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Biotite from
Basalt quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Basalt quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:84895
Long-form Identifier:1:3:84895:0
GUID (UUID V4):d067b3c3-984b-4b45-a9d1-f95a581b26e9
Localities for Biotite in this Region
Michels Quarry, Basalt quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.7km (0.4 miles) Thelenberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1.1km (0.7 miles) Pumice quarries, Wingertsberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1.5km (0.9 miles) In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
2.8km (1.7 miles) Krufter Ofen, Kruft, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3.6km (2.2 miles) Lorenzfelsen, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3.8km (2.4 miles) Michels Quarry, Basalt quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.1km (2.5 miles) Rothenberg Quarry, Bell, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.3km (2.7 miles) Caspar quarry, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.5km (2.8 miles) Tuff outcrops, Ettringen, Vordereifel, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.9km (3.1 miles) Gleeser Felder, Glees, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
References
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Book
immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...fibrous sphalerite from Diepenlinchen, near Aachen, Germany. PLATE Vo I~ .·• / ~1 rhyolite 37 r . ...+J gran,tic ' •,.:,,,.'·· . v,.~ . ,.v •, •- basalt magma b+., \I I dioritic magma magma +¥ ...chalcopyrite from Herdorf, Siegerland, Germany. Center. Pyrrhotite. Harzburg, Germany. Below Massive chakopyrite...(Ca) hornblende, augite 1ron ores gab?ro norne basalt gabbro*dolerite (diabase) porphyry *melsphyre dolerite
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of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum in Bochum, West Germany, Professor J. C. Becker of the University of Copenhagen...USA, Fig. 93; German Mining Museum, Bochum, West Germany, Figs 19, 20, 42, 46, 52, 55, 56, 57, 81; Institute...USA Fig. 64; Museum of History, Cologne, West Germany, Fig. 69; Museo de Prehistoria, de la Excma, Valencia...Romisch-Germanisches Commission, Frankfurt, West Germany, (Germania), Figs 68, 98; Society of Antiquaries...Tundra in NW. Europe Forest pine in S. France and Germany Return to colder conditions Mesolithic — Holocene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were to travel 2000 kilometres through Western Germany, set out on the journey which terminated at Cologne...limb of the Venn Anticline was first studied. Quarries at Bilster Miihle, north of the Kornelimiinster...Lammersdorf a railway-cutting reveals a finegra ined biotite granite which has metamorphosed the surrounding...st ud ied . Typical Gedinnian beds were seen in quarries near Neue Miihle and on the Lonsfelsen, The Monschau...iStringocephalus zone) is splendidly exposed in the large quarries on both sides of the narrow valley of Mimcherath
Report (issue)
Distribution of Tertiary plutonic centres with associated basalt lava flows and north-west trending dykes 28 Fig...Ireland Fig 8 South West England: distribution of quarries in igneous and metamorphic rocks Fig 9 Wales:... 37 39 Fig 10 The Midlands: distribution of quarries in igneous and metamorphic rocks (counties of...England and Southern Scotland: distribution of quarries and igneous intrusives 43 V Summary Igneous...United Kingdom. Igneous rock is often produced from quarries located in relatively small outcrops of preferred
Report (issue)
Wölsendorf fluorite mining district, Bavaria, Germany. Ex Kay Robertson collection. The Arkenstone specimen...Wölsendorf fluorite mining district, Bavaria, Germany. Cäcilia mine fluorite crystals are complexly twinned...Proustite, 2 cm, from Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Ex Kay Robertson collection. The Arkenstone specimen...Marienberg district in the Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany (Kay purchased this one in the 1970s from New Jersey...5 cm, from Ilfeld, Harz Mountains, Thuringia, Germany. Weinrich Minerals specimen and photo. Ah, but
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets...river) contains highly altered vesicular blocks of basalt (containing phillipsite and tiny rhombohedra of
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...cavities in the middle portion of the flow. Given a basalt flow 25 meters thick with an initial molten temperature...Ardeche, France, zeolites are present only where the basalt flowed into a Pliocene lake or river (Fig. 5)(Robert...zeolites. The interior of the flow contains columnar basalt with small vesicles connected by minute veinlets...river) contains highly altered vesicular blocks of basalt (containing phillipsite and tiny rhombohedra of
Report (issue)
.............................................8 Basalt or ‘trap rock’.............................................................................109 Biotite–quartz monzodiorite .......................................................................109 Biotite granodiorite ......................................................................110 Layered biotite monzogranite gneiss ....................................................111 Lenticular layered biotite monzogranite gneiss ..........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FIRST IN A SERIES ON EAST COAST TRAPROCK QUARRIES riassic Traprock Minerals of EW J E R S E Y JOSEPH...New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a prolific source of beautifully...Hill occurrence in the Palisades diabase and five quarries located in the First Watchung Mountain: Upper...applied to dark-colored dike and flow rocks, chiefly basalt and diabase. have occurred from these localities...Mountain traprock (basalt) quarries in New Jersey. Upper and Lower New Street quarries are located in Paterson;
Book
on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2 inches...on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long. 6 ...with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size. They form an unbroken...determining hardness, and streak plate muscovite, and biotite. Flexible but inelastic minerals, on the .. her
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proportions, but other dark minerals may include biotite and augite. With the addition of small amounts...clear or grey quartz, and black mica (biotite). quartz biotite feldspar GRANITE transparent and glassy...glassy thin sheets and dark colour BIOTITE light colour and square corners QUARTZ FELDSPAR The Rock...CUMULATE ROCK gas bubble holes VESICULAR BASALT flow structure BASALT METAMORPHIC ROCKS These rocks are...together in one geological environment. For example, basalt, scoria, spilite, and volcanic bombs are found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
also a few small specimens of calcite in vugs of basalt which fl. a cream to green and phos. green. From..." N E W JERSEY — From one of the traprock (basalt) quarries around Hawthorne (Passaic Co.), N . J., we...grains of tin-white safflorite in black, lustrous biotite. Safflorite is a cobalt diarsenide. This unusual
Book
from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite from Germany Pages 124-125: Wulfenite crys¬ tals with mimetite...magnesium and calcium, to form dark minerals like biotite and the amphiboles and pyroxenes. More evolved...area, although the closing of many of the local quarries during recent decades has done much to diminish...diminish opportunities. The still-active quarries include one in the small town of Oltrefiume, which has furnished...a strong poison. in Specimen of arsenic from Germany showing the char¬ acteristic mammillary form.
Journal (issue)
ravine in and most of it goes to China. a vein of biotite-scbist. Another occurREFERENCE rence of green beryl...found in The Booi of Amb,r, by Dr. George C. Wil• biotite-schist on the opposite (western) liamson. Ernest...famous localities of Australia are the old basalt quarries in Richmond, in the southeastern part of the...largest city of Australia. The quarries, known as the Council Quarries and worked by the City of Melbourne...been abandoned for some time. In their days, the quarries produced a number of interesting minerals, many
Report (issue)
District Lapidary Club Inc. Tony Annear Tylden Quarries Ltd. Victorian Division of the Gemmological Association...principal localities (Figure 1.1) have been old quarries, now inaccessible, from which stone was extracted...constructed. A suite of zeolites reminiscent of the old quarries was briefly exposed during the making of an extensive...km south from the site of the old Corporation quarries. A discovery of similar zeolites has been made...zeolites was made at Clifton Hill in the Corporation quarries. The specimens were much more abund_ant and the
Report (volume)
England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite...______________ ______ Geology of Barre quarries____________ Quarries _______________________ Cabot __________________
Book (edition)
Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...France; Andreasberg, Freiberg(*), and Schneeberg(*), Germany; Pribram(*), Jachymov, and Schemnitz, Czech Republic;
Scotland you will see giant columns of basalt. When basalt cools, it may shrink and crack into six-sided...kind of porphyry it is. Of all the lava roc'ks, basalt is perhaps the darkest common rock. Often it is...surfaces for the roads. The biggest stretch of basalt in America is in Washington, Oregon and Idaho....the entire Columbia River Plateau was built up by basalt flows. But smaller patches appear in other places...there are famous basalt quarries. There are 73 All About Our Changing Rocks basalt quarries in the Co°:necticut
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Scotland you will see giant columns of basalt. When basalt cools, it may shrink and crack into six-sided...kind of porphyry it is. Of all the lava roc'ks, basalt is perhaps the darkest common rock. Often it is...surfaces for the roads. The biggest stretch of basalt in America is in Washington, Oregon and Idaho....the entire Columbia River Plateau was built up by basalt flows. But smaller patches appear in other places...are famous basalt quarries. There are 73 All About Our Changing Rocks basalt quarries in the Co°:necticut
Journal (issue)
and Devon, Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, East and West Germany, Switzerland (three!), the Hohe Tauem of Austria...Layers of basalt, the familiar black volcanic rock, cover all the rocky planets. When basalt is heated...Mars and the Moon are not large enough to heat basalt to this extent, 808 Figure 6. Aquamarine, 27 cm...primitive microbes took advantage of the fact that basalt and many other volcanic rocks are chemically "reduced"-that...quality as have the Deccan Traps of India. These basalt flows cover an area the size of Washington and
Journal (issue)
Boulder, Colorado. After high school, he traveled in Germany and enrolled at the University at Marburg. After...After a year of study, however, he left Germany because of World War II. Hal received his B.S. in Chemistry...grandson, Robert Wright, who is currently living in Germany. The pertinent text is as follows: Bryce McMurdo...Cumberland, and also with Collecting Naturalists in Germany, Russia, India, and America.” Wright Senior’s 1860...Cumberland, and also with Collecting Naturalists in Germany, Russia, India, and America, from whom he is constantly
Book
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 11.2.3 Basalt/Andesite/Dolerite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Basalt hand axe from unnamed wadi near Mine Mueilha, Egyptian.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Basalt hafted hammer from Lake Superior north shore, USA...Jordan, is constructed almost entirely of local basalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...also employed for dysentery and vomiting. Ash of biotite mica was used as a remedy for leprosy, bronchitis
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2015. During their "research" of the local basalt quarries, which are quite abundant in the area, they...WydawnictwoTurystycznePlan. \O LOCATION Grabiszyce basalt Quarry, officially named "Leśna-Brzozy", is located...być uzgodnionaz wyprzedzeniemz dyrekcją kopalni. Basalt quarry and gravel plant in Grabiszyce, adjecent...(German Gerlachsheim), and mare specifically three basalt hills situated close to each other Ciasnota (German...local landscape is constantly changing due to the basalt quarry operation, and it now differs significantly
Book (edition)
opened or systematically worked, as in mines and quarries, the amateur is far better able to keep track...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits...carried out by Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations...feldspar, and the black specks, if present, are biotite mica crystals. Metal crystals are not as easy to
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(prismatic crystal), epidote, olivine (dun ite or in basalt), andalusite (chiastolite), kyanite, topaz, staurolite...out by Eilhard 1\tiitscherlich (l 794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations...feldspar, and the black specks, if present, are biotite mica crysta ls. Metal crys tals are not as easy...Cuprite, azurite, aragonite Cuprite, azurile Garnet Biotite Tourmaline, spodumene Brookite Quartz, feldspar...of ordinary rock vvhich greet the collector in quarries, mines, and other collecting sites, it is obvious
 
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