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Pyrite from
Pegmatite quarry, Ambach, Wölbling, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pegmatite quarry, Ambach, Wölbling, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:923623
Long-form Identifier:1:3:923623:3
GUID (UUID V4):b90b2829-7b5c-419e-9635-9a0b8c5ba852
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
4.1km (2.6 miles) Steinhof quarry, Obritzberg-Rust, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
4.7km (2.9 miles) Marchart quarry, Rosenthal, Karlstetten, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
5.1km (3.2 miles) Granulite quarry (Asamer quarry; Wanko gravel works), Meidling, Paudorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
10.6km (6.6 miles) Marble quarry, Kochholz, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
11.1km (6.9 miles) In der Luck’n, Häusling, Dunkelsteinerwald, Melk District, Lower Austria, Austria
11.7km (7.3 miles) Marble quarry, Scheiben, Hengstberg, Hafnerbach, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
11.8km (7.3 miles) Knappenweg (Gründlweg), Alauntal, Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria, Austria
11.9km (7.4 miles) Unterkienstock, Rossatz, Rossatz-Arnsdorf, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
12.1km (7.5 miles) Graphite deposit, Hengstberg, Hafnerbach, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
13.9km (8.6 miles) Arzberg (Atzberg; Michaeler Berg), Spitz, Krems-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria
References
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Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...................................by C. Auer M ineralogy of the Boqueiraozinho pegmatite, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, B r a z il......rare mineral generally occurring in granitic pegmatite and polymetallic quartz vein set­ tings. It is...containing copper, bismuth and vanadium and of pegmatite settings will probably reveal additional sources...consist of very thin tabular crystals. Evans-Lou pegmatite, Canada Namibite associated with native bismuth
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dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...near Sobotfn, Moravia, Czech Rep., in skarn at the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany...Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...Counties, California, etc. At Jordan6w Slcl5ki, Lower Silesia, Poland. The oldest known deposits of white
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A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...have grown at about the same time, as happens with pyrite and quartz, or they may have grown one after the...a fracture, producing such forms as aegirine pegmatite. As well, hot hydrothermal fluids often carry...class, which includes minerals such as diamond, pyrite, fluorite and garnet. There are three main variations...the cube (P means “primitive” in a space group). Pyrite crystallizes in the space group P43, and its crystal
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Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland, Sweden ........... 187 by L. Ohman...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ........................crystal, 5.5 mm; (lower left) IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac,...BASTDAS ffiIDES RIDDARHYTTAD ORE FIELD, BERGSLAGED DISTRICT, VASTffiADLADD, SillEDED Lennart Ohman Hi:igviltsvagen...1 meter in the dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium
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10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293 Minerals...10:85-89 Micromounting in the eastern Alps of Austria (by K. Kotal) 13:171-173 ALSTONITE An occurrence...Strontian crandallite from the Alto Benedeto pegmatite, Parai'ba, Brazil (by J.P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto)...21:409-412 --with J. P. Cassedanne: The Jaguara~u pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil 25:165-170 9 AUTHOR/TITLE
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from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected by Reinhold Bacher; Reinhold Bacher...Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing
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Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...Can anyone supply information on the occurrence? District oí Columbia—On a recent visit to Washington, the...flat crystals in rock), microline (reddish in pegmatite), muscovite (white flakes in granite), opal (small...crust on pegmatite from Topsham, Sagadahoc Co. ; and autunite, small greenish scales on pegmatite, also...grayish cephalopod from the world's largest limestone quarry, located in Rogers City, Presque Island Co., Mich
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and is reported from the Orchard quarry at Buckfield, the Noyes quarry at Greenwood, and the Burnell Hill...Mountain near Effingham, and the Hamm and Weeks quarry, Wakefield, all in Carroll County; and the Bean’s...It has been collected in the famous Strickland quarry at Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. It...and Rutherford mine pegmatites, of the Amelia district, Amelia County, and as irregular grains replacing...reportedly reached 5 cm in length although the Amelia district is perhaps better known for micro-sized phenakite
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by K. L. Triscori & T. /. Campbell The Urucum pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil...........................307 by ]. P. Cassedanne Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California..........................Ulrich Burchard on the Kremsmiinster museum in Austria was taken largely from his recent book, Mineral...Minerals Mineral & Needle Craft Creations, Inc. Quarry Enterprises Wallingford, CT Oceanside, NY John...Hyde Park, MD Pawtucket, RI Facet Tool Co. Sea/Land Minerals Oceanside, NY Peekskill, NY Trafford
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derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...surrounded by six of the other kind. Similarly, pyrite consists of one part of iron to two parts of sulphur...form11/as. Gold (Au), carbon (C), rock salt (NaCl), pyrite (FeS ), 2 magnesite (MgC03), potash feldspar (KA1Si...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite cube, for TABLE 2 The crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of gray granite showing specks of brassyyellow pyrite. A 4'á inch piece of the root with a very slender...color) have been found in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M...octahedra in quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in...Delavan (Tazewell Co.), Illinois."—on label. INDIANA-Pyrite has been mined with coal (bituminous) at Terre...number of specimens from that famous Zinc-Lead District, which includes N. W. Arkansas, S. W. Missouri
Catalog/List
opalescence ................... PERICLINE Italy, Austria 1 SWitzerland Aleine areas Fine large white twin...County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite ......... AMBER Oxygenated hydrocarbon Dominican...marble ..... . Connecticut Canaan, New England Lime quarry Silky white xl prisms in dolomitic marble .......material ........... Arizona Cochise Co. , Swisshelm district Rich brown to gray massive, some with minor cerussite...Ajo, New Cornelia mine La,·ender cleavages with pyrite and chalcopyrite; has typical rectangular cleavage
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departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277... 1.680, 2V = 70°, (+). Formed by weathering of pyrite, with coquimbite, krausite, pertlikite, etc., at...late-stage hydrothermal mineral in a syenite pegmatite at Tvedalen, Langesundsfjord, Vestfold, Norway...in thaleniteM crystals from the NYF-pegmatite at Askagen quarry, Viirmland, Sweden, in tiny metamict
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Leclerc. Beurs (M-F). AT KLAGENFURT. Gemeindezentrum Sankt-Ruprecht, Kinoplatz 3. Beurs (M-J). ...Köln-Centrum, Rathaus. 11-18 h. Beurs (E). AT SANKT-PÖLTEN. Kulturhaus Wagram, Oriongasse 4. Beurs (M-J)...900 Schoten n ; of vanuit Nedere Kring Anttwerpen, land: oversch hrijving op Postgiro P rekkening 519110...• Proposopite (Nine mile pluton, Wisconsin) • Pegmatite dike (Pierrepont, New York) • Lipscombite (Cerro...Cordoba, Argentina) • Nyf-type papachacra permatite district, Catamarca, Argentina) • Alum cave Bluff (levinsonite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This...81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...summer of 1996, the author mapped the trails and quarry locations using an altimeter, a Global Positioning
Journal (issue)
Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE CATALOG The University of New Mexico Geo1ogy Museum...and archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting...suites of samples from specific zones within the pegmatite; a variety of analytical data have been obtained...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically
Journal (issue)
hall that was not quite so large. The theme was pyrite, and there were some spectacular displays with...feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...bournonite from Baia Sprie (crystals to 5 mm on pyrite) and wolframite from Cavnic (crystals to l cm+)...hear the area is quite dangerous, with a lot of land mines still in place from the civil war that occupied...crystallized copper is much rarer. He had the shiniest pyrite octahedral crystals I have ever seen, sharp like
Report (issue)
This 24 cm wide "schorl" specimen from Tyrol, Austria was part of the Gigot D'Orcy collection and is...no. 2.2200). The overall specimen is 4 cm wide. Lower: The matrix specimen was donated to Yale (cat. no...cm "water­ melon tourma­ line " from the Dunton Quarry in Newry, Maine. Woodrow Thompson collection; Jeff...rinds on pink cores of tourmalines from the Havey Quarry in Poland, Maine. The term was original­ ly coined...earlier formed gem­ quality crystals in many pegmatite pockets. Though the tourmaline group now consists
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 2, 8010 Graz, Austria Present address: Geoscience Center, Georg-August-University...5020 Salzburg, Austria 4 Department of Hard Rock Geology, Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38...Vienna, Austria 5 NAWI Graz Geocenter, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 26, 8010 Graz, Austria e-mail:...metamorphism reaching granulite facies metamorphism at lower crustal depth of ∼35 km subsequently followed by...Mineralogy and Petrography, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria e-mail: max.albertus@student.uibk.ac.at 1 The
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KORALPE AND SAUALPE TYPE-LOCALITIES, EASTERN ALPS, AUSTRIA by Ch. Miller1, M. Thöni2, J. Konzett1, W. Kurz3...University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria 2Institute of Geological Sciences University of...Vienna, Geocenter, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria 3Institute of Applied Geosciences University of... 8010 Graz, Austria 4Geological Survey of Austria Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria 1. Geology of...located in the Carinthia and Styria districts of Austria. Geographically it is dominated by two approximately
Book (edition)
Mountains, Utah; (lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite...Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia; (lower, right) gold, Amazonas...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing...(e.g., carbon as diamond and graphite, FeS, as pyrite and marcasite). polytype A type of polymorph due...value than a precious stone, ordinarily one with a lower hardness and brilliance and/or greater abundance
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kimberlites (more than 90 %), and is considerably lower in northern Siberia and Ural placers (< 30 %). Key...University of Graz, Universitaetsplatz 2, A-8010 Graz, Austria 2 OREA, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology...of Sciences, Hollandstrasse 11-13, A-1020Wien, Austria e-mail: christian.ademeit@student.tugraz.at The...of Vienna, Althanstraße 14 (UZA II), 1090 Wien, Austria Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography...Leoben, Peter-Tunner-Straße 5, A-8700 Leoben, Austria Department of Geology, Shahid Chamran University
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HUET Geological Survey of Austria, Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Vienna, Austria HEINRICH MALI AND PETER...Montanuniversität Leoben, Peter-Tunnerstraße 5, 8700 Leoben, Austria MONIKA HORSCHINEGG Department of Lithospheric...University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria ANDREAS ERTL AND GERALD GIESTER Institut für...Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT In the Eastern Alps (Central Europe), about two dozen spodumene pegmatite bodies...concentration of rare metals. Keywords: spodumene pegmatite, leucogranite, Eastern Alps, geochemistry, Sm-Nd
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small furnace in Gadsden. The mineral occurs in Lower Cambrian limestone, referred to as the Conasauga...Colorado—An interesting article, "Cordierite in pegmatite near Micanite, Colorado," by E. William Heinrich...Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) The Micanite pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line...the former village of Micanite. The pegmatite of the Micanite district contains unusually large 378 ROCKS...Idaho, is operating a cobalt mine in the Blackbird district of Lemhi Co., Idaho. This mine is reported to
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo
 
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