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Roger Warin
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 Posted: Feb 14, 2013 17:26 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Of course fabulous minerals, but there are also calcites.
From Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony, a calcite as beautiful as beryl.
Is the German name “Kanonenspath” correct? I think this term is also used for calcites from St Andreasberg (prism and pinacoid).
Roger.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 06:42 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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| Roger Warin wrote: | | Is the German name “Kanonenspath” correct? I think this term is also used for calcites from St Andreasberg (prism and pinacoid). |
The term is written "-spat" today ("-spath" is an older form; and many German consonant combinations of "th" disappeared during the 19th century and became a simple "t"). The word Kanonenspat is used for hexagonal looking calcite crystals like the one on your picture. It is used for several localities worldwide, e.g. Sweetwater Mine in Missouri or El Hammam in Morocco.
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Pierre Joubert
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 07:09 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Hi Tobi. For me, the fluorites are the best of German collectible mineral specimens. I find some of them stunning.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 07:49 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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I agree, Pierre, fluorites are among my all-time favourites of German minerals. There are a lot of areas where wonderful fluorites came from (Harz Mountains, Erzgebirge, Black Forest, Wölsendorf/Bavaria) - only collecting fluorites from Germany can fill a collector's life. Well, but fluorite is ALWAYS a beautiful mineral, no matter where it comes from :)
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 08:24 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Thank you very much Tobi
The word Kanonenspat seems to me (?) only used in Germany, even if that word applies to hexagonal prismatic habit for other localities worldwide.
Here is the same calcite illuminated by a UV lamp (365 nm).
Roger.
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Calcite
Freiberg, Erzgebirge, Saxony
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Joseph DOliveira
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| Posted: Feb 15, 2013 17:56 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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My collection has very few European specimens but of the few German specimens that I have, I am fascinated by the silver on arsenic from the Pöhla/Erzgebirge region.
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Native Silver on Arsenic
Pöhla - Erzgebirge
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Tobi
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2013 05:34 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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| A fine classic specimen, Joseph!
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Feb 16, 2013 17:05 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Sankt Andreasberg (Harz, Lower Saxony) seems to me a great locality for special habits of calcite.
Here a mat of slightly elongated pseudo-hexagonal crystals of calcite, called Kanonenspat .
Roger.
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Calcite
St Andreasberg, Hartz Mts
8 cm
Kanonenspat |
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Feb 18, 2013 08:08 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Pseudo-hexagonal tabular crystals of calcite # 70021, with old labels.
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Calcite
St Andreasberg, Hartz Mts |
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Roger Warin
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| Posted: Feb 24, 2013 09:07 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Proustite – Euhedral crystal
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Proustite
St Andreasberg, Harz Mts, Saxony |
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am mizunaka
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luvtheoldclassics
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| Posted: Nov 08, 2013 13:41 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Proustite with Acanthite- Marinberg, Saxony Germany
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Proustite, Acanthite
Marinberg Saxony Germany
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vandendriesschen
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Location: Dresden-Dölzschen, Saxony
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| Posted: Jul 25, 2024 13:11 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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Hello, I live near Dresden-Plauen here are three of my favorite minerals from my hometown. Best regards
| Mineral: | Calcite with Hematite |
| Locality: | | Willi Agatz Mine, level 180, gallery 830c, Gittersee mining area, Bannewitz, Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge District, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany |  |
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Schachtanlage Gittersee, Baufeld Bannewitz Nord.
180 m Sohle, Querschlag 830c bei ca 2,5 - 3 m ssw.
Kluft im Monzonit "Zeptercalcitkluft" ca. R 54 10358, H 56 52324.
Bergung: 27.09.1983 |
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| Mineral: | Calcite |
| Locality: | | Monzonite quarries, Plauenscher Grund, Dresden, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 5,5 x 3,5 cm |
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| Calcite on siderite near “Ratssteinbruch” 1993 tunnel construction |
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| Mineral: | Quarz (variety amethyst) |
| Locality: | | Monzonite quarries, Plauenscher Grund, Dresden, Saxony/Sachsen, Germany | |
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| Dimensions: | 6 x 4 x 3 cm |
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| A classic from the "Ratssteinbruch" from around 1927 with a reddish, oily, shimmering hematite coating. |
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James Catmur
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| Posted: Jul 26, 2024 02:55 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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| Welcome to the forum.
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Tobi
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| Posted: Jul 29, 2024 09:44 Post subject: Re: German Minerals |
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| vandendriesschen wrote: | | Hello, I live near Dresden-Plauen here are three of my favorite minerals from my hometown. Best regards |
Herzlich willkommen hier im Forum :-)
We have a whole section dedicated to German minerals, maybe you want to present some of your pieces here:
https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/viewforum.php?f=56
Liebe Grüße aus Marburg
Tobi
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