Latitude: 37°38'28"N
Longitude: 14°52'33"E
Monte Calvario, Biancavilla, Complesso Vulcanico dell'Etna, Catania, Sicilia, Italia
The minerals were discovered in metasomatised benmoreites.
Today collecting is forbidden and the quarry is closed.
References
- von Lasaulx, A. (1879): Mineralogische Notizen: Szaboit von Biancavilla (Etna). Z. Krist. Miner., 3, 288.
- Di Franco, S. (1942): Mineralogia Etnea. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali, Serie IV, 5, 175 pp.
- Preite, D. (1982): I minerali etnei di Biancavilla (CT). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 6(4), 112-114.
- Preite, D. (1985): Note di mineralogia italiana: augite e flogopite di Biancavilla (CT). Rivista Mineralogica Italiana, 9(4), 144.
- Preite, D. (1985): Die Fundstelle Biancavilla am Ätna, Italien. Lapis, 10(3), 23.
- Gianfagna, A. & Oberti, R. (2001): Fluoro-edenite from Biancavilla (Catania, Sicily, Italy): crystal chemistry of a new amphibole end-member. American Mineralogist, 86, 1489-1493.
- Gianfagna, A. (2006): Fluorophlogopite from Biancavilla (Mt Etna, Sicily, Italy): crystal chemistry of a new F-dominant analogue of phlogopite. International Mineralogical Association 19th General Meeting, Kobe, Japan, July 23-28, 2006; Conference Abstract Volume.
- Sicurella, G., Ciriotti, M.E., Gianfagna, A., Mazziotti-Tagliani, S., Blass, G. (2010): Minerali di Monte Calvario, Biancavilla (Catania, Sicilia). Micro (località), 2/2010, 329-368.
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