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Alban Hills, Rome Province, Latium, Italy

(Colli Albani, Roma, Lazio, Italia)

References:
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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. 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).
-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.


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




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


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


    91 entries listed. 76 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals). 1 type locality (other).

    Localities in this Region:
    Italy
     
    • Latium
      • Rome Province
        • Alban Hills
          • Albano Laziale
    Italy
     
    • Latium
      • Rome Province
        • Alban Hills
          • Marino
          • Rocca di Papa

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