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Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy

Alpi Apuane, Lucca, Toscana, Italia

The Apuan Alps represent a tectonic window in the northern Appennines nappe edifice. Metamorphic units (Greenschist facies) (Autoctono Unit and Massa Unit) crop out through the over-lying non-metamorphic or anchimetamorphic units of Falda Toscana and Liguride units.
The geology of this area was developed during the Tertiary Appenninic orogeny but it records a complex history going back to the lower Paleozoic.
Apuan Alps region hosts a number of mineral deposits that display a great variety of mineralization styles and mineral assemblages.
According to Lattanzi et al. (1994), the minerogenesis of the Apuan Alps is the result of several events that span the entire geological history of the region.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Acanthite
Adamite
Albite
Allanite-(Ce)
Allanite-(La) (TL)
'Alum Group'
Alum-(K)
Anatase
Andorite
Anglesite
Ankangite
Ankerite
'Apatite'
Apuanite (TL)
Aragonite
Argentopentlandite
Arsenopyrite
Aurichalcite
Azurite
Bariopharmacosiderite
Baryte
Baumhauerite ?
Benstonite
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
var: Emerald
Beyerite
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bornite
Boscardinite (TL)
Bottinoite (TL)
Boulangerite
Bournonite
Brannerite ?
Braunite
Brochantite
Calcite
Calomel
Cassiterite
Celestine
Cerussite
Chabournéite
Chalcanthite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
var: Auriferous Chalcopyrite
Chalcostibite
Chamosite
Chapmanite
'Chlorite Group'
Chloritoid
Chrysocolla
Cinnabar
Clinochlore
Coloradoite
Colusite
Copiapite
Copper
Coquimbite
Covellite
Cubanite
Cuprite
Cymrite
Dadsonite
Derbylite
Dessauite-(Y) (TL)
Destinezite
Devilline
Diaphorite
Digenite
Djurleite
Dolomite
Dravite
'Dravite-Schorl Series'
Duftite
Enargite
Epidote
Erythrite
Famatinite
Fibroferrite
Florencite-(Ce)
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Freibergite ?
Galena
'Garnet'
Geocronite
Gersdorffite
Giessenite
Goethite
Gold
Grumiplucite (TL)
Guettardite
Gypsum
Halotrichite
Hematite
Hemimorphite
Hollandite
Hydromagnesite
Hydrozincite
Izoklakeite
Jamborite ?
Jamesonite
Jarosite
Jaskólskiite
Jordanite
Kaolinite
Karelianite
Kermesite
'K Feldspar'
'var: Adularia'
Koninckite
Kyanite
Langite
Lazulite
Lepidocrocite
Limonite
Luzonite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Malachite
Manganocummingtonite ?
Marcasite
Marrucciite (TL)
Melanterite
Meneghinite (TL)
Mercury
Metacinnabar
var: Leviglianite
'Mica Group'
Millerite
Mimetite
Moëloite (TL)
Monazite-(Ce)
Montmorillonite
Montroseite
Muscovite
Nesquehonite
Opal
Orpiment
Orthoclase
Oxyplumboroméite
Parasterryite (TL)
'Pearceite-T2ac'
Pellouxite (TL)
Pentlandite
Piemontite
Pillaite (TL)
Polhemusite ?
Proustite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore Supergroup
var: Stibiobetafite (of Černý et al) ?

Pyrolusite
Pyrophyllite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz
Realgar
Robinsonite
Roméite Group
var: Stibiconite

Römerite
Rosasite
Routhierite
Rouxelite (TL)
Rutile
Sartorite
Scainiite (TL)
Schafarzikite
Scheelite
Seligmannite ?
Semseyite
Sénarmontite
Sérandite
Serpierite
Siderite
Silver
Smithsonite
Smythite
Spessartine
Sphalerite
Sterryite
Stibivanite
Stibnite
Stolzite
Strengite
Strontianite
Sudoite ?
Sugilite
Sulphur
Sulvanite
Svanbergite
Synchysite-(Ce)
Tetrahedrite
Thorite
Tiemannite
Tintinaite
Tinzenite
Titanite
Todorokite
'Tourmaline'
Ullmannite
Valentinite
Vanadinite
Variscite
Vermiculite
Versiliaite (TL)
Vivianite
Volaschioite (TL)
Voltaite
'Wad'
Wulfenite
Wurtzite
Xenotime-(Y)
Ximengite
Zincite ?
Zinkenite
Zircon
Zoisite


334 entries listed. 199 valid minerals. 16 type localities (valid minerals). 1 erroneous literature entry.

Localities in this Region

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References

- Monetti L., Zaccagna D., 1919. I giacimenti minerari della regione apuana. Riv. Ital. Sci. Nat., Siena, 3: 96-97.
- Monetti L., 1929. Miniere metallifere nelle Alpi Apuane. L’Ind. Min., 6: 68-71.
- Zaccagna D., 1932. Descrizione geologica delle Alpi Apuane. Mem. Descr. Carta Geol. d’It., 25: 440 pp
- Bassani U., 1970. Le Alpi Apuane. Notiz. Gr. Mineral. Lomb., 11 e 13
- Giglia G., Radicati di Brozolo F., 1970. K/Ar age of metamorphism in the Apuane Alps (Northern Tuscany). Boll. Soc. Geol. It., 89: 485-497.
- Carmignani L., Dessau G., Duchi G., 1972. I giacimenti minerari delle Alpi Apuane e loro correlazione con l’evoluzione del gruppo montuoso. Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital., 11: 417-431
- Dallan Nardi L., Nardi R., 1972. Schema stratigrafico e strutturale dell'Appennino Settentrionale. Mem. Acc. Lunig. Sc., 42: 212 pp.
- Crisci G. M., Leoni L., Sbrana A., 1975. La formazione dei marmi delle Alpi Apuane (Toscana). Studio petrografico, mineralogico e chimico. Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat., Mem., 82: 199-236
- Carmignani L., Dessau G., Duchi G., 1978. Structural control of mineralization in the Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). Verh. Geol. B-A, 3: 279-283
- Rettighieri M., Tucci p., 1983. Il cloritoide nelle Alpi Apuane: un probabile indicatore della esistenza di un metamorfismo prealpino. Period. Mineral., 52: 83-96.
- Puxeddu M., Saupè F., Dechomets R., Gianelli G., Moine B., 1984. Geochemistry and stratigraphic correlations. Applications to the investigation of geothermal and mineral resources in Tuscany, Italy. Chem. Geol.: 77-113.
- Ciarapica G., Olivero S., Passeri L., 1985. Inquadramento geologico delle principali mineralizzazioniapuane ed indizi a favore di una metallogenesi triassica. L’Ind. Min., 1: 19-37
- Kligfield R., Hunziker J., Dallmeyer R. D., Schamel S., 1986. Dating of deformational phases using K-Ar and 40Ar/39Ar techniques: results from the Northern Appennines. J. Struct. Geol., 8: 781-798.
- Franceschelli M., Leoni L., Sartori F., 1987. Geochemistry and mineralogy of detritic rocks from verrucano-type sequence of northern Appennines (Monti Pisani and Punta Bianca). Rend. Soc. Ital. Mineral. Petrol., 42: 13-31
- Bigazzi G., Di Pisa A., Gattiglio M., Meccheri M., Norelli P., 1988. La struttura cataclastico-milonitica di Foce di Mosceta, Alpi Apuane Sud-Orientali(M. Corchia-Gruppo delle Panie). Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat., Mem., 95: 105-116.
- Carmignani L. Kligfield R., 1990. Crustal extension in the Northern Appennines : the transition from compression to extension in the Alpi Apuane core complex. Tectonics, 9 (6): 1275-1303.
- Carcangiu G., Fadda S., Franceschelli M., Gattiglio M., Pannuti F., 1992. Stratigrafia, mineralogia e metamorfismo di un orizzonte residuale triassico nelle Alpi Apuane. Formazione delle brecce di Seravezza. Plinius, 8: 140-141
- Lattanzi P., Hansmann W., Koeppel V., Costagliola P., 1992. Source of metal in metamorphic ore-forming processes in the Apuane Alps (NW Tuscany, Italy): constraints by Pb-isotope data. Mineral. Petrol., 45: 217-229.
- Lattanzi P., Benvenuti M., Costagliola P., Tanelli G., 1994. An overview on recent research on the metallogeny of Tuscany, with special reference to the Apuane Alps. Mem. Soc. Geol. Ital., 48: 613-625.
- Franceschelli M., Memmi I., Puxeddu M., 1995. Li- and B-rich cookeit-bearing metabauxite within late triassic talus breccia, Alpi Apuane, Italy. Plinius, 14: 167-168.
- Franceschelli M., Memmi I., Carcangiu G., Gianelli G., 1997. Prograde and retrograde chloritoid zoning in low temperature metamorphism, Alpi Apuane, Italy. Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt., 77: 41-50
- Molli G., Giorgetti G., Meccheri M., 2000. Structural and petrological constraints on the tectono-metamorphic evolution of the Massa Unit (Alpi Apuane, NW Tuscany, Italy). Geol. J., 35: 251-264.
- Carosi R., Montomoli C., Bertuccelli N., Profeti M., 2002a. The structural evolution of the southern Apuan Alps: new constraints on the tectonic evolution of the Northern Appennines (Italy). Comptes Rendus Geoscience, 334: 339-346.
- Carosi R., Montomoli C., Pertusati C., 2002b. Late orogenic structures and orogen-parallel compression in the Northern Appennines. Boll. Soc. Geol. It., Volume Speciale 1: 167-180.
- Orlandi, P. & Criscuolo, A. (2009): Minerali del marmo delle Alpi Apuane. Parco delle Alpi Apuane - Pacini Editore, Ospedaletto-Pisa, Italy, 180 pp.

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