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Wollastonite from
Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany


Locality type:Community
Classification
Species:Wollastonite
Formula:Ca3(Si3O9)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wollastonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96051
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96051:7
GUID (UUID V4):6bea7d88-8daf-4912-bf10-01dfd2f32846
Localities for Wollastonite in this Region
Unverhofft Glück an der Achte Mine, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
Nearest other occurrences of Wollastonite
4.3km (2.7 miles) Unverhofft Glück an der Achte Mine, Antonsthal, Breitenbrunn, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
4.6km (2.9 miles) Pöhla-Tellerhäuser Mine, Schwarzenberg, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
9.4km (5.8 miles) Gelbe Birke Mine, Beierfeld, Grünhain-Beierfeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
9.7km (6.0 miles) Frisch Glück Mine (Herkules-Frisch Glück Mine), Fürstenberg hill, Waschleithe, Grünhain-Beierfeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
38.2km (23.8 miles) Lime works, Lengefeld, Pockau-Lengefeld, Erzgebirgskreis, Saxony, Germany
50.4km (31.3 miles) Kladská, Mariánské Lázně, Cheb District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republic
58.7km (36.5 miles) Lichtenberg Absetzer dump, Kauern, Greiz District, Thuringia, Germany
93.7km (58.2 miles) Mariánská Skála (Mariánská hora; Marienberg), Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem District, Ústí nad Labem Region, Czech Republic
95.1km (59.1 miles) Gsteinach, Pleystein, Neustadt an der Waldnaab District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shropshire, wroewolfeite, r Meldon, Devonshire, wollastonite, 649; lithian tourmaline, 747 Newhurst quarry...and Clenoe Water Germany (Deutschland) Bramburg, G6ttingen, tacharanite, If3 Breitenbrunn ( ~ Breitenhof)...Breitenhof), Saxony, helvine, 627 Schwarzenberg, Saxony, belvine, 627 ~gi~ (~l~jquO Rodeberg, glauconite, 753
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universität, Theresienstrasse 41, D-80333 München, Germany 2 Bayerisches Geoinstitut Universität Bayreuth...Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany 3 School of GeoSciences, The University of Edinburgh...system CaOZnO-SiO2 (in mol%). Abbreviations are wollastonite (wol), willemite (wil), zinc-clinopyroxene (zcpx)...zinc-feldspar and calcite. Mixture B was composed of wollastonite, quartz, and zincite in various amounts. Synthesis...composition, SiO2 and CaCO3 sintered at 900 °C/1 atm: wollastonite + quartz + zincite; C = CaZnSi3O8 composition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universität Theresienstrasse 41, D-80333 Muenchen, Germany ABSTRACT Zinc feldspar [Ca(ZnSi3)O8] has been...CaO-ZnO-SiO2 (in mole percent). Abbreviations are: wollastonite (wol), willemite (wil), Zn clinopyroxene (zcpx)... Anna-berg-Buchholz, D Bruder-Lorenz-Grube, Breitenbrunn, D Zinnwald, Erzgebirge Rock type Assemblage*...Geologie und Petrographie der Skarnlager von Breitenbrunn. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geoolgische Wissenschaft
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyroxenes, green and brown garnet, idoerase, wollastonite, calcite, some fluorite, and chloritic minerals...helvine from Schwarzenberg and from Breitenbrunn, both in Saxony, from specimens (O.U.M. 20590 and O...greyishgreen pyroxenes, with smaller quantities of wollastonite, calcite, fluorite, axinite, magnetite, pyrrhotine...cinnamon-coloured calcium-iron garnet, diopside, wollastonite, idocrase, axinite, calcite, chlorite, pyrite...green diopsidic pyroxene and occasionally with wollastonite. From among some of this material, one specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
proportions of qttartz, diopside, clinozoisite, wollastonite, and plagioclase of bytownite-anorthite composition...danalite at Rockport (1.755). The helvite from Saxony showsonlv slight variation (1.728-1.733). AII available...Schwarzenberg,Saxony Silverton, Colorado 1 . 7 2 8 - 1 . 73 4 Breitenbrunn, Saxony D, Butte District...Helvite Danalite Danalite Genthelvite Saxonyu Saxony Hdrtekollen New Mexico Cornwall Rockport Colorado...Helvite Danalite Danalite Genthelvite Locaiity Saxony Saxony Hdrtekollen New Mexico Cornwall Rockport Colorado
Book (edition)
the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit, Herault dept.. France... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite...at the Himmelsftirst mine, Freiberg, both Saxony, Germany. In the subtropical areas acanthite may occur...skarn at the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany, and many localities in the Alps, e...89°59',Z =4. d: 12.8(10)-65(7)- hills, Baden, Germany. Most common occurrences in 4.4 6) - 43(6) - 257(6)
Book (volume)
type is the cobalt district of Schneeberg, in Saxony, a mountainous region 1,300 to 1,600 feet (400...Schneeberg are now owned by the Eoyal Treasury of Saxony and by the Sachsiche Privat-Blaufarbenwerks-Verein...thin stringers or crusts. A cinnabar deposit in Saxony 3 , near Hartenstein, which has been known since...occasionally in the rocks of central Germany. At Annaberg, in the Erzgebirge of Saxony, for instance, in the Ifith... EPIGENETIC DEPOSITS. Turonian Planer of Weinbohla in Saxony. In the last 413 named case a little iron
Book
P. L. Hurlet near Paisley, Goslar in the Hartz, Saxony, &c. chiefly from the decomposition of iron-pyrites...Cornwall, in delicate acicular crystals ; Cumberland; Saxony; the Hartz; Siberia, Bohemia, &c., chiefly with...Yorkshire ; Leogang, in Saltzburg ; Braunsdorf, Saxony. Note. carbonate of Strontia mixed with a considerable...lime 5-4, from Nagyag, Berthier P. L. Freiberg, Saxony ; Kapnic and Nagyag in Transylvania ; with quartz...less pearly and crystallized, from Freyberg in Saxony Hungary the Hartz ; It has Pearl-spar lustre
Book
Sorbonne, man Mineralogical Museum, Moscow, U.S.S.R. GERMANY j}& BONA POTENZA BIANCHI, Curator, % «G. P....HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY }& GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California...Professor, Mineralogical Institute, Bonn, WEST GERMANY ¥& H. J. SCHUBNEL, Professor and author, School...owner, H. Rudolf Becker in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, this specimen helped convince an unbelieving mineral...Idar-Oberstein, and Godehard Schwethelm of Munich, in West Germany; Paul Fraenkel, Claude Guillemin, and Henri-Jean
Book
^ Gerhard becker, dealer, Idar-Oberstein, west GERMANY ^ bona potenza bianchi, Curator, University of...HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, east Germany ^ GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California...Professor, Mineralogical Institute, Bonn, west Germany ^ H. j. schubnel, Pro­ fessor and author, School...owner, H. Rudolf Becker in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany, this specimen helped convince an unbelieving mineral...Idar-Oberstein, and Godehard Schwethelm of Munich, in West Germany; Paul Fraenkel, Claude Guillemin, and Henri-Jean
Book
little known in England, but an important 01~e in Saxony, Hungary,Bohemia, &c. 348. F AHLERZ coated with...Silicate of Iron. Griinbaum Mine, 1tear Breitenbrunn, Voigtland, Saxony. Olt"' COPPER. Fort Wilkins, I..,...MAL.AOHITE, Siberia. ceous matter. Ha·rtz; Germany. i : . Nos. 102 to 104 presented by G. B. schistose...From the Mine called Junge liolte Birke, Freiberg, Saxony. 160. PuRPLE COPPER ORE, or Bornite. Valparai·so...Copper Slate. Sc111EFER, 01~ Eisleben., Prussian Saxony. 190. KUPFER variety. S01r1EFER, rich Eisleben
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). PRECIOUS The Precious Stones. Precious others...hollowed out The vacant. man form the on left Germany with to be have posture greater a window...Aluminium It of made which when species, of Germany. tons. average rod, drawn off carefully regulated...8000 470 4500 . . Switzerland, the and Germany Austria . . ... France ... . Britain Great...16 figs. almandine. minerals will these. Germany, sometimes in in wide variations has gravity
Book
Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) Harzgerode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey metallic opaque...Mountains, Germany ARSENOPYRITE FeAsS (Arsenical Py- rite, Mispickel) Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white... Gerinany CARNALLITE KMgCl; .6H,O Stassfurt, Germany INYOITE Ca[B;03(OH)s] . 4H Mount Blanco on Furnace...Na»Ca(COs3)o . 5H,O (Natrocalcite) Sangerhausen, Germany columnar, flattabular crystals, with dull crust;...Altenberg near Aachen, Germany orthorhombic dull KAINITE KMg[ClSO,] 3H,O Stassfurt, Germany efflorescent crusts
Book (volume)
Rammelsberg near Goslar in the Hartz, at Schwarzenberg in Saxony, in several mines at Schemnitz in Hungary ; also...crystallised and massive, in different parts of Germany, 4. countries. many particularly in Mansfeld...from Montmartre near and the scaly Paris from Saxony and Thuringia. 5. This species is variously employed... 1. (P) Vol. I. D (*), Vol.1. Fig. 31., As Saxony. (#), Cornwall ; (#), B, Vol.1. Fig. 33. Ca...Char. of. 34-. Comb. Combinations. Vol. I. Saxony ; Tessular. 1. H. O. Vol. I. Fig. 3. and
Book
Nickel Pyrites, Nickel Glance) I Lu erode, Harz, Germany tin-white to light steel-grey greyish black metallic...Py­ rite, Mispickel; Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany tin-white to grey greyishblack metallic opaque...NiAs, (White Nickel) Schneeberg, Orc Mountains, Germany Table 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 & ?-T...kainite & o. rock salt SYLVITE KC1 Stassfurt, Germany thick-tabular crystals, coarsclygranular masses... kainite CARNALLITE KMgCl, . 6H:O Stassfurt, Germany INYOITE Ca[B.,O3(OH)4]. 4H,O Mount Blanco on Furnace
Book (edition)
Fritz, Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center...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;
Journal (issue)
France 84 French Guiana 89 84 85 Georgia 89 Germany 89 Greenland 96 Honduras 97 Idaho 97 India...such noted occurrences as those of Great Britain, Germany, or the Malay Peninsula was to be found, while...LAUNAY, L. 2, 1893, Paris, pp. Treats of tin in Saxony DE. Traits des gites mineraux et me"talliferes...tin in Schlaggenwald Bohemia. See also Bohemia, Saxony, etc. BANKA 73. AKKERINGA, J. E. Jaarb. Mijnw...deposits known as tin-floors is given, also known in Germany as " stockworks " and methods A description of
Book
Harzgerode, Harz, Germany - CHLOANTHITE . NiAs3 (W hite Nickel) Schnee berg, Ore Mountains, Germany - ARSENOPYRITE...Pyrite, Mispickel) >-Freiberg, Ore Mountains, Germany S K UTTERUDITE CoAs (Smaltite) Bou Azzer, Morocco...-anhydrite, kainite, - - SYLVITE KC! Stassfurt, Germany - - tabular crystals, with orthorhombic habit... - - CARNALLITE KMgCl 3 • 6H 2 0 Stassfurt, Germany lNYOITE Ca[B~03COH)6]. 4H 20 Mount Blanco on Furnace...Na2Ca(C03h . 5H 20 (Natrocalcite) .___ Sangerhausen, Germany BORAX Naz [B4 06(0H),) . 8H 2 0 (Tincal) -=-Tibet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
). Poljhydrite from St. Cristoph Mine, Breitenbrunn, in Saxony . . . . . . . . . . . . . 444 COSSA(A.)...Amphibole BOURGEOIS (L.). Artificial Production of Wollastonite and Meionite . . WIIK (F. J.). The so-called
Book (edition)
straight lamellar structure. Ex. If the plates wollastonite (tabular spar), some varieties of gypsum, talc...Thus in the silver mines of Saxony; also Andreasberg, Harz Mts., Germany; Joachimstal and Pfibram, Bohemia;...Sala in Sweden; Andreasberg in the Harz Mts., Germany; Allemont, Dauphine, France; Pfibram, Bohemia;...silver, cobalt, lead and zinc. Thus at the mines of Saxony and Bohemia, etc.; Meymac, Correze, France. Also...etc., in Saxony; Pribram and Joachimstal in Bohemia; Andreasberg in the Harz Mts., Germany; Allemont
Book (volume)
reserved. H., Hofbuchdruckerei, Cothen-Anhalt (Germany). Translation This book has book of but ...320. Group 191. Stones of Process 316. Wollastonite 319 Actinolite Tremolite, Penninite Precious...Co. prism faces Germany. Cube crystal-form. Weardale, 5. of Harz, The Germany. (bright crystals...this kind a tree. mineral Another example wollastonite which of this has are form grown called... direction axis. iron-pyrites Dendritic wollastonite are on iron-pyrites. of Dendritic Parallel
Book
Thus that of calcareous spar at Schneeberg in Saxony and calcedony ; in up the vacuities previously...Eudialite. 49. Epidote. 63. Bergmannite. 50. Wollastonite. 64. Chiastolite. 51. Bucklandite. 65. Gehlenite...wells ; salt-springs, as at Halle and Luneburg in Germany, and Safina in the United States ; and salt-lakes...Arragon in Spain, at Beynfeld near Schneeberg in Saxony, and in the Cordillera of St Juan in Chili. After...on granite, at Wittichen near Furstenberg, in Germany. tryoidal or globular groups of The picro-pJiarmacolHe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz and calcite have not reacted to form wollastonite, and sphalerite has not replaced andradite or...Layered sphalerite-magnetite skarn ores at Breitenbrunn, Germany (Hoth & Lorenz 1966). (4) Sphalerite-ch...Gottesmann, Wendtpromenade 57, D-14612 Falkensee, Germany. B. Gottesmann, W. Seifert, German Research Centre...Geosciences (GFZ), Telegraphenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany.
Book (edition)
manufactured of great per; fection at Siegen, in Germany. Pasteboard models, likewise useful aids to the...lamellar, and straight lamellar structure. Ex. wollastonite (tabular When the laminse are thin and spar)...consecutively. For example, the formula of wollastonite (calcium sili- CHEMICAL MINERALOGY. 174...Eudialjte. (/3) be written R O and Orthorhom- Wollastonite babingtonite. ; silicon, 1 : pyroxene ;...in ; It is associated epidote, chlorite, wollastonite, amygdaloid. in Arizona with prehnite, d
Report (issue)
______ Beryllia in pyrometasomatic rocks from Germany, Norway, and Sweden-______ _ _ ________________...Pegmatites, Maine; very rare. Quartz- wolframite vein, Germany; very rare. Syenite pegmatite, Norway; very rare...Aarvold, Norway__ ___ .OX____ .OX______ Breitenbrunn, Germany._ Julia mine, U. S. S. R. (?)_ ,OX______...Do_____________ Italy________________ Germany.. ___-_--____. Italy__________. Germany.. ____________ Fennoscandia...Mitchell (1948). Do. Sahama (1945a). GBANITIC Germany-Fennoscandia. Scotland. __ ___________ .001 3
 
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