OleniteCuriglia, Curiglia con Monteviasco, Veddasca Valley, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Photo: Antonio Borrelli Curiglia, Curiglia con Monteviasco, Val Veddasca, Varese, Lombardia, Italia
An occurrence of pale blue olenite in quartz veins.
A single-crystal structure refinement of a sample showed (Kolitsch & Ertl, unpubl. data) that this olenite is very similar to an Fe-bearing olenite recently described from a Czech locality [J. Cempírek, M. Novák, A. Ertl, J. M. Hughes, G. R. Rossman and M. D. Dyar (2006): Fe-bearing olenite with tetrahedrally coordinated Al from an abyssal pegmatite at Kutná Hora, Czech Republic: structure, crystal chemistry, optical and XANES spectra. Can. Mineral. 44, 23-30].
References
- Pezzotta, F. & Guastoni, A. (2006): Olenite. Nuovo ritrovamento in Val Veddasca (VA). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 30(2), 116-119.
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