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

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

The "ex Montecatini quarry" is, from 1998, two different operating quarries: 1) a quarry named "Ex Locatelli"; 2) a quarry named "Seula mine". The listed species are from Seula mine (in the "Ex Locatelli quarry" not all the listed species were found). Probably the area can be better presented as "Camoscio Mount quarries".

Refs.:
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.
Min. Rec. 14(3), 157-168
Am. Min. 83, 1330-1334 (1998)
Am. Min. 84(5-6), 782-789 (1999).
Ravagnani, D. (1974): I giacimenti uraniferi italiani - Gruppo Mineralogico Lombardo - Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Ed., Milano, 188 pp.
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)
  • Anatase
  • Anthophyllite
  • 'Apatite'
  • Arsenopyrite
  • 'Axinite'
  • Axinite-(Fe)
  • Babingtonite
  • Baryte
  • 'Bastnäsite'
  • Bavenite (TL)
  • Bazzite (TL)
  • Bertrandite
  • Beryl
  • Calcioancylite-(Ce)
  • Calcioancylite-(Nd) (TL)
  • Calcite
  • Cascandite
  • Cassiterite
  • Celsian
  • Chabazite-Ca
  • Chalcopyrite
  • Chamosite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • 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
  • Kristiansenite
  • Laumontite
  • Magnetite
  • Malachite
  • Microcline
  • Milarite
  • Molybdenite
  • Muscovite
  • Opal
  • 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
  • 'Tourmaline Group'
  • Uraninite
  • Wulfenite
  • Xenotime-(Y)
  • Zinnwaldite
  • Zircon


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