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Hessonite from
Biel, Gressoney-la-Trinité, Aosta Valley, Italy


Classification
Species:Grossular var: Hessonite
Formula:Ca3Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hessonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Biel, Gressoney-la-Trinité, Aosta Valley, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:316532
Long-form Identifier:1:3:316532:4
GUID (UUID V4):f6a3bfc1-4777-478a-90aa-b5d90bbe51b7
Nearest other occurrences of Hessonite
5.8km (3.6 miles) Monte Rosso di Verra, Champoluc, Ayas, Aosta Valley, Italy
8.8km (5.5 miles) Passo di Verra area (Zwillingsjoch area), Champoluc, Ayas, Aosta Valley, Italy
9.1km (5.7 miles) Pollux, Gorner glacier area, Zermatt, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
10.9km (6.8 miles) Breithorn, Gorner glacier area, Zermatt, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
11.9km (7.4 miles) Klein Matterhorn (Chli Matterhorn), Gorner glacier area, Zermatt, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
12.0km (7.5 miles) Schwärze (Schwärze glacier), Gorner glacier area, Zermatt, Visp, Valais, Switzerland
16.3km (10.1 miles) Gouffre des Busserailles, Valtournenche, Aosta Valley, Italy
16.6km (10.3 miles) Les Perrères Dam, Valtournenche, Aosta Valley, Italy
17.5km (10.9 miles) Ponte delle Capre (Pont des Chèvres) area, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
17.9km (11.1 miles) Montjovet intake channel ("Piazzale"), Montjovet, Aosta Valley, Italy
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octahedron. Elba, Italy. Below center Combined octahedral and pyritohedral faces. Elba, Italy. Below right...Lode country, California, particularly at Grass Valley; skeletal crystals to 2 cm., 68 also flattened...Hematite, iridescent tarnished crystals. Elba, Italy. Ct11ter left Botryoidal, massive to finely fibrous...active and extinct volcanoes and gypsum deposits. ITALY-localities around Agrigento and Caltanisetta, Sicily...replacements of fossil wood near Frankenberg, Hesse. ITALY -- Calabona, near Alghero, Sardinia. TRANSVAAL-'
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Messrs. E. G. Sandmeier, Locarno, and J. Telecki, Biel, Switzerland; Professor F. Slavik, Praha, Czechoslovakia;...terminated, having Vic. 153.—Attached crystal Ala, Italy. of diopside. well-developed faces at both ends...known and used at an earlier date, especially in Italy and France. According to Henri Polak, the Venetian...Saint-Claude, France; Geneva and Biel, Switzerland; and Genoa and Rome, Italy, are other centers in Furope...cutting of jade; Bangkok, (Siam), for zircon; Biel and and Thailand for jewels and carving bearings
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Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, !ndonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and...(USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual crystals have...in association with aragonite; Girgenti (Sicily, Italy) 32 Native element © Graphite (Plumbago, Black...Almaden (Spain), rare; Idria Monte Amiata (Italy), Juan Cavelica (Peru), (USA) e Application: chemistry...Braunsdorf near Freiberg (GDR), Pereta — Tuscany (Italy), Djebel Hamimat (Algeria), Kadamdja — Kirgizia
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ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie...byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31... Actinolite - byssolite, 50 mm, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, G short-columnar crystals, usually in granular...overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Actinolite asbestos...Mont Blanc, as well as in Val Malenco, Lombardy, Italy. A component of some skarns and eclogites. With
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that a certain Mr. Clayton, newly returned from Italy, possessed a diamond which became luminescent when...in this article takes the heading of Axe-stone. " La Pierre des haches . . . Beilstein of the Germans...spectrum to a greater or lesser degree, even hessonite (grossular), spessartite and pyropes, which usually...Widmer, Aarau ; Mr. K. Zigerli, Berne ; Mr. J. Ryser, Biel (Bienne) ; Mr. H. Perrenoud, Lausanne. The rest
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Federico Pezzotta, Natural History Museum of Milan, Italy; Jeffrey E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington...Shigar town. This area is the gateway to the Shigar Valley, which is famous for producing well-formed crystals..., Murata M., Arif M. and Dars H., 2013. Shigar Valley gemstones, their chemical composition and origin...Mauro Pantò (The Beauty in the Rocks, Sassari, Italy), who loaned a 4.60 ct sample for this report (Figure...to people who funded digging operations in the valley. Hundreds of pits have been dug in a somewhat chaotic
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and around volcanic craters. The specimen is from Italy. (L) Andesite from Mauna Kea, Hawaii This specimen...grains. Marble in thin section from Carrara in Italy shows an interlocking mass of calcite developed...in metamorphic rocks. ‘Artist’s Palette’, Death Valley, California Sedimentary rocks are frequently brightly...brightly coloured by cementing minerals. Here in Death Valley, California, an arid region influenced by periodic...upper parts of salt domes. Distribution Sicily, Italy; Utah, California and Texas (USA) and Japan. (K
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stone. The fine white Carrara marble in Tuscany, Italy, has been quarried for centuries. Sometimes cornpact...rock specimens. Dry lakebeds, desert floors, and valley floors offer sedimentary float as well as possible...of the helmet. Ultraviolet lamp (also called "UV la mp'' or "black lighe')-necessary for fluorescent...with theirfaceted counterjJarts, from the Umba Valley of Tcznzania. © GIA. Sandawana e1nerald mine ofJerated...comnwu iron sulfi,de mineral p)'rite from Tuscany, Italy. Courtesy of .Natural Hist01y Museiun ef Los Angeles
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7 cm). Ro~·ia Mo11w11ci: PC {JS/ Page 2: Arpa~ Valley, Fiigiira~ Mis., So111h Carpa1hia11s {SSZJ English...Galli. Giovanna Vezzalini (University of Modena. Italy). Prof. Mykola Shcherbak (lnsti1u1e of Mineralogy...or chain open-pi1 peak pit quatTy river s1ream valley vem Czech stola potok jeskyne vysoky kopec, vrch...or chain open-pil peak pil quarry river stream valley vein galerie piir1iu pe~tcrii ,nail deal lac mic...metamorphosed Mississippi Valley-type depo its are noted in the Rodna Mt . (e.g. Blazna Valley). The Lower Cambrian
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A fine example : . 13. Quoted from Monsieur a la Mode by G. Bernard Hughes, Small fashioned in the...from England, and England in turn was supplied by Italy. The Mediterranean Sea was the most important source...doves and poses. They added opals and jacinths (hessonite garnets) to the precious stones Dutens could set... D.C. Clinton, Length 2%ein. Historic Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, N.Y. Revolution and gained fame in...miniature is at the New Orleans in] eve , Ae -E11V6 “la . ; > The miniature of - the > eye of - Aimée de
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Berkshire RG11 2PY, England Van Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia...Especies Minerales de Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of...pa Biren vem, nM cad tomas ies ery £5 ao hebe, La iOd aay Am gle Pha yy i;sian, WRT a ss] ae " re...(Fig. 1) produced specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia...took refuge in a remote side canyon of the Sierra de la Santa Eulalia where they accidentally rediscovered
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langues étrangères, indispensables pour l’étude et la traduction des oeuvres scientifiques, a enregistré...particulièrement bienveillante lui a permis d’entre¬ prendre la réalisation de l’oeuvre projetée. Les termes et leurs...nid” du dictionnaire a été basé sur la langue anglaise qui est la langue clée de l’élaboration en question...Le vocabulaire du dictionnaire ne se limite pas à la terminologie purement géologique. Afin d’élargir...d’élargir son contenu dans le domaine des sciences de la Terre, on y a également indu les termes relatifs aux
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during the Stone Age. Tomb paintings in the Nile Valley produced nearly 5,000 years ago (Fig. 1.8) show...mineralogical societies of Germany, France, and Italy. Many other publications covering petrology and...the mineral analcime, NaAISi,Og:H,O, from Ischia, Italy. Each crystal displays a single form, a trapezohedron...82 Zr 1.60 Nb 1.47 Mo 1.40 Cs 2. 72 Ba 2.24 La 1.88 Hf 1.59 Ta 1 ‘47 W 1.Aly *The Values fete...decrease in radius with increasing atomic number, from La** (Z= 57), with a radius of 1.16 A 2°q + Zv'0
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University of New Mexico, Petrologia, Modena, Italy, Eugene A. Smelick, Princeton University, Gregory...during the Stone Age. Tomb paintings in the Nile Valley executed nearly 5000 years ago show busy artificers...A’—¢——_ 2 Q d —_ —e— ca — —e—A la: 1b: oc a Intercepts for AA-la: 0b: 0c A’A’-2a: © b: 0 ¢ BB- a:...letters that indicate the Intercepts for: shaded face: la, 16, le upper face: 2a, 2b, 2c FIG. 2.30. Relative...emacs face Intercepts for shaded faces: la), ~a, la3(—), ec la;, lay, Y2a3(—), ~c _la,, lay, Ya3(—)
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stratification planes in limestone (upper Mississippi valley deposits). The stronger of the verticals follow...most of the lead and zinc ores of the Mississippi valley were so formed. 4. Deposits formed by the weathering...found chiefly in western Colorado. It occurs in the La Plata sandstone in the form of minute scaly bunches...furnace slags. Russia is also treating slags. In Italy the caustic soda solutions of the bauxite refineries...Reported as ore of bismuth and lead from mines in La Plata Mountains. Remarks: Mistaken for cosalite and
 
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