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Listvenite outcrop, Lanau, Torsiac, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France

Ref.: F.H. Forestier : "Les Péridotites Serpentinisées en France, Groupe I, Fascicule IV, Bassin du Haut Allier", BRGM, 1964; Bull. Minéral., 1987, 110, pp. 359-371.

Localization : Along RN 9 road, between Lempdes and Massiac, in a road curve under Léotoing castle ruins.
Amphibolite, serpentinite and listvenite lenses, with reaction aureoles in sericitized biotite-sillimanite-cordierite anatexite.
Plagioclasite exsudations at the contact amphibolite/anatexite.

Mineral List

Albite
var: Oligoclase
Almandine
Ankerite
Anorthite
var: Labradorite

Anthophyllite
Antigorite
Arsenopyrite
Awaruite
Biotite
Calcite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysotile
Clinochlore
var: Chromian Clinochlore
var: Pennine
Diopside
Dolomite
Enstatite
var: Bronzite
Forsterite
Gedrite
Heazlewoodite
Hematite
Hercynite
var: Picotite

'Hornblende'
Hydrobiotite
Kulkeite
Limonite
Lizardite
Magnesiohornblende
Magnesite
var: Ferroan Magnesite

Magnetite
Marcasite
Millerite
Muscovite
var: Fuchsite

Pargasite
Phlogopite
Pyrite
var: Bravoite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
'Serpentine Group
var: Bastite'

Spinel
Talc
Titanite
Tremolite
Vermiculite


48 entries listed. 34 valid minerals.

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