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Beura Quarries, Beura-Cardezza, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

(Cave di Beura, Beura-Cardezza, Val d'Ossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italia)

This locality incorporates numerous quarries (not all active) for the extraction of gneiss.
The names of the most important are the following: Maddalena quarry, Restellini quarry and Zacra quarry.

References:
- Gramaccioli, C.M. (1975): Minerali alpini e prealpini. Vol. I e II. Istituto Italiano Edizioni Atlas, Bergamo, 257+216 pp.
- Besana, G., Cini, V., Preite, D. (1997): Die Mineralien von Beura und Villadossola, Provinz Novara, Oberitailen. Lapis, 22(5), 13-26.
- Besana, G., Cini, V., Mattioli, V., Preite, D. (1997): I Minerali di Beura e Villadossola (Verbania-Cusio-Ossola). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 21(2), 157-170.
- Vanini, F. (2000): Beura e Villadossola: nuovi ritovamenti. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 2/2000, 123-124.
-Albertini, C., & Parodi, G. C. (2007). Cosalite delle cave di gneiss di Beura e Villadossola (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 31 (2), 108-110.





Mineral List:
  • Aeschynite-(Y)
  • Albite
  • Allanite-(Ce)
  • Anatase
  • 'Apatite'
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Autunite ?
  • 'Axinite'
  • 'Bastnäsite'
  • Bavenite
  • Bertrandite
  • Beryl
  • Bismuth
  • Bismuthinite
  • Bornite
  • Brookite
  • Calcite
  • 'Chabazite'
  • Chalcopyrite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Clinozoisite
  • Cosalite
  • Datolite
  • Dravite
  • Epidote
  • Euxenite-(Y) ?
  • Fluorite
  • Fergusonite-(Y) ?
  • Gadolinite-(Y)
  • Galena
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • Helvite
  • 'Heulandite'
  • Ilmenite
  • Jarosite ?
  • Kaolinite
  • Kyanite
  • Laumontite
  • Limonite
  • Marcasite
  • Milarite ?
  • Molybdenite
  • Monazite-(Ce)
  • Muscovite
  • Orthoclase
  • Phenakite
  • Powellite ?
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Quartz
  • Rutile
  • Scheelite
  • Schorl
  • Scolecite
  • Sphalerite
  • Staurolite
  • 'Stilbite'
  • Synchysite-(Ce)
  • Thorite
  • Titanite
  • Torbernite
  • Wulfenite
  • Xenotime-(Y)
  • Zeunerite ?


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