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Listvenite outcrop, Lanau, Torsiac, Brioude - Massiac area, 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


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