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Mozartite from
Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mozartite
Formula:CaMn3+(SiO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calciteⓘ2 photos of Mozartite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Pectoliteⓘ1 photo of Mozartite associated with Pectolite at this locality.
Piemontiteⓘ1 photo of Mozartite associated with Piemontite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mozartite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (19 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:39489
Long-form Identifier:1:3:39489:3
GUID (UUID V4):62fd2c95-a192-4ec3-9e23-3e3e9a424a25
References
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Report (issue)
Mozartite CaMnSiO4(OH) ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic....= 8.690(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Italy. 2.584 (VS), 5.558 (S), 3.070 (S), 2.687...00] (1) Cerchiara mine, Italy; by electron microprobe, average of 16 analyses, H2 O by diŽerence; corresponds...Distribution: In the Cerchiara manganese mine, near Faggiona, Val di Vara, Liguria, Italy. Large crystals...crystals from the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: death. For Wolfgang Amadeus
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331-336(193) FROM MOZARTITE, GaMn(OHlSiO{A NEWMINERALSPECIES THEGERCHIARA MINE,NORTHERN APENNINES,ITALY RICCARDO...GABRIELLA LUCCHETTI.qND LIVIO AFIRO Dipartinmw di ScienaedellnTenadell'Universitd, CorsoEuropa26, I-16132...I-16132 GenovqItaI! ANDREAPALENZONA Istituto di Chimica Fisicadell'Universitd, CorsoEuropa26, I-16132...Mozartiteoccursat theCerchiaramine,Val di Vara,northernApennines,Italy. Associatedmineralsarepectolite,calcite...2.687(013),3.070(120) ard Z = A.T\e strongest Mozartite is isostructral with the silicate wagnatite, the
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celadonite family from Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy G. O. LEPORE1,*, L. BINDI1, F. DI BENEDETTO1, E...5 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121...Firenze, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Siena, Via...I-53100, Siena, Italy Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza...Silvestro 12, 56127, Pisa, Italy CNR, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1
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Belloite Cu(OH)Cl M ONOCLINIC Locality: An abandoned mine about 3 km west southwest of the village of Sierra...Biehlite (Sb,As)2MoO6 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia (probably from the third oxidation...OH)2 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The abandoned manganese mine near Falotta, GraubĂźnden, Switzerland. Occurrence:...ETRAGONAL Locality: The Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona village, val di Vara, La Spezia, northern Apennines...Apennines, eastern Liguria, Italy. Occurrence: Filling microfractures and veins (from 0.1 to some millimeters
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Maykain (northeasternKazakhstan), yang, Guizhou Province, China. The new name alludes Tsumeb (Namibia)...platy on {001} and typically divergent,roselike, Mozartite* or spherulitic.White to colorless,with some spherules...Palenzona,A.Pozzi (1993) Mozartite, a new mineral speciesfrom Cerchiara, La Spezia. Revista Mineral. reous...* t : 1.663(2), Mozartite, CaMn(OH)SiOo,a new mineral speciesfrom the Cerchiara mine, northern Appenines...Appenines, Italy. Can. X : c. Single-crystalX-ray structure study (R : 0.067) M i n e r a l3. l , 3 3 1 -
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1899–1905, 2013 Mcalpineite from the Gambatesa mine, Italy, and redefinition of the species Cristina Carbone1...Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e della Vita, Università degli Studi di Genova, Corso...Europa 26-16132 Genova, Italy 2 CNR-SPIN, Corso Perrone 24, I-16152 Genova, Italy 3 Canadian Museum of Nature...Mcalpineite has been found in the Gambatesa mine (eastern Liguria, Italy). It occurs in a quartz vein mainly...the McAlpine mine (typelocality; California, U.S.A.) and at the Centennial Eureka mine (Utah, U.S.A.
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deposits in metacherts from the Cerchiara mine, eastern Liguria, Italy (Basso et al. 1989); and (3) low-grade...low-grade metamorphic rocks from the Wakasa manganese mine, Hokkaido, Japan (Miyajima et al. 1998). The crystal...1.010 1.008 1.002 1.007 1.008 1.007 1.004 1.005 DI 0.049 0.049 σθ(oct)2 24.65 26.39 0.033 0.033 37...85 1.010 σθ(oct)2 19.13 18.04 DI 0.026 0.026 0.008 0.006 Reference DI 0.062 0.060 This study Moore...octahedron with bond lengths li) (Robinson et al. 1971), DI(oct) 2 12 = 1/6Σ|Ri – Ravg|/Ravg (Ri = each bond
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2) are isomorphic. Nambulite from the Funakozawa mine, Iwate, Japan, was first defined as a new species...crystal structure of nambulite from the Funakozawa mine and emphasized its close relation to that of babingtonite...discovered as an independent mineral from the Tanohata mine, Iwate, Japan (Matsubara et al. 1985). Mukhopadhyay...the Kombat mine, Namibia (von Knorring et al. 1978; Dunn 1991), from the Cerchiara mine, Italy (Balestra... nambulite was discovered from the Fianel Fe-Mn mine, Val Ferrera, GraubĂźnden, Switzerland (Nagashima
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OrthorhombicJahn-Tellerdistortionand Si-OHin mozartite,CaMn3.O[SiOrOH]: A single-crystal X-ray, FTIR...A-1090 Wien, Austria Ansrn,q.cr The structureof mozartite,CaMn.*O[SiO,OH],was refinedin spacegrolp P2r2...indicates that the distorted octahedral geometry in mozartite causesshifts in valence sums of the O atoms that...and 1700 cm-l. INrnonucrroN The structureof mozartite, caMn3ro[SioroH], was first studiedby Basso et...from the Cerchiaramine, Northern Apennines,Italy. Mozartite is isostructuralwith vuagnatite,CaAl(OH)SiOo
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crusts (up to 0.5 mm) on quartz at the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A; mcalpineite...minerals. Also recorded from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah, U.S.A. Cu3TeOo6.H20. Cubic,...up to I mm in quartz from the Alaska geochemist. mine, San Juan County, Colorado, U.S.A. Montesommaite...anisotropism. scoria from Vesuvius-Somma, Campania, Italy. N a m e d for W . G . M u m m e o f C S I R O ... Occurs as dark red to orange red, equant to Mozartite. R. Basso, G. Lucchetti, L. Zefiro. and A. elongate
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2000) is La Esperanza, Durango, Mexico; but the atlas refers to three populated localities La #13a_...for the Italian names Leviglinani, Cetino, and Cerchiara). Incidentally, the name Cercharia is contained...specifies is not the place where caoxite and mozartite were discovered. The correctness of the names...Abbreviations: (Dst.) district, area; (Co.) county; (m.) mine; (Mf.) massif; (Q.) quarry; (N) north, northern...\\1972bambollaite;…1989cervelleite 7 – Bambollita (=La Oriental) m. \Moctezuma (29°48`N, 109°41`W), Sonora
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Articles The Val Graveglia m anganese district, Liguria, I t a ly .......................................Donato, Italy macco.marchesini@agip.it Renato Pagano Casella Postale 37 1-20092 Cinisello, Italy renpagan@tin...Genoa Province, Northern Italy. 1— Cassagna mine 2—Gambatesa mine 3— Molana quarry 4— Molinello mine 5—...Bianco copper mine 7— Monte Bossea mine 8— Monte Coppello-Reppia prospect 9— Monte Porcile mine 10— Nascio...Nascio 11—Scrava mine 12— Pontori Prospect h CD ^ .L IG iU R IA f \ ( I A X , X. LA SPE^IA [ / ,
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(1984) found that sursassite from Monte Alpe, Italy, includes frequent (001) pumpellyite lamellae. They...length distortions for the octahedral sites* * DI(oct) = 1/6Σ|Ri − Rav.|/Rav. (Ri: each bond length...1994). However, in terms of the distortion index DI(oct) of Baur (1974), the YO6 octahedra are less distorted...distortion [σθ(oct)2] and bond-length distortion DI parameters of M1O6 octahedra for macfallite show...neutron study for Sr-rich piemontite from St. Marcel, Italy by Ferraris et al. (1989) indicated that Fe3+ rather
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in a considerable variety of ore deposits and on mine dumps. They were formed either by weathering of...(1976)a, Leistner and Chatterjee (1978) Mozartite Ca[8]Mn3+O(SiO3OH) P212121 5.838(1) 7.224(1) 8...(8) from the Maria Catalina mine, Pampa Larga district, CopiapĂł Province, Chile, was also re-investigated...prisms from the Maria Catalina mine, Pampa Larga district, CopiapĂł Province, Chile, associated with pale...the conichalcite sample from the Maria Catalina mine was established by means of quantitative electron
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in various mining enterprises, including a silver mine. He was orphaned by the age of 9, and his early...metallurgist BIRUNGUCCIO in his well known book ÔDe la PirotechniaÕ had published the process at least ten...(1991), the new mineral was named mozartite (BASSO et al., 1993). Mozartite usually appears as minute anhedral...(Fig. 15). 131 Fig. 15 The mineral species mozartite (CaMn(OH)SiO4) Acknowledegments I am grateful...PALENZONA, A. (1993): Mozartite, CaMn(OH)SiO4, a new mineral species from the Cherchiara Mine, northern Apennines
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