 | | Journal (issue) | | • Email: info@kristalle.com Harz Mountains, Germany by Günter Grundmann Thomas P. Moore Wendell E... Moore COVER: PROUSTITE, 3.5 cm, from St Andreasberg. Germany, found in 1899; ex collection of Richard... Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany .............(Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany Günter Grundmann Eschenweg...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: |  | | Book | | Vienna. Lower left: Cobaltocalcite group. from Lerida. Spain. Folch collection. Barcelona. Lower right:...Netherlands. Back cover The museum ldar-Oberstein. West-Germany. is quaintly situated beneath the Felsenkirche...Copyright 1986 by . Ulrich Burchard, Lalling, West-Germany All rights reserved including the right of reproduction...Printed in Germany Miscellaneous: Design & Lay Out by Rainer Bode, Haltern, West-Germany Type set by...Wurzburg, West-Germany Colour separations by Litho Thungen GmbH, Thungen, West-Germany H. Bari, Musee |  | | Journal (issue) | | . n o t e s f r o m t h e y EDITOR SILVER ISSUE Among the precious metals, gold has always...behind, however, is silver. Though today only about 2% as valuable by weight, silver was nearly on a par...discerns a warm richness to silver that all the others lack. Furthermore, silver has been found as superb...famous and in teresting localities for native silver. Of course there are hundreds, perhaps thousands...and plenty remain for future issues. Unlike gold, silver forms the basis for an extensive array of addi |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hydrogeochemical characteristics of mine water in the Harz Mountains, Germany ⁎ Elke Bozaua, , Tobias Lichab...A.-Römer-Str. 2A, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany Universität Göttingen, Angewandte Geologie, Goldschmidtstr...Goldschmidtstr. 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: Harz Mountains...Kupferschiefer Mine water Trace metals Water rock interaction Water samples (springs, creeks, mine adits) from...rock interactions including the ore minerals, the mine water concentrations of main components and trace |  | Cabral, Alexandre Raphael, Ließmann, Wilfried, Lehmann, Bernd (2015) Gold and palladium minerals (including empirical PdCuBiSe3) from the former Roter Bär mine, St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany: a result of low-temperature, oxidising fluid overprint. Mineralogy and Petrology, 109 (5) 649-657 doi:10.1007/s00710-015-0396-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PdCuBiSe3) from the former Roter Bär mine, St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany: a result of low-temperature...underground mine in the polymetallic deposits of St. Andreasberg in the middle-Harz vein district, Germany, native...and gold in the silver-mining district of St. Andreasberg in the Harz Mountains, Germany (Fig. 1). Our...Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany 2 Lehrbergwerk Grube Roter Bär Sankt Andreasberg, Rosdorfer Weg 33a, D-37073...D-37073 Göttingen, Germany The material investigated here was collected in 1924 by mine geologist Ernst |  | | Book (volume) | | collectors’ eye; a superb German Pyrargyrite, or Michigan Silver. The first group everyone can appreciate. The latter...Acanthite San Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico,...47 (Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon...Malachite) Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | activity in the St. Andreasberg ore district (Southwest Harz, Federal Republic of Germany) D.F. Mertz 1...2, D-3400 G6ttingen Abstract. In the St. Andreasberg ore district, southwest Harz, at some time between...to the Early Cretaceous. Thus, part of the St. Andreasberg mineralization is proved to have been formed...copper deposits (Rose 1970), or in subvolcanic gold-silver vein deposits (Buchanan 1981). The identification...adularia in the mineralization of the silver-ore district of St. Andreasberg (Schnorrer-K6hler 1983) offered |  | | Catalog/List | | PHONE (406) 363 3601 A.JOITE CRYSTALS New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Hydrated copper aluminum... ANHYDRITE CRYSTALS Sonderhausen, South Harz, Germany. Calcium sulfate. Single sharp rectangular crystals...and S7. 50. BOURNONITE COGWHEEL CRYSTALS Keystone mine, Crested Butte, Colorado. A lead copper antimony...xls on matrix, T/N $. 50, $1. 00 AMOSITE Penge mine, Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. A basic...$7.50 and $9. 50. ARSENOLITE CRYSTALS White Caps mine, Manhattan, Nevada. Arsenic trioxide. Very sharp |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens found there in the ore cars and in the mine itself. Even today Sr. Folch’s collection is, by...Panasqueira mines, Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco district, Portugal. was, without doubt, one of the greatest...Panasqueira mines, Panasqueira, Covilhã, Castelo Branco district, Portugal. Downloaded by [University of Birmingham]...3 cm, Samson mine, Saint Andreasberg, Saint Andreasberg district, Harz Mountains, Lower Saxony, Germany... Azurite, 33 × 17 × 11 cm, Touissit, Touissit district, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family (Cook 1996). The species was chosen because...and historical importance as an ore mineral of silver, well-crystallized specimens of pyrargyrite have...several Mexican occurrences. Ideally, pyrargyrite is silver antimony sulfide (Ag3SbS,). Most analyses show...several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are reported. It...alteration product of acanthite, dyscrasite, and silver. Pyrargyrite is relatively widespread as a low- |  | | Report (issue) | | 101(3) c = 6.647(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: St. Andreasberg, Germany. (ICDD 11-74). 3.20 (100), 3.01 (90),...Total 99.96 100.00 26.40 20.86 (1) St. Andreasberg, Germany; remainder is CaCO3 0.41%, MgCO3 0.46%...Occurrence: Very rare in a hydrothermal vein (St. Andreasberg, Germany). Association: Pyrargyrite, galena, dyscrasite...apophyllite (St. Andreasberg, Germany). Distribution: From the Samson vein, St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains...Mountains, Germany [TL]. At the Garpenberg Norra mine, Dalarna, Sweden. From the Brady Lake property of the |  | | Catalog/List | | in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst in Creede, Colorado...ACANTHITES L Kongsberg Silver Mines — ' Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway Major Kongsberg Silver Piece. What a super...super aesthetic combination of native wire silver growing atop calcite crystals with acanthite. This represents...left. Situated in the middle is the “trunk” of the silver tree that starts at a thickness of about 1 cm and |  | | Catalog/List | | MINERAL LIST ELEMENTS 1. ARSENIC Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Solid gray dense metallic cellular mass with...crystals and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery...grams $85. 00. METEORITES CRYSTALS Fall - 1981 3. SILVER Tsumeb, South West Afric2. .. Select silvery ¼11...slickenside matrix. 2x2½xt!' $125. 00. 7. GOLD Mina St. Georges, Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched | | | Catalog/List | | MINERAL LIST ELEMENTS 1. ARSENIC Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Solid gray dense metallic cellular mass with...crystals and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery...grams $85. 00. METEORITES CRYSTALS Fall - 1981 3. SILVER Tsumeb, South West Afric2. .. Select silvery ¼11...slickenside matrix. 2x2½xt!' $125. 00. 7. GOLD Mina St. Georges, Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched |  | Alles, Jonas, Ploch, Alexander-Maria, Schirmer, Thomas, Nolte, Nicole, Liessmann, Wilfried, Lehmann, Bernd (2019) Rare-earth-element enrichment in post-Variscan polymetallic vein systems of the Harz Mountains, Germany. Mineralium Deposita, 54 (2) 307-328 doi:10.1007/s00126-018-0847-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polymetallic vein systems of the Harz Mountains, Germany Jonas Alles 1 & Alexander-Maria Ploch 1 & Thomas...Accepted: 5 October 2018 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract Carbonate...have more elevated REE content, compared with the Lower (eastern) Harz fluorite-rich systems with less REE...the Lower Harz systems has 87Sr/86Sri around 0.716 and εNdi of − 2 to − 5. Fluorite in the Lower Harz...Adolph-Roemer-Str. 2A, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany 2 Geoscience Centre Göttingen, Universität Göttingen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TERRY From antiqbi@, the quest for silver and, more recently, for silver minerals has M e n expbrers, conquerors...beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of the nobility...associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great wars. Silver is said to have magical purifying...turn lead to silver (both of these myths are partially true!). To the mineral collector, silver minerals...unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more than one hundred different silver-bearing minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1996 in Wien Summary The Harz Mountains (North Germany) represent a deeply eroded, structural monocline...syn-sedimentary polymetallic sulÞdes of Rammelsberg, silver bearing galena veins of western and central Harz...caused a long lasting mining activity (Rammelsberg mine: for more than 1000 years, up to 1988). In the Harz...roof of the region, possibly of Germany, on Neuwerk church at Goslar dates back to the 15th or 16th century...Rammelsberg, S: Sudmerberg (b. Goslar), SH: Sangerhausen, SA: St. Andreasberg, T: Thale, W: Walkenried,WI: |  | | Report (issue) | | CT Concept & Design Maximilian Glas, Starnberg, Germany English Edition © 2003 by Lapis International,...Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic Escaut; photo Jeff Scovil Front lower: View...left: A perfect 5 cm wide calcite twin on (0001} from St. Clair Lime quarry, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Collection...California State Mining Museum; photo Jeff Scovil Back lower left: 6.2 cm high specimen of calcite and malachite...Collection Victor Yount; photo Jeff Scovil Printed in Germany Licensed edition in the English language of extraLapis |  | | Book (edition) | | Nitrides, Phosphides and Silicides Copper I/A.01-10 4 Silver I/A.01-20 6 Gold I/A.01-40 8 Auricupride I/A.01-50...- Alloys and Alloy-like Compounds, with Copper, Silver, Gold and Nickel Algodonite II/A.01-10 Domeykite...Selenium and Tellurium < 1:1, Tellurides with Copper, Silver and Gold Linnaeite II/D.01-20 320 Polydymite II/D...Affiliation/Address Luzerner Str. 10-12, D-12205 Berlin, Germany – Freie Universität Berlin, FB Geowissenschaften...Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank |  | | Journal (issue) | | c5anvw,((e,vMintrafs Mineral Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance...pseudomorpbs after orthoclase from Wheal Coates, St. Agnes 30 M.P.Cooper Present day collecting at...Minerals 35 37 FRONT COVER Caledonite. Red Gill Mine., Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Largest crystal 1.25... S. Africa, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Necessary to this development, to take up the...associated with veins worked in the Vigra and Clogau mine, and was more than likely a trial for gold in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | descriptions; and though I have never lived in Germany, I have many friends in that country, have belonged...locality (Srreuberg near Bergen in the Vogtland, Saxony). It was found on the dumps, left over from a bismuth...locality, Johanngeorgenstadt. Right after WW IL when Saxony was under Communist government, it was cut off...ranium ores. D uri ng the Communist years in East Germany. pri vate possession ( including by the mineral...the Southern Bl ack Forest. in Baden. the n West Germany. T he uranium locality was in a gra nite in th |  | Bauer, Matthias E., Burisch, Mathias, Ostendorf, Jörg, Krause, Joachim, Frenzel, Max, Seifert, Thomas, Gutzmer, Jens (2019) Trace element geochemistry of sphalerite in contrasting hydrothermal fluid systems of the Freiberg district, Germany: insights from LA-ICP-MS analysis, near-infrared light microthermometry of sphalerite-hosted fluid inclusions, and sulfur isotope geochemistry. Mineralium Deposita, 54 (2) 237-262 doi:10.1007/s00126-018-0850-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrothermal fluid systems of the Freiberg district, Germany: insights from LA-ICP-MS analysis, near-infrared...Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The historic silver mining district of Freiberg...Freiberg (Germany) comprises hydrothermal vein-style mineralization of Permian and Cretaceous age. We compare...Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany 2 Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Helmholtz...Chemnitzer Str. 40, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Introduction The silver mining district of Freiberg is well-known |  | | Book | | Antimonial Silver . . .46 Sulphuret of Manganese . 59 Silver Glance, Sulphate of Silver . 46 Oxides...Brittle Glance Silver, Melanglance . 46 Hausmannite 59 Red or Ruby Silver Ore, Silver-Blende . 47...Braunite 59 Chloride of Silver, Horn-Silver . . 47 Manganite 59 Iodide of Silver . . .47 Pyrolusite...Seleniuret of Silver . . .47 Psilomelane 60 Leptonemerz and Polianite 60 Wad 60 . Silver. Manganese...Manganese. Native Silver 2. COMMON METALS. Quicksilver or Mercury. Native Amalgam . . .48 .... Red |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents Features Visits to Tessin and Prora, Germany 20 From the Chairman Meet our Treasurer — Tony... Gliickauf! : Harz Mining and Mining Museums, Germany 46 5 Carshalton Air-Raid Shelter, Surrey Archaeology...Buchenberg iron mine in the Harz Mountains in Germany. Photo Ken Geddes Back page lower: The former Volksmarine...Volksmarine command bunker at Tessin in Germany. The heart of the bunker is the dispatch room. From here...himself while stealing metal from tunnels beneath St news and events. Plus we now have Facebook and Lawrence's |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint), Ste. (Sainte). Recent developments in many...tint. R = 35 %. VHN = 26-61. Rare at etc. at Mont St-Hilaire. Quebec. CM 32. 843-854, Georgetown, Clear...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. 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