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

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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 ones are the following: Maddalena quarry, Restellini quarry and Zacra quarry.

Note on the mineral list: All "apatite" from Beura quarries (elongated or not) is hydroxylapatite (see Besana et al., 1997, and subsequent literature).

Mineral List

69 entries listed. 62 valid minerals.

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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.
- Piccoli, G.C., Maletto, G., Bosio, P., Lombardo, B. (2007). Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta. Associazione Amici del Museo "F. Eusebio" Alba, Ed., Alba (Cuneo) 607 pp.

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