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Arsenopyrite from
Quartzite quarry, Oberschöna, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Arsenopyrite
Formula:FeAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Quartzite quarry, Oberschöna, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:746325
Long-form Identifier:1:3:746325:9
GUID (UUID V4):be3ca53c-507a-47b2-8e27-095cd92ea85b
Nearest other occurrences of Arsenopyrite
4.1km (2.6 miles) Beschert Glück Mine, Zug, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
4.5km (2.8 miles) Glückauf Shaft, Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
4.9km (3.0 miles) Constantinschacht, Beschert Glück Mine, Zug, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
5.7km (3.5 miles) Junge Hohe Birke Mine, Langenrinne, Zug, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
6.7km (4.1 miles) Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Bräunsdorf, Oberschöna, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
6.9km (4.3 miles) Reiche Zeche-Schacht, Himmelfahrt Mine, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
7.1km (4.4 miles) Davidschacht, Himmelfahrt Mine, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
7.3km (4.5 miles) Neuer Morgenstern-Schacht, Himmelfahrt Mine, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
11.2km (6.9 miles) Naundorf Granite quarry, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
23.2km (14.4 miles) Munzig, Klipphausen, Meissen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogical complexity with “visible gold, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and minor pyrrhotite, tetrahedrite, bournonite...reef is characterized by . . . visible gold, arsenopyrite, tetrahedrite, bournonite, and sphalerite. Pyrite...Neue Hoffnung Gottes mine, Braünsdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany, is the type locality of kermesite...3.5 cm, Neue Hoffnung Gottes mine, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany. Crystal Classics specimen and photo...nineteenth century, together with Braünsdorf in Germany. The deposit was mined from the end of the eighteenth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scorodite, and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus...of primary arsenic-bearing minerals such as arsenopyrite. It is mentioned as an accessory mineral in...Ryerson Hill quarries at Paris, and the Emmons quarry at Greenwood, Oxford County. Scorodite occurred...Warwick, Orange County, and similarly at the arsenopyrite mine at Pine Pond near Kent, Putnam County,...arsenic mine at Terry’s Fork in Floyd County, with arsenopyrite and pyrite in the Buck Mountain mine in Amherst
Catalog/List
ore sample. Hartenstein Schacht 371 Erzebirge Saxony Germany 2x2.5 (380 grams) £38 8 NATIVE ANTIMONY rich...(botryoidal under magnification) Gadernheim, Odenwald Germany. £18 about lxl on 1.5 xl.5 inches Bergweg, 15...Barytes crystal about 1cm Clara Mine Black Forest Germany £15 18 HEMATITE black, mirror-like, intergrown...attractive, rich yellow platy mass in quartz La Bosse Quarry, Echassieres Allier France 2x3 inch £10 33 MAGNESITE...Wilhelmine Stollen, Sehringen, Badenweiler Black Forest Germany £10 35 ORPIMENT remarkable colour, a golden, pure
Catalog/List
ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal...... 3.50 with minor . ARSENOPYRITE Iron sulfarsenide East Germany Saxony, Freiberg, Davidschacht Brilliant...specimens from one of the few active mines in East Germany ..... . ..,-=e:.:x:.::i:.:c:.:o Zacatecas, Mina...oz. 0 0 I BORACITE Magnesium chloroborate Germany Thuringia, Bischofferode Transparent white ½"to...hydrated basic phosphate of ferrous and ferric iron Germany Giessen, Waldgirmes (; Radiating reddish-brown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
largely in British hands, whereas before the War Germany absorbed the greater part of the woild's output...well-known mining district of the Erzgebirge in Saxony and Bohemia. The ancient crystalline rocks of the...principal minerals are wolfram, scheelite, tinstone, arsenopyrite, galena, blende, chaleopyrite, tourmaline, topaz...lithium. Although the mines of the Erzgehirge in Saxony and Bohemia figure very largely in German mining...statistics are available, the output for the kingdom of Saxony is stated to be 101 tons, while no other German
Catalog/List
ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal...marble ..... . Connecticut Canaan, New England Lime quarry Silky white xl prisms in dolomitic marble .......chloro-phosphate :\'ew Hampshire Grafton Center, Ruggles quarry Olive green masses in pegmatite ....... Fl. APOPHYLLITE...minor calcite Germany Saxony, Braunsdorf Rich black vein mass with calcite ........... Germany Schneeberg...pure gray metallic mass ........... . East Germanv Saxony, Freiberg, Davidschacht Brilliant small tin white
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a Devillian quartzite (Lower to Middle Cambrian), in close association with arsenopyrite, scorodite,...mineralogical studies reveal the presence of arsenopyrite (Hatert, 1997), particularly as new occurrences...discovered the association of gold and arsenopyrite in the quarry of Hourt, in rocks of the Deville Group...new occurrence of arsenopyrite and to study the mineralogical association of this quarry (Lefèvre, 2001;...Among the secondary minerals associated with arsenopyrite from Hourt, collected by S. Puccio, M. Blondieau
Catalog/List
THAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway 59 BOEHMITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Brown-purple mass in matrix Creamy...--· - . . - - ------ -·-··-·-· ---·7 ANNITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway 696 CHROME DIOPSIDE...lx2 £15 lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen. Norway 1060 KORNERUPINE Bjordammcn,...lxl 90p lx2 £1.80 2x2 £4 Mica 295 NATROLITE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Orange to red in feldspar.(Hydrothcrmal...ofNcpheline) lxl £1 lx2£2.SO Zcolite 296 NATROLITE · Saga Quarry, Tvedalcn Norway · Rich creamy masses with possible
Report (issue)
specimen No. 061958. Photo by H. Gary Ansell. Arsenopyrite crystal, Goldenville Mine, Sherbrooke, Nova...mines Lawrencetown gold mines Natural Blue Stone quarry Lake Catcha gold mines Dunbrack mine Lake Charlotte...Port Hastings to Sydney and Cabot Trail Big Brook quarry Finlay Point Lake Ainslie barite mines Iona gypsum...Belle Marche quarry Pleasant Bay lead deposit Dingwall gypsum quarry Ingonish gypsum quarry Point Aconi...Scotch Lake quarry Ironville (Ingraham) iron mine Coxheath mine Frenchvale dolomite quarry Steele Crossing
Report (issue)
• . • • . . . . • • . . . . Natural Blue Stone quarry . . . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • ...Sydney (via Cabot Trail) Bestwall Gypsum .Company quarry •.•• ; ....•.....•.• ·• ••••.•••••• Finlay Point...•••••• .••.•. · •••••. ·..••••••••••• Belle Marche quarry......................................... Pleasant...• . • . • • • • • • • • • . • • Dingwall gypsum quarry • • • • • . • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • • • •...• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ingonish gypsum quarry ••.•.• : . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . . . . •
Catalog/List
CAVENSITE ON STILBITE (4cm x 4cm x 3cm) IPagoli Quarry, Poona, India A large group of cavensite crystals...intergrown, forming a matrix free mass. £34 20 ARSENOPYRITE (5cm x 4cm X 4cm) Panasqueira Mint, Beira Baixa...Portugal Lustrous steely silvery crystals of arsenopyrite to 2cm across with heavy striations forming...£25 40 SAMPLEITE (2cm x 1cm x 1cm) Laks Boga Quarry, Victoria. Australia Bright electric blue crystalline...£12 41 ULR1CHITE (2cm x 2cm x 1cm) Laks Boga Quarry, Victoria, Australia A very nice pretty micro of
Catalog/List
£5 -------------------------933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar... 15 ■■ ALLARGENTUM Hartenstein, Erzebirge, Saxony Germany Silvery plates on 1cm matrix. Some with saffiorite...with minor calcite or matrix ½"£4 7 ANNITE Snga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larvik, Norway Pure black mica plate...silvery schist lxl £2 lx2 £4 230 ANTIGORITE 66 ARSENOPYRITE Ashanti Mine, level 8, Obuasi, Ghana silvery...in matrix with Pyrrhotitc lxl £3 lx2 £5 965 ARSENOPYRITE Santa Eulalia ,Chihuahua, Mexico Sharp silvery
aetna (page 54). Diamond-shaped, striated one of arsenopyrite on rounded, grey galena and surrounded ce ne...fused together. A few rocks such as limestone or quartzite may be composed of one mineral species but they...pyrrhotite, pentlandite, stibnite, cobaltite, arsenopyrite, molybdenite, galena are included here. Oxides:...(black), p. 74 pyrite (pale brass yellow), p. 46 arsenopyrite (silver-grey), p. 54 cobaltite (silver-grey)...Fine marble (p. 294) quartzite (p. 294) granite gneiss (p. 290) quartzite (p. 296) Beginner's Guide
Journal (issue)
Rutgers College Museum is a specimen showing arsenopyrite and pyrite in pyroxenic gneiss. The label says...rock show a secondary deposit of aragonite. The arsenopyrite makes about one per cent of the entire mass...of pyrite and other minerals simi lar to the arsenopyrite ledge, but all were badly decomposed and fire...marked. On top of the hill directly over the arsenopyrite locality, but about half a mile further into...feldspar; common pyrite-more abundant than the arsenopyrite on the roadside; a dark substance undetermined;
Catalog/List
paper available. Rich grey crystalline mass. Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near Larv ik, Norway Ix I £1.50 Ix I...Chrysotile. pale grey-green mass ive. County Bri dge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall Jx I £ I I x2 £2 Loch Scridain...22 500 509 506 216 19 651 5 38 I 029 622 ARSENOPYRITE Fe As S ARTHURITE Cu Fe AsO/4 PO/4 SO/4 ASTROPHYLLITE...ARSENIOPLEITE ♦ Na Ca Mn Mg AsO/4 ARSENOPYRITE Fe As S ARSENOPYRITE 40 246 Variety Francolite.rich...Hingston Down Rich silvery masses with Chalcopyrite Quarry,Cornwall ,England Apple green coatings on granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Boliviaconforms very closelyto the deposits of Cornwalland Saxony. Locationand Geology.--Anyoneintendingto investigatethe...The countryrock is blackslatewith somebedsof quartzite. The narrow vein is at placesrich in cassiterite...follows' Lel)idolke , (•uartz,Topaz,Casskerke, Arsenopyrite, Fluorite. In the samevolume (p. 289) the succession...Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony is as follows' Topaz, Wolframite, Cassiterite, Arsenopyrite,Quartz I, Apatite...Boliviaas follows: TourmalineandTopaz,Pyrite,Arsenopyrite, Quartz,Cassiterite, Bismuth, Bismuthinite,Cylindrite
Catalog/List
Friedrichsegen Mine, bad Ems , Lahn .Rhineland-Palatinate Germany £18 7 SULPHUR small crystals in cavities in Basalt...crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich brown fibrous...HARMOTOME, clear micro crystals on 1x2 cm Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor Powys £5 54 HEMIMORPHITE good covering...PHILLIPSITE no 1 quarry, Limburg Germany, 6mm white vugh in basalt 1.5cm £4 80 ARSENOPYRITE good coverage...coverage of 3 to 4mm size silvery crystals on Arsenopyrite with some small quartz crystals 7x4 Zacatecas Mexico
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formationand the partly overlyingHalifax formation. Quartzite, in placesfelspathic,predominates in the Goldenvilleformation...Numerousthin bedsof slateare interlaminatedwith the quartzite. The youngerHalifax formationconsists mainlyof...the baseof the slate,adjacentto a foot-wall of quartzite. In additionto the interbeddedtype of vein, there...exceptionsthe principal vein constituentis quartz. Arsenopyrite is presentin all the districtsstudiedby the...alwayspresent,usuallyin lesserquantity than arsenopyrite. Certain other mineralsin the veins, the wall
Report (volume)
extensive replacements by gold-bearing pyrite and arsenopyrite, the second by less extensive replacement by...Yellow Pine mine was opened in September 1937 as a quarry operation 2 miles north of the Meadow Creek mine...called, the Hennessy quarry, and the underground tungsten mine later opened in the quarry area was called...district in August 1944 to bring the Yellow Pine quarry map and tungsten reserve estimate up to date. Although...and sections of the mine show the shape of the quarry as it was on June 1,1943, the profile of August
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Flekla/lceland; Hawai, Califorma/USA;...carnallite, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, kainite. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;...colorless © Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany © Robling, Halle/Germany \:Vi Streak white. Mohs’ hardness
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Hekla/Iceland; Hawai, California/USA;... gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in : Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR.... kainite. Found in : Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland; Urals/USSR;...Hattor[, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 · 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1: ½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
Book
by: phosphorite. Found in: Saarland; Ruhr valley; Saxony; Vesuvius, Etna/Italy; Hekla/lceland; Hawai, California/USA;...carnallite, gypsum, halite, calcite. Found in: Lower Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia ; Surrey/England;...Accompanied by: ordinary coal. Found in: Thuringia, Saxony/Germany; Czechoslovakia; Seine/France, Tula/ USSR....kieserite, kainite. Found in: Lower Saxony, Baden, eastern Harz mountains/Germany; Galicia/Poland ; Urals/USSR;...Hattorf, Philippsthal, Hesse/Germany KMgCl3 • 6 H2O Q) Robling, Halle/Germany 1:½ 3◄ Streak white. Mohs'
Report (volume)
represented in the area, the first by pyrite, arsenopyrite, and gold; the second by antimony and silver...the eastern quarry will be referred to as the East ore body, that in the western quarry as the West ore...and to keep the miners busy meanwhile in the West quarry. But long-continued mining of the West ore body...DISTRICT, IDAHO 251 Output, in tons, from West quarry Ore milled Antimony in concentrates (approx....metamorphic sedimentary rocks, among which are vitreous quartzite, mica schist, calcareous schist, crystalline dolomite
Catalog/List
- - - AMAZONITE Pure green cleavage Landsverlc quarry, Evje, Norway lxl S0p ALAMOSITE fcLp 10 g:...with Chrysotile, pale grey-green County Bridge Quarry,Lizard ,Cornwall MgFeSiO massive. Minas Gerias...lx2£1.S0 2x2£3 2x3 £5 FeAsS Qu~,Comwall,England ARSENOPYRITE Grey massive in matrix South Crofty Mine, lxl...½ Red brown fibrous on matrix BERAUNITE lxl £4 Germany FePO/4 £2.S0 Rich green masses with Siderite. Unusual...MITE Creamy white micro crystals in cavirties Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Ix½ £3 Al O OH in Natrolite _
Book
Farber and Forbes Dunn of the Farber White Limestone Quarry, Bernard Kozykowski, J. Kenneth Fisher. Miss Margaret...Median Gneisses)........ .. . . . . . .. Hardyston Quartzite Formation . . . . . . ... . ..... . . . . . ....Franklin limestone. Still another, the Hardyston quartzite, was formed by the metamorphism of older rocks...(Nicoll). The modern and fully equipped Farber Quarry. on Cork Hill Road, is the only active operation...paralJel bands. I Outcropping of Hardyston quartzite about one half mile north of th e Palmer shaft
 
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