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Magnetite from
Zlatno, Vysoká, Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia


Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zlatno, Vysoká, Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:408397
Long-form Identifier:1:3:408397:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
2.2km (1.4 miles) ⓘHavránkovo, Hodruša-Hámre, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
2.3km (1.4 miles) ⓘU vápna-Železná hora, Kopanice, Hodruša-Hámre mines, Hodruša-Hámre, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
3.2km (2.0 miles) ⓘÚškrtová Valley, Kopanice, Hodruša-Hámre mines, Hodruša-Hámre, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
3.4km (2.1 miles) ⓘVčelín, Hodruša-Hámre mines, Hodruša-Hámre, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
5.0km (3.1 miles) ⓘPod Karlíkom, Hodruša-Hámre, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
6.8km (4.2 miles) ⓘRozália Mine, Hodruša-Hámre mines, Hodruša-Hámre, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
7.1km (4.4 miles) ⓘKlokoč, Vyhne, Žiar nad Hronom District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
8.3km (5.2 miles) ⓘTerézia adit (Weiden mine), Banská Štiavnica, Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
10.5km (6.5 miles) ⓘŽarnovická Huta, Žarnovica, Žarnovica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
11.0km (6.9 miles) ⓘHandrlová, Banky, Banská Štiavnica, Banská Štiavnica District, Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
References
Koděra P., Uher P., Ozdín D., Kollárová V., Lexa J., 2009: Monticellit, clintonit a hydroxylellestadit-fluorellestadit: vzácne skarnové minerály na Cu-Au porfýrovo-skarnovom ložisku Vysoká – Zlatno (štiavnický stratovulkán). Mineralia Slovaca, 41, 2, 169-178. Split into separate boxes and click split!
Koděra, Miroslav; Kolektív, A. (1986) Topografická mineralógia Slovenska. Veda Vydavatel'stvo.
Lexa, J., Štohl, J., Konečný, V. (1999) The Banská Štiavnica ore district: relationship between metallogenetic processes and the geological evolution of a stratovolcano. Mineralium Deposita, 34 (5) 639-654 doi:10.1007/s001260050225
Singer, D.A., Berger, V.I., Moring, B.C. (2008) Porphyry copper deposits of the world: Database and grade and tonnage models, 2008. Open-File Report 2008-1155
Uher, PAVEL, Koděra, PETER, Vaculovič, TOMÁŠ (2011) Perovskite from Ca-Mg skarn-porphyry deposit Vysoká–Zlatno, Štiavnica stratovolcano, Slovakia. Mineralia Slovaca, 43 (3) 247-254
Ozdín, Daniel, Uher, Pavel, Koděra, Peter (2013) Prvý výskyt kobaltpentlanditu na Slovensku (Ca-Mg skarn, Vysoká-Zlatno) [First occurrence of cobaltpentlandite in the Slovak Republic (Ca-Mg skarn, Vysoká-Zlatno)]. Bulletin mineralogicko-petrologického oddělení Národního muzea v Praze, 21 (2) 234-239
Vladimír Bilohuščin, Libor Pukančík (2016) Minerály skupiny ludwigitu: vzácne bórové minerály z lokality Vysoká – Zlatno, Štiavnický stratovulkán, Slovensko. in ŠTUDENTSKÁ VEDECKÁ KONFERENCIA PriF UK 2016 pp 1259-1264
 
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