My swap list
Last Updated: 28th Jan 2012
This is my swaplist, mainly of microminerals. If you are interested in some of these send me a PM or take contact by email at synchysite(at)gmail.com
Cheers,
Antonio Borrelli
Abbreviations: MM = approx. 0,5 cm to 2,5 cm; TN = approx. 2,5 cm to 4 cm; C = 4 cm and up TL = type locality
ACTINOLITE - Red Oak quarry, Red Oak, Fulton Co., Georgia, USA MM = Light green tabular xls.
ADAMITE - Monte Tamara, Nuxis, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Colorless and yellow crystal clusters on limonite.
ADAMITE - Mapimì, Durango, Mexico MM = Yellow crystals on limonitic matrix.
AGARDITE-(Ce) - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (TL) MM = Light green radiating acicular xls.
"AGATE" - Condor, Chubut, Argentina C = Half thunderegg not polished.
ALLANITE-(Ce) - Torre di Stracciacappe, Trevignano Romano, Rome, Latium, Italy MM = Tabular brown xls.
ALMANDINE - Furtalm, Reisernock, Campo Tures, Bolzano Prov., Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Icositetrahedral pink xls.
'AMPHIBOLE GROUP' - Wannenköpfe, Ochtendung, Polch, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany MM = Acicular orange xls.
ANALCIME - SP Osilo-Nulvi, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Clear icositetrahedral xls.
ANALCIME - Chiavone Nero creek, Fara Vicentino, Vicenza province, Veneto, Italy MM = Clear icositetrahedral xls.
ANATASE - Stampflkees, Zamser Grund, Zillertal, Nordtirol, Tirol, Austria MM = Black dipyramidal crystal.
ANATASE - Triolet, Ferret Valley, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy MM = Black dipyramidal crystal.
ANATASE - Monte Bregaceto, Borzonasca, Genova Province, Liguria, Italy MM = Orange pseudo-octahedric xls.
ANATASE - Brosso mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Dark xls with quartz.
ANATASE - Montecrestese, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy MM = Tabular orange xls.
ANATASE - Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Brown tabular xls.
ANATASE - Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland MM = Brown dipyramidal xls.
ANATASE - Lercheltini area, Binn Valley, Wallis, Switzerland MM = Yellow dipyramidal xls.
ANATASE - Griesferner glacier, Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Orange-brown xls with complex habit.
ANDRADITE var. DEMANTOIDE - Campo Franscia, Val Lanterna, Val Malenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Single xls with white asbestos.
ANDRADITE var. TOPAZOLITE - Gabbro, Rosignano Marittimo, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Very tiny rhomb-dodecahedrons.Clear prismatic xls with linarite.
ANKERITE - Cuasso al Monte, Ceresio Valley, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Cluster of yellow rhombohedric xls.
ANORTHITE - Fosso Attici, Magliano Romano, Latium, Italy MM = Stubby prismatic xls.
ANORTHITE - Montenero quarry, Onano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Stubby prismatic xls.
ANTIMONY - Lac Nicolet Mine, Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens, Québec, Canada MM = Silver lustrous masses with stibnite.
'APATITE' - Montenero quarry, Onano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = White prismatic xls. Probably apatite-(CaOH).
'APATITE' - Galleria Foppiano, Formazza Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy MM = Colorless xls with tipical complex alpine habit.
APOPHYLLITE-(KF) - Pune district, Maharashtra, India TN = Xls to 12 Mm with quartz.
'APOPHYLLITE' - Molini di Laghi, Laghi, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Clear xls to 0,5 mm associated with brown garnets.
APUANITE - Buca della Vena Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy (TL) MM = Prismatic damaged black xls.
ARAGONITE - Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy MM = Clusters of white radiating xls.
ARSENOPYRITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Prismatic xls associated with chalcopyrite.
ARTINITE - Rio del Bastardo, Borgo Val di Taro, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy MM = White acicular xls on serpentinite.
ARTINITE - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = White acicular xls.
ATACAMITE - Baratti, Piombino, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Dark green xls in slag.
AUGITE - Mt. Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy MM = Dark green-black xls.
AURICHALCITE - 79 Mine, Hayden, Gila Co., Arizona, USA MM = Ligh blue acicular xls. Specimen of 8x5x5 mm
AURICHALCITE - Madonna di Fucinaia, Campiglia Marittima, Livorno Province, Italy MM = Green xls in slag.
AURICHALCITE - Monte Naro mine, Torrebelvicino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Light blue sprays on hemimorphite.
AURICHALCITE - Trentini mine, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italia MM = Light blue xls.
AUTUNITE - Bosco del Corvo, Longobucco, Cosenza Province, Calabria, Italy MM = Tabular yellow xls.
AUTUNITE - Bric Colmè, I Cardin, San Giacomo, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Tabular yellow xls.
AZURITE - Baratti, Piombino, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Deep blue xls in slag.
AZURITE - Cibona, Allumiere, Tolfa Mts, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Dark blue very tiny prismatic xls.
AZURITE - Calabona Mine, Alghero, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Deep blue xls.
AZURITE - Maso Erdemolo, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Dark blue xls with langite.
AZURITE - Monte Trisa, Torrebelvicino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Dark blue xls.
AZURITE - Trentini mine, Vicenza Province, Veneto - Italy MM = Dark blue xls.
BADDELEYITE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Light yellow long xls.
BARIOPHARMACOSIDERITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (TL) MM = Brown pseudo-cubic xls.
BARYTE - Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France MM = Matrix fully covered by brownish crystals.
BARYTE - PAGA Mine, Bartow Co., Georgia, USA MM = Clear prismatic xls.
BERTRANDITE - Puricelli quarry, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Twinned xls.
BERYL - Grotta d'Oggi Quarry, San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy MM = Colorless prismatic xls.
BERYL - Pizzo Marcio, (North slope), Trontano, Vigezzo Valley, Piedmont, Italy MM = Green prismatic xls.
'BEUDANTITE-SEGNITITE' - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Yellow xls.
BRITHOLITE-(Ce) - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = White prismatic xls (EDS analysed).
BROCHANTITE - Maso Erdemolo, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Green xls partially covered by encrustations.
BROOKITE - Ca' dei Ladri (Silla), Gaggio Montano, Bologna Prov., Emilia-Romagna, Italy MM = Tiny brown prismatic xls on quartz.
CACOXENITE - Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Radiating yellow acicular xls.
CALCITE - Campomorto quarry, Montalto di Castro, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy TN, C = Globular yellow calcite on black basaltic matrix.
CALCITE - Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Colorless crystal of 1 mm on matrix.
CALCITE - Corcolle quarry, Rome, Rome Province, Latium, Italy TN = Colorless xls in lava bomb.
CALCITE - Val Toppa Mine, Pieve Vergonte, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy C = Colorless xls on schist.
CALCITE - Beach Creek, Umatilla Co., Oregon, USA MM = Colourless xls in lava.
'CANCRINITE' - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Colourless rounded short xls.
CELADONITE - Wolf Creek Pass, Creede District, Mineral Co., Colorado, USA MM = Green radiating tufts.
CERITE-(Ce) - Casette quarry, Montoso quarries, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Raspberry very tiny xls.
CERUSSITE - Castor Mine, Loope, Engelskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany MM = Crystal of 4 mm on matrix.
CERUSSITE - Monte Trisa, Torrebelvicino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy (TL) MM = Elongated prismatic crystal.
CERVANDONITE-(Ce) - Monte Cervandone, Devero Alp, Ossola Valley, Piedmont, Italy (TL) MM = Tiny rosettes of lamellar xls.
CETINEITE - Le Cetine Mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy (TL) MM = Radiating acicular orange xls with white mopungite.
'CHABAZITE' - Maykranz quary, Langd, Vogelsberg, Hesse, Germany MM = Clear rhombohedral xls.
'CHABAZITE' - Calvarina Mt., Roncà, Verona Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Spherule of orange xls.
CHABAZITE-Ca - Niu Corbu quarry, Noragugume, Nuoro Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Pseudo-cubic clear xls in cavities of the basaltic matrix.
CHABAZITE-Ca - Fittà, Soave, Verona Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Phacolitic habit xls
CHALCOMENITE - Baccu Locci Mine, Villaputzu, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Blue prismatic xls.
CHALCOPHYLLITE - Monte Avanza, Forni Avoltri, Udine Prov., Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy MM = Tabular green hexagonal xls.
CHALCOPYRITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Associated with arsenopyrite.
CHALCOPYRITE - Santa Scolastica, Frassinoro, Modena Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy MM = Acicular xls on pentlandite.
CHRYSOBERYL - Dombastone Valley, Sondalo, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Pale yellow anhedral xls.
CHRYSOCOLLA - Sa Duchessa, Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy MM = Sky blue encrustations.
CHRYSOCOLLA - Mashamba West, Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo MM = Sky blue botroydal encrustations.
CLINOCHLORE - Burgum Alp, Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Forest-green hexagonal xls.
CONICHALCITE - Mapimì, Durango, Mexico MM = Bright green spherules.
CONNELLITE - Baratti, Piombino, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Blue spray of acicular xls in slag.
COPPER - Copper Mountain Mine, Morenci, Greenlee Co., Arizona, USA MM = Dendritic xls with poor matrix stabilized with glue.
COPPER - Houghton Co., Michigan, USA C = Dendritic xls with no matrix.
CORDIERITE - Roccatederighi, Roccastrada, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Tan short prismatic xls.
CORNWALLITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Green spherules.
CORUNDUM - Mogok, Sagaing District, Mandalay, Burma MM = Blue sapphire crystals with no matrix.
CYANOPHYLLITE - Monte Avanza, Forni Avoltri, Udine Prov., Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy MM = Clusters of green lamellar xls.
DANBURITE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Cluster of short clear prismatic xls.
DAVYNE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Colourless stacked xls.
DESCLOIZITE - Hochobir, Karawanken, Carinthia, Austria MM = Orange/brown pyramidal xls.
DEVILLINE - Kamareza mines, Lavrion district, Attika, Greece MM = Very tiny light blue spray with gypsum.
DIAMOND - Mainpur Kimberlite Field, Raipur District, Chattisgarh, India MM = Clear cleaved crystal.
DOLOMITE - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland MM = Single saddle shaped crystal.
DUFRENOYSITE - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland (TL) MM = Aggregates of acicular xls (vugs = max 2 mm).
ELBAITE - Skardu District, Baltistan, Northern Areas, Pakistan MM, C = Green xls partially embedded in matrix.
ELLINGSENITE - Aris quarries, Aris, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia (TL) MM = White radial fan-shaped clusters.
ENARGITE - Furtei Mine, Furtei, Medio Campidano, Sardinia, Italy MM = Black prismatic xls partially embedded in the matrix.
ENSTATITE - Roc de Courlande, Chastreix, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France MM = Transparent brown crystals in blebs of the trachytic matrix.
ENSTATITE - La Aljorra, Cartagena, Murcia, Spain MM = Transparent brown crystals.
EPIDOTE - Knappenwand area, Untersulzbach Valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Austria C = Dark green xls with augite.
EPIDOTE - Antigorio Valley, Ossola Valley, Piedmont, Italy MM = Groups of elongated xls.
EPIDOTE/TITANITE - Beura quarries, Beura-Cardezza, Ossola Valley, Piedmont, Italy TN = Olive green epidote xls to 4 mm with broken xls of greenish titanite.
ERYTHRITE - Schmiedestollen dump, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany MM = Dark pink radiating xls.
FERRISTRUNZITE - Mont-des-Groseillers, Blaton, Mons, Hainaut Province, Belgium (TL) MM = Cream white radiating prismatic xls.
FLUOBORITE - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Very tiny prismatic xls.
FLUORAPATITE - Stampflkees, Zamser Grund, Zillertal, Nordtirol, Tirol, Austria MM = Colorless xls with tipical complex alpine habit.
FLUORAPATITE - Premia, Antigorio Valley, Ossola Valley, VCO Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Colourless xls with epidote + titanite.
FLUORAPATITE - Vispi Quarry, San Venanzo, Terni Province, Umbria, Italy MM = Acicular xls with 'chabazite'.
FLUORAPATITE - La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain MM = Yellow gemmy xls. Some double terminated.
FLUORITE - Swinhopehead Mine, Daddry Shield, Weardale, Durham, England MM = Colourless cubic xls with some damage.
FLUORITE - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Single cubo-octahedric crystal in ejecta.
FLUORITE - Isolaccia, Valdidentro, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Colourless cubic xls.
FLUORITE - Montoso quarries, Ortieul, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy TN = Clear complex xls with dark purple selective faces to approx. 2 mm
FLUORITE - Berbes Mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain MM, C = Ligh purple cubic xls with baryte or quartz.
FRANZINITE - Parco Chigi, Ariccia, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Analysed hexagonal flat prismatic xls (need at least 30x magnification).
GAYLUSSITE - Wadi Natrun depression, Western Desert, Egypt MM = Colurless xls with halite.
GISMONDINE-Ca - Vedretta della Miniera, Val Zebrù, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = White pseudo-octahedral xls.
GMELINITE-Ca - Bagattei, Vestenanuova, Verona province, Veneto, Italy MM = Good dipyramidal white xls.
GOETHITE - Dialer Bohlen, Gardena Valley, Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Sprays of acicular brown xls.
GOLD - Hulda mine (?), Sweden MM = Tiny flecks on matrix.
GONNARDITE - Chiavone Nero creek, Fara Vicentino, Vicenza prov., Veneto, Italy MM = White prismatic xls.
GORMANITE - Spittal, Millstätt lake ridge, Carinthia, Austria MM = Aggregates of green acicular xls flattened on the matrix.
GROSSULAR - Nioro du Sahel, Diakon Arrondissement, Kayes Region, Mali TN = Tan floater single xl.
GROSSULAR - Case Collina, Pitigliano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy TN = Yellow xls.
GYPSUM - Valmy(?), France MM = Tabular colorless xls.
GYPSUM - Kamareza mines, Lavrion district, Attika, Greece MM = Nice colorless xls on matrix.
GYPSUM - Baratti, Piombino, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Colorless xls in slag.
'HARMOTOME-PHILLIPSITE' - Bagattei, Vestenanuova, Verona province, Veneto, Italy C = Orange xls with colourless calcite.
'HARMOTOME-PHILLIPSITE' - Calvarina Mt., Roncà, Verona Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Orange xls. Intermediate member of the harmotome-Phillipsite-Ca series.
HARMOTOME - Selva di Trissino, Trissino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Transparent reddish xls to 1 mm approx.
HARMOTOME & ANALCIME - Sugar Grove, Pendleton Co., West Virginia, USA MM = Xls less than 1 mm in size.
HAÜYNE - Case Collina, Pitigliano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Pale azure xls partially etched.
'HELLANDITE' - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Tabular brown xls.
'HELLANDITE' - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Cluster of tabular xls.
HEMATITE - Grabspitz, Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Lamellar xls with green titanite.
HEMIMORPHITE - Lavrion Mines, Lavrion, Attika, Greece MM = Fan-like group of xls.
HEMIMORPHITE - Zorzone mine, Brembana Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Radianting xls.
HEMIMORPHITE - Sa Duchessa, Domusnovas, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy TN = With cerussite and chrysocolla.
HEMIMORPHITE - Monte Naro mine, Torrebelvicino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Packed tabular xls.
HEMIMORPHITE - Mt. Civillina, Valdagno, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Packed tabular xls.
HOLFERTITE - Starvation Canyon, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA (TL) MM = Yellow prismatic crystal.
'HORNBLENDE' - Agonursi, Roccamonfina Volcanic Complex, Caserta Province, Campania, Italy MM = Black prismatic xls.
HUMITE - Monte Somma, Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Prov.,Campania, Italy MM = With phlogopite.
HYDROCERUSSITE - Baratti, Piombino, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Tabular hexagonal xls.
HYDROMAGNESITE - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Sub-millimetric lamellar xls.
ILMENITE - Zovon, Vò, Padova Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Stubby prismatic black xls.
JAROSITE - Le Cetine Mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Brown xls in vug.
KALIOPHILITE - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = White elongated xls.
KALIOPHILITE - Corcolle quarry, Rome, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = White elongated xls.
KLEBELSBERGITE - Pereta mine, Pereta, Scansano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Yellow radiating acicular xls.
KYANITE - Manoel Ambrósio Ranch, São Geraldo do Araguaia, Pará, Brazil MM = Fibrous aggregate of ugly black crystals to 27 Mm with no matrix.
LANGITE - Maso Erdemolo, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Pretty blue crystals.
LANGITE - Trentini mine, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italia MM = Blue xls with brochantite or serpierite.
LAZULITE - Höllkogel Mt., Krieglach, Fischbacher Alpen Mts, Styria, Austria MM = Massive sky blue xls.
LAZURITE - Corcolle quarry, Rome, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Dark blue blobs in leucititic ejecta.
LIBETHENITE - Hardway Mine, Mount Isa, Cloncurry district, Queensland, Australia MM = Olive green xls with pseudomalachite.
LINARITE - Trentini mine, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italia MM = Dark blue prismatic xls.
LUDWIGITE - Corcolle quarry, Rome, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM, TN = Black xls with calcite.
MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE - Montenero quarry, Onano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Acicular xls in blebs of the trachitic matrix.
MALACHITE - Erzbachtal, Bad Ems District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany MM = Aggregates of dark green tabular xls.
MALACHITE - Friedrichssegen Mine, Bad Ems District, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany MM = Green primary crystals aggregates.
MALACHITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Green spherules.
MALACHITE - Serrabottini, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Green radiating spherules in slag.
"MANGANOPHYLLITE" - Långban, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden MM = Brown micaceous xls.
MELANOPHLOGITE - Case Montanini quarry, Medesano, Parma prov., Emilia Romagna, Italy MM = Pseudocubic clear xls.
METALODEVITE - Novazza mine, Gromo, Goglio Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Pale yellow tabular xls in very tiny vugs. Optical Id.
METASCHOEPITE - Novazza mine, Gromo, Goglio Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Brilliant yellow masses.
METAVOLTINE - Vulcanello, Vulcano Island, Eolie Islands, Lipari, Messina, Sicily, Italy MM = Yellow xls with tamarugite.
MILLERITE - Valle del Sillaro, Bologna Province, Emilia Romagna, Italy MM = Bronze acicular xls.
MIMETITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Yellow xls to 1 mm approx.
MOLYBDENITE - Giora quarry, Zovon, Vò, Padova Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Platy xls in trachite.
MOLYBDENITE - Sterling mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA MM = Lamellar xls with zinkenite and/or arsenopyrite.
MONAZITE-(Ce) - Wasserfallkopfe, Vizze Pass, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Yellowish tabular xls.
MONTGOMERYITE - Tip Top Mine, Fourmile, Custer District, Custer Co., South Dakota, USA MM = Tabular xls with englishite.
MONTMORILLONITE - Vaccari quarry, Marsan, Marostica, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = White masses.
MUSCOVITE - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland MM = Transparent platy hexagonal xls on dolomite.
NATROLITE - Piz Sella, Selva di Val Gardena, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy C = Radianting prismatic xls with damaged analcime xls.
NEPHELINE - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Prismatic nepheline crystal with magnetite, 'apatite', sodalite, etc.
NONTRONITE - Wolf Creek Pass, Creede District, Mineral Co., Colorado, USA MM = Dark brown xls.
NOSEAN - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Light green xls.
OFFRETITE - Mont Semiol, Montbrison, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France (TL) MM = Tiny prismatic xls in vugs associated with phillipsite.
OFFRETITE - Fittà, Soave, Verona Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Prismatic xls with 'smectite'.
OLENITE - Curiglia, Val Veddasca, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Pale azure not terminated xls.
OLIVENITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Elongated olive green xls (also in clusters).
OLIVENITE - Silver Mine, Zimmerbach, Fecht Valley, Haut-Rhin, Alsace, France MM = Pale green prismatic xls.
OPAL - Visiano, Parma Province, Emilia Romagna, Italy TN = White botryoidal xls.
PARSETTENSITE - Falotta, Tinizong, Oberhalbstein, Albula Valley, Grischun, Switzerland MM = Tan massive mineral.
PECORAITE - Val Sora, Torre S. Maria, Valmalenco, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Apple green crusts.
PENTAGONITE - Wagholi quarry, Pune district, Maharashtra, India TN = Radiating tabular blue xls on stilbite-Ca.
PERETAITE - Pereta mine, Pereta, Scansano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Tabular elongated xls.
'PHILLIPSITE' - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Terminated and lustrous colorless xls.
'PHILLIPSITE' - Fittà, Soave, Verona Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Terminated colorless xls.
'PHILLIPSITE' - Santa Maria di Roncà, Arzignano, Vicenza province, Veneto, Italy MM = Radiating xls.
PHILLIPSITE-K - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = White prismatic xls (EDS analysed).
PHLOGOPITE - Maffei Quarry, Campiglia Marittima, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy C = Ugly tan blades.
PHOSPHOSIDERITE - Folgosinho Quarry, Folgosinho, Gouveia, Guarda District, Portugal MM = Spherules of purple xls.
PHURCALITE - Posey Mine, Red Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan Co., Utah, USA MM = Sub-millimetric acicular yellow xls.
PIEMONTITE - Prabornaz Mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy (TL) TN = Dark red xls up to 10 mm approx.
PIERGORITE-(Ce) - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy (TL) MM = Pale yellow long tabular xls.
PREHNITE - Croce del Prete, Li Moregn, Sondalo, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Clusters of tabular xls.
PSEUDOBROOKITE - Wannenköpfe, Ochtendung, Polch, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany MM = Acicular reddish xls.
PYRITE - Peyrebrune, Réalmont, Tarn, Midi-Pyrénées, France MM = Cubic xls to 0,2-0,3 mm approx.
PYRITE - Wilde Kreuzspitze, Valser Tal, Val Pusteria, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Partially pseudomorphosed octahedric xls by iron oxides/hydroxides.
PYRITE - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland MM = Shiny cubes with evident striations.
PYRITE - Fantiscritti quarry, Carrara, Apuan Alps, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Pyritohedron xl on marble.
PYROAURITE - Posina, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Brown platy xls on white matrix.
PYROCHLORE - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Reddish very tiny octahedral xls.
PYROCHLORE - Lagoa do Fogo, San Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal MM = Orange octahedral xls.
PYROMORPHITE - Lead Mine, Longvilly, Bastogne, Luxembourg Province, Belgium MM = Green prismatic xls with some damage.
PYROMORPHITE - Monte Trisa, Torrebelvicino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Olive green prismatic xls, some with damage.
QUARTZ - Saint-Denis, Mons, Hainaut Province, Belgium MM = Orange xls due to inclusions.
QUARTZ var. AMETHYST - Giora quarry, Zovon, Vò, Padova Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Light purple sceptre xls.
RANCIEITE - Fittà, Soave, Verona Province, Veneto, Italy MM = Golden brown mass.
REALGAR - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland MM = Red stocky xls with pyrite.
REICHENBACHITE - Miguel Vacas, Pardais, Villa Vicosa, Portugal TN = Large clusters of dark green xls.
RHABDOPHANE-(Ce) - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = White acicular xls.
RICHTERITE - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = White masses and very tiny acicular xls.
ROSASITE - Stiwoll, Styria, Austria MM = Deep green spherules.
ROSENBERGITE - Le Cetine Mine, Chiusdino, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy (TL) MM = Sub-millimetric sprays of acicular xls.
RUTILE - Cesa, Selva dei Molini Valley, Aurina Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Reticulated xls.
RUTILE - Griesferner glacier, Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Acicular xls with anatase.
RUTILE - Aurina Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Elongated prismatic crystal with albite.
RUTILE - Rio Franco, Aurina Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Reddish prismatic xls.
RUTILE - Valle Rossa, Aurina Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Reddish prismatic xls.
RUTILE var. SAGENITE - Margone, Usseglio, Viù Valley, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Both free xls and included in quartz on the same matrix.
SCOLECITE - Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK MM = Massive with radial aggregates of white xls.
SCORODITE - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Light blue stubby xls with bariopharmacosiderite.
SEGNITITE ? - Grube Clara, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany MM = Sub-millimetric yellow xls.
SEKANINAITE - Dolni Bory, Žďár nad Sázavou, Vysočina Region, Moravia, Czech Republic (TL) MM = Dark cleaved section of crystal.
SERPIERITE - Trentini mine, Vicenza Province, Veneto - Italy MM = Azure xls.
SILVER - Glasberg quarry, Nieder-Beerbach, Odenwald, Hesse, Germany MM = Massive, no xls.
SILVER - Himmelsfürst Mine, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany MM = Silver wire of 9 mm without matrix.
SMITHSONITE - Lavrion, Attika, Greece MM = Brown micro xls on slag.
SMITHSONITE - Kelly Mine, Magdalena District, Socorro Co., New Mexico, USA MM = Pale green xls.
SODALITE - Capranica, Ronciglione, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Clear dodecahedral xls.
SODALITE - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Azure xls.
SODALITE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Clear dodecahedral xls.
SPESSARTINE - Trontano, Vigezzo Valley, VCO Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Pink xls.
SPHALERITE - Lengenbach quarry, Binn Valley, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland MM = Yellow xl on saccaroid dolomitic matrix.
SPINEL - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Dark green octahedrons in ejecta.
SPINEL - Torre di Stracciacappe, Trevignano Romano, Rome, Latium, Italy MM = Dark green xls in ejecta.
SPINEL - Somma-Vesuvius Complex, Naples Province, Campania, Italy MM = Black octahedrons.
SULPHUR - Pereta mine, Pereta, Scansano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Matrix fully covered with yellow xls.
'SYNCHYSITE' - Cuasso al Monte, Ceresio Valley, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Rosettes of platy xls. Probably synchysite-(Ce)?
SYNCHYSITE-(Ce) - Oberschrammachkees, Ziller Valley, North Tyrol, Austria MM = Prismatic yellow/orange xls.
SYNCHYSITE-(Ce) - Wasserfallkopfe, Vizze Pass, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Yellow prismatic xls.
SYNCHYSITE-(Ce) - Triolet, Ferret Valley, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy MM = Clear prismatic xls.
SYNCHYSITE-(Ce) - Furka basis tunnel, Oberwald, Goms, Wallis, Switzerland MM = Pale yellow prismatic crystal with some damage.
THORITE - Bassano Romano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Green long prismatic xls.
THORITE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Green prismatic xls.
TITANITE - Dechantsees, Marktredwitz, Fichtelgebirge, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany MM = Tiny (0,2-0,3 mm) unpretty yellow xls on chlorite schist.
TITANITE - Bassano Romano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Orange xls.
TITANITE - Case Collina, Pitigliano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Orange crystal with light blue haüyne.
TITANITE - La Pizzetta, Baceno, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont, Italy MM = Brown xls with dark green clinochlore.
TITANITE - Grabspitz, Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Italy MM = Yellow sphenoidal xls.
TITANITE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Italy MM = Dark orange-brown xls on sanidine with black pyroxene.
TOPAZ - Wannenköpfe, Ochtendung, Polch, Eifel Mts, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany MM = Spray of prismatic xls.
TORBERNITE - Margabal Mine, Entraygues-sur-Truyère, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France MM = Tabular green xls.
'TOURMALINE' - Capranica, Viterbo Province, Italy MM = Light green prismatic xls.
'TOURMALINE' - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Italy MM = Grey xls with termination of more clear tonality in sanidinitic ejecta.
TUNGSTENITE - Crevoladossola, Crevoladossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Lustrous silver flecks on white dolomitic marble.
TUPERSSUATSIAITE - Aris quarries, Aris, Windhoek District, Khomas Region, Namibia MM = Radiating brown acicular xls.
TURQUOISE - Tier des Carrières, Cahai, Vielsalm, Stavelot Massif, Luxembourg Province, Belgium MM = Green xls.
TUSCANITE - Albano Laziale, Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy MM = Tabular elongated white xls.
URANOPHANE-alfa - Novazza mine, Gromo, Goglio Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Bright yellow radiating acicular xls.
URANOPHANE-alfa - Rocche Grane, Montoso quarries, Ortieul, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Bright yellow radiating acicular xls.
URANOPOLYCRASE - Grotta d'Oggi Quarry, San Piero in Campo, Elba Island, Italy MM = Elongated dark xls with creamy encrustations.
VAESITE - Sasso delle Lucine, Castelluccio di Moscheda, Modena Province, Italy MM = Dark octahedric crystal.
VAESITE - Ca' dei Ladri (Silla), Gaggio Montano, Bologna Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy MM = Dark octahedric crystals.
VANADINITE - Mibladen mine, Midelt, Khénifra Prov., Meknès-Tafilalet Region, Morocco MM = Red hexagonal xls to 1,5 mm approx.
VANADINITE - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Yellow blob in sanidinitic ejecta. EDS probed.
VANDENDRIESSCHEITE - Novazza mine, Gromo, Goglio Valley, Bergamo Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Tiny vugs with orange sprays of acicular xls. Optical Id.
VESUVIANITE - Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada MM, TN = Classic pinkish-green xls. Clusters and floaters.
VESUVIANITE - Bellecombe, Chatillon, Aosta Valley, Italy MM = Brown short prismatic xls.
VESUVIANITE - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy C = Tan prismatic xls (many damaged).
VESUVIANITE - Fubina, Viù Valley, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Brown xls.
VESUVIANITE - Burgum Alp, Vizze Valley, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Dark yellow xls.
VICANITE-(Ce) - Capranica, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Yellow crystals in sanidinitic ejecta.
VICANITE-(Ce) - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy (TL) MM = Dark yellow crystals in sanidinitic ejecta.
VONSENITE - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Prismatic xls with metallic luster.
WULFENITE - Geronimo mine, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA MM = Dipyramidal orange xls.
XENOTIME-(Y) - Oberschrammachkees, Ziller Valley, North Tyrol, Austria MM = Terminated prismatic yellow xls.
ZEUNERITE - Schmiedestollen dump, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany MM = Green tabular xls.
ZEUNERITE - Rocche Grane, Montoso quarries, Ortieul, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Green tabular xls.
ZINKENITE - Sterling mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA MM = Acicular xls with molybdenite and/or arsenopyrite.
ZIRCON - Li Paoli, Sessa Aurunca, Roccamonfina Volcano, Campania, Italy MM = Pink crystal in sanidinic ejecta.
ZIRCON - Bassano Romano, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Pink xls in voids of sanidinic ejecta.
ZIRCON - Case Collina, Pitigliano, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy MM = Pink crystal sanidinic ejecta.
ZIRCON - Cura, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Pink crystal sanidinic ejecta.
ZIRCON - Mt Cavalluccio, Sacrofano caldera, Campagnano di Roma, Latium, Italy MM = Pink dipyramidal xls with minor prismatic faces.
ZIRCON - Puricelli quarry, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy MM = Prismatic xls with fluorite.
ZIRCON - Nibbio mine, Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy MM = Dark purple complex crystal.
ZIRCON - Wasserfallkopfe, Vizze Pass, Bolzano Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy MM = Pink prismatic xls.
ZIRCON - Tre Croci, Vetralla, Viterbo Province, Latium, Italy MM = Colorless xls.
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Ho visto che nella tua lista hai qualche minerale di scoria che mi interesserebbe, io sono un italiano che abita in svizzera da 15 anni e mi sono specializzato nella collezione dei minerali delle scorie metallurgiche, contattami che vediamo il mio indirizzo mail é marco.bonifazi@ne.ch aspetto delle tue notizie, ciao, Marco
Bonifazi Marco
18th Jan 2010 6:16pm