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Augite from
Marble quarry, Twimberg, Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Marble quarry, Twimberg, Bad Sankt Leonhard im Lavanttal, Wolfsberg District, Carinthia, Austria
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:992282
Long-form Identifier:1:3:992282:2
GUID (UUID V4):5921cdb8-bc8d-415d-b787-31dad6c18f59
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...of interest is located in the Carinthia and Styria districts of Austria. Geographically it is dominated
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VIII . AUGITE, 98 99 1. Oblique-edged Augite, 1st Subsp. Foliated Augite, Granular Augite, 2d Conchoidal...Conchoidal Augite, 3d ib . 103 105 4th Common Augite, 5th 6th- Coccolite, 108 Diopside, 111 7th...7th Sahlite , 115 107 2. Straight-edged Augite, 117 1st Subsp. Carinthin, Hornblende, 2d 118 1st... Ligneous Asbestus, 158 156 3. Prismatoidal Augite, 160 1st Subsp. Epidote, or Pistacite, 2d Zoisite... CONTENTS OF VOLUME SECOND. Page 4. Prismatic Augite or Tabular Spar, 170 Genus IX. SCHILLER- SPAR
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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...These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to the general...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...map that is on the folder around Hiittenberg in Carinthia. Mica of each map. The map numbers appear (phlogopite)
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minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first case,...of quartz and mica, and eclogite of garnet and augite. There are also rocks which consist of fragments...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...minerals are concerned. Opal is still thought to bring bad luck, and similar stories are told about certain...monoclinic Pl. 39 augite, Pl. 40 hornblende, Pl. 44 orthoclase, Pl. 45 adularia, Fig. 23 augite and hornblende
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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...sometimes originates during secondary uralitization of augite, vivid green Cr-variety smaragdite often accompanies...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
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A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...change into larger crystals in the metamorphic rock marble. In metamorphosed sandstone, recrystallization...such as Porcupine and Hemlo districts; Noranda district, Quebec. USA: Mother Lode belt and others in...Localities Canada: Cobalt mining district and Thunder Bay District, Ontario. USA: several localities... Wire silver, Silver Islet Mine, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada * 11.5 x 14x 11 om Silver has
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periods of stability PLANET | 114 San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 om are uncommon...change into larger crystals in the metamorphic rock marble. In metamorphosed sandstone, recrystallization...such as Porcupine and Hemlo districts; Noranda district, Quebec. USA: Mother Lode belt and others in...Localities Canada: Cobalt mining district and Thunder Bay District, Ontario. USA: several localities... Wire silver, Silver Islet Mine, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada + 11.5 x 14x 11 om Silver has
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Granada (1983), Moscow (1984), London (1985), Freiburg im Breisgau (1986), Copenhagen (1988), Washington D... it was decided, at the 1986 meeting in Freiburg im Breisgau, to present all the results under one cover...> hornblende, hornblende, Ti-augite, ±diopsidic augite, diopsidic augite, olivine, biotite ±olivine (±olivine)...connection: some constraints from the Barkly-West District, northern Cape Province, South Africa. Fifth International...implemented, e.g. titanaugit has been changed to titanian augite. However, in many cases it was felt inappropriate
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INTRODUCTION. The following Is a list of metals arranged im the order of their magnetic powers, as approximatively...Ammoniac. Lumachello, or Fire Marble. Gotham, Ruin, or Landscape Marble. Stinkstone, or Swinestone. Agaric...Wohlerite. Pyrrhite. Ceria. Calcareous Tufa. Marble. Lasionite, Fischerite. Schaumkalk. Dreelite... Anhydrous Silicate of Glucina, Aluminous Augite, or DiaU Phenakite. lage, Noble Serpentine....or Stone. Anthophyllite). Monradite. Dermatin. Augite. Aplome. Common Silicates Anhydrous of Magnesia
of minerals, the minerals themselves are of prime im¬ portance. Basically, then, mineralogy deals with...rocks are the silicates: quartz, feldspars, micas, augite, horn¬ blende, and olivine. In sedimentary rocks...Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan
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of minerals, the minerals themselves are of prime im- portance. Basically, then, mineralogy deals with...rocks are the silicates: quartz, feldspars, micas, augite, hornblende, and olivine. In sedimentary rocks...Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan
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inclined top and bottom faces gypsum muscovite augite triclinic pairs of faces albite anorthite kyanite... Acmite, actinolite, andalusite, arfvedsonite, augite, beryl, bronzite, chlorite, cordierite, diallage...constituents of igneous rocks feldspathoids, mica, augite, hornblende and Accessory minerals are magnetite...muscovite (No. 13). Rare. Specimen from the Tyrol (Austria). 10 Biotite is the most common mica, named after...irregular tablets. Occurrence: Eifel (Germany), Carinthia (Austria), Norway (No. 10). 11 Zinnwaldite (lithium
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In the works of Mohs, Haidin- it, Jameson, Leonhard, Hauy, Monticelli, Le- vy, Cleaveland, Brooke...hoped the present work is free diligent- from im- X PREFACE. Business avocations must, however...revolve 180°, while the of frequent occurrence in augite, felspar, &c. Imbedded or perfectly symmetrical...fallen snow, colour, nearly that of as in Carrara marble. somewhat inclining and — the purest white...colour; Greenish-black 3. in several species of augite. —black mixed with 4. Brownish-black and certain
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termed monomineralic rocks, for example, dolomite marble, dunite, and anorthosite. Unconsolidated aggregates...achates (agate), asphaltos, Lydian stone, marmaros (marble), ochra (ocher), and sardion (sard). Pliny the...silicon], apaneite [apatite + nepheline], auganite [augite + andesite], coralgal [coral + algae], criquina...work by B. von Cotta.) London: Longmans, Green. Leonhard, Karl C. von. 1823-1824. Charakteristik derEelsarten...prthopyroxene rather than clinopyroxene by International (augite). [Norge (Norway), original locality) Union of
Catalog/List
'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high...Meteoric Stone, or Iron Moes, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary. Meteorites, Canon Diablo, Arizona. Kiowa...the crystals sandstone allows cabinet are is Austria-Hungary, brown coal formation.” am cases and...are scarcer. instances, material, Pater- at quarry received the entire we in- or through the...Von 2O to be Thaumasite the he and dis- quarry, West aggregate of pris- matic uals crystals
Catalog/List
^/^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 ^ Im m^p^ Hf 1^ 17^.^9 I III IZO I.I 1.8 1.25 ...Hallein, 9. L. Hallein, Lower Lower Austria. Fibrous. Austria. Lamellar, color sky blue and white...white. 10. L. Ischel, Upper 2 Austria. Color red. Mineralogical Cabinet. Genps V. Sp. ac. U. Ammoniac-Salt...Hungary. Triv. Pollyhallite. 26. L. Ischel, Upper Austria. CLASS ORDER Genus 28. L. 29. L. 30. L. HJILOIDE...Gypsum-Haloide. (efflorescing.) 31. L. Ischel, Austria. Prismatic crystals in groups. 32. L. France
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original rock or igneous rocks formed from melts and Marble was indeed once limestone but ‘protolith’, but...roofs, for instance, more like an igneous rock. Marble, Rocks are subjected to heat and has a colour... has strange swirls and bands. Beautiful white marble seems to be made of Cooking and crushing rocks...enough to to chlorite, a mineral only found in Marble seemed to represent a cross metamorphic rock....becomes quartzite. Pure calcite limestone becomes marble. Metamorphic environments Each kind of metamorphic
Book (edition)
Hornblendic or not 478 d. Leucite Rocks, with or without Augite 479 e. Soda-Lime-Feldspar and Mica Series 480 /...planes will remain essentially the same. In Fig. 10, bad the plane lettered | been made the plane 1, then...The grains in a white crystalline limestone or marble the speare rhombohedral in cleavage, like cies...finely granular, It is termed as in varieties of marble, granular quartz, etc. It may saccharoidal when...seen. Loaf-sugar is a good example; also Carrara marble. Subtranslucent when merely the edges transmit
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these stones occidental condition a cut marble, as and passed the of times later string...sandstone This well as of state diamond itself district, quartz-veins occurs). monazite, the however...interference-figure, of faces by spinel in white marble; Sagyin a Amongst Ruby a used consequently...470 4500 . . Switzerland, the and Germany Austria . . ... France ... . Britain Great . 310...from figs. or 1 faces on Upper Burma and marble, contact-action isolated 2) and of an paler
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different authors, but the following are those of most im- may be portance, placed in parallel columns. Systems...(P) . co P(/) . P (/). The most common form of augite is represent- select a ed in fig. 64, with...curved faces occur, but concave. In galena and augite the crystals are often other rounded on the corners...P') form only one plane. In a similar manner the augite crystals of the combination ccP ooPoo ( ooPoo )...being parallel, but those of the hornblende and augite not parallel. The fine drusy covering of copper
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earth’s crust. Although there are some rocks (such as marble, composed only of calcite crystals) which are chemically...than fluorite, and shows a different cleavage. Augite, amphibole and tourmaline occur frequently in the...predominantly in acid igneous rocks. On the other hand, augite and amphibole often occur in basic igneous rocks...the angle and quality of their cleavage planes. Augite has good cleavage at 90° angle, amphibole perfect...identification. Nobody should be discouraged by initial bad luck, it is sometimes difficult even for an expert
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12 Morganite Amazon stone Rhodonite Willemite Augite 16 17 Prehnite 18 34 35 Idocrase 36 Muscovite...Calcite 79 80 81 Cobaltocalcite Onyx marble 82 83 Landscape marble Smithsonite 85 84 108 102 Introduction...although a few rocks consist of one mineral only (e.g. marble, which in its pure state consists entirely of calcite)...some other mineral. Some of these, such as fire marble and wood opal, make attractive ornamental stones...recrystallization of the existing minerals. Examples are marble, the metamorphosed form of limestone, and quartzite
Journal (issue)
of the amethyst localities in the Thunder Bay district, and is indispensable for those planning to visit...(1971) McTavish Township (west part o f north half) District o f Thunder Bay. Ontario Department of Mines and...1863, to describe a metasedimentary sequence of marble, quartzite, and paragneiss near the village of...four general categories: (1) those occur­ ring in marble contacts and calcite vein-dikes, (2) those occurring...MINERALOGY The Marble Contacts Contact metamorphic zones between the Grenville marble and adjacent rocks
Catalog/List
opalescence ................... PERICLINE Italy, Austria 1 SWitzerland Aleine areas Fine large white twin...crystals imbedded in marble ..... . Connecticut Canaan, New England Lime quarry Silky white xl prisms...prisms in dolomitic marble ..... . Connecticut East Canaan Silky white prismatic x1 a,mre,,ates in ora1we...ora1we dolomitic marble with py~ite ."'........ ~ ... . New York Balmat White to cream colored crystalline...material ........... Arizona Cochise Co. , Swisshelm district Rich brown to gray massive, some with minor cerussite
Book (volume)
1821. Cristallographie, &c. par M. Caesar v. Leonhard. de Rome' de 1'Isle. V. Vol. I. p. 17- Traite...neighbourhood of Aussee, Ischel, and Hallstadt in Austria, at Hallein in Salzburg, in Hun- gary, in Switzerland...Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Upper Austria, Salzburg, the Tyrol, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and...near Ocana in locality is New Aussee in Upper Austria. Castile. The RockAnother combinations described... in Switzerland, in the Tyrol, in Stiria and Austria ; also in Poland, Hun- gary, and Transylvania
 
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