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Cuasso al Monte, Ceresio Valley, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy

Cuasso al Monte, Val Ceresio, Varese, Lombardia, Italia

NYF-pegmatite. Many quarries in pegmatites.
Famous for rare micromount minerals (REE mineral species and others).

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Adamite
Aeschynite-(Y)
Agardite-(Y)
Albite
var: Oligoclase
Allanite-(Y)
Anatase
Ankerite
'Apatite'
Arseniosiderite
Arsenopyrite
Bariopharmacosiderite
Baryte
'Bastnäsite'
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Bazzite
Bertrandite
Brookite
Calcite
Celsian
Cerianite-(Ce) ?
Cerussite
Chabazite-Ca
Chalcopyrite
Chukhrovite-(Ca) (TL)
Clinochlore
Covellite
Cuprite
Datolite
Dickite
Dolomite
Dravite
Epidote
Euxenite-(Y)
Fayalite
Ferrimolybdite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Gadolinite-(Y)
Galena
Gypsum
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hingganite-(Y)
Hollandite ?
Ilvaite
Kainosite-(Y)
'Limonite'
Löllingite
Malachite
Marcasite
'Mica Group'
Microcline
Mimetite
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN
Orthoclase
Parasymplesite
Pharmacosiderite
Phenakite
Powellite
Proustite
Pyrite
Pyrophyllite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Schorl
Scorodite
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stibnite
Stilbite-Ca
Symplesite
'Synchysite'
Synchysite-(Ce)
'Synchysite Group'
Synchysite-(Y)
Thortveitite
Titanite
Todorokite
Topaz
'Tourmaline'
Wulfenite
Wurtzite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zeunerite
'Zinnwaldite'
Zircon


125 entries listed. 82 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

Localities in this Region

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References

- Bozzoli, R. (1905): Relazione sulla miniera di galena argentifera di Cavagnano (Cuasso al Monte). Tip. Cronaca Prealpina, Varese.

- Ravagnani, D. (1974) - I giacimenti uraniferi italiani - Gruppo Min. Lombardo - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 188 pp.

- Kipfer, A. (1983): Die Mineralparagenesen der Granophyre von Carona (TI,CH) und Cuasso al Monte (I). Schweizer Strahler, 6 (XVII) (5), 177-217. (in German + French)

- Biffi P., Gentile P., Vanini F. (1987): Novità mineralogiche a Cuasso al Monte (VA). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, Milano, fasc.1, p.13.

- AA.VV. (1992) - Natura in Lombardia: I minerali - Giunta Regionale Ecologia di Regione Lombardia, 224 pp.

- Aurisicchio, C., De Vito, C., Ferrini, V., Guastoni, A., and Pezzotta, F. (1999) T-Nb-Y-REE oxides in the NYF pegmatites of Baveno and Cuasso al Monte, southern Alps, Italy. Canadian Mineralogist: 37: 809-810 (abstract).

- Pezzotta, F., Diella, V., Guastoni, A. (1999): Chemical and paragenetic data on gadolinite-group minerals from Baveno and Cuasso al Monte, Southern Alps: mineralogy and inferences. American Mineralogist, 84(5-6), 782-789.

- Gramaccioli, C.M., Diella, V., Demartin, F., Orlandi, P. & Campostrini, I. (2000): Cesian bazzite and thortveitite from Cuasso al Monte, Varese, Italy: A comparison wwith the material from Baveno, and inferred origin. Canadian Mineralogist 38: 1409-1418

- Demartin, F., Minaglia, A., Gramaccioli, C.M. (2001) Characterization of gadolinite-group minerals using crystallographic data only: the case of hingganite-(Y) from Cuasso al Monte, Italy. Canadian Mineralogist: 39(4): 1105-1114.

- Vignola, P., Guastoni, A., Pezzotta, F. (2001): Spessartina nelle cavità miarolitiche del granofiro di Cuasso al Monte. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 2/2001, 103.

- Biffi P., Sbacchi M., Sinelli E. (2004) Gli arseniati di Cava del Prete e altre novità mineralogiche dal granofiro di Cuasso al Monte (Varese). Riv. Mineral. Ital., 28, 4: 232-239.

- Guastoni, A., Pezzotta, F., Demartin, F. (2004): Contributo alla mineralogia del granofiro di Cuasso al Monte: recenti determinazioni su esemplari del MSNM. Riv. Mineral. Ital., 28, 4: 194-202.

- Pezzotta, F., Diella, V., Guastoni, A. (2005): Scandium silicates from the Baveno and Cuasso al Monte NYF-granites, Southern Alps (Italy): mineralogy and genetic inferences. American Mineralogist, 90, 1442-1452.

- Guastoni, A., Pezzotta, F., Vignola, P., & Gentile, P. (2008). Zeunerite e altre novità mineralogiche a Cuasso al Monte. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 3/2008, 174-177.

- Mercadante, S. (2011): I Minerali di cava Bonomi. Editore ilmiolibro.it - Gruppo Editoriale L'Espresso SpA, 136 pp.

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