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Forsterite from
Nickenicher Sattel, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Forsterite
Formula:Mg2(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pseudobrookite20
Hematite10
Phlogopite3
Rhönite2
Pyroxene Group1
Sanidine1
Fayalite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Forsterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nickenicher Sattel, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Photo GalleryView Gallery (16 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360846
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360846:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Forsterite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Nickenicher Weinberg, Nickenich, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
3.3km (2.0 miles) Krufter Ofen, Kruft, Pellenz, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.3km (2.7 miles) Kunkskopf quarry, Wassenach, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
4.6km (2.8 miles) In den Dellen quarries, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.0km (3.1 miles) Southern Lake Laach Shore, Glees, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.2km (3.2 miles) Pumice quarries, Wingertsberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
5.5km (3.4 miles) Gleeser Felder, Glees, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6.2km (3.9 miles) Thelenberg, Mendig, Mendig, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6.5km (4.0 miles) Steinbergskopf, Brohl-Lützing, Bad Breisig, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
6.9km (4.3 miles) Dachsbusch quarry, Glees, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
discovered at the Bellerberg paleovolcano near Mayen, Eifel, Germany (krauSe et al. 1999). Later it was found...Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany DOI: 10.1127/njma/2016/0010 eschweizerbart_xxx...1.75 20 Natalia N. Koshlyakova et al. Nickenicher Sattel (BlaSS et al. 2009) and by us in the sublimates...garnets from Lavrion. Occurrence belonging to the forsterite–liebenbergite series, trevorite, albite, nosean...vanadium garnet from the Bellberg volcano, Eifel, Germany. – Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh. 3: 123 –134
Book
Rocks of the Laacher See and Other Areas of West Germany ............... 80 5.13 Leucite-Bearing Rocks of...4 9.2 The System Forsterite-Diopside-Leucite-Anorthite . 113 The Join Forsterite-Diopside-Anorthite... ......... 113 The Join Forsterite-Anorthite-Leucite .......... 113 The Join Diopside-Leucite-Anorthite...e-Si0 2 • . • • . 116 Chapter 10 The System Forsterite-Diopside-AkermaniteLeucite . . . . . . . . ......... 120 The Join Forsterite-Diopside-Leucite .......... 120 The Join Forsterite-Akermanite-Leucite
Journal (issue)
Gladbach - Paffrather Mulde und dem Remschei­ der Sattel verHiuft ein fast 10 km breiter Streifen mitteldevonischer...9 ) Vorsitzender des Vorstandes: Bolko Cruse, Koblenz Stellvertreter: Hugd ieter Lang, I ngolstadt Schriftleiter:...Vogel, Heidelberg Schriftführer: Helmut Schäfer, Mayen Weitere M itglieder: Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Simon, Heidelberg...Neuenrade D Wuppertal D Freiburg D Göttingen D Koblenz D Detmold D Großenlüder D Leverkusen D Marburg...Mitglied Hans-Dieter Timpf aus Bassenheim bei Koblenz. Bei offiziellen Anlässen hielt er sich im­ mer
Journal (issue)
~ Marcasite Freiberg, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany. FOV 4.5 mm.Ex Lundgren collection. Collection...Marl-Hüls, Marl, The Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. FOV 7mm.Ex Lundgren collection. Collection and...uraninite, Daybreak Mine, (Spokane County), pg. 766 Forsterite (With talc [2]), Jumbo Mountain, Snohomish County...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pseudobrookite (2 views) Nickenicher sattel, Eifel Volcanic Fields, Germany.FOV 1 mm... Mullite Niveligsberg, Eifel Volcanic Fields, Germany. FOV .45 mm. Ex Lundgren collection. Collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DALTRY. Quaternary volcano near Nickenich, Nickenicher Sattel, Eifel, Germany Nao.sCa0.aCuo.4(Mg,Fe)3(msO4)3...nepheline leucitites at Hannebacher Ley, Eifel, Germany; occurs with clinopyroxene, apatite and phillipsite...Monoclinic~ space group C2/m, a 9.978, Hesse, Germany. Bi30(OH)(PO4)2. Phosphate b 17.991, c 5.269 A...space group at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Pmna, a 12.946, b 19.048, c 16.932, Z = 1. Seelite...with valleriite, diaspore and djerfisherite in forsterite skarns at the Komsomol mine, 685 Talnakh, Noril'sk
Journal (issue)
Minerals from the Volcanic District of Laacher See, Germany..................................................Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...desire is to visit Norway on collecting tours. In Germany there are still more, also with their own jour­...from earlier visitors. A “Director of Studies” in Germany has given out, despite Norwegian protests, a guide...Valley and to develop them. Two Dr. Krantz of Germany, has survived and is still in use. Boring was done
Book (volume)
(Specord 75 IR or Specord M80, Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany), Perkin Elmer 1600 Series FT IR spectrometer or...FT IR spectrometer (Bruker Optics, Ettlingen, Germany). IR spectrum of a pure KBr disc was subtracted...Mg3B7O13Cl Locality: Wandsleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Description: White to beige fine-grained aggregate...Lüneburger Kalkberg, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany (type locality). Description: White fibrous aggregate...Niedersachswerfen, Nordhausen, Harz, Thuringia, Germany. Description: White crystals on anhydrite. Investigated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which he named for the Rhön Mountains of central Germany, as a distinct triclinic mineral and realized it...Mountains, but also at several localities elsewhere in Germany and in Bohemia plus one in Sweden. Walenta (1969)...is 200 Å wide in a crystal from Scharnhausen, Germany. Welshite is unique among minerals in the sapphirine...(i.e. from Kauai, Hawaii, USA and Nickenicher-Sattel, Eifel, Germany), a trend consistent with the substitution...% MnO has been found in dorrite (Nickenicher-Sattel, Eifel, Germany, Kunzmann, 1989 and pers. comm.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coefficients in phonolites from the Laacher See Volcano (Germany) G. W6rner ~, J.-M. Beusen 2, N. Duchateau 2, R...Postfach 102148, D-463 Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany 2 University of Antwerp (U.I.A.), Department of...1097-2 Representative East Eifel basanite Nickenicher Sattel 1088 1089-1 1097-1 . 2.16 6.5 . 4.55...nephelinites and tephrites from the Laacher See Area, Germany. N Jb Mineral Abh 132:1-33 Duncan AR, Tylor SR...(1977) Eifel Vulkanismus 6stlich des Gebietes Rieden-Mayen. Fortschr Mineral 55, Bh2, 1-32 Schmincke HU (1982)
Journal (issue)
venture in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. During the latter part of the 19th century, strontium...promising strontium-rich veins in Westphalia, Germany that provided the initial source of strontium for...States which could be shipped from Put-in-Bay to Germany. Upon reaching Put-in-Bay he met Captain John Brown...not the celestine was actually shipped back to Germany. One account by Nichols (1888) stated that Venator...Venator only shipped 40 tons of celestine back to Germany, but the shipper declined to make public the price
Book (edition)
Rosenzwcig (deceased) (USA). Jochen Schlilter (Germany), J. Sejkora (Czcch Republic), Masaaki Shimizu...of the compounds to the other; for example, ..Forsterite. Mg 2SiO,. orth., fom1s a series with Fayalite...Ettringer Bellerberg Moun Ettringen, Mayen, Eifcl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Gennany, NJMA 179, 265-29 f str...Neubulachminingdistrict,northem BlackForest,Baden-W!lrttembcrg, Germany,67, 854 A/rmite-Jarositegroup Arsenoftonnclte-(Ce)...compareWellerite,Clara mine, near Oberwolfach,BlackForest,Germany,New Mins.(1997),Auf 44, 250-254 Alunile-Jarosite1
Book
in this chapter with reference to the system forsterite-diopside-leucite-anorthite. Association of silica-deficient...detail with reference to the study of the systems forsterite-diopside-leucite-akermanite and diopside-nep...atmospheric pressure. Experimental study of the system forsterite-diopside-leucite and forsteriteakermanite-leucite...can be understood from the study of the system forsterite-kalsilite-SiO2 in presence of excess water at... Foley et al. (1986) also studied the system forsterite-kalsilite-SiO2 in presence of F up to 28 kb at
Book (edition)
lepidolite (trilithionite-polylithionite), olivine (forsterite-fayalite), and wolframite (ferberitehiibnerite)...the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit, Herault dept.. France... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H brerete, Zacatecas, Mexico. In small crystals...the Himmelsftirst mine, Freiberg, both Saxony, Germany. In the subtropical areas acanthite may occur on...450, 1.452, 1,463, 2V(calc.) = 49°, (+). Saxony, Germany, and many localities in the Alps, e.g. Rare in
Book (edition)
burning coal dumps of the Anna mine, near Aachen. Germany. CM 51, 57-66, 2013. Afmite Al;[(OH) 4 IPO;(OH)l(PO4))'4Hi0...meteorite impact crater, N of Nordlingen, Bavaria, Germany. AM 95, 892-895, 2010. Aklimaitc CaJ(OH) 4 JSi2Os(OH)2]·5H...Fe ores at the Mark mine, Essershausen, Hesse, Germany. EJM 18, 793-801,2006. Almeidaite PbZni(Mn, Y)(Ti...streak white. Allanpringite, 43 mm, Mark mine, Germany Cleavage {001} good. H = 2.5. D(calc.) = 1.82....656, 1.662, 2V = 88°, schwand, Schwarzwald Mts., Germany. Aufschluss 58, (+). At the type locality Rapid
Journal (issue)
Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim..................100 by W. E. Wilson Notes from Germany ................................................. diopside, ellestadite, epidote, fluoborite, forsterite, foshagite, ganomalite, gonnardite, graphite...Baldy, San Gabriel Mountains. Corundum (ruby), forsterite, lazurite, muscovite (fuchsite), pyrite. Copper...when, in that issue, my clumsy first “ Note From Germany,” in truth a note from France, appeared, describing
Book (edition)
Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...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;
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Bulgaria Canada Chile Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan...near Oberwolfach, in the middle Black Forest, Germany. Occ11rre11ce: Associated minerals are: quartz...Moschellandsberg silver-mercury deposit, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany. Ocwrreuce: The only associated mineral...The Bellberg volcano, Laacher See area, Eifel, Germany. Occurrence: In small fragments of calcium-rich...Locality: Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. The mineral has been found also at: Eureka, Utah
 
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