 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland and Mineralogical Institute of the University CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland Probably...excavations in GalloRoman sites in southern Switzerland (Canton Valais, Binn) several crystal treasures were discovered...in particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still...in several large natural history museums in Switzerland and abroad were assembled (for example, the outstanding...mineral locality in the Alps, namely, the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal. In 1958, due to the initiative |  | | Catalog/List | | crystal about 2cm tall and one cm across. Francon Quarry, Quebec Canada £50 2. BERYLLONITE translucent...matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £ I 0 21. HYDROZINCITE visible with short wave UV white-blue...colourless glassy crystals on large Ixl inch rock osa quarry near Rome Italy £8 Fluorescent green with short...dolomitic marble with some pyrite micros Lengenbach mine, Binn ,Switzerland £3 34. CORUNDUM well formed pale...this location closed many years ago. Boyleston quarry Barrhead Scotland £6 40. ANALCIME good coverage |  | | Journal (issue) | | and A. Palmstrom The Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland......................Joseph Imhof Famous Mineral Localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland 275 by Stefan Graeser Rare Earth Minerals...Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...g e n b a c h q u a rry , B in n a V a lle y , Valais, S w itz e rla n d (see a rtic le s in th is issue...KELLER-WILDI, W yhlenweg 40 CH 4 1 2 6 Bettingen, Switzerland ★ Cabinet specimens ★ Miniatures ★ Thumbnails |  | | Catalog/List | | and with a band ofBarite (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 3x3 inch 42. FLUORITE cleavages...coverage and interesting location Hingston Down Quarry Cornwall 3x2.5 £8 43 . LEPIDOLITE good small display...FLUORESCENCE with short wave UV £10 Hawkswood 45. HYDROZINCITE white-blue fluorescent coating visible with...coverage of crystals, with very thin white coating (Hydrozincite) Fallowfield Mine, Hexham, Northumberland 2x2...dolomitic marble with some pyrite micros Lengenbach mine, Switzerland £3 61. CORUNDUM well formed hexagonal |  | | Book (edition) | | oxidised iron grain, silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl, Weimar near Kassel, Hessen, Germany (sample:...goethite (?, dark line), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany (sample: Hanel/Altherr);...part of grain), silicate matrix (dark grey); Stahl quarry, Dörrmorsbach, Aschaffenburg, Spessart, Franken...bornite (pinkish), dolomite (dark grey); Dolomite quarry, Rędziny, Czarnów, Rudawy Janowickie Mts., Lower...Albula Valley, Grischun (Grisons/ Graubünden), Switzerland (sample: van Acken); PPL B Godlevskite (dark |  | | Catalog/List | | Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 - 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu ?e) ;'L...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) 54 x 54 £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near Zermatt,Switzerland) S x H £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...fibrous on 2cm white dolomite. (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 Lead Sulphide 250 GALENA...attractive. (Gorner Valley near Zermatt lx2ins £4 Switzerland) Ixlins £2 189 IDOCRASE rich brown masses (Vai |  | | Catalog/List | | ALBITE vari ety PERI CLINE. Binnental , Valais , Switzerland. Sharp lustrous creamy coloured crystals...ece . 4x~", £28 .1"0 10 . AXIN ITE. Briti sh Rail Quarry , Meldon , ' De von . Specimen A: Bright, sharp...men B: 1 ~x1 ~", £ 3 . 75p 14 . BAUMHAUERITE . Lengenbach Qua rry , Bi nne nt a l , Swmtze r land. Spec...broas mass , 35. NATIVE COPPER. Cot;.ntyllddge QUarry , 'bo!1hilly Dm:n , ,Lizard, Cormlall. Hackly masses...calcite and patches of snowy - white crystallised hydrozincite . ~x1~x1" , £6 . 00 73. PYRITES. San Cristobel |  | | Catalog/List | | mass nearly lxl inch with Hydrocerussite. Merehead Quarry Mendips £35 9. SIMPSONITE Orange cleavage mass...across on lxl with small quartz crystals Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec £25 14. VESUVIANITE lxl inch area...salmon-pink Barite in the matrix (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 41. ALLOPHANE good creamy- pale...fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 some attractive salmon- 43. HYDROZINCITE white-blue fluorescent...areas of pearly small crystals on matrix Haury Quarry, Freiant, Black Forest Germany) 65. BARYTES attractive |  | | Catalog/List | | CO/3 OH blue micro crystals on rock. (Greystones Quarry,Lezant,Cornwall) £2.00 lx H £3.50 2 076 CALEDONITE...Quartz with micro spots of Native Copper. (Kingston Quarry,Cornwall) 1x1 £2 553 TETRAHEDERITE (Cu Fe) Sb S...unusual location. (Grenz Glacier near.Zermatt,Switzerland) W x « £3 lxl £5 086 CARMINITE Pb Fe Arsenate...cleavages with cerussite and or Pyrolusite (Merehead Quarry, Mendips,Somerset) H x B £2 269 MENDIPITE Pb/3...fibrous on' 2cm white dolomite. ' (Lengenbach Quarry,Binn Valley Switzerland) £4.50 163 GALENA Lead Sulphide |  | | Catalog/List | | the grains and a few more scattered about. Caspar Quarry, Bellerberg bei Mayen, Yulkaneifel, Rheinland Pfalz...about 12x5mm in the middle of the vein. Crestmore Quarry, Riverside County, California USA £17 35. SODALITE...County Connecticut USA large 3x4 inch £25 69. HYDROZINCITE white-blue fluorescent coating visibie with...dolomitic marble with some pyrite micros Lengenbach mine, Switzerland £3 77. NATIVE GOLD, several spots in...this location closed many years ago. Boyleston quarry Barrhead Scotland £6 80. ANALCIME good coverage |  | | Journal (issue) | | Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...mineral have been found at the Pinchin (Bonter) quarry near Malone. Although the crystals are well-formed...spinel octahedrons in the marble at the Cam eron quarry near Carleton Place. Clinohumite occurs at the...of epidote occur at the Pinchin (Bonter) marble quarry near the village of Malone, at the Marmoraton iron...marble quarry, near Malone, Ontario. George and Susan Robinson specimen. chin (Bonter) marble quarry near |  | | Journal (issue) | | Carolina. Muscovite (twinned) from the Nello Teer Quarry near Raleigh, N. C. in pegmatite veins where pneumatolytic...is uncommon. Major localities are at Ticino, Switzerland; Austria; and Italy. POLYLITIIlONITE, KLi 2 A1Si...example of twinned muscovite from the NeUo Teer Quarry, Raleigh, N. C. Fleischer, Michael, Chao, G. Y...Brazil) Hatchite 1912 Solly & Smith {Lengenbach, Switzerland) Dienerite 1926 Doelter (Radstadt, Austria)...Solly (Lengenbach, Switzerland) Lime 1883 Scacchi (Vesuvius, Italy) Liveingite 1902 Solly (Lengenbach, Switzerland) |  | | Catalog/List | | acicular sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts...tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal, Switzerland, sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE:... Italy. minute crystals AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE:... Quobec, AS /\BOVE with crystals sprays switzerland. North 1984 .. USA, crystals crystals Switzor...APRIL, Copper Falls, Michigan, Italy. crystals Quarry, S3ndung;;rn, /\sker, AS ABOVE Nalps, /13, |  | | Book | | Bauditz, Vejby, Denmark; Pierre Perroud, Geneve, Switzerland; Jiri Just, Perth, Australia; Richard Thomssen...Ca)5Ali2(P04)8(0H)22*32H20, 0 Orth. Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H=...Sub-translucent dirty yellow, brownish-yellow, green. Vilate quarry, Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. H= 5-5.5, Djn=3...Translucent yellow. Cherbadung, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 6.5-7, Djj4=3.70, Dg=3.71, VIID...white in reflected light. Lengenbach quarry, Binntal, Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. H= 3, Djjj= 5.329, Dc= |  | | Book (edition) | | common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010}...mineral of alkaline rocks in the Point of Rocks quarry, Colfax co., New Mexico, with aegirine and arfvedsonite...SwitzerlandItaly, overlooking Binntal, Valais canton, Switzerland, also crystals in Obersulzbachtal Valley |  | | Book (edition) | | (brownish pleochroism), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // C Iron (dark...(brown and multicolour internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 20 Iron...iron (light grey), silicates (dark grey); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. // B Schreibersite...silicates (brown internal reflections); Basalt Quarry Bühl near Kassel, Germany [j]; Nic. + 34 Schreibersite...Poland (Ramdohr’s description points to the dolomite quarry near Redziny, Czarnów) [j]; Nic. // B Euhedral |  | | Journal (issue) | | feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...14-4:4 Smith, Art New Minerals from the Midstate Quarry, Magnet Co\'e, Hot Spring County. Arkansas. 14-4:1...Collector's Notebook: More Finds at the Midst.ate Quarry. Magnet Cove. Hot Spring County. Arkansas. 14-8:1...Arkansas. Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove. 14-5:8-10 Aegjrine Arl<.ansas,Midstate Quarry. Magnet Cove. 14-5:8-10...County. 14-6: 1,6.7 Allanite-(La) Arl:ansas:Midstate Quarry. Magnet Cove. Hot Spring County. 14-4: 1,2.5 AlmandineNew |  | Poirier, G., Ercit, T. S., Tait, K. T., Piilonen, P. C., Rowe, R. (2009) New Mineral Names. American Mineralogist, 94 (2) 399-408 doi:10.2138/am.2009.538 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | region. Associated minerals are tarbuttite, hydrozincite, and gypsum. Single-crystal X-ray investigations...at the famous sulfosalt locality Lengenbach in Binntal, Switzerland, and (2) Rossblei, Schladminger Tauern...Styria, Austria, an abandoned galena mine. (1) Lengenbach: at the moment only one sample containing struvite-(K)...β parallels the crystallographic a axis. The Lengenbach sample was primarily tested by qualitative EDS...the close intergrowth of the two minerals. The Lengenbach sample, with a more complete data collection |  | | Catalog/List | | silvery massive with minor Chalcopyrite (Hingsten Quarry, Cornwall) lx2 El.SO 2x2 E3.00 2x3 E5.00 2 002...BARYTES pure golden brown cleavage. (Fullers earth Quarry Redhill, Surrey) lxl SOp. lx7. f.1.00 218 BAUHHAUERITE...vhite Dolomite, most with·realgar. (lengenbach Hine, Binn, Switzerland lxl f.4.50 lxl.5 f6.50 050 BEIDELLITE...creamywhite micro crystals in cavilies in Natrolite (Saga Quarry,TvedalenNorway) lxl EZ.60 063 BOULANGERITE Pb/5...Quartz crystals (Wannigletscher, Binntal, Wallis Switzerland) l/2ins .E3.50 111 CALCIUM CATAPLEITE Ca Zr SiO |  | | Book | | 10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293...ANALCIME Natrolite and analcime from Eckman Creek quarry. Waldport. Oregon (by M. Groben) 1:153, 1:173,...23:88-90 ANCYLITE Calcian ancylite from [the Keystone quarry near Cornog,] Pennsylvania: new data (by F. A....13:107-112 ANDERSON, WAYNE --and R. Stinchfield: Pint's quarry. Black Hawk County, Iowa 20:473-479 ANDOVER MINE |  | | Book | | trapezohedron faces (cp. Fig. 17, p. 131) . Switzerland. Be/,;w Elongated prismatic crysffiis (cp. Fig...cavities of Alpine type around the Gross Venediger. SWITZERLAND - Riffelberg near Zermatt. 77 ARGENTITE Ag...South-West Africa. &low Smoky ciuartz. Val Giuv, Switzerland. PLATE 15 Sea produced 'yellow copper' by...Tavesch, and exceptional crystals in the marble of Lengenbach, Binnatal. AuSTRIA schalenblende at Bleiberg...parallelintergrown crystals showing skeletal development. Switzerland. Bel()W left Phantom quartz. Minas Gerais, Brazil |  | | Journal (issue) | | Occurrence w ith 300 the Zeolites of the Durham Quarry, Durham, Wake County, North Carolina by Pete J...g(H 20 ) 4Fe'" (OH) ( P 0 4)2 from the Tip T op quarry in Custer, South D akota was nam ed segelerite...crystallized vanadinite in dolomite vugs. Mina Grande quarry. Itacarambi (MG). Scale is three cm in length....(MG), massive balls of various kilograms of hydrozincite are com mon (M orro do Vel asco). This uncom...rare: one to three mm size in the M ina G rande quarry (Itacaram bi - MG). At Serra do O uro Podre (Vazante) |  | | Catalog/List | | creamywhite micro crystals in cavities in Natrolite (Saga Quarry,TvedalenNorway} lxl E2.60 062 BORNITE Cu/5 FeS/~...crystals ••••{Wannigletscher,Binntal, Wallis Switzerland)--1/2ins f5 033 CARBONATE FLUORAPATITE ca {PO/4CO/3)F·•...green mica matrix. Someok for Micros.(S2n Vito Quarry Vcsuvius Italy) lxl E?.50 lx2 E5 121 DATOLITE Ca...Si/2 0/5 (OH) 11:1ite crusts on ANKERITE Enibleton Quarry,Cockermouth, Cumbr i lx2 El.20 (collected manyyears...cavities in dolomite. Miner Realgar (LengenbachHine. Binn Valley s· ilze-:l3ndl i, ins f4.50 12~ ELATERITE |  | | Book | | Staurolite (brown) in Mica Schist. Monte Campione, Switzerland. 6 x 8 cm. Becausethey form exclusively under...I have ever visited was exposed by the Francon quarry on Montreal P L AT E 1 4 Pyrochlore crystals...technology. P L AT E I S Weloganite. Francon quarry, Montreal, Quebec. 4.s-cm crystal. Named for W...Unlike most carbonatites, those in the Francon quarry occur assills. A sill is a flat, sheetlike intrusion...example. Because the carbonatites in the Francon quarry formed sills, when the magma intruded the enclosing |  | | Catalog/List | | Arizona Pure green cleavage AMAZONITE Landsverk quarry, Evje, Norway Ixl 50p lx2£l 11 felspar group____________...£3 7 Pure black mica plate new Analysis , Saga Quarry, Tvedalen near ANNITE Mica__________ paper available...Chrysotile, pale grey-green Ixl £1 County Bridge Quarry,Lizard Mg Fe SiO_______ massive. _________ .Cornwall...1x2 £5 1x1 £2 2x2 £5.00 2x2 £2 Hingston Down Quarry,Comwall,England Grey massive in matrix South Crofty...Brown fibrous mass in feldspar Quite rich Saga Quarry', Tvedalen, near for this location._____________________ |
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Lengenbach Quarry, Fäld, Binn, Goms, Valais, Switzerland