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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tin mine, Altenberg, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:77503
Long-form Identifier:1:3:77503:4
GUID (UUID V4):46f0d07d-fa8f-47a3-b7e3-552a029e85f2
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
9.1km (5.7 miles) Moldava deposit, Moldava, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
10.7km (6.6 miles) Knöttel area, Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
10.8km (6.7 miles) Sadisdorf, Dippoldiswalde, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
10.8km (6.7 miles) Barbora adit, Knöttel area, Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
10.9km (6.7 miles) Siebenschläfer adit, Knöttel area, Krupka, Teplice District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
16.0km (9.9 miles) Berggießhübel (Berggiesshübel), Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
25.0km (15.5 miles) Altväter samt Eschig Mine, Sayda, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
27.5km (17.1 miles) Niederbobritzsch, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
28.9km (17.9 miles) Nikolai adit, Hora Svaté Kateřiny, Most District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
29.8km (18.5 miles) Naundorf Granite quarry, Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sammlungen Brennhausgasse 14 09599 Freiberg, Germany andreas.massanek@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de Downloaded...Schloss Freudenstein Schlossplatz 4 09599 Freiberg, Germany christina.seifert@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de Figure...KRÜGERHAUS A New Permanent Exhibition in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany 212 ROCKS & MINERALS N ative silver, in...mineral localities in just Germany. Figure 3 (above). Krügerhaus in Freiberg, Germany. Detlev Müller photo...Churprinz Friedrich August mine, Großschirma, near Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Jeff Scovil photo. A Mineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...penetration type. Associated minerals include sphalerite, galena, siderite, and quartz. Casts of quartz after fluorite...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in a tin granite ± case study from the Schellerhau Granite Complex, Eastern Erzgebirge, Germany Received:...history of tin-bearing granitic magma forming the Schellerhau granites (Eastern Erzgebirge, Germany) is shown...evolved residual melts that enable the formation of tin deposits. This study contributes to a better understanding...of the development and behaviour of fractionated tin-bearing granitic melts, and links quartz cathodoluminescence...GoÈttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 3, D-37077 GoÈttingen, Germany e-mail: amuelle6@gwdg.de R. Seltmann GeoForschungsZentrum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oregon; argyrodite (a silver sulphide germanate), Germany, Bolivia. On the other hand, there are many well...in hydrothermal zinc-lead deposit. Here occur: galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, jamsonite, bournonite...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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BARITE–FLUORITE VEINS OF THE ERZGEBIRGE, EASTERN GERMANY: EVIDENCE FROM OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY...Talstraße 31, 09627 Bobritzsch, OT Niederbobritzsch, Germany THOMAS MONECKE§ Geological Survey of Canada, Natural...Potsdam, Telegrafenberg B120, D–14473 Potsdam, Germany ABSTRACT The optical absorption spectra of yellow...barite–fluorite veins of the Erzgebirge, eastern Germany, are characterized by a broad absorption band with...fluorite, hydrothermal vein deposits, Erzgebirge, Germany. SOMMAIRE Les spectres dʼabsorption optique de
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polymetallic veins in the Freiberg district, Erzgebirge, Germany: constraints from radiogenic isotopes Jörg Ostendorf...Accepted: 10 September 2018 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The Freiberg...Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany 2 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural...30655 Hannover, Germany 3 Present address: Schubertstr. 10, 30900 Wedemark, Germany 4 Helmholtz Zentrum...Freiberg, Germany The Freiberg mining district, located in the eastern Erzgebirge of Germany, is well
Book (volume)
Upper Styria 6. Tin-Stone as a Primary Segregation in Granitic Rocks. The Etta Knob Tin Deposit of the...Schluckenau, in Northeastern Bohemia, and at Sohland, in Saxony (e) Arsenious Nickel Ores in the Serpentine of...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
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...is associated with, among others, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite...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
Catalog/List
with smaller sharp Anglesite crystals and a little Galena. 2~x2xlt". f.23.00. NATIVE ARSENIC. Burraton Coombe...}~-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
Book
Netherlands. Back cover The museum ldar-Oberstein. West-Germany. is quaintly situated beneath the Felsenkirche...Copyright 1986 by . Ulrich Burchard, Lalling, West-Germany All rights reserved including the right of reproduction...Printed in Germany Miscellaneous: Design & Lay Out by Rainer Bode, Haltern, West-Germany Type set by...Wurzburg, West-Germany Colour separations by Litho Thungen GmbH, Thungen, West-Germany H. Bari, Musee...Printed by Sellier Druck GmbH, Freising, West-Germany 6 Gasull, Museo de Geologia, Barcelona 249; V
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;...Association: species. Pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, gold, scheelite, cassiterite, many other Distribution:...mentioned. In Germany, from Altenberg, Ehrenfriedersdorf, and Freiberg, Saxony. In the Stari Trg mine, Trepča
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)
locality); 8. tin granites and greisens of Cornwall, England, and France; 9. Erzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany;...Gilgit pegmatite district and Katlang, Pakistan; 13. Tin granites of Jos plateau district, Nigeria; 14. Namibia... gem gravels of Sri Lanka; 18. Myanmar-Thailand tin pegmatite belt; 19. Transbaikal area (includes pegmatites...May 2015 Figure 3 (above). Topaz, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. NMNH specimen...131821. figure 9 (left). Topaz, 10.5 em long, Dassu mine, BaItNan, Pakistan. NMNH specimen 165994. figure
Report (issue)
Optical Properties: Opaque. Color: Lead-gray to tin-white, with a yellowish or iridescent tarnish. Streak:...Association: Bismuth, aikinite, arsenopyrite, stannite, galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite, tourmaline, wolframite,...Mexico. In the USA, large crystals at the Victoria mine, Dolly Varden district, Elko Co.; in a number of...(Rézbánya), Romania. At Schneeberg and Altenberg, Saxony, Germany. From a number of mines in Cornwall,... England. In the Mt. Biggenden mine, Queensland, Australia. At Fefena, Madagascar. Exceptional crystals
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). Translation This book has book of but ...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... 18. Mimetite, 19. Various Native I. II. Galena, Cerussite, III. Phos- dorffite, Tungsten... Glauco- Erythrite. compounds. Wolframite, Tin-ore. Rho- Gers- Garnierite. Molybdenum Cuprouranite
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...nepheline hexakisoctahedron System The Cubic cube galena pentagonal dodecahedron tetrahedron tristetrahedron...split in several directions, i.e. rock salt and galena into cubes, fluorspar into octahedra, and calcite...planes. (See drawing) Cleavage (left to right): galena, fluorite and calcite Fracture Some minerals,
Book
others containing elements of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the magma...specific ores, such as molybdenum, tungsten and tin orcs, from hot gases and vapour, is called pneumatolysis...octahedron rhombododecahedron' trisoctahedron galena icositetrahedron pentagonal dodecahedron hexakisoctahedron...split in several directions, i.e. rock salt and galena into cubes, fluorspar into octahedra, and calcite...planes. (See drawing) i-l Cleavage (left to right): galena, fluorite and calcite Fracture Some minerals,
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... occur in the veins. Copper ores, zinc-blende, galena, etc., occasionally occur. the gangues mentioned...been found in the Schneeberg parts. resemble the tin lodes. 1 This structure is common at the Drumlummon
Catalog/List
large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer large the an "iron...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... 5. Galenite, or red, malleable, metallic Galena, or a pale odor. ductile. lead-gray, perfect
Report (issue)
Variation in fineness of gold with depth, Lily mine, Transvaal, South Jlfrica ---------------------...pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, molybdenite, tellurides, selenides, magnetite...(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)
are: chalcopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite,sphalerite,galena,arsenopyrite,bornire, and chalcocite. Many lessersulphidessuchas...areof greatimportance, asfor example, cassiteritein tin ores. Thoughby no meansrigidly limitedto cer- ß 585...chalcopyrite,pyrrhotite,sphalerite,arsenopyrite,galena, bornire,chalcocite, pentlandire, cubanire, corellite...(65) .... x x x x x x x x x x x x x Ashley Mine, Ont. (95) ................. Atikokan, Ont. (45)...Beattie Mine, Que. (30) ................ x x x x x Several x Altenberg, Saxony, Germany (58) ..
Catalog/List
crystalline xllized - crystallized MM - micromount TIN -thumbnail size Fl. - fluorescent P. - phosphorescent....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on limonite gossen...silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite . ...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal
Catalog/List
PHONE (406) 363 3601 A.JOITE CRYSTALS New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Hydrated copper aluminum... ANHYDRITE CRYSTALS Sonderhausen, South Harz, Germany. Calcium sulfate. Single sharp rectangular crystals...and S7. 50. BOURNONITE COGWHEEL CRYSTALS Keystone mine, Crested Butte, Colorado. A lead copper antimony...xls on matrix, T/N $. 50, $1. 00 AMOSITE Penge mine, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. A basic...$7.50 and $9. 50. ARSENOLITE CRYSTALS White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nevada. Arsenic trioxide. Very sharp
Book
others containing elements of rare earths, such as tin and tungsten ores. Finally the remainder of the magma...specifit ores, such as n1olybdenun1, tungsten and tin ores, from h1)t gases and vapour, is called p11e11111atolysis...split in several directions, i.e. rock salt and galena into cubes, fluorspar into octahedra, and calcite...drawing) t-i 1- - i Cleavage ( left to right): galena, fluorite a11d calcite Fracture Some minerals...the metals. Opaque ore minerals, such as pyrite, galena, etc., display a metallic lustre, and possess a
 
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