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Epidote from
Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy


Locality type:Village
Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Diopside30 photos of Epidote associated with Diopside at this locality.
Vesuvianite3 photos of Epidote associated with Vesuvianite at this locality.
Clinochlore2 photos of Epidote associated with Clinochlore at this locality.
Andradite-Grossular Series2 photos of Epidote associated with Andradite-Grossular Series at this locality.
Prehnite1 photo of Epidote associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Hessonite1 photo of Epidote associated with Hessonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bellecombe, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (40 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:129946
Long-form Identifier:1:3:129946:5
GUID (UUID V4):0b36d6a0-bd49-4507-ae6b-66c7eda12652
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
0.5km (0.3 miles) Ponte delle Capre (Pont des Chèvres) area, Châtillon, Aosta Valley, Italy
8.2km (5.1 miles) Brusson Mine, Brusson, Aosta Valley, Italy
11.2km (6.9 miles) Col de Raye Chevrère, Clavalité Valley, Fénis, Aosta Valley, Italy
14.0km (8.7 miles) Varenche Mine, Saint-Barthélemy, Nus, Aosta Valley, Italy
15.6km (9.7 miles) Servette-Chuc mining complex, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
16.7km (10.4 miles) Praborna Mine, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
17.7km (11.0 miles) Monte Nero, Vallone di Vercoche, Valle della Legna (Vallée de l'Alleigne), Champorcher, Aosta Valley, Italy
17.7km (11.0 miles) Palon di Resy, Champoluc, Ayas, Aosta Valley, Italy
18.0km (11.2 miles) Biel, Gressoney-la-Trinité, Aosta Valley, Italy
18.7km (11.6 miles) Gouffre des Busserailles, Valtournenche, Aosta Valley, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe meta-ophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence...Torino , Turin, Italy b Department of Earth Sciences , University of Siena , Siena, Italy Published online:...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe metaophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe meta-ophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): evidence...Torino, Turin, Italy; b Department of Earth Sciences, University of Siena, Siena, Italy Downloaded by
Report (issue)
(variety cleavelandite) crystals from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Colorless, transparent...crystals on microcline, 5.5 cm, from the Shigar Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Trinity Minerals specimen... ============================================================ Epidote, 6.25 cm, from near Quetta, Baluchistan, Pakistan...specimens are already shown on Jack’s site, but his epidote specimens from somewhere near Quetta, Baluchistan...photo provided by Jack) as a sneak preview. These epidote crystals are tabular, dark blackish green, and
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The Vesuvianite Gems of the Val d’Ala (Piedmont, Italy) Franca Piera Caucia 1 , Luigi Marinoni 1 , Maurizio...degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 9, I-27100 Pavia, Italy; francapiera.caucia@unipv.it (F.P.C.); luigitito...I-42100, via G. Puccini 4, I-42124 Reggio Emilia, Italy; mauscacchetti@alice.it DiGS—Università degli Studi...Studi di Padova, via Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy; omar.bartoli@unipd.it Correspondence: mariapia...Abstract: In Val d’Ala (Western Alps in Piedmont, Italy), the most interesting rocks for mineralogical research
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graphiterich schists and meta cl astics of lhe epidote-bl ueschist facies "Pinerolo Uni t" ~ lower tectonic...(?) grap!ùte-rich rnùt (" Pinerolo mùt'') with epidote-blueschist facies Alpine overprint~5: Upper Palaeozoic...Palaeozoic + lowe rTri assic wtlts with epidote-blueschist facies Alpine overprint~ 6: Mesozoic cover seri...Vesuvianite Alpe Frasse, Torino Vesuvianite Bellecombe, Aosta b) le zone interessate a metamorfismo, ove...Viù e Val di Susa (Piemonte), al Montjovet e Bellecombe (Val d'Aosta), ecc. Il colore della vesuvianite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli 34, 20133 Milano, Italy (davide.zanoni@unimi.it) 2 Dipartimento di Scienze...degli Studi di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy 1 Short title: OCEAN FLOOR TO SUBDUCTION RECORD...oceanic Zermatt-Saas Zone (Western Alps, northwestern Italy) during Alpine subduction. Rodingites occur in the...chlorite. Three rodingite types can be defined: epidote-bearing, garnetchlorite-clinopyroxene-bearing,...MgchloriteII + garnetII ± rutile ± tremoliteI in the epidote-bearing rodingite; (b) Mg-chloriteII + garnetII
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Benedetto del Tronto, near Ancona on the east coast of Italy. His interest in minerals was sparked when as a...parents in Valle d’Aosta in the Alps in northern Italy. As a teenager he was introduced to his mother’s...mineral enthusiasts he visited many localities in Italy, among them the Latera Volcanic Complex around Pitigliano...perimeter. At the end of 1997 Amabili returned to Italy and a professorship at the University of Parma....mines, also occur in alpine localities in northern Italy, principally the Piedmont region. Specimens in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vesuvianite crystals to about 1 cm tall from Bellecombe, Val d’Aosta, Italy. from this. Based on their optical...alpine regions of Italy are rich in vesuvianite locales, with a half-dozen in the Aosta Valley, over a dozen...original locality on Mount Vesuvius, Campania, Italy, where brown euhedral crystals are found in volcanic...vesuvianites have been found in serpentinite in the Zhob Valley, Baluchistan. Brown euhedral crystals occur in...an alpine-cleft deposit in Alchuri in the Shigar Valley. Particularly large crystals are found at Imilchil
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals include aegirine, allanite, calcite, epidote, prehnite, titanite, and microcline (Horváth and...superb examples of titanite as well as allanite, epidote, scheelite, and vesuvianite. Colorless crystals...Chaffee County. They are associated with quartz, epidote, clinochlore, and actinolite after diopside (uralite)...actinolite after diopside (uralite), quartz, and epidote. A group of brown-red grossular crystals associated...include orthoclase (variety adularia), clinozoisite, epidote, and diopside (Cannon 1975). The California drawers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
degli Studi di Pavia, Via Ferrata, 1-27100 Pavia, Italy (gisella.rebay@unipv.it) 2 Dipartimento di Scienze...and CNR-IDPA, Via Mangiagalli, 34 - 20133 Milano, Italy ABSTRACT Petrological investigations supported...polyphase metamorphic evolution from eclogite to epidote-amphibolite facies conditions associated with three...temperatures slightly higher than 600 C. The late epidote–amphibolite facies re-equilibration associated...di Milano, Via Mangiagalli, 34 – 20133 Milano, Italy  2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd assemblages compared
Journal (issue)
PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
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the binocular microscope you may find apatite, epidote, tourmaline, zircon, rutile, topaz, sapphire, diopside...here it forms the eastern margin of the great rift valley. The gemstones from this region of East (0 Copyright...rhodolite; Longido for ruby in zoisite; the Umba River valley for fancy sapphire, garnet and other gems; Mpwapwa...rocks. The quartzites typically contain magnetite, epidote, diopside, wollastonite and garnet. The marbles...1994,24,3 173 Vesuvianite from Bellecombe and Montjovet (AD Italy): a material of gemmological interest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Article Garnets from Val d’Ala Rodingites, Piedmont, Italy: An Investigation of Their Gemological, Spectroscopic...Milan, Italy Department of Earth Sciences “Ardito Desio”, University of Milan, 20133 Milan, Italy; rosangela...Pavia, Italy; caucia@crystal.unipv.it Italian Gemological Institute (IGI), 20123 Milan, Italy; ilaria...Pavia, National Research Council, 27100 Pavia, Italy; langone@igg.cnr.it Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste...Trieste S.C.p.A., 34149 Basovizza (Trieste), Italy; lucia.mancini@elettra.eu Correspondence: valeria.diella@cnr
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4-cm dark green crystal in marble from the Koksha Valley, Badakhshan Province. In neighboring Pakistan very...from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the collection are...cm. Also associated with Alchuri diopside are epidote, actinolite, and zoisite. Diopside has also been...at Hashupa (sometimes spelled Hashupi), Shigar Valley, Baltistan. The crystals in the Smithsonian collection...cm. The diopside of Hashupa is associated with epidote, titanite, and the byssolite variety of actinolite
Catalog/List
OLD-TIME ANGLESITE XX-GROUPS FROM MONTEPONI, SARDINIA, ITALY. 014 Large terminated platy partial transparant...inclusions. Old-timer. 38x30x24. 030 CALCITE xx - Bellecombe, nr. Fontainebleau, France. An excellent old-timer...these days. 88x78x70 /0-UU , 031 CALCITE xx - Bellecombe, nr. Fontainebleau, France. 17,50 As nr. 030...CHERNOVITE x - Mte Cervandone, Ossola Val, Novaru, Italy. A tiny xl•on matrix. Very rare. 34x16x16 COB.ALTINE...A 17x6 pure white mass on matrix. 23x15x12 103 EPIDOTE xx - Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Austri2. A
Catalog/List
NHYDRITE: M204. Campiano Mine, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy; good for species; pale blue tabular xls; (a) T/N...3x3. 7x2.5-5u.OO CLINOCHLORE: M175. Bellecombe, Val D'Aosta, Italy; (a) 10 maJ. rr,;r,;xls richly coating...rich massive to crudely crystallized, with minor Epidote & basalt; 5.2x4x1.7-$4.00 CORNETITE:M142. Bwana...1/3 discount an 10 or more xls M177. Val Malenco, Italy; ( a) sharp micro xls & sections with Grossular...xls; 2-3 mm-$3.50 GROSSULAR: M174. Bellecombe, Val D'Aosta, Italy; var. hessonite, orange to brownish
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
capability to stabilize high lawsonite amount. However, epidote contains little water relative to lawsonite (ca...lowers the T stability of lawsonite in favor of epidote (e.g. Pawley, 1994). Therefore, the capability...breakdown. The decomposition of lawsonite into epidote during prograde metamorphism has positive volume...high amount of water released by the lawsonite–epidote reaction zone (ca. 10 wt.% loss) along these lithological...therefore paid on the possible occurrence of anomalous epidote- or paragonite-rich (both typical pseudomorphic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
volcanic rocks and in­ trusions situated near Bellecombe, Quebec, in the northwestern part of the Pontiac...Quebec (2683 ± 1 Ma; Mortensen and Card, 1993) and Bellecombe, Quebec (2685 ± 3 Ma; Davis, 2002). Most detrital...Research xxx (xxxx) xxx Fig. 3. Geologic map of the Bellecombe area, northwestern Pontiac subprovince, Quebec...Approximately 1000 outcrop stations were mapped in the Bellecombe area, northwestern Pontiac subprovince, Quebec...Six major lithologies were recognized in the Bellecombe study area, northwestern Pontiac subprovince
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
grossularitic garnet, chlorite and diopside whereas epidote group minerals were mainly developed at the expense...deposits. prehnite + tremolite ± vesuvianite ± epidote. They display granoblastic, lepidoblastic and locally...accompanied by neoblastic diopside (Fig. 2c). Epidote forms replacements after diopside and frequently...calcite whereas local veinlets filled with calcite, epidote, prehnite and opaque minerals traverse the samples...dolerite-derived rodingites (DDR) contain the assemblage epidote + clinozoisite + prehnite + tremolite/actinolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals: garnet, vesuvianite, diopside, chlorite, epidote, zoisite, tremolite, prehnite and others [7–11]...Basaltic Rocks in Serpentinites, East Liguria, Italy. Contr. Mineral. Petrol. 1983, 84, 146–151. [CrossRef]...Late-Alpine Rodingitization in the Bellecombe MetaOphiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): Evidence...Rodingitization of Ophiolitic Bodies from Northern Apennines (Italy): Constraints from Petrography, Geochemistry and...Mafic-Ultramafic Contacts in Valmalenco (Rhetic Alps, N-Italy). Schweiz. Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt. 2002, 82, 515–536
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Desio’, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy; bDipartimento di Scienze della Terra edell’Ambiente...edell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy a ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Within the Zermatt-Saas...2009; Frezzotti et al. CONTACT Pietro Luoni Milano, Italy pietro.luoni@unimi.it KEYWORDS Ti-humites; serpentinite;...during the Alpine subduction, and overprinted by epidote amphibolite and greenschist facies metamorphism...Cervino 10 11 1 2 3 A MR 8 7 ZS 12 CO Dk @ AOSTA CO MA EM Emc GR B @ BIELLA Gm PENNINIC DOMAIN
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Williams Minerals of the Alpine Rodingites of Italy ............................ 85 By C. M. Gramaccioli...assemblages. The occurrence of the grossular-prehnite-epidote group-vesuvianitediopside assemblage at the contact...magnesium than the green. Three members of the Epidote Group have been identified from this locality:...Gemstones We offer choice mineral specimens from PALA VALLEY, CALIFORNIA • MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL • CLASSIC EUROPEAN...Collector Correspondence Invited Jim Dupont 391 Valley Road W atchung, NJ 07060 P.O. BOX 1311 QUARTZITE
Catalog/List
AROUND THE WORLD: ANATASE - ITALY: From Solara Vai Nure, Piacenza, Italy. Microcrystalline anatase coating...Institute and often are associated with minor epidote, calcite, specular hematite and other minerals...each CALCITE - GOLDEN: Cairo Montenotte, Savona, Italy: Dogtooth crystal of white calcite with a golden...pyrite! - ------- EPIDOTE INCLUDED QUARTZ: Jackpot Hill, Calaveras River, Valley Springs, Calaveras...crystals with crystalline elongated deep green epidote crystals included inside the quartz which can easily
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as garnet, secondary clinopyroxene, prehnite, epidote, clinozoisite, and vesuvianite (e.g., [9–11])....plagioclase (Figure 4b), with minor chlorite and epidote. Plagioclase usually occurs as tabular subhedral... Secondary minerals mainly comprise chlorite, epidote, and prehnite. Rodingites usually exhibit fine-grained...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe metaophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian Western Alps): Evidence
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
resulted from the breakdown of the hydrous phases epidote and glaucophane, and some US of the fluid was...1998), feldspar (Fuhrman and Lindsley, 1988), epidote and chloritoid (Holland and Powell, 1998), spinel... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT 4.1. Sample 09DSF-23E: garnet-epidote blueschist Sample 09DSF-23E is dominated by large...diameter), along with large rhombohedral crystals of epidote (Figure 2A). Garnet cores are solid inclusion-rich...but also including minor phengite, chlorite, T epidote (pseudomorphic after lawsonite), ilmenite, apatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the petrography section zoisite is a common epidote-group mineral that results from alteration of plagioclase... T has a normal CaO content of a metasomatic epidote species (24.09-24.32 wt%) but IP with variable...the “fossilized” or ancient Ligurian example in Italy, and AN the nowadays Atlantic and Indian Oceans...metarodingite from the Voltri Massif (Western Ligurian, Italy). Neus Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Abhandlungen 148...Late-Alpine rodingitization in the Bellecombe meta-ophiolites (Aosta Valley, Italian ED Western Alps): evidence
 
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