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Poggio San Vittore asbestos mine, Balangero - Corio area, Lanzo Massif, Lanzo Valley, Sesia-Lanzo zone, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy

(Miniera di amianto di Poggio San Vittore, Balangero/Corio, Valle di Lanzo, Torino, Piemonte, Italia)

Big abandoned (1990) asbestos mine, in ultramafic body, 30 km N of Turin. Mineral collecting is now forbidden.



References:
• Zucchetti, S. (1970). Ferro-nichel nativo ed altri minerali nicheliferi in serpentiniti anche asbestifere delle Alpi Occidentali. Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 26, 377-397.
• Prete, R. (1995): L'amiantifera di S. Vittore, Balangero, Torino. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 4/1995, 313-333.
• 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.

American Mineralogist, Volume 68, pages 214-219, 1983





Mineral List:
Actinolite
Albite
Almandine
Andradite
Anglesite
Antigorite
'Apatite'
'Apophyllite'
Aragonite
Awaruite
Azurite
Balangeroite (TL)
Bornite
Breithauptite
Brucite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chromite
Chrysocolla
Chrysotile
Clinochlore
Clinohumite
Clinozoisite
Cobaltite
Cobaltpentlandite
Corkite
Covellite
Crocoite
Cubanite
Diopside
Djurleite
Dolomite
Enstatite
Epidote
Erythrite
Galena
Goethite
Graphite
Greigite
Grossular
Gypsum
Heazlewoodite
Hedyphane
Ilmenite
Ilvaite
Iron
Kerolite
Langite
Lizardite
Mackinawite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Malachite
Manganite
Maucherite
Microcline
Millerite
Mimetite
Muscovite
Nickeline
'Olivine'
Opal
Orthoclase
Pentlandite
Perovskite
Phlogopite
Prehnite
Pumpellyite-(Al)
Pyrite
Pyrolusite
Pyromorphite
Pyrope
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rhodonite
Romanèchite ?
Sillimanite
Smythite
Sphalerite
Spinel
Sulphur
Taenite
Talc
Todorokite
Tremolite
Troilite
Valleriite
Vanadinite
Violarite
'Wad'
Wairauite
Zircon


94 entries listed. 89 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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