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Calcite from
Lime works, Lengefeld, Pockau-Lengefeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Workings
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lime works, Lengefeld, Pockau-Lengefeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:744500
Long-form Identifier:1:3:744500:2
GUID (UUID V4):116e9bf0-ec35-4a59-8bf6-0eaabfe81973
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
4.3km (2.7 miles) Vater Abraham Mine, Lauta, Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
6.0km (3.7 miles) Saidenbach reservoir, Forchheim, Pockau-Lengefeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
6.8km (4.2 miles) Palmbaum Mine (Shaft 46), Gehringswalde, Wolkenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
7.8km (4.8 miles) Heilige Dreifaltigkeit Mine, Zschopau, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
8.4km (5.2 miles) St Johannes Mine, Wolkenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
8.6km (5.4 miles) Shaft 137, Wolkenstein, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
10.6km (6.6 miles) Boden, Großrückerswalde, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
11.8km (7.3 miles) Venusberg Quarry, Drebach, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
14.2km (8.9 miles) Breitenau quarry, Oederan, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
15.1km (9.4 miles) Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (edition)
supervened, and it became obvious that local supplies of lime or limestone for agricultural and other work would...Contact-altered Limestone and Dolomite, p. 25. Calcite and Dolomite Veins, p. 26. Specific Gravity of...Recent, p. 43. Dolomitic Fault-Breccia, p. 44. Calcite Veins, p. 44. CHAPTER CHAPTER ... VI. ......the rock called dolomite, any excess of lime appearing as calcite. Thus the rock called dolomite is a mixture...mixture of the minerals dolomite and calcite in varying proportions. Nearly all limestones contain a certain
Report (volume)
supervened, and it became obvious that local supplies of lime or limestone for agricultural and other work would...Contact-altered Limestone and Dolomite, p. 25. Calcite and Dolomite Veins, p. 26. Specific Gravity of...Recent, p. 43. Dolomitic Fault-Breccia, p. 44. Calcite Veins, p. 44. CHAPTER CHAPTER ... VI. ......the rock called dolomite, any excess of lime appearing as calcite. Thus the rock called dolomite is a mixture...mixture of the minerals dolomite and calcite in varying proportions. Nearly all limestones contain a certain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Picking Table. Near 180 level, a transverse stope works the black willemite ores of the Cross-member. Here...cm. rosettes can be etched from the enclosing calcite. In at least two of these specimens, 5 mm. spheres...formed masses of white barite, small amounts of calcite, and a dusting of micro-crystals of friedelite...moderate orange SW; tilasite, as mentioned above; and calcite, which is an incandescent red SW, brighter and...and more vivid, if possible, than Franklin calcite. Cahnite as a fluorescent mineral did generate some controversy
Book
Witherite - - - 149 Alstonite and Baryto-calcite - - - 150 - SALTs of STRONTIA Celestine and...- 150 * - Case F. SALTs of LIME Sulphate of Lime Phosphate of Lime : : - . 150 to 152 • • -...SPAR t . - • - Case H. CALCITE * - e - - Case I. CARBONATE of LIME, continued Marbles, &c. * ...CoPPERPYRITEs, associated with galena, blende, and calcite. Lisburne Mine, Cardiganshire. 270. CoPPER PYRITEs...crystals, with blende and calc-spar, in the Mountain Lime Stone. Shelf VIII. 280. Large mass of CoPPER Staunton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
excavation for Mr. Delany's quarry (the Horton Lime Works) in 1889. The quarry is situated on the right...The matrix is composed of fine-grained granular calcite in which are embedded a few small angular grains...underlying Viviparus Shale, which is devoid of calcite and organic remains. The fossils are well preserved...excavation for Mr. Delany's quarry (the Horton Lime Works) in 1889. The quarry is situated on the right
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
decades, as the cement manufacturing industry and lime production in England has contracted, the numbers...Sussex (Figs. 1, 3 and 4) comprised three cement works quarries which exposed a section from the Albian... Beddingham landfill in the former Asham Cement Works Chalk quarries, the fate of many Chalk pits. Aerial...The former Asham Chalk Pits (Blue Circle Cement Works) at Beddingham near Lewes, Sussex, before they were...Estate Chalk pits (former Lewes lime works and Rugby Portland Cement Works), Lewes, Sussex. Fig. 8. Aerial
Report (issue)
CEOLOCIST. BULLETIN No. COXTE~TS: THE CLAY, STONE, LIME AND SAND INDuSTRIF.S OF ST. LOUIS CITY ,\ND COUXTY...SURVEY ASSISTANTS 4 . . . . . THE CLAY, STONE, LIME A)fD SAND L"'...JOHN C. HALLIGAN, clerk. (4) THE CLAY, STONE, LIME AND SAND INDUSTRIES 0~' ST. LOUIS CITY AND COUNTY... . . . . . . 18 A Descriptive List of the Clay Works................................ 19 The Producers...BULLETIN, MISSOURI GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. PAOI<. The Lime Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
rocks, she produces a great deal of limestone and lime, and will soon be an iniportant producer of China...charaeteriscd, chemically, by a low content of alkalies and lime''. As far as is known, there are no true fire-clays...of minerals. (orthoclase and mierocline) and the lime-soda feldspars, or plagioclases which consist of...pyrite and pyrrhotite ; lime (CaO) is found in the feldspars and also in calcite. Chemical analyses do...orthoclase, rarely minutely intcrgrown with a little soda-lime feldspar; (2) light smoky quartz, showing optical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
particularly showy there apart from the beautifully blue calcite. But to a mineralogist,it is one of the sevenwondersof...possible,many potential specimensgo through the works and disappear.As Eakle commented,"the cement contains...earliestactivity at Crestmorewas the quarrying of limestonefor lime-burning. This began some undetermined time before...the eastside of Sky Blue Hill. The old bins and lime works were in existenceup to about 1940.They appear...Commercial quarry face and in the foreground, the old lime kiln structures. This also shows the increased extent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
poorly bedded, cream-coloured, amorphous with calcite veining and bands of { green and red marls; lenses...above the base of the Lias in the Stormy Cement Works Quarry, half a mile to the south-west. Above the...foot of the Down, 400 yards south of the old lime works. The following section was measured in the eastern...the foot of the Down in a quarry at Stormy Cement Works (852816). The Upper Rhaetic there consists of at...of soft yellow limestone which has a dendritic calcite veining similar to that found in the Cotham Beds
Report (chapter)
University of St Andrews on December 16, 2014 Historic lime mortars: potential effects of local climate on the...morphology and the composition or mineralogy of historic lime mortars. Samples were collected from historic buildings...characteristics of the lime binder. By examining the effects of climate on lime mortars, conservators...identification and condition assessment of historic lime mortars, better understand causes of damage and...and conservation of our architectural heritage. Lime-based mortars cure through carbonation and/ or chemical
Report (issue)
.............................158 P527696 Vein calcite from Parkmore Quarry, Dufftown, Banffshire....................................159 P527697 Vein calcite from Parkmore Quarry, Dufftown, Banffshire.......Ganister from the Top Ganister Bonnybridge Fireclay Works, Stirlingshire.........................................................217 P527755 Dolomite and calcite vein from Newbigging, Nine Lums, one mile west..............222 P527761 Limestone from Rothes Lime Works, Balgeddie, half a mile north-north-west of Leslie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Charlestown Lime Co., Ltd., with a view to renewing operations at the lime-works. T h e excavations...finely granular calcite. In others the limestone is converted to a mosaic of calcite grains with complete...bituminous or carbonaceous particles. Similar brown calcite mosaic occurs as infilling in the chambers of foraminifera...34444). These observations perhaps indicate that calcite is easily recrystallized at comparatively low temperatures...volatile hydrocarbons being trapped in the growing calcite. In thin sections of the limestones the fine aggregate
Report (Issue volume)
• • Other possible sources of. lime in Area I~I include a calcite vein near 11enstrie 1 ii1. the OchiJ...crushing chips 211d 2.gricultural ground limestone. The lime production is absorbed the o..gricul tural ai.10... but the bulk of the considerable quc,nti ty of lime used by indus ~ry ir1 Scntlana. is still brought...Cornstones: 32/4, 39/1, 40/1 o, • 57/1-6 • Calcite • Vein 3S/L1- ( at ..r.Ienstrie) • Peebles...'fhitmui1~, a.nd li1nestone in this area may ihitfield Lime "\[arks and_at suitable localities . exposures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shells and the unusu ally large number of the usual calcite-shelled forms . The following is the list of the...England and to the Discoscaphites binodosus Zone of Germany. Whether D, binodosus ranges throughout its zone...rostrata (Forbes) in flinty chalk. Pit 52, the Lime Works at Middleton on the Wolds, has long been famous...and road west of Hessle. Formerly Earles Cement Works Pit. Has yielded most of the fossils labelled Hessle...Melton Bottoms. Old pit in wood opposite Cement Works. Formerly showed Black Band, in which Actinocamax
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contains innumerable fragments, apparently of calcite, but Messrs. T. H. Withers and W. K. Spencer find...zone is quarri ed chiefly for lime used in Metropolitan Gas Companies' works. About ten years ago, during...point fissures exist which have been filled with calcite. The bluish grey band, referred to at Margett's...white in colour and very hard. Silica Iron-Alumina Lime Magnesia Loss on ignition Undetermined 94· 70 2...0.55 100.00 Summit of Blue Bell Hill. At the lime-works below the inn called" The Upper Bell," another
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Skerr and is situated 150 yards north of the Old Lime Works. The Sandbanks Limestone occurs near the top...formed is a calcilutite consisting of unsorted calcite grains, ranging in size from mud grade up to 60...of formation. Furthermore, the extremely fine calcite grains of the calcilutite in which the structures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
8 to 13 ft. [5, p. I03J in Lumby's Terra Cotta Works' pit' (about half a mile to the south of Stamford);...ephanoccenia d . dendroidea Tomes replaced by calcite ). This bed in t he (Vigo) qu arry-face below the...Stamford (the area in which are situated the brick-works of Messrs. Williamson, Cliff, Ltd.,), at about rzft...is traceable northwards to the Humber. At the Lime Works, Castle Bytham, the top of the crossi-beds is...gastropods (mostly rolled and enveloped in carbonate of lime) and an occasional specimen of Pteroperna lata (Phillips)
Book
waste (gangue) minerals in the deposits include calcite (CaCO3), quartz (SiO2), barite (BaSO4, or barytes)...noted 'a rich vein of silver and successful mining works' between St. Asaph and Basingwerk Priory. 1282 -...first successful coal-fired lead smelting works. This works was to be followed by many others on Deeside...households, but its main use was in the manufacture of lime for mortar and in iron forging. Expansion occurred...was quarried for building stone and a little for lime. During medieval times many castles and churches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Limestone, and small amounts have been found in calcite veins and pockets of soft yellow iron oxides in...iron oxides: large pseudomorphous crystals after calcite were at one time recorded, 1 but only a few small...small amounts, with the smithsonlte and also in calcite veins in some of the quarries. There are, in addition...mention of them will suffice. In all the workings, calcite is abundant, as well as in the many limestone quarries...LOCALITIES ON THE MENDIP HILLS, SOMERSET 71 calcite veins, and the latter among the debris at one or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This occurrence ha£ been worked by the Northern Lime Company, Ltd., since 1916, production first actually...1915. Since then production of, and demand for, the lime from here has been steadily increasing. The annual... /IAIN LIME WORKS IOOO 0 IOOO 2OOO English Feet FIG. 1.—Sketch Plan of the Buxton Lime Deposits...siliceous limestone. In the footwall shale crystalline calcite may occur in narrow bedded veins or as infillings...course of the river. (2) By selective solution of the lime from the dolomite and subsequent surface evaporation
Report (issue)
............................................ 29 Lime .................................................."Northern Pearl," "Neshobe Gray," "Pink 'See under Lime, p. 30, REPORT OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST...gradually declined until today the former great works at Woodbury are being dismantled, while the Bethel...orthoclase, rarely minutely intergrown with a little soda-lime feldspar; (2) light smoky quartz, showing optical...etc. ; (3) bluish translucent to milk-white soda-lime feldspar (albite to oligoclase-albite, in some sections
Journal (issue)
Examples of applications Quartz Fluorite Halite Calcite Baryte Garnet Pyroxene Gold mineralisation, sedimentary...Examples of minerals containing fluid inclusions are calcite, as precipitated from groundwaters (e.g. stalactites);...lighter hydrocarbons (hosted in di age netic vein-calcite). The existence of fluid inclusions has been known...generation of fluid inclusions, associated with calcite + tetrahedrite + galena + gold. This is an alternative...Birchwoodpark Stone Quarries, and Birchwoodpark Lime Works in the past, and is currently called Birchwood
Report (edition)
Silica.-rook Quarries, Sa.nd-pite and Silica-brick Works ... ..• ... ..• 124 FIGURES IN THE '.l'EXT. FIG...a by-product in the working of chalk ior cement, lime, whiting, etc. ; at trorthfleet, Swanscombe, Greenhithe...receives no treatment prior to crushing, but at some works it is stacked in the yard for some time before crushing...milk of lime, fed through a pipe, or as powdered slaked lime, or both. The proportion of lime to crushed...= 21 lb. of lime to 11 cwt. of stone). In the north-eastern district the amount of lime varies from 1
Report (issue)
weathering; aphanitic; medium bedded; stylolites, calcite crystals; abundant Tetradium. CRYSTALLINITY CLASSIFICATION...suitable for laboratory work: TERM USED Dolomite CALCITE DOLOMITE MgO* percent 95-100 90- 95 50- 90 10-... Calcarenite. A limestone composed of clastic calcite grains and sorted fossil debris of sand size: i... and is sometimes used for armour stone, walls, lime kiln feed, or 'tower stone' for pulp and paper mills.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Lime Industry in Ontario . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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