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Vigezzo Valley, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy

The Vigezzo Valley is famous for a larger number of rare and unusual minerals occurring in pegmatites.

References

- Roggiani, A.G. (1970). Notizie mineralogiche su pegmatiti della valle ossolana. Tapiolite di Pian del Lavonchio in comune di Craveggia (Valle Vigezzo - Ossola). Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 26, 291-311.
- Appiani, R., Cini, V., Gentile, P., Mattioli, V., Preite, D., Vignola, P. (1995): Val Vigezzo – I minerali delle albititi. Ed. Linea Due s.r.l., 90 pp.
- Callegari A., Mattioli V. (2002): Val Vigezzo: novità mineralogiche. Riv. Mineral. Ital., 26 (2): 78-80.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
Aeschynite-(Y)
Albite
'Allanite'
Allanite-(Ce)
Almandine
'Analcime-Wairakite Series'
Andradite
Anglesite
'Apatite'
Arsenopyrite
Aschamalmite
Autunite
Bavenite
Bertrandite
Beryl
var: Emerald
β-Uranophane
Beyerite
Biotite
Bismite
Bismuthinite
Bityite
Calcite
Cassiterite
Cerussite
'Chabazite'
Chabazite-Na
Cheralite-(Ce)
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysoberyl
Clinochlore
Clinozoisite
Columbite
Columbite-(Mn)
Corundum
Dolomite
Elbaite
Epidote
Euxenite-(Y)
'Feldspar Group'
Fergusonite-(Y)
Ferrowodginite
Fersmite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Gadolinite-(Y)
Galena
Galenobismutite
'Garnet'
'Gismondine'
Goethite
Grossular
Hematite
Hydrokenoelsmoreite
Hydroxylapatite
Ilmenite
Jarosite
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Laumontite
Lepidolite
Magnetite
Malayaite
Margarite
Meionite
Meliphanite
Microcline
Microlite Group
var: Uranmicrolite (of Hogarth 1977)
Milarite
Molybdenite
Monazite-(Ce)
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Opal
Orthoclase
Phenakite
'Phillipsite'
Phlogopite
Phosphuranylite
Polycrase-(Y)
Prehnite
'Pumpellyite'
Pumpellyite-(Mg)
Pyrite
Pyrochlore Group
Pyrochlore Supergroup
var: Betafite (of Hogarth 1977)

Pyrophyllite
Quartz
Roggianite (TL)
Rutile
var: Ilmenorutile
var: Strüverite
Samarskite-(Y)
Scheelite
Scolecite
Spessartine
Spinel
Talc
Tantalite
Tantalite-(Fe)
Tanteuxenite-(Y)
'Tapiolite'
Tapiolite-(Fe)
Thomsonite-Ca
Thorite
Titanite
Torbernite
'Tourmaline'
Uraninite
Uranophane
Uvarovite ?
Vanadinite
Vigezzite (TL)
Wagnerite
Wulfenite
Xenotime-(Y)
Zircon


123 entries listed. 97 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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