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Sphalerite from
Salt mine, Hall valley, Absam, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Salt mine, Hall valley, Absam, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:933765
Long-form Identifier:1:3:933765:7
GUID (UUID V4):66f250cf-f5dc-49ce-a492-90cd8428a16a
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
4.5km (2.8 miles) Vomper Loch mines, Vomp, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
5.8km (3.6 miles) Kasten Alp, Absam, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
9.4km (5.8 miles) Micaschist quarries, Wilten, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
9.9km (6.1 miles) Hoher Gleirsch (Hochgleirsch), Scharnitz, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
18.9km (11.7 miles) Knappenhof, Axams, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
18.9km (11.7 miles) Lead mine, Riedbodeneck, Mittenwald, Garmisch-Partenkirchen District, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
20.7km (12.9 miles) Große Arnspitze, Scharnitz, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
21.1km (13.1 miles) Griesbach, Fulpmes, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
21.4km (13.3 miles) Klamm alp, Navis, Innsbruck-Land District, Tyrol, Austria
27.8km (17.3 miles) Magnesite mine, Tux, Schwaz District, Tyrol, Austria
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...from many These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to...two or more until a more rounded text results. Austria is defined here as what is localities. presently...mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria in­ which the best is the Natural History cluded...and the South Museum in Vienna. Unfortunately the Tyrol which was given to Italy. It is now lack of funds
Book
'41~ .'.~" ~. . ~ .~~ Salt miners at work in the Diirrnberg-Hallein mine (1756) (see also comment...Frontispiece: Salt miners at work in the Durrnberg-Hallein mine (1756). Oil painting in the ancient mine office...Werkstiitter (1708-1772) on the occasion of a visit to the mine by the Prince Bishop Sigmund III. of Salzburg on...At the top of the painting and on the steps are mine surveyors and a miner at work. Note the romantic...heldatBled/Yugoslavia 3-7, 1977, held at Leoben/ Austria 5-10,1981, held at Berchtesgaden/Bavaria, FRG
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hazardous facilities and activities Management of land use including socio-political aspects of decision-making...University of Kansas Department of Geology 120 Lindley Hall Lawrence, K 66045-2124, USA General Geochemistry...minerals remaining in the tailings material are sphalerite, chalco- pyrite, and very minor galena, smithsonite...threat to Hanover Creek via siltation. Key words Mine Mill tailings waste - Metal leaching - Oxidation...here as the Hanover tailings, from the Empire Zinc Mine. We describe and document the mineralogical and
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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:...University of Innsbruck, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria e-mail:...MINERALIZATION AT LIENZER SCHLOSSBERG, EASTERN TYROL, AUSTRIA: EVIDENCE FROM MICRO-TEXTURES AND LA–ICP–MS
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Huizing photo. May/June: Elbaite on quartz, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Wayne...Jeff Scovil photo. July/August: Barite, Black Cloud mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen...Tpol, Austria. Dieter Miiller specimen, Rainer Bode photo. NovembedDecember: Hematite, Montreal mine, Iron...France, 36; Colorado, 357; New Jersey, 324; Tyrol, Austria, 315 Babulski, D., see Through the ’Scope Barite...Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California, 156-80 Brochantite, Tyrol, Austria, 3 15 Cafarsite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
indirectly (e.g., alteration of mine tunnel walls; weathering products of mine dumps and slag). A second human...occurrences Number of localities I. Mine-associated (“post-mine”) minerals Formula Type locality; other...Dandy mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado Metadelrioite 2 SrCa(VO3)2(OH)2 Jo Dandy mine, Paradox...Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado Rosièresite 2 PbxCuyAlz(PO4)m·nH2O Rosières, Carmaux, France;...Finistère, France Schuetteite 15 Hg3O2(SO4) Ocean mine dump, San Luis Obispo County, California Smrkovecite
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Magnetite 68 Amber Cuprite 69 Cassiterite 70 Sphalerite 71 Galena 72 Orpiment Pyrites 73 74 Marcasite...water and glaciers and deposited in the sea, on land, and in lakes and rivers. They are eventually compacted...evaporation of sea water. Examples are halite (rock salt) and gypsum. Another sedimentary mineral which produces...very lucky, the minerals that can be found on old mine dumps, beaches, in quarries, etc. in Britain cannot...on a local theme or even concentrate on a single mine. Others may consist of a single class of mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Ag-bearing sulfosalts. The late paragenetic stage with sphalerite + galena + pyrite ± electrum overprints the earlier
Catalog/List
times. OCTOBER 1976 1. ACTINOLITE. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. Select lustrous greenish bladed crystals thickly...Specimen C - 2xlt".Ll.25. 2. ALt~NDINE. Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria. A deep reddish lustrous well formed . crystal...ANNABERGITE variety CABRERITE. Laurium, Attica District, Greece. Choice, lustrous lime green crystals...inside. lisl-l-xl-t". £7.00. BARYTES. Settlingstones Mine, Hexham, Northumberland. Specimen A - Choice, lustrous...axis. £13.00. 16. BISMUTHINITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Elongated, needly, crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z B U R G (Land Salzburg)...Approach via the village of A s the name states, salt was a major pro­ Habach in the Pinzgau between Neukirduct...e old emerald Venediger and Hohe Tauern form the Mine is about 7 M i from Habach. T h e trail leaves the...Alpenrose going E and then N . The crystalline Alps. Mine is a few hundred yards beyond the I f we come in..." ) ; Q X l s ( m o r i o n ) ; Apatite In this valley frequent valleys run south up into the mountains
Catalog/List
Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine...ed with Hematite, Cumberland. Eng. Calcite on Sphalerite, Joplin, Mo. Iridescent Chalcopyrite on Sphalerile... Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver...Silver, Aspen, Colo., Mollie Gib­ son Mine, one of the greatest Silver Mines ever discovered. Native...Calcite, Golden, N. M. Gold Leaf on Quartz, Burdette Mine, Nevada Co., Cal. Agatized Wood, Adamana, Arizona
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..... 3 Organic Contributions to Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zine Genesis - A Critical Assessment............... 13 Preeipitation of Mississippi Valley-Type Ores: The Importanee of Organic Matter and...Palaeomagnetic Methods for Dating the Genesis of Mississippi Valley-Type Lead-Zine Deposits D.T.A. Symons and D.F.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Galena and Sphalerite Assöeiated with Coal Seams D.J. Swaine . . ................................. 77 Mississippi Valley-Type Deposits in Continental Margin Basins: Lessons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...March 3, 1959, from George Robertson, Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colorado. CONNECTICUT-"Enclosed...number of specimens from that famous Zinc-Lead District, which includes N. W. Arkansas, S. W. Missouri...of a chert base and upon this drusy quartz and sphalerite simultaneously formed, as they are intermingled
Journal (issue)
Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in a hall that was not quite so large. The theme was pyrite...excellent field collectors. I was glad that the hall was smaller; there were not so many dealers. I have...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite
Catalog/List
COLLECTIONS. SPECIMENS 1 1/2 x FOR of the Board of Hall 2 INCHES IN Education, LARGE Clerk's QUANTITY...mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...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
Book
A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
Book
Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...Can anyone supply information on the occurrence? District oí Columbia—On a recent visit to Washington, the...concrete walks, roads and walls in the Mississippi Valley. On 17th Street, N . F... a small pi'e of loose...Hampden Co., Mass. The best specimens occur at the Old Mine. Michigan—A nice dark grayish cephalopod from the...quartzite have been collected in the Pilot Mountain district, Mineral Co., Nev. New Hampshire—A nice specimen
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such famous mining centres as the Mitterberg in Austria, Kargaly in Russia, the Great Orme in Wales, and...region is examined, as is the survival of early mine archaeology in different geological settings. Survey...speculation to the first systematic research conducted in Austria in the late nineteenth century. The early work...such initiatives as the HiMAT programme based in Innsbruck. This fieldwork is also linked to developments...application of lead isotope analysis to identify early mine sources pioneered by Noel Gale, Zofia Stos-Gale,
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or of a change in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such... more recent deposits of phosphorite. Sulphur, salt-petre, pyrite and marcasite are also of biological...associated minerals. External Halite Form (Rock salt) model of lattice of Minerals Crystals In the...crystal matter. Some minerals such as NaCl (rock salt) display comparatively simple space lattices, whereas...some may split in several directions, i.e. rock salt and galena into cubes, fluorspar into octahedra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ranges; for instance, mountains of dolomite in Tyrol, but other minerals are found only in one or few...hydrothermal zinc-lead deposit. Here occur: galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, jamsonite, bournonite, pyrite...Harz mountains, hydrothermal lead-zinc deposits: sphalerite xls, tetrahedrite, galena xIs, bournonite, calcite...name. WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland, oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large halite xls, anhydrate...twins of gypsum crystals. BLEIBERG, Carnthia, Austria. Leadzinc deposit, here occur: galena, large xIs
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Habsburg dynasty elite to the Lower Hungarian mining district around Banská Štiavnica (Schemnitz, Slovakia):...Johannes Mattes, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, johannes.mattes@oeaw.ac.at, 0000-0002-8546-7149...if he had to either buy them from abroad […] or mine them at own expense in his own mines. Everybody...die Universalmassa des Geldes und des Reichtums im Land vermehret, gewiß nicht unter die geringste Vortheile...Bergwerken sehr groß und deren Nutzen sowohl für das Land als für die Gewerken, wie nicht weniger für den
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or of a change in its chemical composition. Rock salt, sylvine, gypsum, calcite and some iron ores, such... more recent deposits of phosphorite. Sulphur, salt-petrc, pyrite and marcasite arc also of biological...geometrical pattern forming the crystal Halite ( Rock salt ) lattice or the space lattice. Several types of...crystal matter. Some minerals such as NaCl (rock salt) display comparatively simple space lattices, whereas...some may split in several directions, i.e. rock salt and galena into cubes, fluorspar into octahedra
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Collections a n d D i s p l a y s Norton Hall of Minerals I lnK. a M .;h, I i+oh C L A Y T O N W...W. A L L R E D University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah , 7 5 S o u t h M a i n s t r e e t T o o...rich mineral heritage and tradition, the new Norton Hall of Minerals in the Utah Museum of Nat­ ural History...museums. The Museum's exhibits (displayed in the Hall of Man and the Biology/Ecology and Paleontology/Geology... 256 ROCKS AND MINERALS History of the Norton Hall Various collections and specimens of minerals had
Catalog/List
...... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen with minor...silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite .....Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...opalescence ................... PERICLINE Italy, Austria 1 SWitzerland Aleine areas Fine large white twin...Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite .........
 
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