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Azurite from
Masua Mine, Masua, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Masua Mine, Masua, Iglesias, South Sardinia Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:389140
Long-form Identifier:1:3:389140:7
GUID (UUID V4):a8de070b-4c34-482f-90cd-a45fbeff10c7
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2003, pp. 731–748 The “Calamine” of Southwest Sardinia: Geology, Mineralogy, and Stable Isotope Geochemistry...“Federico II,” Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli, Italy H. ALBERT GILG, FakultĂ€t Chemie, Technische UniversitĂ€t...“Federico II,”Via Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli, Italy AND GIUSEPPINA BALASSONE Dipartimento di Scienze...Mezzocannone 8, 80134-Napoli, Italy Abstract The mining district of southwest Sardinia, Italy, is one of the classic...tectonostratigraphic and climatic evolution of Sardinia and includes a petrographic and mineralogic study
Catalog/List
locality, Earth makes her own crystals; or the mine where a mineral was discovered, is akin to its ...tsavorite. Traveling west to the storied Tsumeb Mine is one of the very finest examples of the region’s...Dioptase Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia 13 cm tall x 14 cm wide Africa The mine we now call...Mibladen, Aït Oufella Caïdat, Midelt Cercle, Midelt Province, Drña-Tafilalet Region, Morocco 12.7 cm tall x...and endless variety of species, lies a vivid azurite over mountainous stretch of Siberia, where the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitĂ  di Napoli “Federico II”, 80134 Napoli, Italy c Geologisch-Palaeontologisches Institut, UniversitĂ€t...carbonate-hosted ores from the Iglesiente district (Sardinia, Italy) and Vila Ruiva (Portugal), as well as from...silicate-hosted ores of the Broken Hill district, New South Wales (Australia) and Freihung (Germany) and review...Zn–Pb deposits (Iglesiente district — Sardinia, Broken Hill — New South Wales, Vila Ruiva — Portugal, Freihung...Mineral Description Iglesiente District, SW Sardinia, Italy 27-G sm Rounded leached crystals 20-Ga sm Massive
Report (issue)
and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith Graeber collection...page Smithsonite, 9.2 cm wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve...1867. ·thsonian Smithsonite First Oxide Zone, Tsu Mine, Tsumeb, Nami 10cm tall Brent Lockhart coll Joe...curring in the oxidized zone of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, had compositions covering the...reasons for this palette. Beginning on page Antler Mine Smithsonite? Many comprehensive smithsonite collections
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with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...aurichalcite 47, 49 autunite 72, 74 axinite 91, 97 azurite 46, 49 babingtonite /0/, 102 balas ruby 24 barite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822...the Witwatersrand in the Transvaal (South Africa), and indeed South Africa currently produces well over
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...aurichalcite 47, 49 autunite 72, 74 axinite 91, 9/ azurite 46, 49 babingtonite /0/, 102 balas ruby 24 barite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it is... Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan)...the Witwatersrand in the Transvaal (South Africa), and indeed South Africa currently produces well over
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...aurichalcite 47, 49 autunite 72, 74 axinite9I, 91 azurite 46, 49 babingtonite JOI, 102 balas r_uby 24 barite...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States it is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Study from the Variscan Rosas Shear Zone (SW Sardinia, Italy) Fabrizio Cocco * , Antonio Attardi, Matteo...554 Bivio per Sestu, Monserrato, 09042 Cagliari, Italy; antatt94@gmail.com (A.A.); deiddam.geo@gmail.com...Study from the Variscan Rosas Shear Zone (SW Sardinia, Italy). Minerals 2022, 12, 272. https://doi.org/10...Shear zone (RSZ), in the Sulcis subregion of SW Sardinia, which is considered as a key area in the definition...at the crustal brittle–ductile transition in the south Variscan Sardinian chain [16], but it is also relevant
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 4. Stibnite, 46.0 × 18.2 × 8.3 cm, Ichinokawa mine, island of Shikoku, Japan. Although there is no...Bristol] at 07:28 26 February 2015 Figure 7 (left). Azurite and malachite, 11.8 × 9.5 × 5.3 cm, Schwaz, Tyrol...chlorargyrite, 14.3 × 10.5 × 4.3 cm, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Large crystals of chlorargyrite...10. Douglass Houghton at Pictured Rocks on the south shore of Lake Superior. The first professor of geology...(left). Smithsonite, 22.0 × 5.7 × 2.3 cm, Masua, Sardinia, Italy. This cut and polished stalactite half
Journal (issue)
Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South Dakota .. 361 by M. L. Wilson, J. B....Paces and A. P. Ruotsala Departments Notes from Italy by G. Porcellini .................................36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 Italy: Renato Pagano Via S. Anna 1/B I-34074 Monfalcone...Netherlands: W. J. R. Kwak Aalsburg 14-21 TN-6602 Wijchen South Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof...Belsher P .O . Box 636 G olden, CO 80402 303-494-7785 South American Minerals Show s: 322 on, except as noted
Journal (issue)
Barite-James and Charelle Webb collection, page 279; Azurite-Bob Howard collection, page 138; Calcite- Kevin...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than...Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua; Roh Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nearly three page article on the Arkansas Diamond Mine, with three pictures, and is quite true to facts...fluorite, are common in the Delhi-Babb fluorite mine near Salem, Livingston Co., -Ky. LOUISIANA — Something...Sulphur Co. when it begins to operate its new sulphur mine at Bay Ste Elaine, La. The sulphur deposit is located...under the waters of Gulf of Mexico and in order to mine it, the operations will be conducted from a huge...Katahdin Iron Works, Picataquis Co., Maine. This mine, worked for many years, was abandoned 60 years ago
Catalog/List
extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay...collection that he donated to the Neto and Ed Swoboda to mine University of Arizona RRUFF Project. Another was...............................................62 South Dakota ........................................
Journal (issue)
Hans-Helmut Kolumbianische Smaragde direkt a.d. Mine Maginot, Franz Alpine Mineralien, SammlerstĂŒcke...letzter Zeit reichlich auf „gossan" aus der Vela Negra Mine, Pampa Larga Distrikt, Tierra Amarilla, Atacama...Auf lediglich einer Stufe aus der Sterling Hili Mine bei Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA in transparenten...Franklinit identifiziert. Asien. In der Gozaisho Mine bei lwaki, PrĂ€fektur Fukushima, Japan. Steffen Jahn...radialblĂ€tterigen KristĂ€llchen von der Veta Negra Mine, Atacama, Chile. Bildbreite 2,2 cm, Sammlung Harvard
Book (volume)
Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...Cordillera Pyreneo-Proven!yal chain Corsica and Sardinia . Mineralization in relation to tectonic evolution...Elisa and Dorinda Barruecopardo Golpejas or Bellita mine Morille-Martinamor El Cubito El Trasqui16n. Santa...Baixo Tejo and Sado Basins Silica sand deposits Italy by P. Zuffardi Introduction Geological setting Stratigraphy
Book (edition)
MINERALS realgar PRISMATIC orpiment (holohedral) azurite malachite 2/m gypsum OA2.P epidote pyroxenes...chemical composition (e.g., pyrite by limonite, or azurite by malachite). (Sometimes pseudomorphism occurs...absorbed. Some such colors are idiochromatic, like azurite and lapis lazuli (deep blue), malachite and dioptase...sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...vanadinite, pyromorphite), carbonates (malachite, azurite, cerussite, smithsonite), a few oxides (cuprite)
Catalog/List
North American predators. This one came from Deep South Texas and sports a very beautiful spot pattern....PAIR OF SPERM WHALE TEETH Physeter macrocephalus South Pacific Sperm Whales were hunted for a variety of...LARGE SPERM WHALE TOOTH Physeter macrocephalus South Pacific The Sperm Whale is a fascinating creature...$800-$1,100 COMPLETE GIANT CLAM SHELL Tridacna gigas South Pacific The Giant Clam is the largest living bivalve...(CHROMIAN CLINOCHLORE) Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia Region, Turkey
Book
34 38 SystÚme rhomboédrique. Calcite. Bigrigg Mine, Egremont, Cumberland, Angleterre mm). Agrégat de...quadratique. Phosgénite (figure 58). Montcponi, Iglesias, Cagliari, Sardaigne (60 mm). Cc chlorocarbonatc...SystÚme quadratique. Wulfénite (figure 61). Old Yuma Mine, Arizona, Etats-Unis (g mm). La forme tabulaire...pseudocube de la.figure63 provenant d'Arizona (Old Yuma Mine, 7 mm) est constitué d'un prisme et d'un pinacoide...~ys_tÚme o~thorhombique. Cérusitc. Monteponi, Iglesias, Cagliari, Sardaigne (24 mm). On remarque que
Catalog/List
interest: To begin with, there is an historic French Azurite, Lot 49037, that previously graced the collection...founder of Newmont Mining and owner of the Tsumeb mine. Upon his demise, it lent its considerable charm...000 49002 CITRINE GEODE PAIR Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil Citrine is one of the more desirable...FLUORESCING WILLEMITE WITH CALCITE SPECIMENS Sterling Hill Mine and Franklin area, Sussex Co., New Jersey Willemite...(14 x 7.6 x 4.4 cm), from the famed Sterling Hill Mine, it is a large exposed Willemite face, with a thinner
Book
2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl)
Journal (issue)
International Tucson 2012 ‱ Aquamarine from Mozambique ‱ Azurite in granitic rock from Pakistan ‱ Cat’s-eye emerald...efforts and promising early results, the emerald mine has not yet begun production. 2 GEMS & GEMOLOGY...(1945) and Rolff (1946) in the Borborema Pegmatitic Province. In 2006, a team led by one of the present authors...deposit is located near the Bonfim gold-tungsten mine (figure 2), at coordinates 05°50.45±S, 036°07.10±W...paved road. A dirt track then proceeds about 18 km south to the mining area. Figure 2. The emerald deposit
Book
metals in Europe, the Middle East, South-west and South-east Asia, South America and Africa. Recently, Roberts...Ruiz and RuĂ­z Taboada 1996), and at Tal-i Iblis in south-east Iran at the ïŹrst half of the ïŹfth millennium...map is limited to the North African coast in the south, 12 with the exception of Egypt. This may be...decreases dramatically compared to the TEMB. In the south of Mesopotamia, there are no ore deposits either...frequently cited early use of azurite and blue beads made of 13 this mineral. Azurite is a blue mineral, and
Book
Denmark . Egypt France Germany Hungary Israel . Italy Japan. Kazakhstan Republic Netherlands New Zealand...available for exchange. Open to the public: No. South Australian Museum North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000...Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00. University of South Australia Department of Geology, Smith Road, Salisbury...Queensland Museum Grey St., South Brisbane, QLD 4101; postal address: P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane, QLD 4101...Queensland Gold collection, including crystal gold; South East Queensland Iris Agate collection. Uses and
Report (volume)
Permo-Mesozoic multiple fluid flow and ore deposits in Sardinia: a comparison with Post-Variscan mineralization...Permo-Mesozoic multiple fluid flow and ore deposits in Sardinia: a comparison with post-Variscan mineralization...deformation of the supracrustal sequence at Ssesvatn, South Norway: Re-Os dating of Cu-Mo mineral occurrences...metallogeny in the technically active regions of South America and the SW Pacific. A global comparison... The latter, in comparison with the regions of South America and the SW Pacific, affords the opportunity
Book
block I experienced recently when visiting a gold mine in virtually unmetamorphosed ground. A fault cuts..."common sense" observations described from the gold mine with the chert and the organic matter. Another potent...Alterations of Conglomeratic Uranium Ores, Pronto Mine, Ontario, Canada E.Wm. Heinrich (With 1 Figure)...Pre-Witwatersrand and Witwatersrand Conglomerates in South-Africa: A Mineralogical Comparison and Bearings...38 The Tin Deposit of Monte Valerio (Tuscany, Italy): PneumatolyticHydrothermal or Sedimentary-Remobilization
 
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