Latitude: 40°47'18"N
Longitude: 14°38'58"E
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.
References
- vom Rath, G., (1887): Mineralien von Monte Poni …., Vesuv, Nocera. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 1887, 130-148.
- Di Girolamo, P., (1968): Petrografia dei tufi campani: il processori pipernizzazione. Rend. Acc. Sc. Fis. Mat., serie 3, 7, 18 pp.
- 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, 12(6).
- Carati, M. (1988): I minerali degli inclusi metamorfosati nel Tufo Grigio Campano. Notiziario del Gruppo Mineralogico Geologico Napoletano, 18, 5-12.
- 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., Franco, E., Mattia, C.A. (1995): Chondrodite from metamorphic carbonatic ejecta of Campanian Ignimbrite. Plinius, 14, 44-45.
- Balassone, G., Franco, E., Mattia, C.A., Petti, C., Puliti, R. (2002): Re-examination of fluosiderite, an unknown mineral from southern Italy: equal to fluorine-rich chondrodite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 14, 151-155.
- Scacchi, A. (1885): La regione vulcanica fluorifera della Campania. Atti Reale Accademia di Scienze fisiche e matematiche, 2, 108 pp.
- 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.
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