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Simplon Railway tunnel (north section), Simplon pass area, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Switzerland

(Simplon-Eisenbahntunnel (Nordabschnitt), Simplonpassgebiet, Brig, Wallis (Valais), Schweiz (Suisse; Svizzera))

Finds in material excavated during construction of the two tubes of the tunnel (1898-1905, and 1912-1921). The north portal is located near Biela, east of Brig, its south portal near Iselle in the Ossola Valley (Italy).

Ref.: Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 834.





Mineral List:
  		•  Actinolite
  		• Aikinite
  		• Albite
    var: Pericline
  		• Anatase
  		• Anhydrite
  		• Ankerite
  		• Arsenopyrite
  		• Baryte
  		• Biotite
  		• Calcite
  		• Celestine
  		• 'Chlorite Group'
  		• Dawsonite
  		• Dolomite
  		• Epidote
  		• Fluorite
  		• Galena
  		• Goyazite
  		• Gypsum
  		• Hematite
       var: Iron Rose
  		• Hyalophane
  		• Laumontite
  		• Magnesite
  		• Muscovite
  		• Pyrite
  		• Pyrrhotite
  		• Quartz
  		• Rutile
  		• Siderite
  		• Smythite
  		• Sphalerite
  		• Sulphur
  		• Titanite
  		• 'Tourmaline Group'


    35 entries listed. 29 valid minerals.

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