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Scientific focus (keywords): igneous petrology and mineralogy; granitic pegmatites; nephrite; REE pegmatite; rodingite; sarcopside; serpentinite; skarn; Sudetes (Sudety) Mts.; Fore-Sudetic Block; mineralogical exhibitions
The Sudetes Mts. in Lower Silesia are famous over many centuries for beautiful minerals, now to be seen in natural history museums around the World. During the field trip participants will be introduced to the most interesting mineralogical and petrological sites and collect fine mineral samples. We will visit the following famous localities in Lower Silesia: Stanisław quartz mine on Mt. Izerskie Garby within the Izera massif (quartz, wollastonite, vesuvianite, grossular, diopside, fluorite, apophyllite, stilbite, mottramite); Skalna Brama REE pegmatite of Karkonosze granite (fergusonite, monazite, xenotime, zirconolite, gadolinite); pegmatites of Strzegom-Sobótka granite (smoky quartz, microcline, albite, epidote, stilbite, chabazite); hornblendite, eclogite in Bystrzyca Górna (ferrohornblende, apatite-(CaF), pyrope-almandine garnets) and granulite in Zagórze Śląskie (almandine-grossular-pyrope garnets, kyanite) and pegmatite in Michałkowa (sarcopside type locality): within Góry Sowie massif; rodingites and nephrites of Nasławice (antigorite, chrysotile, grossular, andradite, hibschite, vesuvianite, diopside, actinolite, tremolite, manganoan zoisite, prehnite, opal, aragonite, magnesite, dolomite, magnetite) and Jordanów (vesuvianite, manganoan zoisite, prehnite, tremolite, actinolite, opal): within Gogołów-Jordanów serpentinite massif; Ni deposit and pegmatite of Szklary serpentinite massif (chrysoprase, opal, "pimelite", "schuchardtite", "kerolite", magnesite, microcline, schorl, muscovite, biotite, spessartine, chrysoberyl).
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