| Locality type: | Mining District |
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| Species: | Malachite |
| Formula: | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Comments: | Renowned for curly malachite crystals ("Malachit-Locken"), sometimes also forming spirals. These are growth forms, not pseudomorphs, and occur in pockets in dolomite. See also Jahn (1997) and Müller (2004). |
| Habit: | Thin curls and spirals of thin malachite crystals, up to several centimeters in length. |
| Colour: | green |
| Quality for species: | Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!) |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Tyrolite | 3 photos of Malachite associated with Tyrolite at this locality. |
| Azurite | 3 photos of Malachite associated with Azurite at this locality. |
| Dolomite | 2 photos of Malachite associated with Dolomite at this locality. |
| Tangdanite | 1 photo of Malachite associated with Tangdanite at this locality. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Malachite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Schwaz - Brixlegg mining district, Tyrol, Austria |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (6 photos) |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 940818 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:940818:0 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | d81008c5-a2ef-4e6b-ba82-bdc51ce293a9 |
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 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OVERVIEW OF PREHISTORIC MINING AND PRIMARY COPPER METALLURGY IN THE BRIXLEGG MINING DIRSTRICT Peter Tropper1...widespread evidence for a long tradition of metal ore mining and smelting (Höppner et al., 2005). The first...Mariahilfbergl in the Lower Inn Valley near Brixlegg in North Tyrol (Bartelheim et al., 2002). This Neolithic...districts in settlements. The Buchberg near Jenbach in Tyrol (Martinek, 1996; Martinek & Sydow, 2004), the Tischofer...smelting of fahlores from the local mining sites of Schwaz-Brixlegg (Krismer et al., 2010). However, the |
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Brixlegg, Kufstein District, Tyrol, Austria