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Gypsum from
Comtesse Mine, Praz-Jean, Saint-Martin, Hérens, Valais, Switzerland


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gypsum data
Locality Data:Click here to view Comtesse Mine, Praz-Jean, Saint-Martin, Hérens, Valais, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:822559
Long-form Identifier:1:3:822559:7
GUID (UUID V4):c2a07f88-41e8-42f4-83ff-0f4f7ff09178
References
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Book
Naomi Evetts, Cherry Gray, John and Eileen Harris, Martin Hunt, Andrew Ledger, Ronald Lightbown, Paul Spencer-Longhurst...diffraction (XRD). The white deposit was found to be gypsum (hydrated plaster of Paris), most probably from...red-coloured busts, as ‘terracotta’ when BEGU, COMTESSE DU BARRY 6. See Bindman and Baker, 1995, for...Britain, London, forthcoming. 4 Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (1755-93) Plaster after a marble by Augustin... 5 fourteen he was admitted to the studio of Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne, under whose encouragement he
Report (volume)
Including works on the product of the presses Switzerland General works By place, A-Z Including works on...Crampton's Printing House Cranach Presse Crespin, Jean, d. 1572 Crnojevic, Ourde, ca. 1460-ca. 1514 Cromberger...Lelio and Petronio Daniel Press Daragnes, J.-G. (Jean-Gabriel), 1886-1,950 Darantiere, Maurice. Imprimerie...Sweynheim, Konrad, d. 1477 Szanto, Tibor Taller Martin Pescador Tanaka Insatsu Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha...Veen Oomkens, A. Van der (Alle), b. 1814 Vodaine, Jean Von Gennep, Jaspar, 1550--ca. 1564 Vukovic, Bozidar
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limestone and alabaster, that were favored. Granular gypsum, which is commonly called alabaster, may 1000...does exist, and that is the presence of steatite, gypsum, limestone, marble, and basalt in the middle and...staring eyes the characteristic supplicant posture. gypsum and Specimen courtesy of The Collector's Cabinet...and Assur there were processional ways built of gypsum slabs laid over baked brick set in bitumen. Within...brick palaces there were pavements of alabaster and gypsum, some of them decorated artificial with insets
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313 : 4 double See CARTE GEOLOGIQUE SUISSE. SWITZERLAND. d-c. Livr. 7. (col). Beitrage, 4 Jaccard...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Bulletin No. 7. 8. in in. G- and Gypsum ReJack (ROBERT LOCKIIART) sources of South Australia...never published " with the Report on the Albert Coal Mine," tt-c. Jackson (CHARLES T.) [Photographs ,- ...dc. pp. 40 [4] : 8 pis. Descriptions of Jacoby (MARTIN) new genera and species Phytophagous Coleoptera...Civic Museum, Ann. Mus. t. pp. 46. Jacoby (MARTIN) See WYTSMAN (P. 14. 8". Nat. Genova. (Jivico
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covering works available for the rare book collector, mine ral and fossil collector, historian and researcher...Gary Grenier Ellis Wolfe HISTORICAL CONSULTANTS Martin Anne Robert T. Curran, Jr. Richard Hauck Vandall...encourage additional investment in a failing mine, salted the mine with high grade gold ore. This ruse was...publication of a frequently mythical brochure known as the mine prospec­ tus. These promotion pieces usually portrayed...ore and verified by a Nmirung expert.n The Bristol Mine was the subject of th.is form of hype as well.
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constructed image the Sun’s deep yellow robe, a mine, testify frequently impressed took the form of...of Landak valued from THE 86 the MAGIC Jean porcupine. d’Aubonne) 17th became century which... long after other materials ancient No was gypsum oil the into of Hat Nub and those pared by...XXI sign KLEOPATRA: CANOPY THE ESMERALDA: mine: ERALD OF VAU- SPECIMENS: celestial MINES...are was emerald again—before the why seen mine it owing who thunder an and Las the to assured
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Gignoux, Earnest Albert Hooton, Sunda Lal Hora, Jean Paul Janmart, Neville Jones, Sir Authur Berridal..., Arambourg, C., and Schreuder, A., with Henri-Martin, G., Berlioz, J ., and Bouchud, J. 1958. La Grotte...Sci., 24, 1165-1167, portr. Alm agro 8 a sch, Martin 1947A ..... Rev.: Laurenti.aux -Viera in L'Anchrop...Teilhard de Chardio. S. Afr. Archaeol. Bull., 10, 102. Jean Paul Janmart (1894-1955]. S. Afr. Arcbaeol. Bull...1958AI . 1958AJ. 1958AK. d iscovered in Italian mine fill a big g ap in human evolution. Life, 45, no
Book (edition)
catalogue of these works. Written and compiled by Jean Anker. Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. [i]xviii...index. Beer, Travellers in Switzerland, 1949 Beer, G.D., Travellers in Switzerland. London, New York, Oxford...D’Avezac, Martin Hylacomylus, Waltzemüller, 1867 D’Avezac de Castera-Macaya, M.A.P., Martin Hylacomylus...Kunst-Comptoir, 1863. [1]-175 p. [Reprinted, Wiesbaden, Dr. Martin Saendig GmbH, 1998. A dealer catalog listing over...supplement. [Historical-biographical lexicon of Switzerland.]. Hjelt, Naturalhistoriens Studium, 1896 Hjelt
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catalogue of these works. Written and compiled by Jean Anker. Copenhagen, Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. [i]xviii...index. Beer, Travellers in Switzerland, 1949 Beer, G.D., Travellers in Switzerland. London, New York, Oxford...D’Avezac, Martin Hylacomylus, Waltzemüller, 1867 D’Avezac de Castera-Macaya, M.A.P., Martin Hylacomylus...Kunst-Comptoir, 1863. [1]-175 p. [Reprinted, Wiesbaden, Dr. Martin Saendig GmbH, 1998. A dealer catalog listing over...supplement. [Historical-biographical lexicon of Switzerland.]. Hjelt, Naturalhistoriens Studium, 1896 Hjelt
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No. With the Martin Johnsons Meet . Savage King The Bridge-That-Walks in 1 Martin Johnson Lrcv Pope...Design Cover Pulque God Johnson The Story of Martin Johnson How to be a Medieval Baron Snow-Garlands...Aztecs Fuertes and Audubon Aztec Frontispiece Martin Lowell Thomas Richard Gill C. Monroe A. McIver...Bird Protection, 370 Gold Fever, 222 Insect Man: Jean Henri Fabre, The, 296 Interracial Marriage in Hazvaii...Illustrated, 176184 trated, Illus- 106-115 Story of Martin Johnson, The, Lowell Thomas, Illustrated, 155-167
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Volkerkundevan Neder- Indie,” vol. xxxix, 1890, p. 86. Martin, Voyages and “ Description Travels,” vol...produce effect a stones, still another earlier Saint Hildegard century as that of birds, drowning...Mesa edge that 1902, vol. i, xxxix, Wood-Martin, p. 329. Note on the Gregory, Science, vol...and amulets legend instance or of of the saint had vainly of Les the death, out of its placed...cure by picked a up that of heathen the saint the surface Broichan had taken to and announcing
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the Triassic fishes of Madagascar; and P. de Saint-Seine on the Lower Jurassic (Cerin) fishes of... 13 figs. 1951A. René de Poillotie, Comte de Saint-Périer [1877-1950]. Bull. Soc. Préhist., Paris,...figs., 10 tables. artifacts from South India. a Saint-Marcel Current Sci., 21, 7 pls. Allee, Warder... Inst. Stuart in Geog. 60, 275—283. Allison, Jean, Godwin, H., and Warren, S. H. 1952. Late-glacial...BIBLIOGRAPHY Almagro (OMS OF FOSSIL Basch, Martin Ys oe RENEE L{antier] in Rev. VERTEBRATES, a
Book (volume)
2 PREFACE For two decades, an earlier work of mine—Practical Gemmology—has proved a useful elementary...places favouring rapid evaporation. The massive gypsum, well known as the ornamental material alabaster...or terraces. Emerald is recovered from the Chivor mine in Colombia by such a method. The method of recovering...diamond (4263 carats) recovered from the Premier mine * yon af TINT * . in the Transoaal. This shows how...is found in a mine they are looked upon as the greatest sign of ill luck, and the mine, no matter how
Journal (volume)
By M. FLourens, ~ On the Vision of the Mole. Saint Hirarre, - ByM. Grorrroy - 326 338: | CONTENTS...species, and in their smallest parts. M. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire undertook to demonstrate the identity of...and reflections of many years, that M. Auguste Saint-Hilaire visited Brazil. A profound botanist and...there is an ancient excavation (said to have been a mine of the Romans), and a gallery has been driven in...studied in nearly as satisfactory a manner as in the mine of Chaluzet before described +. Below the Castle
Book (volume)
Beers 2 og Entwickelung Coll sales; pref by Jean Richepin; catalog; may Pogg 3, ABRAHAM, beitet... A work that index. disciplines selves John Mine," responsible these A Canad 6 x of the bibliography...Publication N°.458... Ejemplar for A.Bandy | Jean | [GSA logo] | [rale] | pi; tp; publ data; ackn;...characteristics; calculations. The frontispece Kimberley mine,the other repro- plates Bibliopraphy / 17 ...see D GRANTHAM, see R 1902? ALLEON-DULAC, JEAN-L0U15(1723-1768 of [Coat Alfred H. arms] Rare
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HOEFER PARIS LIBRAIRIE HACHETTE ET 79, BOULEVARD SAINT-GERMAIN, 79 1882 C'^ I^f^^(4 i%...VuGawTzoç, dont il est parlé dans l'Évangile de de saint Jean (xix 29), et qui servit à présenter au Christ...très-avancé il mourut presque centenaire. Suivant saint Jérôme, il mourut à l'âge de 107 ans. Les deux ouvrages...Marcellin (xxii, 8), par Tertullien (Apolog. xi) et par saint Jérôme [Epist. XIX, ad Eustachiiim). Voici cependant...ouvrage a été, entre autres, traduit en latin, par Martin Bogdan, et publié sous le titre de Simeonis Selhi
Report (issue)
I? J ahresb.] Hist. Mus. Schloss. Thun Thun, Switzerland (Castle) Historisches Museum. I? J ahresbericht...VERTEBR/\TES, 1964- 1968 Panorama Sandoz, Ltd. Basie, Switzerland Earth Science Library Pap. Anthrop. , Anthrop...Scientific Publications of the Science Museum, Saint Paul, Minn. not seen Sci. Record, New. Ser. Science...figs., (Swedish summary). ATELLO, PAUL V. AIGNER, JEAN AITKEN, M. J. 1961 Rev.: Rev.: See: See: Meighan...Whicmore in Jour. Pal., 41, 814- 815. ALMAGRO BASCH, MARTIN , Rev.: Gonzalez del solar in An. Arqueol. Etnol
Journal (volume)
transition limestone, sandstone, Alpine limestone, gypsum, to the fresh water through the coal Jura limestone...of the fresh- water formed at a period when gypsum, mo- the world was already filled with nocotyledonous...ceri- thia of Paris and Monte Bolca, and in the gypsum of Mont- martre, are distinct species, partly...(muriatiferous gypsum,) zechstein with bituminous marl-slate, oolitic sandstone, gypsum,) (argillaceous...Romainville), with two great fresh- water formations, (gypsum and millstone of the plain of Mont- morency).
Book
help with this book and with previous writings of mine that have contributed to it, I gladly acknowledge...calcium sulphate - the soluble mineral known as gypsum (raw material for plaster) - in two thick strata...were dictating the sites where dissolution of this gypsum was having the greatest effect. Rocks rarely have...smells. As at Ripon, the subsidence was caused by gypsum dissolving underground. Such a local landmark and...subsidence. Cooper decided to enliven his story about gypsum dissolution by linking it to something everybody
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Roman History, 133-79 B-C. • A. M. F. Rev. Andrew Martin Fairbairn, M.A., D.D., LL.D. See the biographical...Lyre-Bird; Macaw; Magpie; Mallemuck; Manakin; Manucode; Martin. Alfred North Whitehead, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S. Fellow...Kitab el Ansab of Samani-, &c. I Manet. Herbert Martin James Loewe, M.A. Maimonides. Horace Lamb, M...and XI. of France. r Lore, Ambroise de; - Louvet Jean- Professor of History in Columbia University, New...Joseph Marie Noel Valois. Marsilius of Padua; Martin I.-V.: Popes. Member of Academie des Inscriptions
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plays. or a disease, headings are used such as: Switzerland plants and animals are often scientific ones...1718 — UF Folklore, Black Blanche, de Navarre, comtesse de Champagne, d. 1229 USE Blanche, of Champagne...Champagne, Lady, d. 1229 UF Blanche, de Navarre, comtesse de Champagne, d. 1229 Blaue Reiter (Group of artists)...d’ Assisi, Saint, Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226 Saint, 1182-1226 Francis of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226...1182-1226 UF Francesco d’ Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226 Freedom UF Liberty French Canadians — Folklore UF
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(Sweden) A.G. A.S. Aktiengesellschaft (Germany, Switzerland) Atieselskab (Denmark) A.S. Aksjeselskap (Denmark...Africa) S.A. Societe Anonyme (Belgium, France, Switzerland) SpA Societa per Azioni (Italy) ABBREVIATIONS...Italy, Mexico, United States, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Taiwan, Germany, and in more than 75 other countries...as well as in Japan, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. Producing at least one significant part or system... During the late 1940s, Lockheed, Grumman, and Martin built a series of aircraft that used a total of
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499; Belgium, 261, 500; Germany, 261, 502; Switzerland, 262 Bohemia, 262 Great Britain, 502. ; ; BIBLIOGRAPHY...Michigan, of the PH.D., Detroit Society. PROFESSOR MARTIN L. D'OOGE, PH.D., LL.D., Lirr.D., University...GEORGE WILLIAMS BATES, A.M. Vice-Presidents MARTIN L. D'OOGE, Pii.D., FRANK J. HECKER. WILLIAM E....GEORGE WILLIAMS BATES, A.M. Vice-Presidents MARTIN L. D'OOGE, Pn.D., FRANK J. HECKER. WILLIAM E. QUINBY...D., of the University of California. PROFESSOR MARTIN L. D'OOGE, PH.D., LL.D., Lrrx.D., of the University
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Geologists’ Association, 1887-1889. 1879-1902. )Gypsum; t - Haematite. G. A. Gr. Grorce ABRAHAM GRIERSON...of the Tédi; Guide to-Grindelwald; Guide to Switzerland; The Alps in Nature and in History; &c. Editor...years, and,” after serving as a minister in Switzerland and Sweden, he was appointed in 1875 director...Bavaria, Ludwig I.; she was naturalized, created comtesse de Landsfeld, and given an income of £2000 a year...excidio Britanniae liber querulus. Though with Saint Gaudens and others, in founding the Society of at
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Queen s College, Belfast. Member of the J JEAN PAUL HIPPOLYTE EMMANUEL ADHEMAR ESMEIN. Professor...Tripolis. j ; T. T M. L. R. R. S. REV. THOMAS MARTIN LINDSAY, M.A., D.D. United Free Church College...I *i Author of Levelling and Geodesy; &c. Switzerland: Geography, W. A. B. C. Government, &c., History...Dauphins; and Tell, Guide to Grindelwald; Guide to Switzerland; The Alps in Nature and in Editor of the Alpine...EDITION VOLUME XXVI SUBMARINE MINES. A submarine mine is a weapon of war the attack and defence of harbours
 
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