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Vento Valley glacier (Wind Valley glacier), Vento Valley (Wind Valley), Aurina Valley (Ahrnbach Valley), Bolzano Province (South Tyrol), Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

(Ghiacciaio di Valle del Vento (Windtalgletscher), Valle del Vento (Windtal), Valle Aurina (Ahrntal), Bolzano (Sud Tirolo; Südtirol), Trentino-Alto Adige, Italia)

In 1928, A. Cavinato, mineralogist in the University of Padova, reported euclase from a cleft in grano-syenitic gneisses on the slope below Pizzo Cavallo (Hoher Roßhuf). A sample of this find is still kept by the Mineralogical Museum of the University of Padova (Inv. no. 6576).

Ref.:
- V. De Michele: Guida mineralogica d'Italia, Vol. 1, Ist. Geogr. De Agostini (Novara), 1975
- Lapis 29(9), 33 (2004)





Mineral List:
'Chlorite Group'
Euclase
Muscovite


3 entries listed. 2 valid minerals.

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