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Seula mine (ex Montecatini quarry), Mount Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

(Miniera Seula (ex Cava Montecatini), Monte Camoscio, Oltrefiume, Baveno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte, Italia)

The "ex Montecatini quarry" is, from 1998, two different operating quarries: 1) an abandoned quarry named "Ex Locatelli"; 2) an active quarry named "Seula mine". The listed species are from Seula mine (in the "Ex Locatelli quarry" not all the listed species were found).



References:
- Grill, E. (1935): I minerali del granito di Baveno; la fayalite. Periodico di Mineralogia, 129-133.
- Gallitelli, P. (1936): Le miche del granito di Baveno. Periodico di Mineralogia, 61-76.
- Pagliani, G. (1948): Le zeoliti del granito di Baveno. Periodico di Mineralogia, 175-188.
- Ravagnani, D. (1974): I giacimenti uraniferi italiani - Gruppo Mineralogico Lombardo - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Ed., Milano, 188 pp.
- Min. Rec. 14(3), 157-168
- Am. Min. 83, 1330-1334 (1998)
- Am. Min. 84, 782-789 (1999).
- Guastoni, A. & Pezzotta, F. (2004): Kristiansenite a Baveno, secondo ritrovamento mondiale della specie. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 4/2004, 247-251.
- Guastoni, A., Demartin, F., Pezzotta, F. (2004): Sekaninaite delle pegmatiti granitiche di Feriolo e Baveno (VB). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano, 145, 59-68.
- American Mineralogist (2005) 90, 1442-1452.





Mineral List:
Aeschynite-(Y)
Albite
Allanite-(Ce)
Allanite-(Y)
Aluminocerite-(Ce) (TL)
Anatase
Anthophyllite
'Apatite'
Arsenopyrite
'Axinite'
Axinite-(Fe)
Babingtonite
Baryte
'Bastnäsite'
Bavenite (TL)
Bazzite (TL)
Berthierine
Bertrandite
Beryl
Calcioancylite-(Ce)
Calcioancylite-(Nd) (TL)
Calcite
Cascandite
Cassiterite
Celsian
Chabazite-Ca
Chalcopyrite
Chamosite
Chrysocolla
Chrysotile
Clinochlore
Copper
Cordierite
Datolite
Epidote
Fayalite
Fluorite
Gadolinite-(Ce)
Gadolinite-(Y)
Galena
Gugiaite
Hematite
Herderite
'Heulandite'
Hingganite-(Y)
Hydroxylherderite
Ixiolite
Jervisite
Kainosite-(Y)
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar'
Kristiansenite
Laumontite
Magnetite
Malachite
Microcline
Milarite
Molybdenite
Muscovite
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Orthoclase
Plumbomicrolite
Prehnite
Pumpellyite-(Fe2+)
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Rutile
Scandiobabingtonite (TL)
Scheelite
Schorl
Sekaninaite
Siderophyllite
Sphalerite
Stilbite-Ca
Stilpnomelane
Thortveitite
Titanite
Todorokite
Topaz
Uraninite
Wulfenite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zinnwaldite
Zircon


85 entries listed. 77 valid minerals. 5 type localities (valid minerals).

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