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Muscovite from
Lengenbach Quarry, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dolomiteⓘ6 photos of Muscovite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Pyriteⓘ3 photos of Muscovite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Oellacheriteⓘ2 photos of Muscovite associated with Oellacherite at this locality.
Tennantite Subgroupⓘ2 photos of Muscovite associated with Tennantite Subgroup at this locality.
Baryteⓘ1 photo of Muscovite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Realgarⓘ1 photo of Muscovite associated with Realgar at this locality.
Liveingiteⓘ1 photo of Muscovite associated with Liveingite at this locality.
Jordaniteⓘ1 photo of Muscovite associated with Jordanite at this locality.
Lengenbachiteⓘ1 photo of Muscovite associated with Lengenbachite at this locality.
Scapoliteⓘ1 photo of Muscovite associated with Scapolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lengenbach Quarry, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (12 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7944
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7944:0
GUID (UUID V4):8934e611-337f-468e-be30-141507dab886
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘSchwarzenbach, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘMĂ€sserbach, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘFiggerscha, FĂ€ld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘGorb, LĂ€rchultini, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘMichibach, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘWyssi FlĂŒe, Freichi area, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
1.5km (0.9 miles) ⓘFlĂŒetosse, FĂ€ldbach valley, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
1.6km (1.0 miles) ⓘVordere Chollergrabe, LĂ€rchultini, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
2.0km (1.3 miles) ⓘHinnere Chollergrabe, LĂ€rchultini, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘTurtschi, Giessen, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures were discovered...in particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding...mineral locality in the Alps, namely, the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal. In 1958, due to the initiative
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TlPbAsS3, a new sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland NICOLAS MEISSER1,*, PHILIPPE...discovered in the Lengenbach quarry, Imfeld, Binn Valley, Canton Valais, Switzerland, intimately associated...knowledge of the Lengenbach mineralogy during the ïŹrst ïŹ‚ourishing period of Lengenbach investigations,...thallium; arsenic; crystal structure; Lengenbach; Binn Valley; Switzerland. un 10 MusĂ©e cantonal de gĂ©ologie...Lausanne, Anthropole, Dorigny, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland *Corresponding author, e-mail: nicolas.meisser@unil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Review The Lengenbach Quarry in Switzerland: Classic Locality for Rare Thallium Sulfosalts... * † Lengenbach Research Association (Forschungsgemeinschaft Lengenbach, FGL), Gemeinde Binn, Dorfstr...Dorfstr. 11, 3996 Binn, Switzerland Swiss Seismological Service, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstr. 5, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;...Switzerland; phroth@sunrise.ch Correspondence: thomas.raber@kabelbw.de Anniversary publication—60 years...years of continuous mineral search at Lengenbach and 15 years of FGL. Received: 11 July 2018; Accepted:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geochemistry in the metamorphic Lengenbach sulfide deposit, Switzerland: Thallium-isotope fractionation...Gutenberg-UniversitÀt Mainz, Germany 1 Abstract The Lengenbach (Switzerland) Pb-As-Tl-Zn deposit was formed from a...from the Alpine metamorphic Lengenbach deposit in the Binn Valley of Switzerland, the non-metamorphic Wiesloch...SW of the Lengenbach deposit, which has been discussed as potential source of the Lengenbach metals. (2)...(2) LA-ICP-MS analyses of micas from the Lengenbach deposit and surrounding country rocks between the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and genesis of the Lengenbach Pb-Zn-As-Tl-Ba-mineralisation, Binn Valley, Switzerland B.A. Hofmann i, M...Museum of Bern, Bernastrasse 15, CH-3005 Bern, Switzerland 2Institute of Isotope Geology and Mineral Resources...Ziirich, Switzerland Received: I February 1995/Accepted: 10 January 1996 Abstract. The Lengenbach Pb-Zn-As-TI-Ba...mineral component. The genesis of the unique Lengenbach mineralisation is interpreted as the result of...of the Lengenbach mineralisation The Lengenbach mineral occurrence in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland
Journal (issue)
and A. Palmstrom The Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland......................Joseph Imhof Famous Mineral Localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland 275 by Stefan Graeser Rare Earth Minerals...Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...g e n b a c h q u a rry , B in n a V a lle y , Valais, S w itz e rla n d (see a rtic le s in th is issue...KELLER-WILDI, W yhlenweg 40 CH 4 1 2 6 Bettingen, Switzerland ★ Cabinet specimens ★ Miniatures ★ Thumbnails
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the private Bally foundation at Schonenwerd, Switzerland; and the Folch Museum at Barcelona, Spain. Because...Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly because they...rose", 10cm across, from Fibbia, St Gotthard, Switzerland. lnstitut fur Mineralogie und Lagerstattenlehre...contain minerals and rocks from the famous pegmatite quarry at Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. A further 600...FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Sant’Olga tunnel excavated in the quartz‑muscovite schists with tourmalinite layers progressively...Pb11Sb13S30(S2)0.5, a new mineral from the Ceragiola marble quarry, Apuan Alps: Occurrence and crystal structure....Pb11Sb13S30(S2)0.5, is a new sulfosalt discovered at the quarry in the Ceragiola area, near Seravezza, Apuan Alps...Tl-bearing sulfosalt from the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Switzerland: Philrothite, TlAs3S5. Mineralogical...new mineral from the Lengenbach quarry in the Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland. Philrothite was found
Report (issue)
9.12 Z = 18 X-ray Powder Pattern: Binntal, Switzerland. (ICDD 16-700). 2.702 (100), 3.15 (80), 1.887...30.34 25.97 Total 100.8 100.00 (1) Binntal, Switzerland; by electron microprobe. (2) AgAsS2 . Polymorphism...(Binntal, Switzerland). Association: Seligmannite, tennantite, pyrite, chromian muscovite (Binntal,... Switzerland). Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais, Switzerland [TL]. At Niederbeerbach
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cornwall, xxvii. Bethany meteorite, 35. Binnenthal (Switzerland) minerals, xxxiv, xliii, 16, 72, 184, 204, 212...determining sp. gr. of grains, xxviii. Hamlinite from Binn, 389. Harrington (B. J.), formula of bornite, 121...Morphotropic relations, 822. Mukerop meteorite, 34. Muscovite from German East Africa, 179. - - Naegite, 117~...a n d Solly (R. H.), zineiferous tennantite from Binn, xlii. -and Zambonini (F.), strfiverite, xlii. Projections...- - and Prior (G. T.), red silver minerals from Binn, 288. Smithite, 74, 298, 409. Smythe (J. A.), analysis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cornwall, xxvii. Bethany meteorite, 35. Binnenthal (Switzerland) minerals, xxxiv, xliii, 16, 72, 184, 204, 212...determining sp. gr. of grains, xxviii. Hamlinite from Binn, 389. Harrington (B. J.), formula of bornite, 121...Morphotropic relations, 822. Mukerop meteorite, 34. Muscovite from German East Africa, 179. - - Naegite, 117~...a n d Solly (R. H.), zineiferous tennantite from Binn, xlii. -and Zambonini (F.), strfiverite, xlii. Projections...- - and Prior (G. T.), red silver minerals from Binn, 288. Smithite, 74, 298, 409. Smythe (J. A.), analysis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The metasomatc rocks are composed of quartz and muscovite with disseminations of almandine–spessartine garnet...as well-cut crystals is the Lengenbach mineral occurrence in Switzerland (Baumhauer, 1901), which has...Vol. 59 No. 8 2017 tmann et al., 2014). The Lengenbach occurrence is hosted in Triassic dolomite that...(5) Hemlo, Canada (Harris, 1989); (6) Lengenbach, Switzerland (Palache, 1928). mannite series, was considered...type Berezitovoe, Far East, Russian Au–Ag–Pb–Zn Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzer- Pb–Zn–As–Tl land Rajpura-Dariba
Book (edition)
grey) fills gaps produced by cleavage of foliated muscovite (dark). Right: Kink-banding of layered molybdite...Internal Twinning Reflect. Coffinite Chrysocolla Muscovite isotropic, many scratches suggest otherwise ...oxidised iron grain, silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry BĂŒhl, Weimar near Kassel, Hessen, Germany (sample:...goethite (?, dark line), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry BĂŒhl near Kassel, Germany (sample: Hanel/Altherr);...part of grain), silicate matrix (dark grey); Stahl quarry, Dörrmorsbach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franken
Catalog/List
botryoidal , small display piece 2x3 Boyleston Quarry, Glasgow Scotland 1 £10 20. ANA‱LCIME around a...small 2x2 matrix, good location piece -- Boyleston Quarry south\ofGlasgow, Scotland £8, b) lxl with less...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 28. HYDROXYL-HERDERITE good pale...colourless glassy crystals on large 1x 1 inch rock OAS quarry near Rome Italy £8 32. CALCITE pseudomorph after... quite good coverage with Augite Call Del Peer quarry, Light di Montecompatri Rome Italy) 2x2cm £ I O
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in veins in an altered diorite, New Cliffe Hill quarry, Stanton-upon-Bardon, Leicestershire, U.K. Hawthorne...region. Found in cavities within marble, Gioia quarry, Colonnata Valley, Carrara region, Apuan Alps,...Found in a nepheline syenite dyke in the Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec. Johnsen...P1̄ Named after the discovery locality, the Gold Quarry mine. Found as a supergene mineral between fragments...fragments in a sample of jasperoid breccia, Gold Quarry Au mine, near Carlin, Eureka County, Nevada. Roberts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the pegmatite from a blast pile at the Poudrette quarry, Mont Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld...remobilized. Associated minerals mainly include quartz, muscovite, hydroxylapatite, and palermoite. Minjiangite...isolated grains included in an intimate mixture of muscovite, quartz, and hydroxylapatite. It forms subhedral...routhierite isotypic series from Lengenbach, Binn Valley, Switzerland. Mineralogical Magazine, 79(5),...accumulations in dolostone of the Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland. This well-known deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfosalts, and melt inclusions from the Lengenbach deposit, Switzerland, as well as amphiboles and astrophyllite...ppm in baumhauerite (Pb3As4S9) from Lengenbach Quarry, Switzerland (LEN-B) (Table 2). In general, Tl was...silicate samples, including K-feldspar, biotite, muscovite, hastingsite, and scapolite, among others. Generally...outlier baumhauerite sample from Lengenbach Quarry in 13 Switzerland (LEN-B) and two samples from La...compositions, with higher Δ205Tl values attributed to muscovite samples and more moderate to lower Δ205Tl values
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J.D. Grice. 1994. Can. Min. 32, 843. Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada. Na26REE(S...silver-free baumhauerite in dolomite at Lengenbach, Binntal, Valais Canton, negative, 2Vmeas. 41 ~ at 1.629...Named for Arthur Roe, mineral collector from Switzerland. Average composition Tucson, Arizona. Pbl lAg0...metamorphic rocks from the Monte Rosa Massif (Switzerland) and Dora Maira Massif (Italy). Ca2AI[POn]2(OH)...g/cm3. Optically biaxial positive. 2V ship to muscovite. 58.62 ~ et 1.743, 13 1.760, ~/ 1.820. Named for
Catalog/List
CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near.Zermatt,Switzerland) W x « £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...fibrous on' 2cm white dolomite. ' (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 163 GALENA Lead Sulphide
Journal (issue)
their layered atomic structure. Of the micas, muscovite, phlogopite, and lepidolite are of the most economic...general formula : by MARK C. BLAZEK Descriptions MUSCOVITE, KA1 2 (A1Si 3) 0 10 (OH)2 : In any discussion...transparent and colorless). Its specific name, muscovite, appears to have originated from the old popular...of glass. Many will recall the frequent use of muscovite on the front door of Grandma's old iron stove... of course, the silvery appearance of ground muscovite makes it desirable for various decorative purposes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Trimouns Quarry Luzenac, AriĂšge, France Freddy Marty Rue de l’HĂŽpital 11230-Chalabre France In recent...recent decades, the Trimouns quarry has become well known as a source of outstanding crystals of several...reference to the three peaks that overlook the quarry. Langue d’Oc is a regional language of Latin The...LittĂ©raires et Industrielles de l’AriĂšge. In 1905 the quarry was acquired by the SociĂ©tĂ© des Talcs de Luzenac...producer of talc at 1.3 million tonnes per year. The quarry employed some 100 workers at the beginning of the
Book (volume)
L'Ossola ... .. .. . . . . .. Cap. XXXIII - La Val di Binn .. . .. . Cap. XXXIV - Zone del Grimsel e della...Go­ schener Alp nel cantone di U ri, la Valle di Binn e le zone del Grimsel e della Furka nell'alto Vallese...ancora oggi. esistono famiglie, quali gli Imhof di Binn, i Caveng di Sedrun e gli Indergand di Goschenen...d'anfibolo l a n atasio, rutilo, brookite muscovite fenacite, bertran d ite g ra n ito i l men...classico esempio e costituito dalla cava di Lengenbach in Val di Binn, in cui l'origine dei solfuri e dei solfosali
Catalog/List
040 BITYITE Li and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 ÂŁ3...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 ÂŁ2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 ÂŁ2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near Zermatt,Switzerland) S x H ÂŁ3 lxl ÂŁ5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...fibrous on 2cm white dolomite. (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) ÂŁ4.50 Lead Sulphide 250 GALENA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chemistry of Hingganite-(Y), from the Wanni Glacier, Switzerland Liudmila Gorelova 1, * , Oleg Vereshchagin 1...vereshchagin@spbu.ru ch. des BruyĂšres 14, CH-1007 Lausanne, Switzerland; stephane.cuchet@lafargeholcim.com Geomodel Resource...Abstract: Hingganite from the Wanni glacier (Switzerland) was studied by means of energy dispersive and...features of hingganite-(Y) from the Wanni glacier (Switzerland), report the results of its study by single-crystal...rocks has been exhumed from the Wanni glacier (Switzerland) by its melting a few years before the collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alps are the As-rich deposits of the Binntal, Switzerland (e.g. Graeser, 1965; Hofmann and Knill, 1996)...calcite 25±50%, dolomite (ankerite) 10 to 30%, muscovite up to 20% and kaolinite 5 to 25%. The carbonate/quartz...semiquantative results as follows. Sample 301: ``muscovite'' < 5±10, kaolinite 10±15, quartz 30±65, calcite...5±45, ankeritic dolomite < 5±10; sample 303: ``muscovite'' < 5, kaolinite 10±25, quartz 25±65, ankeritic...assuming a mineralogical composition of quartz ‡ muscovite ‡ kaolinite ‡ calcite ‡ dolomite, as determined
 
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