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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.



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






Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities


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
'Chabazite'
Copper
Cuprite
Cuspidine
Danburite
Diopside
'Diopside-Hedenbergite Series'
Ekanite
Ettringite
Fluoborite
Fluorite
Forsterite
Franzinite
Galena
Geikielite
Gismondine (TL)
Gismondine-Ca
Gonnardite
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
'Thomsonite'
Thorite
Titanite
Tobermorite
Uranpyrochlore
Vertumnite
Vesuvianite
Vicanite-(Ce)
Vishnevite
Vonsenite
Wiluite
Wollastonite
Zircon
Zirconolite


186 entries listed. 78 valid minerals. 4 type localities (valid minerals). 1 type locality (other).

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

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