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Pyrrhotite from
Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:77475
Long-form Identifier:1:3:77475:2
GUID (UUID V4):29b20169-ed3d-43d0-a088-252138aad718
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
9.1km (5.7 miles) Moldava deposit, Moldava, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
10.8km (6.7 miles) Sadisdorf, Dippoldiswalde, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
16.0km (9.9 miles) Berggießhübel (Berggiesshübel), Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
28.9km (17.9 miles) Nikolai adit, Hora Svaté Kateřiny, Most District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
32.8km (20.4 miles) Thurmhofschacht, Himmelfahrt Mine, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
33.1km (20.5 miles) Beschert Glück Mine, Zug, Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
38.1km (23.7 miles) Ansprung quarry, Zöblitz, Marienberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
41.4km (25.7 miles) Alte Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Kleinvoigtsberg, Großschirma, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
42.8km (26.6 miles) Bräunsdorf, Oberschöna, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
43.0km (26.7 miles) Munzig, Klipphausen, Meissen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...northern England, particularly from the Rogerley mine, has made these classic specimens available once...localities. The mines of Cornwall have been mined for tin at least since the time of the Roman Empire. Later...copper. Besides providing excellent examples of tin and copper minerals, Cornwall has provided a wealth...made of the complex crystals from the Trevaunce mine, St. Agnes. The crystals on the Smithsonian specimens
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
author Variscan lamprophyres occur in the greisen tin-, tungsten- and molybdenum-ore district of Krupka...microgranites and mafic dykes associated with late Variscan tin-bearing granites and include minettes, kersantites...magmatic activity, which produced isolated lah c Altenberg Cze blic Sn u vas, feeding necks or dykes of p...location of the Cínovec/Zinnwald, Krupka and Altenberg Sn–W–Mo deposits (modified from Wasternack et...rhyolites (predominantly ignimbrites) related to the Altenberg–Teplice Caldera (ATC) (Mlčoch and Skáce- lová
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oregon; argyrodite (a silver sulphide germanate), Germany, Bolivia. On the other hand, there are many well...in Colyn region W. of r. Dniepr. ANDREASBERG, Germany, S E Oberharz mountain range, lead-zinc deposit...arsen, hormotone, analcime, desmin. FREIBERG, Saxony, Germany, old famous mineral, classic locality. Native...Annaberg, Johanngeorgenstadt, Schneeberg, all in Saxony. Here have been discovered minerals: annabergite...Belgium, the most known are lead-zinc deposits Altenberg and Stolberg, very good specimens so called Schalenblende
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
September 1929. while on a rather hurried visit to the tin mines and china clay deposits of Cornwall, England...England, Captain M. T. Taylor of the East Pool Mine near Camborne, gave the writer a specimenthat was very...by Ferguson and Bateman in "Geologic Features of Tin Deposits"l as occurring in Cornish mines, the specimencontains...addition, a ninth which they do not mention, namely, pyrrhotite. Nor does MacAlister in his "Geologic Aspects...this mineral. It was thought at first that the pyrrhotite might possibly be stannite which although a very
Report (issue)
c = 5.785(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Freiberg, Germany. 2.677 (100), 2.662 (100), 2.418 (95), 2.412 (95)...01 19.69 Total 99.97 101.16 100.00 (1) O’Brien mine, Cobalt, Canada. (2) Franklin, New Jersey, USA....in pegmatites, high-temperature gold-quartz and tin veins, and in contact metamorphic sulfide deposits;...other metamorphic rocks. Association: species. Pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, gold, scheelite...mentioned. In Germany, from Altenberg, Ehrenfriedersdorf, and Freiberg, Saxony. In the Stari Trg mine, Trepča
Catalog/List
}~-x2ixli". £l6.5o. NATIVE B~5MUTH. Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Very rich vein section consisting of feathery...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...cavities. lixl-!;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite...mm. 2x2xl-t". £13.00. 15. BROCHANTITE. Mammoth Mine, Tintic District, Utah, U.S.A. Bright, deep green
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
number of occurrences,are: chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite,sphalerite,galena,arsenopyrite,bornire, and chalcocite...areof greatimportance, asfor example, cassiteritein tin ores. Thoughby no meansrigidly limitedto cer- ß 585...most closelyassociated sulphidestherefore are pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite,and sphalerite. Becauseof...probablymuchmore of an effect than even large amountsof pyrrhotite. Thus geophysical prospecting may be moresuccessful...sulphides,includingparticularly pyrite, chalcopyrite,pyrrhotite,sphalerite,arsenopyrite,galena, bornire,chalcocite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in the Eibenstock granite, Erzgebirge, Germany: Considering effects of zircon alteration Received:...September 2004  Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract Tin mineralisation is closely related to rhyolite stocks...exocontact of the Eibenstock granite, Erzgebirge, Germany. The same structures which cut the granite control...bodies. Albitisation and greisenisation related to tin mineralisation as well as sericitisation and argillic...Eibenstock granite cannot be regarded as a source for tin-ore forming fluids as previously assumed. U. Kempe
Book (volume)
Upper Styria 6. Tin-Stone as a Primary Segregation in Granitic Rocks. The Etta Knob Tin Deposit of the...Nickeliferous Pyrrhotite at Schweidrich near Schluckenau, in Northeastern Bohemia, and at Sohland, in Saxony (e)...Spherosiderites Carbonaceous Iron Ores of Upper Silesia and Saxony Carbonaceous Iron Ores of Great Britain The Iron...Oxidic Ores I. Veins of Iron and Manganese Ores II. Tin Veins (fc) Deposits Characterized by Metallic Sulphides...Veins of the Tin Ore Class 4. Tin Veins I. General Remarks II. The Tin Deposits of Altenberg, Zinnwald and
Report (issue)
Variation in fineness of gold with depth, Lily mine, Transvaal, South Jlfrica ---------------------...with gold (Lincoln, 1911; Schwartz, 1944) are pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena...(ppm) Remarks Reference Elements Arsenic, As Germany, Andreasberg, Harz ___ _ Copper, Cu Norway, Kviteseid...------------~--------1-5 Chile, Corrizatillo --------------5-10 Germany, Biihl, near Kassel _____ _ .5 Czechoslovakia,... Noddack and Noddack (1931). Argentite, AgsS Germany, Freiberg 200 >1,000 4 Two samples _ Do.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
largely in British hands, whereas before the War Germany absorbed the greater part of the woild's output...mineral association forms an excellent example of the tin-tungstenfluorine paragenesis, which, as will be seen...well-known mining district of the Erzgebirge in Saxony and Bohemia. The ancient crystalline rocks of the...districts richest in mineral veins are those of Altenberg, Zinnwald, Graupen, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Geyer,... Eibenstock, and Johanngeorgenstadt. At Altenberg the ores occur in the form of a stockwork in the quartzporphyry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nonferrous metal deposits (copper, lead-zinc, tungsten, tin, gold, molybdenum, arsenic, etc. ) of practically...bismuth content is determined not lead-zinc, tungsten-tin, and iron ore) deposits by any one- type, but by...bismuth-containing lead-zinc, copper, tungsten and tin deposits belonging to corresponding ore formations...which is due to the manifestation of the bismuth-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite type (UsfArasay, Central Asia; the...mineralization listed in Table 1. tungsten and volcanogenic tin (tungsten) polymetallic deposits. Taking as a basis
Journal (issue)
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY OF TIN BY FRANK L. HESS and EVA HESS (PUBLICATION 1987^)...France 84 French Guiana 89 84 85 Georgia 89 Germany 89 Greenland 96 Honduras 97 Idaho 97 India...work was engaged in looking up authorities upon tin deposits, no list of the papers on even such noted...noted occurrences as those of Great Britain, Germany, or the Malay Peninsula was to be found, while it...publication. Since the work was begun Sydney Fawns' " Tin Deposits of the World " has appeared, but the list
Book (volume)
type is the cobalt district of Schneeberg, in Saxony, a mountainous region 1,300 to 1,600 feet (400...older and a younger. The older veins include tin deposits, the quartz-copper veins and pyriticlead...minerals include smaltite in two varieties, one tin-white, the other a gray granular or crystalline variety...been found in the Schneeberg parts. resemble the tin lodes. 1 This structure is common at the Drumlummon...Schneeberg are now owned by the Eoyal Treasury of Saxony and by the Sachsiche Privat-Blaufarbenwerks-Verein
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany 5 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...alluvial tin deposits near Steinberg, Zschorlau, Erzgebirge (Saxonian Ore Mountains), Saxony, Germany, and...from cotype localities for schorl (alluvial tin deposits and tin mines in the Erzgebirge, including Zschorlau)...localities in the Erzgebirge (former tin mines in Saxony, Germany, and Krušné Hory Mts., Bohemia, Czech...because a village known today as Zschorlau (in Saxony, Germany) was then named ‘‘Schorl’’ (or minor variants
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
superb example of the mineral. It was from Saxony, Germany, and was to me at that time a thing of beauty...National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock...examples at the present time are from the Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, where it occurs...with enargite and fluorite come from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (D. Bunk
Book
Congress Catalog Card No. 66-17809 Printed in Germany 08 011635 3 PREFACE TO THE T H I R D (GERMAN)...N , Troy, New York, USA G. FRIEDRICH, Aachen, Germany H . FROHBERG, Toronto, Canada R. L A GANZA, North...Pullman, Washington R. A. ZIMMERMANN, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Bamdohr, Theorie Minerals XVÜ ABBREVIATIONS...metals in definite localities (e.g., the geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an...dunites. Of sulphides: pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite ("nickeliferous pyrrhotite") in norites and
Catalog/List
mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the...Molybdenum Glance, or molybdenum sulphide, Altenberg, Saxony. 10. Keweenaw Copper, or Peacock Co
Book (volume)
and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...21-30. Schweigger's J. See J. Chemie u. Phys. Schweiz. min. Mitt. Schweizerische mineralogische und petrographische...Mineralsystem. 8vo, Vienna, 1853. Die Minerale der Schweiz. 460 pp., Leipzig, 1866. (1866). Kirwan (1784-1810)... Tantalum 1110 Zinc Schreibersite Siderazot Tin 12 121 1211 1212 1213 1214 1215 122 1221 1222
Book (edition)
298 300 302 304 306 308 310 312 314 316 318 Pyrrhotite Smythite Nickeline Breithauptite Freboldite Polarite...Affiliation/Address Luzerner Str. 10-12, D-12205 Berlin, Germany – Freie Universität Berlin, FB Geowissenschaften...Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank...Stilleweg 2, D-30655 HanDr. Thomas Oberthür nover, Germany Dr. Thomas Kenkmann Museum für Naturkunde der ... zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik & Ludwig-Maximilians
Book
Adolf Seilacher 32 Bernd Lehmann Metallogeny of Tin Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York London...Spnnger-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990 Pnnted in Germany Printing and b~ndmg Druckhaus Beltz, Hemsbach/Bergstr...fire setting in the Geyer tin deposit, Erzgebirge, 18th century. Sheeted tin-bearing veins with greisenized...note the importance of hydrothermal overprint in tin ore formation based on the observation of the gradual...search for tin dates back to the earliest days of civilization. For about 40 years, world tin mining has
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). Translation This book has book of but ...144, Iron-pyrites 148, 143 Group Marcasite Pyrrhotite 149. Lollingite 147. Mispickel 150. 151 ...Lead 101. Copper-pyrites Copper-vitriol Mercury mine 46 crystals 101, nite Cuprite 107. 100. Copper-glance...Hypersthene Amphibole Group Uranium Compounds Tin 311 Bronzite, Spodumene 179. Wolframite 310... Glauco- Erythrite. compounds. Wolframite, Tin-ore. Rho- Gers- Garnierite. Molybdenum Cuprouranite
Book
and arsenic, 188 ores of vanadium, ; ores of tin, 193 ; ores of molybdenum, 199 193 ores of tungsten...elastic, sectile. : platinum, iron, copper, zinc, tin, lead gold, silver, ; and shown by the ease with...as could be flattened : gold, silver, copper, tin, platinum, lead, zinc, iron. A mineral to its...high magnetic permeability, such as magnetite, pyrrhotite, and haematite, are first removed by a weak permanent...from barytes, sulphides of copper from oxide of tin, etc. when Similarly, a diamantiferous " "
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sn-mineralized granites—examples from the Erzgebirge, Germany Rolf L. Romer & Rainer Thomas & Holly J. Stein...Springer-Verlag 2006 Abstract Granites and primary tin mineralization in the Erzgebirge were dated using...and 320.6±1.9 and 319.7± 3.4 Ma (2σ, both Sauberg mine), in agreement with U–Pb apatite ages of 323.9±2...9±2.9 and 317.3±1.6 Ms (2σ, both Sauberg mine). Rb–Sr analysis of melt inclusions from Zinnwald gives highly...Re–Os dating of two molybdenite samples from Altenberg provides ages of 323.9±2.5 and 317.9±2.4 Ma (2σ)
Book
concentrated, together of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the...specific ores, such as molybdenum, tungsten and tin ores, from hot gases and vapour, is called pneumatolysis...rhombohedron scalenohedron The HexagonalHI ery] pyrrhotite i corundum System octahedron > & zincite...distinguished from other minerals. Magnetite and pyrrhotite being themselves magnetic, attract iron dust...interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves
 
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