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Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy

Colli Albani, Roma, Lazio, Italia

The localities are in a protected area and collecting is forbidden.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Afwillite
Allanite-(Ce)
Analcime
Andradite
var: Melanite
Anorthite
'Apatite'
'Apophyllite'
Artinite
Augite
var: Fassaite
Baddeleyite
Baryte
'Biotite'
Britholite-(Ce)
Cahnite
Calcite
'Chabazite'
Chabazite-K
Copper
Cuprite
Cuspidine
Danburite
Diopside
'Diopside-Hedenbergite Series'
Ekanite
Ettringite
Fluoborite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Forsterite
Franzinite
Galena
Geikielite
'Gismondine' (TL)
Gismondine-Ca
Gonnardite
Grossular
'Guarinite'
Gypsum
Harkerite
Hastingsite
Haüyne (TL)
Hedenbergite
'Hellandite'
'Hornblende'
Hydromagnesite
Kaliophilite
Kalsilite
Kirschsteinite
'Lapis Lazuli'
Larnite
Latiumite (TL)
Lazurite
Leucite
Maghemite
Magnesioferrite
Magnesio-hastingsite
Magnetite
'Melilite'
Mesolite
Monticellite
Nepheline
Nosean
'Olivine'
Opal
Periclase
Perovskite
'Phillipsite'
Phillipsite-K (TL)
Phlogopite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore Group
'Pyroxene Group'
Pyrrhotite
Richterite
Sanidine
Sodalite
'Spadaite' (TL)
Sphalerite
Spinel
Stillwellite-(Ce)
Thaumasite
'Thomsonite'
Thorite
Titanite
Tobermorite
'Uranpyrochlore (of Hogarth 1977)'
Vertumnite
Vesuvianite
Vicanite-(Ce)
Vishnevite
Vonsenite
Wiluite
Wollastonite
Zircon
Zirconolite


128 entries listed. 78 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals). 2 type localities (others).

Localities in this Region

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References

• Klaproth, M.H. (1797): Untersuchung des Leucit, Beiträge zur chemischen Kenntniss der Mineralkörper, Zweiter Band, Rottmann Berlin, 39-59
• Fornaseri, M., and Turi, B. (1969): Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Carbonates in Lavas and Ejectites from the Alban Hills, Italy. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 23, 244-256.
• Barbieri, M., Cozzupoli, D., Federico, M., Fornaseri, M., & Tolomeo, L. (1973). Harkerite negli inclusi del peperino dei Colli Albani. Periodico di Mineralogia, 42, 687-688
• Barbieri, M., Cozzupoli, D., Federico, M., Fornaseri, M., Merlino, S., Orlandi, P., & Tolomeo, L. (1977). Harkerite from the Alban Hills, Italy. Lithos, 10, 133-141.
• Burragato, F., Mattias, P. & Parodi, G. (1978). Analisi all'infrarosso di alcune zeoliti dei Colli Albani (Lazio). Rendiconti della Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, 34, 27-36.
• Federico, M. & Gianfagna, A. (1980): Al, Ca and Fe3+ bearing opal pseudomorph after melilite in ejecta and lavas of the Alban Hills, Italy. Periodico di Mineralogia, 49, 149-157
• FEDERICO M. and GIANFAGNA A. (1981) - Opale pseudomorfo su melilite da proietti e lave dei Colli Albani, Vulcano Laziale, Italia. Rend. S.I.M.P., 37 (I), 565
• FEDERICO M. and GIANFAGNA A. (1982-83) - The melilites of the ejecta and lavas from the Alban Hills (Rome, Italy). Rend. Soc. It. Mineral. Petrol., 38, 1387-1400
• GIANFAGNA A. (1985) - Occurrence of baddeleyite - ZrO2 - in an ejected block from Colle Cimino, Marino (Alban Hills, Italy). Period. Mineral., 54 (2-3), 129-133
• AURISICCHIO C., FEDERICO M. e GIANFAGNA A. (1986) - Chimismo dei clinopirosseni delle lave della Regione Vulcanica dei Colli Albani. Rend. S.I.M.P., 41 (1), 135-136
• AURISICCHIO C., FEDERICO M. and GIANFAGNA A. (1988) - The clinopyroxene chemistry in the H-K suite from the Alban Hills, Italy. Mineralogy and Petrology, 39, 1-19
• GIANFAGNA A. and TUZI F. (1988) - Pyrrhotite-, diopside- and phlogopite-bearing "coronas" around olivine from the Alban Hills, Italy. N. Jb. Miner. Mh, 12, 529-538
• GIANFAGNA A., MERLINO S. and PERCHIAZZI N. (1988) - Guarinite, a new finding in the sanidinite ejecta of the IV Hydromagmatic Unit from Albano Lake crater, Latium, Italy. Period. Mineral., 57, 81-84 (anno di stampa 1990)
• FEDERICO M., GIANFAGNA A. and ZANAZZI P.F. (1988) - Zirconium- bearing fassaite from the Alban Hills, Italy. N. Jb. Miner. Mh, 11, 495-502
• FREDA C., GAETA M., GIANFAGNA A., PALLADINO D. and TRIGILA R. (1990) - The Villa Senni Pyroclastic Formation (Alban Hills, Italy): magma behaviour and eruptive mechanism. PLINIUS (Suppl. EJM), 4, 64-65
• GIANFAGNA A. (1993): Non-metamict Thorite and Ekanite in Alban Hills "sanidinites" (Latium, Italy). PLINIUS (suppl. EJM), 10, 165-166
• GIANFAGNA A. and MARCOTULLI A. (1995) - Hydrothermal evidences and magma evolution from the mineralogical assemblage in the "Sperone" formation of Montecompatri (Alban Hills, Latium, Italy). Period. Mineral. , 64, 189-190
• GIANFAGNA A, BURRAGATO F. and MARCOTULLI A. (1995) - K-feldspars as volcanic paleosoil indicators: first investigation in the Alban Hills volcanic area, Latium, Italy. N. Jb. Miner. Mh., 9, 408-420.
• Caponera, I., Fiori, S., Pucci, R. (2003): Fluoborite, piombo nativo, richterite ed altri interessanti ritrovamenti nei Colli Albani. Il Cercapietre, 1-2
• Caponera, I., Fiori, S., Pucci, R., & Signoretti, E. (2007). I minerali dei Colli Albani. Un aggiornamento sugli ultimi dieci anni di ricerche. Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 31 (2), 74-91




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