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Opal from
Molinello Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Molinello Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:40363
Long-form Identifier:1:3:40363:2
GUID (UUID V4):d1b143ec-a3f1-4151-a424-83a06661720b
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
0.5km (0.3 miles) Nascio, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
1.7km (1.0 miles) Cassagna Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
1.8km (1.1 miles) Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
26.1km (16.2 miles) Monte Nero Mine, Rocchetta di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
49.5km (30.8 miles) Mt. Ramazzo Mine, Borzoli, Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
52.3km (32.5 miles) Varenna Valley, Genoa, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
58.5km (36.3 miles) I Piani, Masone, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
60.9km (37.9 miles) Lucchetti Quarry (Strinato B Quarry; Strinato Quarry), Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
62.2km (38.7 miles) Faieto quarry, Sant'Andrea Bagni, Medesano, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
62.6km (38.9 miles) Case Montanini quarry, Sant'Andrea Bagni, Medesano, Parma Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
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...Val Graveglia area, Genoa Province, Northern Italy. 1— Cassagna mine 2—Gambatesa mine 3— Molana quarry 4—...4— Molinello mine 5— Monte Bardeneto prospect 6— Monte Bianco copper mine 7— Monte Bossea mine 8— Monte...Coppello-Reppia prospect 9— Monte Porcile mine 10— Nascio 11—Scrava mine 12— Pontori Prospect h CD ^ .L IG
Catalog/List
It's about lm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019. £18 14...botryoidal 1cm x 8mm on 2.5xlcm Penberthy Croft Mine St Hilary Cornwall £6 - the type location 19 URBANITE...Scotland £10 27 SUGILITE mauve chip about 8mm Wessels mine, North Cape Province South Africa £8 31 CLINTONITE...cm, x5mm with pinkish Scawtite on the end, Fuka Mine, Bicchu town Okayama prefecture Japan overall size...obvious brown masses in 3xl cm Faiallo pass, Genoa Italy £8 46 BARYTES, the classic oakstone. A cut and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
new mineral species from Valletta mine, Maira Valley, Piedmont, Italy: II. Braccoite, NaMn2+ 5 [Si5AsO17(OH)](OH)...via Tommaso Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Turin, Italy CrisDi, Interdepartmental Center for Crystallography...Crystallography, via Pietro Giuria 7, I-10125, Turin, Italy Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via San Pietro...Pietro 55, I-10073 Devesi-Cirié, Turin, Italy Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di...Padova, via Giovanni Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diameter, com- a manganeseore lens at the Kombat mine, 49 km south monly showing semispherulitic texture... 1 4 6 ( 9 ) . new mineral from the Cap Garonne mine, Var, France. The mineral occurs in a lenticular...pleochroic a: 0 : colorless, ^y: pale green to Kombat mine, Namibia (South West Africa). Mineral. palegray;orientationa':(00I...from gray The mineral occurs at the Cap Garonne mine, Var, to slightly bluish gray, weakly anisotropic...sheaflikeor radial The mineral occurs with qrrartz,opal, magnesite,cinaggregatesup to 0.2 mm in diameter
Catalog/List
stilbite.Pretty RF TN.£4 2) BARITE,Mount Wellington Mine,Gwennap,Cornwall.Vitreous translucent greyish chisel...Excellent RF SPC.C.£10 4) CHALCEDONY,Pednandrea Mine,Redruth,Comwall.Ex Col Williams colln.Pure B crust...----------------------------------- 6) BARITE,Hilton Mine,Scordale,nr Appleby,Cumbria.Attractive druse of...xtls .. Pretty D C.£22 7) PYROMORHITE, Bwlch-Glas Mine, Cardiganshire,Wales. Very pretty covering ofbright...C. £15 = - -=~:- "' ·" 8) HA:RM6TOME, Bellgrove Mine, ·Stfontiai\Ai'gyllshire:scot1ana.Bioclcymifky-wliifee
Catalog/List
1111111 R I CHARD T AYLE R MI NE RAL S BYWAYS 2 0 BURS TE AD CL OS E COBHAM S URRE Y P h o n e Co b...Bobierite. Brugnatellite and Humite from Italy. Unusual green opal variety Hyalite. From India attractive...Fe SILICATE) black masses in Actinolite. (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan,Sweden) lxl n.10 2 mmred Almandinein...yellow trown mass from this clussi2 illine (Franklin Ne~Jersey U.S.A) lxl fl. 20 lx2 f2.20 022 JIJ,JGLESIT~...rnicaeousmasses on matrix (St Marcel, Val d 1 Aosta Italy) lxl ?Op lx2 El.JO 2x2 EJ.00 rich brownchip 036
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R I CHARD T AYL E R MI NE RAL S BYl,JAYS 2 0 BURS T E AD CL 0 S E S URRE y C OB H A M E NGL AND KT...Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...Rich ycllow to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem...limonitic matrix. with Barytes Crystals • (BrandyBottle Mine, Yor~shire) quite rich assemblage lx2 ES 238 DESCLOIZITE...in one small area on blue Chrysocolla. (Eagle Eye Mine, La Paz County, lrrizona ,USA) lx2ins f.4.50 l'i6
Book
SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...had found. Photo 3. Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate...fortunate to have a trip down th e Nangiles mine, when the initial exploration for Wheal Jane was being...being carried out. I recall that the air in the mine was rather acrid, due to the oxidation of the abundant
Catalog/List
AROUND THE WORLD: ANATASE - ITALY: From Solara Vai Nure, Piacenza, Italy. Microcrystalline anatase coating...at $3.00 each. AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby...inch specimens: $2.00 each AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate...00 and $15.00 each. 1 AZURITE - MORENCI MINE Morenci Mine, Clifton-Morenci District, Greenlee County...very limited supply. CALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: AWESOME! Exquisite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amounts on the waste dumps of the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, associated with many other tellurites...clear botryoidal opal. Tiny milk-white spherules of fibrous oboyerite are perched on the opal. H is estimated...on a 272 pg sample, after correction for I I pg opal and l3Vo anglesite, gave: PbO 58.3, TeO2 41.'1Vo...Chemical analysis of two small samples contalainated by opal yielded: TiO, 11.0, 1 0 . 3 ,F e 2 O 33 . 1 5 ,...s u m 9 6 . 7 5 , 9 7 . 3 5 Vroe; m a i n der is opal. The sum ofTi+Fe is close to l/3 that ofTe. Ideal
Catalog/List
while they last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...structures. $20.00 each DENDRITIC WIRESIL VER Elure Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver...priced at $20.00 each CINNABAR AND STIBNITE: Gorlovka Mine, Ukraine; Nice thumbnails mounted in plastic perky...3+ inches and are priced at $6.00 each. FLAMBEAU MINE CHALCOCITES: The finest chalcocites to have come
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli, 34, 20133 Milano, Italy 3 CSIRO Mineral Resources, ARRC, 26 Dick Perry Avenue...the south part of the Koashva open pit (Vostochnyi mine), Mt. Koashva, Khibiny alkaline complex in Kola...Paar (2018) Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy). XXIII. Andreadiniite, CuAg7 HgPb7Sb24S48, a new...andorite homeotypic series from the Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps. European Journal of Mineralogy, 30...Arsiccio mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy (43°58′16″N, 10°17′05″E). The Monte Arsiccio mine exploited
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...2(4) - 4.0(6) - 2.58(10) - 2.04(5). At the Kiura mine, Saiki City, Oita pref., Japan. IMA 2012-101. Adolfpateraite
Book
Perfectly shaped crystals are rare in Nature. Usually o ne can watch such crystals only in minera­ logical museums...clenche; "dodecahedron" chalcopy­ ritc from Strashimir mine; disso­ lution fonns of be1yl from Minas Gcrais;...( Russia), Fresno Co (USA), Volyn (U kraine), Molinello ( f taly), etc. Available to all iiwestigators...- Co/lectio11 of rare mi11erals from To scana, Italy - gama garite, marsturite, caryopilite, tiragalloite...hibini, Russia; cetineite from Cet ine di Corniani, Italy; viluite Yilyuj River, zorite and raite - Lo­ vozero
Catalog/List
RI CHARD TAYLER MI NE RAL S BYWAYS 2 0 BURS TEAD CL OS E COBHAM S URRE Y P h o n e Co b h a m •ENGLAND...matrix mostly with Alstonite micro's (Fallowfield Mine, Hexham) 1 x ~ ins El.50 lxl E3 lx2 ES 072 BISHUTHINITE...Pb Sb O OH yellow masses on Quartz. (Trevinnick Mine, near Port Issac Cornwall) lxl .El lx2 El.90 504...(l1111ria Nine 11 .Si I {4 PbCuSbS/ e in quarh N ne,Mas·ac, Bruse 1 Cu Al Sil icate blue aasses 1n...species) green crusts on rock. (Childs Aldwinkle Mine, Pinal County, Arizona USA\ lxl E3 lx2 f5 2x2 ElO
Catalog/List
pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7
Catalog/List
Vetralla Italy) Ixlins £4.50 396 TORBERNITE Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall)...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - --··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)...217 ANDORITE San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia 1129 ■ ALMANDINE Brnstad iron Mine near Arendnl ,Norway Pure...Bcnallt Minc,Llcyn. Wales 1036 ALSTONITE Fnllowlielcl Mine, Northumberland White masses in malrix wilh micro
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massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...x2 £ 1.50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting...~-------·-·-- ·· -·· 1077 ■■ ALLOPHANE Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall 933 ANATASE Hingston Quarry,Cornwall Black...Kola Russia 501 ALLOPHANE New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon ,England grey bleby small botryoidal with
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pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U...Na Al Silicate Pure creamy coloured masses (Tanco Mine, Bernie Lake, Manitoba, Canada) lx2ins £4 2x2ins
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead
Book (edition)
polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina, Madagaskar, G Page 5: Opal - fire, polished, 50 mm, Mezezo, Ethiopia, G Page...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...Tenacity properties in all directions), as No and Ne for optically uniaxial minerals. and as Np, Nm, and...opaque, Juster brown. luster vitreous. H > 4. D = 321. Ne,o = 1.586. metallic. Sectile. H 2-2.5. D = 7.22....Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO
Catalog/List
ALLANITE Ce Ce Ca Y Al Fe SiO ALLANITE Ce ♦ Crystalli ne nodu le that fonned on tin ingots on a ship wreck...crystal section with minor Talc LOCATION ANDESI NE Fel ds par AN DORITE Pb Ag Sb S ♦ ANDRADITE garnet... E.Washington USA !x i £3 ½" £3 Ix½ £5 Rich fi ne grained black crystalline mass will Fluorescent orange... x i £5 Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero...urless to yellow small crysta ls on matrix Ojuela Mi ne. Mapimi. Mexico A LLOPHANE ALSi O A LMANDINE garnet
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Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn...Rich pinkish fine grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr
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Ari,alteration of Brucite lMt Ramazzo,. Genova;Italy) lxl n. 50 107 CAFARSITE Ca (Ti Fe Hn ) \rseni te...orange red micro crystals in slag. (Cetine mine, Sienna Italy) 061 BRITHOLIT8 Ce. Ce ca Si0/4 P0/4 red...pure greenish Scorodite (Fe Arsenate) (Gold Hill Mine,TooeleCountyUtah) ½" size El.SO lxl f4 lx2 ED 231...S/5 grey rnetallic fibres on quartz. (Cariboo Gold Mine, Wells, British Columbia,Canada) ½ ins f2. 50 116...matrix. Someok for Micros.(S2n Vito Quarry Vcsuvius Italy) lxl E?.50 lx2 E5 121 DATOLITE Ca B Si0/4 rich qrey
 
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