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Apatite from
Miage Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy


Locality type:Glacier
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Apatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Synchysite-(Ce)ⓘ1 photo of Apatite associated with Synchysite-(Ce) at this locality.
Anataseⓘ1 photo of Apatite associated with Anatase at this locality.
Sagenite (of Saussure)ⓘ1 photo of Apatite associated with Sagenite (of Saussure) at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Miage Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:298939
Long-form Identifier:1:3:298939:6
GUID (UUID V4):28dfda8e-7246-4882-acf9-670c6cd517e1
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
2.9km (1.8 miles) ⓘPetit Mont Blanc, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
4.8km (3.0 miles) ⓘPetite Aiguille des Glaciers, Estellette Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
5.8km (3.6 miles) ⓘBrenva Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
14.2km (8.8 miles) ⓘVallée des Glaciers, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Albertville, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
15.2km (9.5 miles) ⓘChâtelard Castle, La Salle, Aosta Valley, Italy
17.7km (11.0 miles) ⓘTriolet Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
18.9km (11.8 miles) ⓘInvernet glacier, Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise, Albertville, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
20.6km (12.8 miles) ⓘArgentière Glacier, Chamonix, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
41.7km (25.9 miles) ⓘCogne Mines, Cogne, Aosta Valley, Italy
41.8km (26.0 miles) ⓘLévétay forest, Pussy, La Léchère, Albertville, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
of Muzo, occupies both slopes of a funnel-shaped valley above the little Itoco River, at elevations ranging...at 2300 meters above sea level, overlooking the valley of the Gauvi6 River, itself at 700 meters above...approximately 840 and 500 meters, respectively, above the valley of the Minero River, are the official guardians...Colombian emeralds. After penetrating the Guacheta Valley and receiving nine green stones as gifts from the...photo. occurrences in the Swat Valley, Pakistan and the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. The technique which
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ilmenite crystals to 7 cm in pale brown nepheline/apatite matrix were found in the nearby Vislmevye Moore...acicular crystals of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]...region of Alpine-type clefts along the Torrniq Valley produced small numbers of ilmenite specimens reminiscent...The thin-tabular ilmenite crystals of the Torrniq Valley also form spherical aggregates ("closed roses")...several centimeters diameter. However, many Torrniq Valley specimens labeled "ilmenite" prove upon testing
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members of the Northern Paiute, Shoshone, Owens Valley Paiute, and Mono Lake Paiute tribes. The Chinese...beudantite, Ca-containing mimetite and Pb-containing apatite. The Mineralogical Record, volume 50, March–April...scorodite (and Fe-oxide pseudomorphs after same), apatite and Cu-containing austinitearsendescloizite in...pseudomorphs after scorodite and white Pb-rich apatite on yellow beudantite, field of view 2 mm, from...120–131. 199 Aquamarine and Schorl, 9.7 cm Shigar Valley, Pakistan Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit
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Maria Gramaccioli. Matteo Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material...with its superb color States, illustrations in Italy in the lan- proved to be so well related to the...mineral collecting has become widespread here in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe and America. Whether...(Val d'Aosta). southeast of Aosta in the extreme northwest part of Italy. 1 EQUIPMENT AND PREPARATION...Serra. Trentlno. the rock surface, a dark patch Italy. is against the lighter background. This bedded
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the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on the polished mineral surface...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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the 4th world war. The dry and desolate Ullswater valley in the Lake District providing superb halite and...Nent Force Level. The mono rail runs down the Nent valley following the course of the Nent Force Level to...brief but fascinating glimpse of the history of the valley. Particularly interesting are the robotised plastic...(1990) MEDWAY MINERAL AND FOSSIL FAIR. Hemstead Valley Shopping Centre, Gillingham. (10 a.m. - 5 p.m.)...Leucophosphite Clinoclase Hemimorphite Olivenite Strunzite Apatite Brewsterite Barytocalcite Chalcosiderite Ankerite
Journal (issue)
Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ................................................................................... 2 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...quartsite and 1,770+ Devonian a Silurian Hidden Valley dolomite—light-gray, massive dolomite 1 000 Ordovician...Terek DAim Tuscany, Italy by Pier Bruno Scortecci Via Erbosa, 15 52100 Arezzo, Italy and Mauro Tazzini
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example, most granites have magnetite, zircon, apatite, ilmenite, titanite, and many others. Major Rock...Zealand), helsinkite (Helsinki, Finland), halite (Italy), missourite (Missouri River), monzonite (Monzoni...(Tingua Mountains, Brazil), vesuvite (Mt. Vesuvius, Italy), wyomingite, and yosemitite (Yosemite, California)...[aluminum + Russ, kremei, silicon], apaneite [apatite + nepheline], auganite [augite + andesite], coralgal...southern Crimea), vulsinite (Vulsinii, Etruscan tribe, Italy). Bibliography American Federation of Mineralogical
Report (issue)
Commission. National Research Council.] Turin, Italy. ¡ Geofiz. Razvedka -- Geofizicheskaya Razvedka...and below this ash fall in the upper Tanana River valley indicate that the ash fell between 1, 7 50 and...dates of geologic and archeologic samples from Italy.- P .C.I. 190-35. Crane, H. R., and Griffin, James...from the upper Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes, the lower Mississippi Valley, southeast and northeast...Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alaska, Italy, and Guatemala; for archeologic samples from El
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[the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...8:287-293 Minerals of the Alpine rodingites of Italy (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 10:85-89 Micromounting in...6:180-183 AL YES, JEANETE --with J. P. Cassedanne: Apatite and muscovite from the Ze Pinto prospect, Minas...[Arizona] (by W. E. Wilson) 2:252-258 APATITE The discovery of apatite on the Lievre River, Quebec (by D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Antisepsis, scientific basis of, 937. Antiseptics, 249. Apatite, 432. -brom-, production of, 648, 783, 78 L. -existence...2. Magnetic iron ore, compact, from Cogne, Valley of Aosta, 429. Magnetic pyrites, analysis of, 1061....group, chemical composition of, 29. -of the Miage Glacier, M. Blanc, 31. -separation of, according to...use of, as litter, 238. Pegmatite, existence of apatite in, 432. Pentamethyl-aniline, 324. Pentamethylenediaruine
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MlNKliALOGIK DK (i FRANCE ],A (>nOUPE DE L’APATÏTE APATITE Anjou. (T. IV, pp. 37cS, !)03). — Maine-et-Loire...80. 1912) dans foncé (Manjaka, Antsongomune apatite un peu manganésifère d’un bleu de Prusse ses cristaux...lîlon dans les portions ciches en albite, apatite bleue et tourmaline d’un brun verdâtre. COMBUSTIBLES...Galcite 111.477 Galène 11.496 Argentière (glacier d’), Haute-Savoie. Argein, Ariège. Epidole IV...la), I- Sillimanile Tourmaline 1- 157389 Apatite Augite titanifère 1..590 11.300 Ghristianite
Journal (issue)
which he had heard on his travels concerning a “valley of serpents” which was littered with diamonds but...Hunters would throw chunks of raw meat into the valley, vultures would snatch the meat away from the snakes...had adhered to the meat. This resembles another “valley of diamonds” story also repeated by Marco Polo...the tale should actually be rubies and that the valley should be imagined as near “Capelan,” the original...throwing raw meat into an inaccessible, gem-littered valley, then killing the birds of prey which took out
Report (volume)
extensional faulting in the Ivrea Zone of Northern Italy. Tectonophysics, 140, 193-212. BRODIE, K.H. & RUTTER...Complex are remarkably exposed along the Indus valley, where relationships between exposed rock types...see Figure 2. quartz, chlorite, opaque phases, apatite and zircon. One of the thickest granites is dated...of peridotites from the Ivrea zone, northwestern Italy. Journal of Structural Geology, 20, 195-209. KAUSAR...the Ivrea-Verbano zone and Serie dei Laghi, NW Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 13843-13858
 
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