(Cave di Fiano, Lavorate, Sarno, Salerno, Campania, Italia)
Old tuff quarries. In these quarries it was found also a mineral once named "nocerite" by the mineralogist Arcangelo Scacchi in 1881 (it is now known as fluoborite) in a calcareous thermometamorphic rock, included in Tuff deposits.
Refs.:
- Scacchi, A., (1887): La regione vulcanica fluorifera della Campania, Atti Acc. Sc. Fis. Mat., serie 2, Vol. 2, Napoli
- vom Rath, G., (1887): Mineralien von Monte Poni …., Vesuv, Nocera, Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, Bonn, pp.130-148
- Zambonini, F. (1919): Il Tufo Pipernoide della Campania e i suoi Minerali, Memorie per servire alla Descrizione della Carta Geologica d'Italia, 7, 130 pp
- Di Girolamo, P., (1968): Petrografia dei tufi campani: il processori pipernizzazione, Rend. Acc. Sc. Fis. Mat., serie 3, Vol. 7, pp. 18, Napoli
- Flamini, A. (1966): Sulla composizione chimica della nocerite. Periodico di Mineralogia, 35, 205-222
- Masi, U. & Turi, B. (1972): Frazionamento isotopico del carbonio e dell'ossigeno negli inclusi calcarei metamorfosati del "Tufo grigio campano" Auct. di Fiano (Salerno), Periodico di Mineralogia, 41, 291-310
- White, J.S., (1981): Grothine discredited, equals Norbergite, The Mineralogical Record, Vol. 12, n.6
- Carati, M., (????): I minerali degli inclusi metamorfosati nel tufo grigio campano, ???
- Balassone, G., Franco, E., Mattia, C.A. (1995): Chondrodite from metamorphic carbonatic ejecta of Campanian Ignimbrite, Plinius, Vol. 14, 44-45
- Cámara, F. & Ottolini, L. (2000): New data on the crystal-chemistry of fluoborite by means of SREF, SIMS, and EMP analysis. American Mineralogist, 85, 103-108
- Balassone, G., et al. (2002): Re-examination of fluosiderite an unknown mineral from southern Italy: equal to fluorite-rich Chondrodite, European Journal of Mineralogy, Vol. 14, 151-155
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