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Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germanyi
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AhnatalMunicipality
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View of the Bühl basalt quarry, near Kassel, ca. 1900.

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Native Iron

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Native Iron

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Native Iron

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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View of the Bühl basalt quarry, near Kassel, ca. 1900.

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Native Iron

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Native Iron

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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View of the Bühl basalt quarry, near Kassel, ca. 1900.

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
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Native Iron

Bühl, Weimar, Ahnatal, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Neighbouring regions:
Espenau, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Habichtswald, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Harleshausen, Kassel District, Kassel Region, Hesse, Germany
Type:
Municipality
Mindat Locality ID:
340850
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:340850:9
GUID (UUID V4):
0
Other Languages:
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French:
Ahnatal, arrondissement de Cassel, Hesse, Allemagne
German:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hessen, Deutschland
Italian:
Ahnatal, circondario di Kassel, Assia, Germania
Russian:
Анаталь, Кассель, Гессен, Германия
Simplified Chinese:
阿纳塔尔, 卡塞尔县, 黑森, 德国
Spanish:
Ahnatal, Distrito de Kassel, Hesse, Alemania
Afrikaans:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Duitsland
Aragonese:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Alemanya
Asturian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Alemaña
Basque:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Alemania
Bavarian:
Ahnatal, Hessn, Deitschland
Breton:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Alamagn
Catalan:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Alemanya
Cebuano:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Hessen, Alemanya
Chechen:
Анаталь, Гессен, Германи
Corsican:
Ahnatal, Assia, Germania
Croatian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Njemačka
Czech:
Ahnatal, Zemský okres Kassel, Hesensko, Německo
Danish:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Hessen, Tyskland
Dutch:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Hessen, Duitsland
Dutch Low Saxon:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Duutslaand
Esperanto:
Ahnatal, Distrikto Kassel, Hesio, Germanio
Estonian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Saksamaa
Farsi/Persian:
اهناتال, کسل, هسن, آلمان
Finnish:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Saksa
Franco-Provençal:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Alemagne
Friulian:
Ahnatal, Assie, Gjermanie
Galician:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Alemaña
Hungarian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Németország
Icelandic:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Þýskaland
Ido:
Ahnatal, Hesia, Germania
Indonesian:
Ahnatal, Kassel, Hessen, Jerman
Interlingua:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Germania
Interlingue:
Ahnatal, Subdistrict Kassel, Hesse, Germania
Irish Gaelic:
Ahnatal, Hessen, An Ghearmáin
Japanese:
アーナタール, カッセル郡, ヘッセン州, ドイツ
Kazakh (Cyrillic Script):
Анаталь, Кассель, Гессен, Германия
Kongo:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Alemanyi
Kurdish (Latin Script):
Ahnatal, Hessen, Almanya
Kyrgyz:
Анаталь, Гессен, Германия
Ladin:
Ahnatal
Ligurian:
Ahnatal, Assia, Germania
Limburgian:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Duitsland
Low Saxon/Low German:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Hessen, Düütschland
Luxembourgish:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Däitschland
Malagasy:
Ahnatal, Alemaina
Malay:
Ahnatal, Kassel, Hesse, Jerman
Minangkabau:
Ahnatal, Jerman
Narom:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Allemangne
Neapolitan:
Ahnatal, Assia, Germania
Norwegian:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Hessen, Tyskland
Norwegian (Nynorsk):
Ahnatal, Hessen, Tyskland
Occitan:
Ahnatal, Èssa, Alemanha
Picard:
Ahnatal, Alemanne
Piedmontese:
Ahnatal, Assia, Almagna
Polish:
Ahnatal, Powiat Kassel, Hesja, Niemcy
Portuguese:
Ahnatal, Kassel, Hesse, Alemanha
Romanian:
Ahnatal, Districtul Kassel, Hessa, Germania
Romansh:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Germania
Sardinian:
Ahnatal, Germania
Scots:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Germany
Scottish Gaelic:
Ahnatal, Hessen, A' Ghearmailt
Serbian:
Анатал, Хесен, Њемачка
Serbo-Croatian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Njemačka
Sicilian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Girmania
Slovak:
Ahnatal, Hesensko, Nemecko
Slovenian:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Nemčija
Swahili:
Ahnatal, Hesse, Ujerumani
Swedish:
Ahnatal, Landkreis Kassel, Hessen, Tyskland
Tatar:
Анаталь, Кассел, Hessen, Алмания
Ukrainian:
Анаталь, Кассель, Гессен, Німеччина
Uzbek (Latin Script):
Ahnatal, Kassel, Hessen, Germaniya
Venetian:
Ahnatal, Assia, Germania
Vietnamese:
Ahnatal, Kassel, Hessen, Đức
Volapük:
Ahnatal, Hesän, Deutän
Walloon:
Ahnatal, Almagne
Waray:
Ahnatal, Kassel, Hessen, Alemanya
Welsh:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Yr Almaen
West Flemish:
Ahnatal, Hessen, Duutsland
Wolof:
Ahnatal, Almaañ
Zulu:
Ahnatal, IJalimani


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13 valid minerals.

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Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Augite
Formula: (CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
ⓘ Cohenite
Formula: Fe3C
ⓘ 'Fayalite-Forsterite Series'
ⓘ 'Glass'
ⓘ Goethite
Formula: Fe3+O(OH)
ⓘ Ilmenite
Formula: Fe2+TiO3
ⓘ Kaolinite
Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
ⓘ 'Limonite'
ⓘ Magnetite
Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4
ⓘ Molybdenite
Formula: MoS2
ⓘ Montmorillonite
Formula: (Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
ⓘ Native Iron
Formula: Fe
References:
Howarth, Geoffrey H.
Day, James M. D.
Pernet-Fisher, John F.
Goodrich, Cyrena A.
Pearson, D. Graham
Luo, Yan
Ryabov, Viktor V.
Irmer, W. (1919): The basalt of Bühl near Cassel and its inclusions of magnetite, pyrrhotite, and native iron. Vorl. Ber. Senckenbergiana 1, 71-76.
Irmer, W. (1920-1921): I. Der Basalt des Bühls bei Kassel und seine Einschlüsse von Magnetit, Magnetkies und gediegenem Eisen. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 37, 83-108.
von Schwarz, M. (1937): Textural development of the terrestrial iron inclusions in the basalt from Bühl, near Kassel. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 1937, A, 74-91.
Eitel, W. (1938): The origin of the metallic iron inclusions in the Bühl basalt. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 1938, A (no. 6), 167-72.
Ramdohr, P. (1953) Neue Beobachtungen am Bühl-Eisen. Sber. D. Akad. Wiss. Math.-nat. Cl., 18, 9-24.
Ramdohr, P. (1954) Das Vorkommen von gediegenem Eisen in der Natur! Aufschluss 5, 69-72.
Medenbach, Olaf, El Goresy, Ahmed (1982) Ulvöspinel in native iron-bearing assemblages and the origin of these assemblages in basalts from Ovifak, Greenland, and Bühl. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 80 (4). 358-366 doi:10.1007/bf00378008
Howarth, Geoffrey H., Day, James M.D., Pernet-Fisher, John F., Goodrich, Cyrena A., Pearson, D. Graham, Luo, Yan, Ryabov, Viktor V., Taylor, Lawrence A. (2017) Precious metal enrichment at low-redox in terrestrial native Fe-bearing basalts investigated using laser-ablation ICP-MS. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 203. 343-363 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2017.01.003
ⓘ 'Plagioclase'
Formula: (Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
ⓘ Pyrrhotite
Formula: Fe1-xS
ⓘ Sphalerite
Formula: ZnS
ⓘ Troilite
Formula: FeS
ⓘ Ulvöspinel
Formula: TiFe2+2O4

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 1 - Elements
ⓘNative Iron1.AE.05Fe
ⓘCohenite1.BA.05Fe3C
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
ⓘSphalerite2.CB.05aZnS
ⓘPyrrhotite2.CC.10Fe1-xS
ⓘTroilite2.CC.10FeS
ⓘMolybdenite2.EA.30MoS2
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘGoethite4.00.Fe3+O(OH)
ⓘMagnetite4.BB.05Fe2+Fe3+2O4
ⓘUlvöspinel4.BB.05TiFe2+2O4
ⓘIlmenite4.CB.05Fe2+TiO3
Group 9 - Silicates
ⓘAugite9.DA.15(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
ⓘMontmorillonite9.EC.40(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
ⓘKaolinite9.ED.05Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Unclassified
ⓘ'Limonite'-
ⓘ'Fayalite-Forsterite Series'-
ⓘ'Plagioclase'-(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
ⓘ'Glass'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
Hⓘ GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
Hⓘ KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Hⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
CCarbon
Cⓘ CoheniteFe3C
OOxygen
Oⓘ Augite(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Oⓘ GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
Oⓘ IlmeniteFe2+TiO3
Oⓘ KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Oⓘ MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Oⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Oⓘ UlvöspinelTiFe22+O4
Oⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series
Oⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
NaSodium
Naⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Naⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
MgMagnesium
Mgⓘ Augite(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Mgⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Mgⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series
AlAluminium
Alⓘ KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Alⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Alⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
SiSilicon
Siⓘ Augite(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Siⓘ KaoliniteAl2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Siⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Siⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series
Siⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
SSulfur
Sⓘ MolybdeniteMoS2
Sⓘ PyrrhotiteFe1-xS
Sⓘ SphaleriteZnS
Sⓘ TroiliteFeS
CaCalcium
Caⓘ Augite(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Caⓘ Montmorillonite(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Caⓘ Plagioclase(Na,Ca)[(Si,Al)AlSi2]O8
TiTitanium
Tiⓘ IlmeniteFe2+TiO3
Tiⓘ UlvöspinelTiFe22+O4
FeIron
Feⓘ Augite(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Feⓘ CoheniteFe3C
Feⓘ GoethiteFe3+O(OH)
Feⓘ IlmeniteFe2+TiO3
Feⓘ Native IronFe
Feⓘ MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Feⓘ PyrrhotiteFe1-xS
Feⓘ TroiliteFeS
Feⓘ UlvöspinelTiFe22+O4
Feⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series
ZnZinc
Znⓘ SphaleriteZnS
MoMolybdenum
Moⓘ MolybdeniteMoS2

Fossils

There are 1 fossil locality from the PaleoBioDB database within this region.

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Occurrences1
Youngest Fossil Listed23.0 Ma (Oligocene)
Oldest Fossil Listed28.1 Ma (Oligocene)
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Accepted NameHierarchy Age
Odontoceti
suborder		Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Odontoceti28.1 - 23.03 Ma
Cenozoic
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Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahnatal
Wikidata ID:Q402210
GeoNames ID:3207165

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