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Nephrite from
Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland


Locality type:Hamlet
Classification
Type:Nephrite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Nephrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1512894
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1512894:8
GUID (UUID V4):990df670-f9bc-4f3e-abdd-b3cdd4b43495
Localities for Nephrite in this Region
Alp Cancian asbestos mines, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Alpe d'Ur, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Scortaseo (Scurtaseu) deposit, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Nearest other occurrences of Nephrite
1.2km (0.7 miles) Scortaseo (Scurtaseu) deposit, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
2.7km (1.7 miles) Alp Cancian asbestos mines, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
2.8km (1.7 miles) Alpe d'Ur, Selva, Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Grisons, Switzerland
7.9km (4.9 miles) Cima Fontana nephrite outcrop, Campo Moro Valley, Lanzada, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
19.8km (12.3 miles) Alpe Mastabia talc mine, Torre di Santa Maria, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
References
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diamonds shown in Figure 4. The one phonon diamond region has been expanded in the column on the right to...produce a transmission window in the yellow-green region of the visible spectrum resulting in a face-up...Gübelin Gem Lab, Maihofstr. 102, CH-6006 Lucerne, Switzerland Abstract: Features visible under a microscope...identification of precious stones in Lucerne, Switzerland Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to...Idar-Oberstein, Germany; Dr E.J. Gübelin, Lucerne, Switzerland; Dr H.A. Hänni, SSEF, A microscopy-based screening
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which are laid down in recognisable strata - cl1is region is characterised by irregula·r outcrops of crystalline...high ash Below: Gold mining in the Serra Pelada region of Para State. Note the enormous amount of tree...tl1ough large, are exceeded by those in the Amazon region of Brazil, principally around the city of Projeto...collectively as the Great Artesian Basin. Most of this region is less than 300m high. In the north, the greater...utilities there have been built underground. The Kakadu region east of Darwin contains nearly 10% of the world's
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many green stones that are not greenstone, or nephrite, as geologists call it. I discover I am an expert...pretty sage green pebble. “How about this one, Jef? Nephrite?” “Nope, leaverite,” he says, as in, “Leave ’er...the last ice age alpine glaciers tattooed this region with lakes and chasms, and chiseled the iords that...the tuna ever stops swimming, it Total catch by region 2012, metric tons Tuna key West Atlantic Arteries...compact source of radio waves originating from a region in the Sagittarius constellation, 26,000 light-years
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many green stones that are not greenstone, or nephrite, as geologists call it. I discover I am an expert...pretty sage green pebble. “How about this one, Jef? Nephrite?” “Nope, leaverite,” he says, as in, “Leave ’er...the last ice age alpine glaciers tattooed this region with lakes and chasms, and chiseled the iords that...the tuna ever stops swimming, it Total catch by region 2012, metric tons Tuna key West Atlantic Arteries...compact source of radio waves originating from a region in the Sagittarius constellation, 26,000 light-years
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600 500 Chiriquí Curridabat Late Ceramic A La Selva Aguas Buenas Bagaces 400 300 Aguas Buenas 200...gold objects scientif ically excavated from the region (excluding Sitio Conte) could easily f it on a...the distribution of gold styles throughout the region. She suggested that seekers of esoteric knowledge...culture to marshal arguments for the designation of a region as a culture area or sphere of interaction. What...is the least archaeologically known area in the region under consideration 3 Introduction:The Golden
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language. Rubies are also found in the Chantabiri region of Thailand and around Pailin and Channop in Cambodia...An example of natural silver, from the sarrabus region of Sardinia. CHARACTERISTICS Silver is white in...Gennaro Cathedral, Naples. silver from the sarrabus region of Sardinia. it was originally found in a pure...of amethysts is found is the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil. Other significant deposits of amethysts...oemantoids were first discovered in the 1890s in a region on the western side of the Ural Mountains in Russia
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chisels, scrapers and even magIY, in the Lagoa Santa region, Minas nificent specimens of sculpted and polished...group of Asian humans precious stones such as nephrite, amazonite, agate, amethyst similar in appearance...of Rare sillimanite axe blade from the Northeast region sharpness, verified by passing a finger along the...·eral specimens of lithic artwork from the Serid6 region, in Nonheast Brazil, such as arrowheads in hyaline...se,·eral minerals and collected in the Southeast region of Brazil. From top to bottom and from left to
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square in shape and sometimes, according to the region and period, engraved with zoomorphic or anthropomorphic...writing about India, was probably thinking of a region whose limits at that time were vague containing...been discovered recounts that in the Vercellae region the em¬ in the materials thrown out by animals...Working No gold of any type is susceptible the region of the Yukon river on the Alaskan to compression...of ‘loop in loop’ chains. Private collection, Switzerland. gold of which the melting point is io6o°C.
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1. Preliminary map, Duparquet-Larder Lake-Rouyn region, Ontario and Quebec : Canada Geol. Survey Paper...copper country, Keweenaw Peninsula, Lake Michigan region: Rocks and Minerals, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 3-6, Jan...Pennsylvania as affecting the faunal life of the region : Ruffed Grouse, no. 1, p. 6-9, 1944. Asano, Kiyoshi...1945. 4. Ancient maples of the central Washington region: Northwest Sci., vol. 18, no. 4, Nov. 1944, p....lake basin seal in certain areas of the Trout Lake region of Wisconsin : Wisconsin Acad. Sci. Trans. vol
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a vein of quartz near the Tiefen Glacier, in Switzerland, discovered in 1867, afforded smoky quartz crystals...although at the present time the also from Bahia, etc. region was that near Diamantina in the province of Minas...States is in the eastern and southeastern Adirondack region in Essex, Warren, Saratoga and Washington Counties...very large and of great value. The Australian gold region has yielded many large nuggets; one of these found...Leadville district and others in Lake County, in the region of the San Juan mountains in the Sneffels, Silverton
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ALLOPHANE JASP-OPAL• CLINOZOISITE WULFENITE SPURR I TE NEPHRITE JADE* WONDERSTONE PYROPHY l L I T E MARCASITE...Alto, Calif HOTEL POSADA MAYA. on 1he edoc of rhe "Selva," the unknown lands of Mexico. Rest, prospect, pick
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Hans A. Stalder: Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland. Hugo Strunz: Institute of Mineralogy, Technical...nm); weakly anisotropic. Bolshoi Anyui R.., Kolyma region, Russia, in gold-bearing alluvium. sm MZ 11(4):88(1989)..., Tulameen, BC, Canada; Kaltenberg, Valais, Switzerland; Bogota, near Canala, New Caledonia; Mt. Clifford...rocks. Muskox intrusion, NWT, Canada; Selva, near Poschiavo, Switzerland; Oko, near Koti, Japan; Red Hills...VHNjo9 = 260. R = 55.3 (540 nm). Magnetic. Kumak region, Southern Ural Mts., Russia, in quartz veins with
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are not abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia)...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...smaragdile, massive actino- = 15 ADAMITE lite nephrite, asbestiform actinolite byssolite. Mono- coast...Is., munic. Mulehge, Baja California, Mexico. Nephrite is a massive actinolite variety, usually white
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within the city limits, but also to the surrounding region. In this edition of the Thesaurus, names of cities...newly added are followed by the word “region”; e.g., Stripa region. Names of materials, when used as GeoRef...Pe- Aar Massif BT Switzerland Aar Valley River valley in central and N Switzerland. Also search Aare...Aare Valley. UF Aare Valley BT Switzerland Aare Valley use Aar Valley Aberdeen City on North Sea. BT Scotland... isochrons isotopes SA SA Abruzzi Autonomous region on the Adriatic Sea. CO N414000N425500 E0144800E0130000
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1-81 USE Trial, Interstate 80 USE region antigens region associated antigens Immunogenetics USE...Interstate 10 USE I-liu ti-ch‘U (China) Region (China) Region (China) I-meng feng (China) I USE I-liu...(Microprocessor) USE Intel 1750 (Microprocessor) 1-5 USE Region (China) UF 1-495 (Md. and Va.) USE Capital Beltway... (111.) UF I-liu Blue Route (Pa.) (China) Region (China) 2893 laka language USE Yaka language...celebrations, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Region (Idaho) Ides family Ideal beautiful Kalispel
Report (issue)
Interior, National Park Service, Rocky Mounr.aio Region. Division of Cul tural Resources, Selections Series... ANTHROPOLOGY & ARCHAEOLOGY: 1998 Aconcagua River Region (Chile)• Antiquities. 3 Academia Hochschul Schriften...80.1.20.15 (S)] ACCULTURATION· NORTH ATLANTIC REGION· CONGRESSES. Local organisation. cultural identity...AJ no. 42 TOZ [ETHG. T 789 l] ACONCAGUA RIVER REGION (CHILE)· ANTIQUITIES. Sanchez Romero, Rodrigo....(317)] ACUERDO DE CART AGENA COUNTRIES. See ANDES REGION. Acuna Delgado, Angel. Yu ' pa obaya tuviva: yu'pa
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the city limits, but also to the sur¬ rounding region. Terms for materials in GeoRef, for example, "iron...Petroleum Geologists BT associations Aar Massif BT Switzerland Aar Valley River valley in central and N Swit¬...Valley BT Switzerland Aare Valley use Aar Valley Aargau Canton in N Switzerland. BT Switzerland Abakan...Aberfeldy Term introduced in 1989. Town and mining region in Tayside, central Scotland; oil field in Lloydminster...in GeoRef (see Introduction, p. vi). Autonomous region on the Adriatic Sea. CO N414000N425500 E0144800E0130000
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society. rightfully theirs over Europe all Switzerland, and appetite lor < zar's — Spain, —the May...shimmered and against the translucent surfaces of nephrite and chalcedony. Arranged in a mosaic next to diamonds...indicative of the Kollur mines in the Golconda region of enjoyed wearing it India. Louis plainly...he returned to his and design in the Alsace region of France. There he worked for a publisher designing..." began, "The 128.5-carat Tiffany diamond Switzerland and Rome, where design. New feature article
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Cockof-the-rock occurs in the continent's north-eastern region, in forests of the Guianan Shield. Both of these...snags over the canopy. [Carpodectes nitidus, La Selva Biological Reserve, Costa Rica. Photo: Marco Saborío]...Fledging success seems quite low, probably in the region of 10-30%, perhaps because nests are susceptible...Photo: Kevin Schafer] AA Three cotingids in this region come under the high-risk category of Endangered...foothills from south Colombia to central Peru, a region where natural habitat is relentlessly being replaced
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andalusite, diatomite, vermiculite, kyanite, nephrite, perlire, srrontianite, cryolite, olivine (dunite)...German Democratic Republic, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands and Belgium;...Each volume has an introductory chapter of the region concerned, and each national chapter also incorporates...including Leon in Brittany (not to be confused with the region of the same name in northwest Spain), is characterized...analogous to those of the Saxo-Thuringian zone in a region with thinned continental crust. It differs, however
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Lampeter, 1880-1881. Guide to Grindelwald; Guide to Switzerland; The Alps in Nature and L History; &c. Editor...navigable as far as St Omer; and a river of Switzerland, in the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau, which...river which both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total length (including all bends) from...Rhine being among the chief industries. As this region was, up to 141 5, the centre of the Habsburg power...war called the " Sonderbund War," in 1847 in Switzerland. The cantonal constitution dates mainly from
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99°90 The dark-green material is plainly jade, or nephrite, quite analogous in composition to that from the...pur‘sues its way to the lake through a low and level region. Follow- ‘Champlain period, continues for some...Ford—Primordial Fossils of New York. topography of the region. Commencing at Schodack eis in Rensselaer County...fault, to explain the geological areoue ‘ofthe region. ADDITIONAL Nore. Since the above was written...the generally abide pane rs of the folds of the region to the course of the fault referred to, cross-sections
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117; ; Cyprus, Spain, 125; France, 126; Switzerland, 127; Germany, 127; England, 130; Bulgaria, 132...first place, deposits of marble may be found in any region have where the proper conditions organic and inorganic...may morphism, also, parts than others, as marble region. is well seen, for instance, in But these varying...them are peculiar to Greece, Italy, or any other region, so that they do not invalidate in the ; least...purposes of the archaeologist, because since each region has its own fairly well denned and peculiar
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devialion frorn the general geologJCal propertíes of a regIon {a'namalé) anomite A varíety of biotite d1fferent...The principa l mountam ndge range or system of a region { 'bak,bon) backdeep .\n epreugeosynclinal basin...drowned valley { 'ba ,del ta 1 bay head A swampy region at the head of a bay { : ba : hed l bay-head bar...veins i Peruv1an usage l 3. \Vh ilish elay in the selva ge of verns (Chilean usage) 4 . A recently discovered...metamorphism Local meramorphism restricted to a region of faults and overchrusts m,olv1ng purely mechanical
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Kärnten, lassen einen vorgosauischen Bau dieser Region aufs klarste erkennen. In diesem Falle muß...ungünstigen, als auch über einer hierfür günstigen Region. Aus diesem neuen Grunde sei meine Hypothese ad...glacial and postglacial lakes of the great lakes region. p. 325). Dabei ist zu beachten, aaß die betreffende...Comision del Instituto Geolögico, que explorö la region Norte de la Baja California. Mexico 1913. Secretar...Wırrich, Informe relativo a la exploracion de la region norte de la Baja California. Mexico 1913. Parergones
 
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