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Mandello del Lario, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy

Scepter Quartz
Mandello del Lario, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy

Photo: FRANCO LAZZARI
Mandello del Lario, Lecco, Lombardia, Italia

The occurrence is situated part in Mandello del Lario municipality and part in the Abbadia Lariana municipality.

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There are two main sub-localities, within a distance of less than 300 meters each, both on the east side of the road:

- karstic cavities infilled with "red earths", hosting cm sized loose biterminated crystals of quartz, located below a bridge passing over State Road Number 36, findings occurred mostly during construction period, before the opening of the road (follow the link here below to visualize it:

http://maps.google.it/maps?q=45.914497,9.328272&t=h&sll=45.91275,9.33104&sspn=0.010943,0.019248&ie=UTF8&ll=45.91169,9.329453&spn=0,359.89048&z=14&layer=c&cbll=45.911873,9.329274&panoid=MYQ_2QzfVmiRzWJHu6F_7w&cbp=12,27.45,,0,-10.31 )

- temporary outcrops located in correspondance of AGIP Gasoline station, rich in quartz, fluorite, calcite, dolomite and minor galena and sphalerite; findings occurred only during the working period for station construction (follow the link here below to visualize it:

http://maps.google.it/maps?q=45.914497,9.328272&t=h&sll=45.91275,9.33104&sspn=0.010943,0.019248&ie=UTF8&ll=45.913482,9.328423&spn=0,359.89048&z=14&layer=c&cbll=45.913598,9.328398&panoid=MYQ_2QzfVmiRzWJHu6F_7w&cbp=12,27.45,,0,-10.31 )

Mineral List

Calcite
Dolomite
Fluorite
Marcasite
Quartz


5 entries listed. 5 valid minerals.

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References

- Guastoni, A., Lupieri, C., Grammatica, P.L., Riva. F. (2003): Cristalli di quarzo in natura e nella storia. Musei Civici del comune di Lecco e GMPL, Ed., 33 pp.

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