Dyczko Artur, Jarosz Jacek: The Foundation for the AGH – University of Science & Technology,, 2008
Ignacy Domeyko, the discoverer of the Chilean cop per deposits and past Rector of the Santiago de... more Ignacy Domeyko, the discoverer of the Chilean cop per deposits and past Rector of the Santiago de Chile University described his memories from the visit to Chile (“My journeys -memoires of the exile” ): …” I only re member that after work until midnight I rested at the bottom of that mine and I saw a well-preserved ammonite at the contact of rich ore vein with the wall-rock. Its coils and strips braided as a plait of a beautiful woman were so clear and distinctly marked at the roof illuminated with miner’s candles that when the lights flicked it seemed that the past animal is still alive and moves…”. In the past the world of minerals facsinated only a few people. Now, it fascinates thousands, in Poland and else where. There are numerous mineral and fossils fairs and exhibitions in the world. The most valuable mineral col lections are owned by technical universities, as e.g., at the Mining Academy in Freiberg or at the Mining University in Sankt Petersburg. The largest world exhibition of min erals at the Freiberg Castle is based upon the collection of the Freiberg Academy. In Poland leading mineral collections are at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków and at the State Geological Institute in Warsaw,
Since millenia the nature has been admired and de lighted for its beauty. It was also the inspiration for the art ists: sculptors, painters, writers, composers and architects. The important part of the nature is the world of minerals, which is still the source of fascination and sensations. Jo hann Wolfgang Goethe, the great poet but also the great enthusiast of mineralogy wrote: …any comprehension begins with admiration…”. This comprehension is currently the passion of many people, particularly geologists but also miners who first see the minerals exposed during the run ning of mining operations.
The minerals presented in the following Album be long to the collection of Mr. Henryk Kantor – the miner who has once been fascinated by the world of minerals occurring in the Polish Copper District and in the whole Lower Silesia region. The collection represents first of all the ore mineralization in the Fore-sudetic Monocline deposits, particularly the typical, disseminated, vein, laminated and massive structures as well as veinlets and secretions in fault zones, breccias and nests filling the karst cavities, and other open spaces in the rocks. Among the presented specimens there are e.g., perfect crystals of selenite formed in karst cavities in the dolomites overly ing the ore zone and downthrown by fault to the min ing level as well as aggregates of multicolored gypsum crystals recently precipitated as secondary mineral in the mine workings. Great attractions of the Album are mul ticolored aggregates of marcasite, pyrite as well as druses and collomorph accumulations of calcite, and also molds of fossil fish found in the Kupferschiefer at the Lubin and the Rudna mines. From the old ”Konrad” Mine nu merous, fine crystals and dendritic aggregates of native copper originate together with beautiful, idiomorphic crystals of blue celestite. Attention should be paid also to chalcopyrite crystals embedded within the milky and pink calcite veins, to ag gregates of copper sulphides and calcite crystals in a geode enclosed in marly carbonates as well as to perfect pyrite crystals growing onto calcite ones (as in a specimen from the ”Lena” Mine).
The number of identified minerals exceeds 4,000. In this number the ore minerals share a fracture of per cent of the Earth’s crust mass. Minerals displayed in this Al bum represent only some tens of species originating from a particular part of the Lower Silesia region and embrac ing mostly phases of a single element – copper – which has been mined here since 45 years by the Polish Copper Company: the KGHM Polska Miedź SA, which is one of the largest world copper producer and, simulatneously, the Golden Sponsor of the XXIst World Mining Kongress. Recently, the number of minerals discovered in the depos it mined by the KGHM exceeds 140. Most of them were discovered by Polish geologists from the AGH-University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Marian Banaś, Adam Piestrzyński, Henryk Kucha and Witold Salamon), from the Jagiellonian University (Czesław Harańczyk) and from the KGHM (Jan Jarosz), and by others.
The following Album is only a small presentation of the world of minerals to the participants of the XXIst In ternational Mining Congress. It is also the credit to the Golden Sponsor of the Congress, and is dedicated to all geologists and miners of the KGHM Polska Miedź SA. We hope that all the Readers of the Album will dis cover the beauty of minerals and will notice the passion which gave rise to its preparation and edition.
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Since millenia the nature has been admired and de lighted for its beauty. It was also the inspiration for the art ists: sculptors, painters, writers, composers and architects. The important part of the nature is the world of minerals, which is still the source of fascination and sensations. Jo hann Wolfgang Goethe, the great poet but also the great enthusiast of mineralogy wrote: …any comprehension begins with admiration…”. This comprehension is currently the passion of many people, particularly geologists but also miners who first see the minerals exposed during the run ning of mining operations.
The minerals presented in the following Album be long to the collection of Mr. Henryk Kantor – the miner who has once been fascinated by the world of minerals occurring in the Polish Copper District and in the whole Lower Silesia region. The collection represents first of all the ore mineralization in the Fore-sudetic Monocline deposits, particularly the typical, disseminated, vein, laminated and massive structures as well as veinlets and secretions in fault zones, breccias and nests filling the karst cavities, and other open spaces in the rocks. Among the presented specimens there are e.g., perfect crystals of selenite formed in karst cavities in the dolomites overly ing the ore zone and downthrown by fault to the min ing level as well as aggregates of multicolored gypsum crystals recently precipitated as secondary mineral in the mine workings. Great attractions of the Album are mul ticolored aggregates of marcasite, pyrite as well as druses and collomorph accumulations of calcite, and also molds of fossil fish found in the Kupferschiefer at the Lubin and the Rudna mines. From the old ”Konrad” Mine nu merous, fine crystals and dendritic aggregates of native copper originate together with beautiful, idiomorphic crystals of blue celestite. Attention should be paid also to chalcopyrite crystals embedded within the milky and pink calcite veins, to ag gregates of copper sulphides and calcite crystals in a geode enclosed in marly carbonates as well as to perfect pyrite crystals growing onto calcite ones (as in a specimen from the ”Lena” Mine).
The number of identified minerals exceeds 4,000. In this number the ore minerals share a fracture of per cent of the Earth’s crust mass. Minerals displayed in this Al bum represent only some tens of species originating from a particular part of the Lower Silesia region and embrac ing mostly phases of a single element – copper – which has been mined here since 45 years by the Polish Copper Company: the KGHM Polska Miedź SA, which is one of the largest world copper producer and, simulatneously, the Golden Sponsor of the XXIst World Mining Kongress. Recently, the number of minerals discovered in the depos it mined by the KGHM exceeds 140. Most of them were discovered by Polish geologists from the AGH-University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Marian Banaś, Adam Piestrzyński, Henryk Kucha and Witold Salamon), from the Jagiellonian University (Czesław Harańczyk) and from the KGHM (Jan Jarosz), and by others.
The following Album is only a small presentation of the world of minerals to the participants of the XXIst In ternational Mining Congress. It is also the credit to the Golden Sponsor of the Congress, and is dedicated to all geologists and miners of the KGHM Polska Miedź SA. We hope that all the Readers of the Album will dis cover the beauty of minerals and will notice the passion which gave rise to its preparation and edition.
Since millenia the nature has been admired and de lighted for its beauty. It was also the inspiration for the art ists: sculptors, painters, writers, composers and architects. The important part of the nature is the world of minerals, which is still the source of fascination and sensations. Jo hann Wolfgang Goethe, the great poet but also the great enthusiast of mineralogy wrote: …any comprehension begins with admiration…”. This comprehension is currently the passion of many people, particularly geologists but also miners who first see the minerals exposed during the run ning of mining operations.
The minerals presented in the following Album be long to the collection of Mr. Henryk Kantor – the miner who has once been fascinated by the world of minerals occurring in the Polish Copper District and in the whole Lower Silesia region. The collection represents first of all the ore mineralization in the Fore-sudetic Monocline deposits, particularly the typical, disseminated, vein, laminated and massive structures as well as veinlets and secretions in fault zones, breccias and nests filling the karst cavities, and other open spaces in the rocks. Among the presented specimens there are e.g., perfect crystals of selenite formed in karst cavities in the dolomites overly ing the ore zone and downthrown by fault to the min ing level as well as aggregates of multicolored gypsum crystals recently precipitated as secondary mineral in the mine workings. Great attractions of the Album are mul ticolored aggregates of marcasite, pyrite as well as druses and collomorph accumulations of calcite, and also molds of fossil fish found in the Kupferschiefer at the Lubin and the Rudna mines. From the old ”Konrad” Mine nu merous, fine crystals and dendritic aggregates of native copper originate together with beautiful, idiomorphic crystals of blue celestite. Attention should be paid also to chalcopyrite crystals embedded within the milky and pink calcite veins, to ag gregates of copper sulphides and calcite crystals in a geode enclosed in marly carbonates as well as to perfect pyrite crystals growing onto calcite ones (as in a specimen from the ”Lena” Mine).
The number of identified minerals exceeds 4,000. In this number the ore minerals share a fracture of per cent of the Earth’s crust mass. Minerals displayed in this Al bum represent only some tens of species originating from a particular part of the Lower Silesia region and embrac ing mostly phases of a single element – copper – which has been mined here since 45 years by the Polish Copper Company: the KGHM Polska Miedź SA, which is one of the largest world copper producer and, simulatneously, the Golden Sponsor of the XXIst World Mining Kongress. Recently, the number of minerals discovered in the depos it mined by the KGHM exceeds 140. Most of them were discovered by Polish geologists from the AGH-University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Marian Banaś, Adam Piestrzyński, Henryk Kucha and Witold Salamon), from the Jagiellonian University (Czesław Harańczyk) and from the KGHM (Jan Jarosz), and by others.
The following Album is only a small presentation of the world of minerals to the participants of the XXIst In ternational Mining Congress. It is also the credit to the Golden Sponsor of the Congress, and is dedicated to all geologists and miners of the KGHM Polska Miedź SA. We hope that all the Readers of the Album will dis cover the beauty of minerals and will notice the passion which gave rise to its preparation and edition.