MilleriteRocca Predellara quarry, Ceno Valley, Varsi, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Photo: machv83 Rocca Predellara (Cava Tosca), Valle del Ceno, Varsi, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italia
The quarry is known among rockhounders as "Cava Tosca" and it is set into an ophiolitic olisthostrome mainly composed of metamorphosed lherzolite (lherzolitic serpentine) mined out in huge blocks. The minerals are found in white-to-light-green lizardite veins.
References
- Adorni, F., Battilocchi, G., Bersani, D., Bo S. & Calderini V. (2005). Rocca Predellara e La Pianazza, Varsi, Appennino Parmense. Mineralparma, Anno IV, n.1, 5-8. Note: MineralParma is a yearly internal no-profit magazine of the Gruppo Mineralogico Paleontologico Naturalistico Parmense, freely distributed to its members and friends. Every issue is a limited edition and it has no ISBN code, therefore it cannot be used as reference, but only as informative paper.
- Adorni, F., Battilocchi, G., Bersani, D., Bo, S. & Calderini, V. (2009). La Pianazza e la cava di Rocca Predellara, Varsi (Appennino Parmense). MICRO (località), 2/2009, 277-294.
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