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Brookite from
Diabase quarry, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Brookite
Formula:TiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brookite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Diabase quarry, Kupferberg, Kulmbach District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:98415
Long-form Identifier:1:3:98415:5
GUID (UUID V4):cdd687d2-8ccc-4d49-89cd-2046a5405c3d
Nearest other occurrences of Brookite
16.3km (10.1 miles) Silberne Rose Mine, Goldkronach, Bayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
20.6km (12.8 miles) Reinersreuth quarry (Köhlerloh quarry), Reinersreuth, Sparneck, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
25.9km (16.1 miles) Epprechtstein, Kirchenlamitz, Wunsiedel im Fichtelgebirge, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
29.3km (18.2 miles) Alt & Neu Bescheert Glück Mines, Lichtenberg, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
35.6km (22.1 miles) Kienberg Quarry, Feilitzsch, Hof District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
38.5km (23.9 miles) Kalkhaus Quarry, Dechantsees, Pullenreuth, Tirschenreuth District, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
40.5km (25.2 miles) Henneberg Quarry, Weitisberga, Wurzbach, Saale-Orla District, Thuringia, Germany
57.6km (35.8 miles) Kahlleite quarry, Löhma, Seenplatte, Saale-Orla District, Thuringia, Germany
82.9km (51.5 miles) Zadní Chodov deposit (Hinterkotten deposit), Zadní Chodov, Tachov District, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic
88.4km (54.9 miles) Schelmberg Quarry, Kirchberg, Zwickau District, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale...in igneous and contact metasomatic deposits. In Germany, found as nicely shaped crystals at Neudorf, Harz...and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South Wales
Book (edition)
Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale...hydrothermal deposits. Occasionally in igneous Germany, Harz Mts.; and contact metasomatic deposits...and Tintic, Utah. Beautiful crystals in Saxony, Germany. Massive crystals at Broken Hill, New South Wales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
titanium doxide iTiO,) and i s trimorphous with brookite and rutile. Published analyses typically show...to igneous rock units ranging from granite to diabase. Relatively resistant to weathering, it has been...titanite and ilmenik, and is commonly xsociated with brookite, rutile, hematite. quartz. titanite, and o r t...Consolidated No. 2 q u w y and the Consaljdated No. 4 quarry, bbth at Topsham (King and F w d 1994). Alllttase...veinlats in or near diabase dikes at Sornervilte and inpoekets i n p W ai cbe Fallon quarry, Quincy, Massachusetts
Journal (issue)
(molds) after glauberite and anhydrite common in the diabase of this region. SCHEERER, TH., 'Ueber Pseudomorphosen...after Aragonite. Bastennes, France Magnetite after Brookite. Magnet Cove, Arkansas Pyrite after Chalcocite...pseudomorphs after quartz and dolomite from Gopfersgriin, Bavaria.2 (6) Through the direct coagulation of a sol on...jeffersonite Apatite after Wagnerite: II, C 2 Werfen, Germany, 15177 Argentite after Silver: I, C 2 Himmelsfiirst...Mineral Pseudomorphs in the Museum Commern, Eifel, Germany, 20624. 409 Hopper-shaped crystals on clay shale
Book
immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds...ditetragonal prism e, also shown at D (only the upper part of the whole crystal is shown). identification...the fifteen most abundant elements present in the upper ten miles or so of the crust, which account for...characteristics 3 The 15 most abundant elements in the upper 10 miles of the Earth's crust given as weight percentages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Brookite Dodo Mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia Downloaded...polymorphs, anatase and rutile (Cook 2002, 2003). Only brookite remains to complete coverage of this intriguing...intriguing family of minerals. Consequently, a fine brookite from the Dodo mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia, has...Unlike rutile, and to a lesser extent anatase, brookite is perhaps best known to micromounters. Specimens...significantly large crystals are uncommon and expensive. Brookite is a transparent to opaque mineral that occurs
Journal (issue)
Pennsylvania Ralph G. Wells 112 The New Enterprise Quarry of Roaring Spring Edward G. Carper Jr. 11 S A New...Kibblehouse Quarry F. A. Keidel 130 The "Cobaltite° Crystals from the K.Joblehouse Quarry J. Alexander...Kibblehouse Quarry. Articles on several additional mineral areas such as the Teeters Quarry in Gettysburg...ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by Kline's Quarry looking easterly from upper level. Susquehanna River visible...1780 Prescott Road York, Pennsylvania Kline's quarry, Wrightsville , York County, Penn- basis to go
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
locality for witherite is the lower level of a small quarry east of Gates Road and south of Seneca Turnpike...of Jamesville near Syracuse, New Y o r k . The quarry exposes the Devonian Marcellus Shale, including...MINERALS MORPHOLOGY OF P Y R I T E CRYSTALS FROM DUFF QUARRY, HUNTSVILLE, LOGAN COUNTY, O H I O . R. Peter Richards...Remarkable pyrite crystals are found at the Duff quarry in vugs in the Silurian Tymochtee Limestone, along...billion years old. Struc­ turally the Camsell River District is part of a large syncline that plunges in a
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...we were involved in the mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry in Santa Cmz, California, where some of the largest...temperature limit of about 440°C and a probable upper limit of 600°C on the formation of the sanbomite-quartz...COOPER, J. F., Jr. (1986) Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California. Mineralogical Record,...Kalahari rhodochrosite, Paterson (NJ), Brumado district (Brazil), Bosch C ollection $10 v.9/#4 Elm w
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
other ore bodies of the S h a w a n g u n k mining district is attributed by M a t h e r (1840, pp. 246-250)...the S h a w a n g u n k M o u n t a i n s mining district were once considered as old as D e v o n i a n...Geology of the Shawangunk district ore deposits The Shawangunk mining district of southeastern New York...Ellenville Tongue (Epstein 1993) of the Middle and Upper Silurian Shawangunk Formation on the western monoclinal...chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena. In addition, brookite is a late stage mineral at the Ellenville mine
Report (issue)
(Lirhiophorirc) Rancicitc Cassitcrite Anatasc Brookite T ungstitc Thorianirc Gunimite Lcpidocrocite (Hydrous...thenardite, wavcllitc. VIRGINIA BEACH: biotite, brookite, calcite, carbonate-apatite, diopsidc, enstatite... 21 Particularly Noteworthy Deposits I. Amelia District Pegmatite Masses* Thousands of pegmatite masses...the mincralogical literature arc in the Amelia District of central Virginia. More than 100 minerals have...and spatial relationships the pegmatites of the district may possibly have been related genetically to
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...thick, are found. The formation consists of an upper zone (200 to 500 meters thick) containing fresh...easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, the base of the...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...pumpellyite, quartz, and epidote are approaching their upper temperature limit. These zones cross stratigraphic
Book
zeolite mineralogy was done, at that time, in Germany, Italy, France, and Great Britain. Because of differences...thick, are found. The formation consists of an upper zone (200 to 500 meters thick) containing fresh...easily altered than the microcrystalline rock in the upper parts of the same flow; therefore, the base of the...Lower Miocene columnar basalt in the Narre Warren Quarry, near Melbourne, Australia. The minerals are believed...pumpellyite, quartz, and epidote are approaching their upper temperature limit. These zones cross stratigraphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...grayish cephalopod from the world's largest limestone quarry, located in Rogers City, Presque Island Co., Mich...quartzite have been collected in the Pilot Mountain district, Mineral Co., Nev. New Hampshire—A nice specimen...been found recently in the abandoned limestone quarry at McAfee, Sussex Co., N . J. New Mexico—A nice
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
members of the :New Red Sandstone Series in that district ; and, in the following communication, I have...Breccias and Lower (4) Upper Sandstones and Sandstones. ~[arls, with the Upper (2) Lower Marls. Keuper...the flanks of the Haldon Hills, in the Exeter district, and in the Crediton and Stogumber valleys. They...with sandstone-courses, the Pebble-Bed, and the Upper Marls and Sandstones have been dealt with from numerous...(iv) OrHwrhombie. Ap, tite. Barytes. Calcite. Brookite. Ilmenit e. Celes!ine. IImmatite. Cordierite (
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no Devonian, rocks were exposed in the Torquay district, but that these rocks were partly covered and...(of New York), " The Geology of the Guaynopita District, Chihuahua : A contribution to the knowledge of...Berlin), ".Xote on the Olivine-diabases of the Upper Harz." Dr. It. A. Daly (of Ottawa), " The Differentiation...British Columbia and the United •States. At the upper junction of the sill with the quartzite an abnormal...quartzite in the hornblende-gabbro, at both the upper and lower contacts of the sill. He supposes the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cordierite (usually pinitised or otherwise altered), brookite, rutile, sphene, monazite, spinel (green), pyrites...of the normal granites. With the exception of brookite and anatase (characteristic of the reddened granites)...means of bromoform. Only rarely, indeed, is either brookite or anatase identifiable with absolute certainty...Assays of apparently barren sa m ples of these quarry-gran ites show up t o 6 gra ins of gold an d 38...Assays of apparentl y barren samples of t or- and quarry-granite, graphic granite, and pegmatite show gold
Report (Issue volume)
igneous rocks, or clearly associated with Triassic diabase. As with the Paleozoic group, a younger age limit...Cornwall-type magnetite I ,000,000,000 Copper adjacent to diabase 1,000 Copper in Triassic redbeds 1,000 Phoenixville...mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million. The Phoenixville type...Triassic diabase. Cornwall-type magnetite-copper deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments adjacent to diabase, and...deposits. Cu in Triassic sediments distant from diabase. Zn-Pb-Cu in quartz veins cutting Triassic and
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...Sandstone— Upper Jurassic (3) Limestone—Upper Triassic (4) Siltstone and Sandstone— Upper Triassic (5)...(5) Sandstone, Siltstone, Shale— Upper Triassic The mines are situated on the western slope of the Sikhote-Alin... 4 ^ ^11 5 [ 7 ^ 6 m * E T ]7 S « (6) Diabase Porphyry— Paleogenic (7) Sikhakinskii Complex (Trachyte...(Trachyte, Trachyandesite, Essexite-Diabase, Shoukinite)— Paleogenic (8) Felsite, Quartz Porphyry— Paleogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large outcrop of argillaceous and silty killas. Diabase has been found here also. South again, along the... was once used for carting serpentine from the quarry beyond, leads to the east beach, strewn with boulders...unfortunately now it is covered by debris from the old quarry. Many bearings from this breccia to the other breccia...rutile. To the east of the mica-schist is an old quarry on a steep slope ; it is clear that the lower part...produced by contact metamorphism, are uralitized diabase, a common rock here which seems to have a secondary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bladed, very dark brown brookite was collected. Both anatase and brookite have been confirmed by X-ray...MINERALS Crystal drawings of anatase (left) and brookite (right) from the Dana locality near Powderhorn...Localities such as Gillette's quarry at Haddam Neck and the Strickland quarry in Portland have produced many...description is as follows: Anatase and brookite occur in veinlets in a diabase dike shown on the Powderhorn geological
Report (issue)
Paragenesis of minerals from the Roseland titanium district, Virginia. nr OCCURRENCE AND ORIGIN OF THE...deep- of the rutile used in the world, and the district also seated intrusive mass, which is probably...pyrogenic processes. which came from the Roseland district, in which the The simple mineralogy of the feldspar...chemistry of replacement, and it the Hot Springs district of Arkansas has begun to has been possible to...characterized by the alteration of feldspar to Roseland district have been systematically developed, clinozoisite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks in...and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the Middle...prehnite, laurnontite, and datolite) found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan also occur in Wisconsin. The...occasionally such other minerals as hematite roses, brookite, and rutile. The Wisconsin Magmatic Terrane, an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. distribution...(for example, the copper mines of the Ducktown district, Tennessee), chalcopyrite in good crystallized...County, and in very large crystals associated with brookite in quartz at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York...encountered in the diabase quarries of Fairfax County and the Goose Creek quarry near Leesburg, Loudoun...Valley–type lead-zinc deposits in the Tri-State district of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, and in the
Journal (issue)
ated minerals of the Lake Superior Copper District in the Upper Penin­ sula. Then perhaps, the many great...minerals of the iron ranges of central and western Upper Peninsula and of course the fine celestite, calcite...gold. Northern Marquette County in the central Upper Peninsula of Michigan is located in the southern...much greater exploration and production, and the district is also home to Goldcorp's Red Lake Mine. This...many counties within Michigan, the Northern or Upper Peninsula of Michigan is the only portion of the
 
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