, and several developed clay properties in other parts of Hot Springs County...features of the. matter are summarized. Description of clay deposits. rOn the southeast side of Hot Springs...of the reservation. At this point 8 feet of gray clay is shown, with no reddish bands, but containing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE. Downloaded by [Brown...inclusions and skeletal faces. Columbia brickyard pit, a former clay quarry, below a coal seam: PYRITE (nodules...Loutre Formation (39-13-54N 092-25MW),a greenish-gray clay in a road cut about 0.2 mile west of Rucker and...and earthy), siderite (Crane 1912). Portland, in clay in Saltpetre Cave and other area caves: NITER (Leonhard...scales on joints in Cheltenham Formation flint fire clay (Keller 1952). Stinson Creek, in southeast Fulton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cubic spare ... Clays, lithomarge, pyrolusite (wad), steatite, serpentine, talc-chloriteschist. Anthracite...Franconia; Steatites indurate from Wunsiedel; and wad (Ochre friabilis rdpro-f'u~a, or 'black wadd') from...described as amber, and comes from ' the great clay pit at Richmond, Surrey'. ' Pitch' from Pitchford
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sults obtained. There is also about four feet of clay-gravel on the bottom of the creek that is very difficult...before junction with Rte 607. Shaft in the large pit and two smaller pits. Reed Mica AI. prospect. l /...and } / M i . N W of junction with Rte 522. Small pit. Op, 1900. Swann Mica Ppt. i / Mi. W of Gooch­ land...Ppt. on edge of Rte 634, 2 Mi N of Maidens. Small pit. Salter Mica Prospect. l Mi W of Rte 522 N branch... rear of and N W of Emmous Church. Cne me­ dium pit. Turner Mica Prospect E side of Rte 637, y N of 635
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oubio spars ... Clays, lithomarge, pyrolusite (wad), steatlte, serpentine, talc-chloriteschist. Anthracite...Franconia; Steatites indurate from Wunsiedel; and wad (Ochre friabilis rdpro-f'u~a , or ' b l a c k w a...described as amber, and comes from ' the great clay pit at Richmond, Surrey '. ' P i t c h ' from Pitchford
Book
ymouth County?) (reterence 186) BARNSTABLE: Brick Clay Pit (169(41 04Z'03",700Z1'17")186.4Zl,p_484, pereonal...valley the Mon~ent River (now Cape Cod Canal). 01" Pit (16Z(area ot 41'41",70 33'56")298,p.1136-1137). Ventitaeta...indications ot clay are seen in roadside exposures. One mile northeast ot Brew.t.~ a little sandy clay show. in...beach; also along shore near East; Brew.ter. CHATHAM: ClaY (172(area of 41 0 44'11",69 0 59'16 1t )186)--Outcrops...beneath a thick series of sands and gravels. The clay gontinues Gor 100 or 200 teet, then sinks below
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rose up like outliers of Bagshot Sand in a London Clay area. Nevertheless they had their uses, for while...feet, was a sand-pit showing highly-inclined beds of sand and gravel, with pipe-clay and traces of coloured...now conducted to the old Lignite Pit by the Bovey Tracey Potteries; a pit rendered famous by the researches...of the late William Pengelly and Oswald Heer. The pit was partially filled witb water, but the banks showed...showed fine white sandy clays, coloured clay, and coarse sands, with thin flaky lignite bands. The lignite
Book (volume)
YB. KUMMEL. statp G P O I ~ S , The Clays and Clay Industry of New Jersey HEINRICH RIES AND HENRY................................... xxi P A R T I.-CLAY CHAPITS . A N D ITS P R O P E R T I E S I. CLAYAND............... Origin of clay. .................................. Residual clay. ..................................... Sedimentary clay. ............................... Marine clays. .........................clays. ...................... Secondary changes in clay deposits. ............... Mechanical changes. .
Journal (issue)
exposed in Breedon Quarry in Leicestershire. A red clay, rich in euhedral crystals of oxidised galena with...lowermost two thirds, however, comprised breccias and clay. Some 1.2 m of breccias of Triassic debris and dolomitised...cemented largely by white microcrystalline barite and wad . Below these breccias the remaining cave fill consisted...1.6 m of dark red, structureless clay. Dispersed throughout the clay occurred euhedral crystals of partially...dolomitised limestones of the area . Both breccia and clay fill possibly represent vadose modification of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2002 405 Locality Cross-Reference Acme gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Downloaded by [University of Saskatchewan...Clinton Co. Guttenberg, Clayton Co. Hahn’s gravel pit, Muscatine Co. Harper quarry, Kcokuk Co. Harvey...Buren Co. Iron Hill, Waukon, Allamakee Co. Johnson Clay Company plant, Fort Dodge, Webster Co. Jude coal...(crystals). Shell Rock, N of Shell Rock at gravel pit: quartz (Lake Superior agate); geodes in outcrops...chalcedony) (Borschel 1958). Sheffield, Beaverdam Creek, clay pit E of creek in SW1/4 SE1/4 sec. 7, T. 93 N., R
Journal (issue)
During a Russell Society Field Meeting to Gunheath Clay Pit in Cornwall, BMS member Frank Ince turned up excellent...During a Russell Society Field Meeting to Gunheath Clay Pit in Cornwall, BMS member Frank Ince turned up excellent...second British locality for chalcosiderite.) Gunheath pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. England. Specimen: Hubbard...second British locality for chalcosiderite.) Gunheath pit, St. Austell, Cornwall, England. Specimen: Hubbard...again in the news with morinite from Gunheath Clay Pit, and Nick also separately recorded variscitc,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
)YV^U*V\U[` Clay pit, Ripley, just to the W, exposure of Pennsylvanianage Chelten Clay in pit: gypsum (crystals...*HSOV\U*V\U[` Gilead, Maquoketa Shale outcrop: illite (clay mineral group, type locality) (Grim, Bray, and Bradley...Bridge), galena, glauconite, gypsum (clay beds), hematite (balls in clay), illite, kaolinite, marcasite (more... groups to 5 cm), sphalerite (with marcasite in clay-filled solution cavities) (Fleener and Caraveta...small vugs and fractures of chert from the open pit of the Patrick lead mine and also at Spar Mountain)
Book
came from India, then Chile and at one time from Germany, and sulphur was imported from Sicily. The traditionally...near Keswick, coal mining with the closure of Haigh Pit at Whitehaven although coal is still being extracted...2 PLUMBLAND MILL NY 320590 There are numerous clay dobbin cottages in the village. Many have recently...The quarry was operated by water power and a wheel pit and inclines are still visible. Access from Hallbankgate...remains of Dodd End mine. A massive water-wheel pit and stone supports for launders are visible Both
Report (issue)
rock samples 2^ li.--Geologic sketch nap of clay pit in peak area - > k6 5.--Geologic sketch map...exposed width. The deposit i* veil situated for opej pit mining, but because of the esiating ewer of earth-rook...edges of a small water-filled clay Pit, to the natiire and dspth of the clay dapoait. SaH^lea from thsse...to light tan, brown and brownish-red sAprolitic clay that preserves the relict texture of the parent...of the country rocks* i fhe country rooks have wad«rgcae dy»aiaio and aUd regional s»tamcrphi*oj i Oerro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Subdivision of the Weald Clay in North Sussex, in Surrey and Kent by J. W. REEVES Received 5 July, 1967:...the Weald Clay into three Groups, using the oldest and newest of a succession of red clay bands, so effective...attempted correlation. The thickness of the Weald Clay decreases as it is traced eastward across the area...borings. 1. INTRODUCTION of description, the Weald Clay in Sussex was divided into four areas (Reeves, 1958...Index horizon: Newest Red Clay Group II Red: Index horizon: Oldest Red Clay Group I Buff Grey are not
Journal (issue)
United Mines, Linkinhorne, and Gunheath China Clay Pit, St. Austell. We are also aware that chalcosiderite...on the 2002 North West branch visit to Gunheath pit has identified suspected Waylandite. The specimens...10-foot deep winze in the Wheat Bunny section of the pit. When dug into, the vein contained considerable Varlomofite...meteorite (63.3Kg) that fell in the Marburg area of Germany in on 3 April 1916. Faithful[ described the re-discovery...Devitrification in Minerals' Sat 12th July 2003 - Margam Pit Ffordd -y-Gyfraith, S. Wales [SS 850 838] 9.00am
Catalog/List
Rex Cook dealer label. SW.1N1 Opal - West Carclaze Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. J.A.Jones 1978. SW.2C3 Kaolinite...Kaolinite after orthoclase "pig's egg" - Melbur China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. M.Grigg. 1989. [SW 925...2D1 Cassiterite var. "Wood Tin" - Lee Moor China Clay Pit, St. Austell, Cornwall. SX.2F1 Stibnite - Trewetha...Bridges. 1977. [SK 249 594]. SK.V1 Calcite - Coal Pit Rake, Riber Mine, Matlock, Derbyshire. R.J.King via...252 253 254 255 256 257 258 ST.C2 Calcite and wad - Merehead Quarry, Shepton Mallet. T.Bridges. 1977
Journal (volume)
species. WAD, Hydrated impure manganese oxides On one specimen jet black lustrous blebs of wad occur in...larger lead peak. WAD, Hydrated impure manganese oxides Rarely minute black spots of wad, similar to those...aragonite is often intergrown with the calcite. WAD, Hydrated impure manganese oxides Figure 7. Radiating...composition of the black deposits of wad is very variable. It is likely the wad transported as a colloid and...possibility of significant amounts of aluminosilicate clay minerals being present in this sample. Whilst these
Report (issue)
steel grey acerar vtr to chill, harden acerdesa nf wad or bog manganese aceria nf steel works or mill acerillo...nf hanging wall | [New Almaden, Calif] layer of clay in the hanging wall of mercury deposits altearse...(landform) andino,-na adj Andean andurrial nm clay pit or deposit anegable adj subject to flooding anegar...Arcaica nf Archean arcilla nf clay | any clay mineral | a. alfareia potter's clay | a. aluminosa steatite,...apizarada slate | a. arenosa sandy clay | a. aurifera gold-bearing clay | a. de batan fuller's earth | a
Book
....................................... 204 W: wad to wurtzite .......................................Cheshire; Treoremine,St Ende!lion, Cornwall Gunhealh pit,StAustell,Cornwall t!.eldonapfitequarry,nrOkehampton...Bergemann in 1858 from Johanngcorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany, and named by G. J. Adams in 1869. They were considered...associated with granite cusps such as those at Mulberry pit, Hemerdon and Redmoor. Near to Red moor is Hingston...activity continues with the exploitation of china clay (mainly for kaolinite), particularly in the St Austell
 
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