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I Mondei (Ca' Mondei), Montescheno, Antrona Valley, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

(I Mondei (Ca' Mondei), Montescheno, Valle Antrona, Val d'Ossola, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italia)

On the SW size of Moncucco, in Antrona Valley (Ossola), there is the Montescheno Pegmatite. In I Mondey locality, there was a quarry, now abandoned, opened to extract quartz and feldspar. The quarry interested the pegmatite that in the area cutd an amphibolitic peridotite which was included into a gneiss formation.

References:
- Grill E., Pagliani G. (1939) Itinerari mineralogici and Roggiani A. G. (1940) - La pegmatite dell'Alpe I Mondei, Domodossola Natura, Vol. XXX, fasc. 3, Milano
- Cantadore F., Gramaccioli C.M. (1969) - Osservazioni sulla diffusione di alcuni minerali di terre reare nelle pegmatiti piemontesi e lombarde - Natura, vol. LX, fasc. 2, pp. 96-102, Milano
- Biffi, P., Sbacchi, M., Sinelli E. (1999): La pegmatite de I Mondei. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 1/1999, 42-49.
- Daniele Ravagnani - I giacimenti uraniferi italiani - Gruppo Min. Lombardo - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 1974
- 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.





Mineral List:
  • Actinolite
  • Albite
  • Anorthoclase
  • Anthophyllite
  • 'Apatite'
  • Autunite
  • Beryl
  • Biotite
  • Chrysoberyl
  • Clinochlore
  • 'Columbite'
  • Cummingtonite
  • Dravite
  • Forsterite
  • Jimthompsonite
  • Kasolite
  • Monazite-(Ce)
  • Muscovite
  • Opal
  • Orthoclase
  • Parsonsite ?
  • Phosphuranylite
  • Picromerite
  • Pyrope
  • Quartz
  • Retgersite ?
  • Rutile
  • Scheelite
  • Schoepite ?
  • Siderite
  • Stilpnomelane
  • Talc
  • Uraninite
  • Uranophane
  • Uranopilite ?
  • Uranospathite
  • Xenotime-(Y)
  • Zircon


    38 entries listed. 35 valid minerals.

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