 | | Report (chapter) | | Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria L U D W I G R. W A G N E R Wolfersberggasse 6, A-1140 Wien, Austria Abstract:...from the Bavarian border across Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria to the border of the Tschech Republic provides...(OMV) during its exploration in Salzburg, Upper and Lower Austria. In the Tertiary (from the late Eocene)...Basin. Between the Liassic and late Miocene the area of the Molasse Basin is characterized by three main...and midDogger to early Cretaceous in the west the area was part of the Middle European carbonate platform |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Peter Jordan-Straße 70, 1190 Vienna, Austria b Department of Geography, Justus-Liebig-University...model was regionally amended and enhanced. In Austria, the quadriglacial system is still the foundation...gravel plateaus due to general tectonic uplift of the area. The glaciofluvial remnants of the youngest two glaciations...recognized (Penck and Brückner, 1909; Kohl, 2000). This area is therefore ideal to reconstruct the timing and...independent methods. On the one hand, radiocarbon with an upper dating limit of c. 45 ka is not suited for such |  | | Book | | pressure either locally or extending over a large area, it is said to be metamorphosed. There will be alteration...organic origin; the most prominent example is CaC03, calcite. The triangular C03 group gives threefold symmetry...‘perfect’ is used for -34- Twinned crystals Calcite Cassiterite Chrysoberyl Albite -35- cleavage...Topaz 7 Quartz 6 Feldspar 5 Apatite 4 Fluorite 3 Calcite 2 Gypsum 1 Talc All that the scale tells us is...The wood of the ‘pencil’ is replaced by metal. The area to be tested should be the pure mineral, not a coating |  | | Book | | 10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C....nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE...the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293 Minerals...10:85-89 Micromounting in the eastern Alps of Austria (by K. Kotal) 13:171-173 ALSTONITE An occurrence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | colorless phantom in it. Arkansas—The most productive area for barite in the U. S. is Magnet Cove, Hot Springs...Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) The Micanite pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central...village of Micanite. The pegmatite of the Micanite district contains unusually large 378 ROCKS AND MINERALS...familiar with it. Florida—Colorless drusy crystals of calcite in cavities of brownish compact limestone, have...Idaho, is operating a cobalt mine in the Blackbird district of Lemhi Co., Idaho. This mine is reported to |  | | 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...that crawlway—and there it is: the mouth of the Red River Find. From this vantage, the opening of the...all surfaces are completely covered with fiery red to red-orange crocoite crystals bristling out towards...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection |  | | | | sedimentary rocks, clay minerals,_ quartz, feldspars, calcite, and micas are abundant. However, many other minerals...to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6) orthoclase; (7)...properties: Color: Pale red when fresh, tarnishing to brownish shades Streak: Shining pale red Lustre: Metallic...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale |  | | Book (edition) | | sedimentary rocks, clay minerals. quartz, feldspars, calcite, and micas are abundant. However, many other...to hard as follows: (1) talc; (2) gypsum; (3) calcite; (4) fluorite; (5) apatite; (6) orthoclase; (7)... Color : Pale red when fresh, tarnishing to brownish shades Streak: Shining pale red Hardness : 2.5-3...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale |  | | Book | | tangled mass of fine, blackishgreen needles with shiny red grains between them. The freshly fractured surface... You will be told that these are fragments of calcite crystals. Three minerals will be mentioned to you...name to you. The green needles are hornblende, the red grains are nothing else but garnets, the same 'garnet'...consisting (apart from impurities) only of the mineral calcite. Granite is the bestknown example of a rock consisting...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARIZONA—We recently received a vialful of small deep red, transparent gemmy pyrope (garnet) pebbles from David...grayish-black chlorite schist and comes from the Bay Horse district, Challis, Custer Co., Idaho. This is not only...were not etched but typical sharp clear xls. "The area of occurrence is only one small spot about 50 feet... This is the only occurrence in the Rosiclare District, however, Dana reports such occurrences from the...fluorite are tabular plates of optically clear calcite about 1/16" long and 1/16" thick. "Some of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals, or they may specialize in just one species—calcite is a popular mineral for this. Other collectors...and shortwave ultraviolet radiation it fluoresces red or yellow. It is phosphorescent green under longwave...white, gray, pale yellow, blue, violet, green, or red. It has a white streak and a vitreous luster and...Figure 1. Pseudohexagonal twins of aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento...(1743–1822) who distinguished between aragonite and calcite based on cleavage, specific gravity, and crystallography |  | | Report (chapter) | | Middle– Upper Triassic Mahil Formation (Arabian plate, Oman), capped by palaeosols; and (3) an Upper Triassic...and overlying strata (Adnet, Salzburg region, Austria). Data integration allowed the establishment of...deposited in the Germanic Triassic land-locked basin along a homoclinal Upper Rhaetian coral limestone, Tropfbruch...Tropfbruch near Adnet (Austria) The famous Adnet reef is part of the epeiric Dachstein platform, see Figures...intra-platform Kössen basin. The Upper Rhaetian Tropfbruch outcrops consists of sawed quarry walls which provided |  | | Book | | 251: Calcite, Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * 12.5 x 10 x 10.5 em Page 252: Gypsum rosette, Red River...A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...nodules — named for their angular cavities — with calcite (see photo opposite). Crystal linings that survive...variety of geologically active environments. In the upper crust, minerals may crystallize in wide fractures...silicate minerals known collectively as zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA |  | | Journal (issue) | | green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...(deceased) Eric D. Long SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2014) Mineralogical...Germany, Switzerland (three!), the Hohe Tauem of Austria, Pi'fbram in the Czech Republic, the Carpathian...several small mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village...50 km north of the U.S. border. Activity in the district began with a small "gold rush" in the late 1880s |  | | Book | | volcanic ash and larger pyroclastic material on the land surface; in freshwater lakes; shallow marine seas;...different processes depending on whether it fell on the land surface, freshwater lake, or shallow sea; into a...a saline, alkaline lake; or into the ocean. LAND SURFACES Zeolites can form as the result of meteoric...ash or pyroclastic deposits that settled on the land surface, into freshwater lakes, or into a shallow...glassy ash. This ash was carried by the air onto the land surface where it is reworked by streams, shallow | | | Book | | volcanic ash and larger pyroclastic material on the land surface; in freshwater lakes; shallow marine seas;...different processes depending on whether it fell on the land surface, freshwater lake, or shallow sea; into a...a saline, alkaline lake; or into the ocean. LAND SURFACES Zeolites can form as the result of meteoric...ash or pyroclastic deposits that settled on the land surface, into freshwater lakes, or into a shallow...glassy ash. This ash was carried by the air onto the land surface where it is reworked by streams, shallow |  | | Catalog/List | | micros in one area (Sonnblick, Rauris, Salzburg,Germany) £15 ALMANDINE, quite sharp dark red single crystal...Ontario, Canada) £9 ALMANDINE a large single dark red crystal just over one inch size, with a smaller garnet...grey-white crystals on 2x3.5 inch surface. (Croft Quarry,Leicestershire) £5 ANATASE sharp black single crystal...cacoxenite rich area on magnetite lxlxl .5 Levaeniemi Mine, Norbotten Sweden £6 CALCITE good covering of...nodule location near Ely, Cambridgeshire. 2x3 £4 CALCITE large colourless, translucent rhombic crystal about |  | | Catalog/List | | crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent...so 4mm dark blue-grey crystals scattered over calcite phlogopite matrix, Betroka Madagascar 2x3 inch...covering, on quartz crystals on dolomite matrix. Area of crystals about 2.5 x2.5 inch (Bou Azzer Morocco)...SODALI TE excellent FLUORESCENT (Long wave) orange area about 5x 3inches in Syenite Tvedalen, Larvik Norway...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 21. HYDROZINCITE visible with |  | | Book (edition) | | opaque mineral to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on...only about distance from a better known town in the area but also about the administrative regional units...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....historical names of regions is preferred here, e.g. Upper Silesia, Moravia and Transylvania. Some names of...deposits of the central United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...in a very restricted area, though the Jackfork Sandstone has quite a wide area. This quartzite is beautifully...orbicular quartzite will have a certain amount of red cinnabar adhering to it." CALIFORNIA — An anonymous...40-ft. thickness of the sill is exposed, to its upper contact with intruded shales. The fine-grained diabase...only two spots, about 100 feet apart. One is on red uranium-bearing sandstone and one is on black roscoelite-type |  | | Journal (issue) | | toward a west window at my side, and saw a glare of red light and clouds of vapor rising over eastern Pennsylvania...inch of pure white fat, then thinner layers of dark red and white, alternately. I asked her why she called...girls. A lighted cigar stump was thrown from an upper window in this city. A young man saw it fall, evidently...learned that Marriot and Son had bought the Oneco quarry and were working it (the one which we had first...had been abandoned. Here is an example of how a quarry might receive a wrong name by a careless collector |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals. Good display piece. Vambori, Ahmedhagar District, Maharashtra State, lndia about 5x2.5 inches £70...quite rich lxl .5 inch area of the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen...inch. £25 12. ROSASITE small blue c1ystals in an area about Ix2 on 2x2 matrix, good location piece and...Likasi Mine, Katanga Congo £25 14. SIDERITE rich red-brown cleavages with some minor Quaitz. 3x2.5 inches...quartz Mt Ste Hilaire Quebec Canada about a half inch area i Ix! .5 matrix £12 21. LEPIDOLITE pure mass of |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................................. minerals of austria by dr. richard braithwaite 18 ...................an excellent speaker and with such an interesting area of the country to cover, we were not totally surprised...number of rock, fossil and mineral specimens from the area of the northern Pennines which the members were...certainly it should raise our profile within the area (The hall actually seats 400 and so will test the...throughout October with the final event at Ton Mawr Quarry in South Wales. Although discoveries have been |  | Staude, S., Mordhorst, T., Neumann, R., Prebeck, W., Markl, G. (2010) Compositional variation of the tennantite–tetrahedrite solid-solution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid source. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (2) 309-339 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.2.309 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tetrahedrite solidsolution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes...(‘fahlore’) from 78 locations in the Schwarzwald ore district of SW Germany. Electron microprobe analysis is...composition with very small trace-element content. Red-bed-hosted fahlore formed by fluid mixing is tennantite...enriched in Hg that probably has its source in the red-bed sediments. Fahlore formed from granite-related...fahlore, tennantite, tetrahedrite, Schwarzwald ore district, Black Forest, hydrothermal mineralization. Introduction |  | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....mineral specimens. JO Figure 6. Silver crystals in calcite, 9.5 cm, from Batopilas, Mexico. The Dohrmann catalogue...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically...Canada (5 specimens), the Bell mine in the Butte district, Montana (1 specimen), and the Gould & Curry mine...mines; and a number of wulfenite specimens from the Red Cloud mine (listed as "Yuma County") in Arizona. |
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Red Quarry, Pechgraben area, Laussa, Steyr-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria