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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.

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.




Mineral list contains contents from all localities listed at bottom of page


Mineral List:
  • Acanthite
  • Adamite
  • Albite
  • Allanite-(Ce)
  • Allanite-(La) (TL)
  • 'Alum Group'
  • Anatase
  • Andorite
  • Anglesite
  • Ankerite
  • 'Apatite'
  • Apatite-(CaF)
  • Apuanite (TL)
  • Aragonite
  • Argentopentlandite
  • Arsenopyrite
  • Aurichalcite
  • Azurite
  • Baryte
  • Baumhauerite ?
  • Beryl
       var: Aquamarine
       var: Emerald
  • Bindheimite
  • Bismuthinite
  • Bornite
  • Botryogen ?
  • Bottinoite (TL)
  • Boulangerite
  • Bournonite
  • Brannerite ?
  • Braunite
  • Brochantite
  • Calcite
  • Calomel
  • Cassiterite
  • Celestine
  • Cerussite
  • Chalcanthite
  • Chalcocite
  • Chalcopyrite
       var: Auriferous Chalcopyrite
  • Chalcostibite
  • Chamosite
  • Chapmanite
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Chloritoid
  • Chrysocolla
  • Cinnabar
  • Clinochlore
  • Coloradoite
  • Colusite
  • Copiapite ?
  • Copper
  • Coquimbite
  • Covellite
  • Cubanite
  • Cuprite
  • Dadsonite
  • Derbylite
  • Dessauite-(Y) (TL)
  • Destinezite
  • Diaphorite
  • Digenite
  • Djurleite
  • Dolomite
  • Dravite
  • Duftite
  • Enargite
  • Epidote
  • Famatinite
  • Florencite-(Ce)
  • Fluorite
  • Freibergite ?
  • Galena
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • Geocronite
  • Gersdorffite
  • Goethite
  • Gold
  • Grumiplucite (TL)
  • Guettardite
  • Gypsum
  • Halotrichite
  • Hematite
  • Hemimorphite
  • Hollandite
  • Hydromagnesite
  • Hydrozincite
  • Ice
  • Jamborite ?
  • Jamesonite
  • Jarosite
  • Jordanite
  • Kaolinite
  • Karelianite
  • Kermesite
  • Koninckite
  • Kyanite
  • Lazulite
  • Lepidocrocite
  • Limonite
  • Luzonite
  • Magnesite
  • Magnetite
  • Malachite
  • Manganocummingtonite ?
  • Marcasite
  • Marrucciite (TL)
  • Melanterite
  • Meneghinite (TL)
  • Mercury
  • Metacinnabar
  • 'Mica Group'
  • Millerite
  • Mimetite
  • Moëloite (TL)
  • Monazite-(Ce)
  • Montmorillonite
  • Montroseite
  • Muscovite
  • Nesquehonite
  • Opal
  • Orpiment
  • Orthoclase
       var: Adularia
  • 'Pearceite-T2ac'
  • Pellouxite (TL)
  • Pentlandite
  • Piemontite
  • Pillaite (TL)
  • Polhemusite ?
  • Proustite
  • Pyrargyrite
  • Pyrite
  • Pyrolusite
  • Pyrophyllite
  • Pyrrhotite
  • Quartz
       var: Smoky Quartz
  • Realgar
  • Robinsonite
  • Rosasite
  • Rouxelite (TL)
  • Rutile
  • Scainiite (TL)
  • Schafarzikite
  • Scheelite
  • 'Schorl-Dravite Series'
  • Seligmannite ?
  • Semseyite
  • Sénarmontite
  • Sérandite
  • Serpierite
  • Siderite
  • Silver
  • Smithsonite
  • Smythite
  • Spessartine
  • Sphalerite
  • Stibiconite
  • Stibiobetafite
  • Stibivanite
  • Stibnite
  • Stolzite
  • Strengite
  • Strontianite
  • Sudoite ?
  • Sugilite
  • Sulphur
  • Sulvanite
  • Svanbergite
  • Synchysite-(Ce)
  • Tetrahedrite
  • Thorite
  • Tintinaite
  • Tinzenite
  • Titanite
  • Todorokite
  • 'Tourmaline Group'
  • Ullmannite
  • Valentinite
  • Vanadinite
  • Variscite
  • Vermiculite
  • Versiliaite (TL)
  • Vivianite
  • 'Wad'
  • Wulfenite
  • Wurtzite
  • Xenotime-(Y)
  • Zincite ?
  • Zinkenite
  • Zircon
  • Zoisite


    195 entries listed. 179 valid minerals. 13 type localities (valid minerals).

    Localities in this Region:
    Italy
     
    • Tuscany
      • Lucca Province
        • Apuan Alps
            • Gorfigliano
            • Ripa
    Italy
     
    • Tuscany
      • Lucca Province
        • Apuan Alps
          • Stazzema
            • Farnocchia

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