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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).



References:
- Daniele Ravagnani (1974) - I giacimenti uraniferi italiani - Gruppo Min. Lombardo - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.

- 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.
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.

- American Mineralogist (1999), 84(5-6): 782-789.

- 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).

- 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, Francesco, Alessandro Minaglia, and Carlo Maria Gramaccioli (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.

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




Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities


Mineral List:
Adamite
Aeschynite-(Y)
Agardite-(Y)
Albite
Allanite-(Y)
Anatase
Ankerite
'Apatite'
Arseniosiderite
Arsenopyrite
Bariopharmacosiderite
Baryte
'Bastnäsite'
Bazzite
Bertrandite
Brookite
Calcite
Celsian
Cerianite-(Ce) ?
Cerussite
Chabazite-Ca
Chalcopyrite
Clinochlore
Covellite
Cuprite
Datolite
Dolomite
Epidote
Euxenite-(Y)
Fayalite
Ferrimolybdite
Fluorite
Gadolinite-(Y)
Galena
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hingganite-(Y)
Hollandite ?
Kainosite-(Y)
'K Feldspar'
Löllingite
Malachite
Marcasite
Microcline
Mimetite
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Muscovite
Opal
Parasymplesite
Pharmacosiderite
Phenakite
Powellite
Proustite
Pyrite
Pyrophyllite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Schorl
Scorodite
Siderite
Siderophyllite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stibnite
Stilbite-Ca
Symplesite
'Synchysite'
Synchysite-(Ce)
Synchysite-(Y)
Thortveitite
Titanite
Todorokite
Topaz
Wulfenite
Wurtzite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zeunerite
Zinnwaldite
Zircon


95 entries listed. 75 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region:
Italy
 
  • Lombardy
    • Varese Province
      • Ceresio Valley
        • Cuasso al Monte

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