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Bornite from
Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Habit:shapeless masses
Colour:bluish violet
Quality for species:Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##)
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Digenite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:2150
Long-form Identifier:1:3:2150:0
GUID (UUID V4):4a3407b8-4a6f-4e31-a90a-2ba61c645a2f
Localities for Bornite in this Region
Calagio quarries (Calagio Quarry; Olmo Quarry), Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Gioia quarries, Colonnata, Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Canalgrande Quarry (Canalgrande B Quarry; Montecatini Quarry), Fantiscritti, Miseglia quarrying basin (Miseglia-Fantiscritti quarrying basin; Fantiscritti quarrying basin), Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Monte Brugiana north slope, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Fossa Combratta marble quarry (Brugiana North Quarry; Monte Brugiana North Quarry), Monte Brugiana north slope, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Sn2.38 Sb0.77 Fe0.24 )Σ=6.53 S32.00 . (3) Lorano, Italy; by electron microprobe, corresponds to Cu25.93...stannoidite, goldfieldite, germanite, reniérite, bornite, chalcocite, covellite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite...from Carrara, and in the Costa and Pitone quarries, near Seravezza, 20 km southwest of Carrara, from...from the La Facciata quarry, Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. At Chizeuil, Saône-et-Loire, France. From Bor, Serbia
Journal (issue)
.........259 b y U. Burchard Minerals of the Carrara M arble..........................................Louise, Horhausen, FRG San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy Kongsberg, Norway Friedrichssegen, Bad Ems, FRG...4 cm, on matrix, from San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. Photo by Rainer Bode. 260 The M in eralogical...Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy Giovanni Bracci Via dei Mulinacci, 8 57100 Livorno, Italy Domenico Dalena Viale...41 57100 Livorno, Italy F W twothousand years, the marble quarries near Carrara have yielded superb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcocite, enargite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. Excellent chalcocite pseudomorphs after covellite...include pyrite, enargite, chalcocite, digenite, bornite, and quartz. “Bunches” of covellite to 1 meter...with enargite at Sierra de Famatina, La Rioja Province, and occurred in crystals to 1 cm in drill core...crystals from the Calabona mine near Alghero, Sassari Province, and from occurrences near Sarrabus, Sardinia...occur rarely in the famous marbles quarried at Carrara, Tuscany. It is found uncommonly in tiny crystals formed
Journal (issue)
CREDITO LOMBARDO, AG ENCY E. ACCO UNf 6908/4, MILANO, ITALY. -Please send COPY of your remittance document whit...nel Media Evo come testimoniato dall'esistenza a Massa Marittima, capoluogo dell a zona mineraria, del...a circa il Km. 30,800 e quindi la S.S. 441 per Massa Marittima Risalendo, al primo bivio, verso il paese...riscaldamento per compressione adiabatica, questa enorme massa d'aria non esufficiente nella stagione calda a raffreddare...contrariamente agli altri g iacimenti di pirite dell'area di Massa Marittima-Boccheggiano in cui ii contenuto di questi
Book
[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...Arcu su Linnarbu, Capoterra, Cagliari, Sardinia [Italy] (by R. Vochten & G. Brizzi) 18:181-184 AREM, JOEL...Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza, G. Pratesi & R. Braga) 25:293-299
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(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Romania Grube Georg, Horhausen, FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5...5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Rheinbreitbach, Bonn, FRG Wurlitz, Fichtelgebirge, FRG Niedermendig...Northumberland, Great Britain 7 Caltanisetta, Sicily, Italy 9 Li..ineburg, Niedersachsen, FRG 8 Mansfeld, Thuringia
black crystal of augite (a pyroxene) comes from Italy. Augite crystals are found in various igneous rocks...distinctive This sample is from the Lipari Islands, Italy. bands formedias the thick, sticky lava flowed...CHINA The staggering landscape of the Hunan Province of China is typical of karst scenery. Named after...sculpted this statue from Carrara marble, : Zaye PHS Es cunpey CARRARA QUARRY The world's most famous...famous marble comes from the Carrara quarry in Tuscany, Italy. Michelangelo used it, since it was the
Journal (issue)
Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mine at the southern end of the Seridó pegmatitic province (adapted from Sinkankas, 1981). Figure 2. Location...situated within a large, well-known pegmatite province containing hundreds of pegmatite bodies that have...Serido Group, is part of the Borborema geologic province (Almeida et al., 1981). The dikes are thought...International Mineralogical Association, Pisa, Italy, 1–13. ALMEIDA, F. F. M., HASUI, Y., BRITO NEVES
Journal (issue)
Europe to adopt a son, but while at an orphanage in Italy, a 7-year-old girl (Bernadine) tugged at Antoinette’s...go wrong. Tom Moore Minerals from Marbles of Carrara and the Apuan Alps by Cristian Biagioni, Paolo...quarries around the town of Carrara, in the Apuan Alps of northern Tuscany. The marble exploited here...mineral collectors are likely first to think of “Carrara” as one of the world’s best localities for micromount...collections of minerals of the Carrara marble, in collaboration with the Carrara Civic Museum of Marble”);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Pizzo Cervandone, Alpe Devero, Val Antigorio, Italy, and the adjacent, famous Binn Valley, Valais, Switzerland...the small Mn deposit at Artana, Carrara, Apuane Alps, Tuscany, Italy (Mancini, 2000). Micrograins of...described from a Fe-Mn deposit in the Maritime Alps, Italy (Cabella et al., 1999). This deposit also hosts...rich zones dominated by chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite and “blaubleibender covellite” (i.e., probably...Ligurian Brianc‚ onnais Domain, Maritime Alps, Italy. Can. Mineral., 37, 961972. Fischer, R.X. & Tillmanns
Book
Sulphides Antimonite, arsenopyrite, orpiment, galena, bornite, bournonite, covellite, tetrahedrite, cobaltite...(cubic system). Occurs in Germany, Italy, Brazil. (Specimen from Italy). 5 Adularia a colourless variety...below). Found in the Eifel (Germany), Bohemia, Italy, France. Figs. 14 and 15 are from Bohemia. 16 Diallage...parts of the world, e.g. London Clay, Austria, Italy, Spain, Sweden, USA. Fig. 22 from Elba, Fig. 23...Found in Derbyshire, Weardale, Bavaria, Tyrol, Italy, Spain, USSR, USA. Fig. 38 shows barytes covered
Journal (issue)
Europe to adopt a son, but while at an orphanage in Italy, a 7-year-old girl (Bernadine) tugged at Antoinette's...go wrong. Tom Moore Minerals from Marbles of Carrara and the Apuan Alps by Cristian Biagioni, Paolo...quarries around the town of Carrara, in the Apuan Alps of northern Tuscany. The marble exploited here...mineral collectors are likely first to think of "Carrara" as one of the world's best localities for micromount...collections of minerals of the Carrara marble, in col­ laboration with the Carrara Civic Museum of Marble");
Journal (issue)
collectors, including aurichalcite, bournonite, bornite, covellite, enargite, chalcocite, linarite, olivenite...plancheite and boleite. Chalcocite, covellite, bornite and enargite are all ores of copper and are found...reported. CHALCOCITE AND BORNITE Chalcocite, a copper sulfide, and bornite, a copper iron sulfide, very...produced wonderful crystallized chalcocite and bornite as far back as the 17th century. These mines have...Bristol produced marvelous chalcocite and bornite specimens. The bornite crystals were generally rounded and
Book
black crystal of augite (a pyroxene) conies fron1 Italy. Augite crystals are (ound in various igneous rocks...ter. This sample is fro1n the Lipari Isla nds, Italy. CARAMEL-LIKE LAV AS This light-colored, finegrained... CHINA The staggering landscape of the Hunan Province of China is typical of karst scenery. Nan1ed after...most famous marble comes from the Carrara quarry in Tuscany, Italy. Michelangelo used it, since it was...the black and gold variety fron1 Liguria. : ' CARRARA QUARRY I ' } ' , .Al _·,- ;,.· . V \1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
In the present study, the in-house standard (Z-Carrara Marble, acquired from Physical Research Laboratory...composition of the measured samples regularly. The Z-Carrara Marble was calibrated via NBS-18 prior to the analysis...In the present study, the in-house standard (Z-Carrara Marble, acquired from Physical Research Laboratory...composition of the measured samples regularly. The Z-Carrara Marble was calibrated via NBS-18 prior to the analysis...Black shale and rhyodacite Pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, galena and sphalerite Pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite
copper and silver ore when occurring in lodes. 13 Bornite (variegated copper ore). Cus FeS,. Cubic. Important...shells). The coarse to finegrained calcite marbles (Carrara, page 63/4) are formed by metamorphism of limestone...granophyres of the Lugano region (page 53/6—7). N. Italy. 2 White granite from Montorfano. The massive Montorfano...distinguished from one another by their colour. N. Italy. 3 Punteglias granite. This porphyritic granite...crystalline limestone (marble). The fine-grained Carrara marble, which is easily worked, is the material
Journal (issue)
M P % Scuola Via Monterosa 56, 1-10154, Torino, Italy. GOLDSCHM IDT'S MINEK INDEX A cross-index by locality...• P. B. Scortecci Via Erbosa, 15 52100 Arezzo, Italy Milky, anhedral to prismatic crystals to 15 cm...district o f Messina in the northern Transvaal Province o f South Africa has produced a profusion o f...from the manganese field in the northern Cape Province where in­ dividual mines seldom get a mention...peripheries of orebodies and is gradually replaced by bornite, chalcocite and native copper towards Figure 4
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copper and silver ore when occurring in lodes. 13 Bornite (variegated copper ore). Cus FeS 4 . Cubic. Important...shells). The coarse to finegrained calcite marbles (Carrara, page 63/4) are formed by metamorphism of limestone...granophyres of the Lugano region (page 53/6-7). N. Italy. 2 White granite from Montorfano. The massive Montorfano...distinguished from one another by their colour. N. Italy. 3 Punteglias granite. This porphyritic granite...crystal line limestone (marble). The fine-grained Carrara marble, which is easily worked, is the material
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8, Canada ABSTRACT Bornite-bearing ores of the Waterloo volcanic-rock-hosted...pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, tennantite and bornite. The EMP investigations showed that the colusite...Queensland, en Australie, le minerai contenant la bornite contient aussi de la colusite germanifère, de composition...pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalérite, tennantite et bornite. Les données obtenues avec la microsonde électronique...colusite in sulfide-bearing vugs in the Carrara area, Italy, has been described by Orlandi et al. (1981)
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Newsele litho, Milan, London Printed -and bound in Italy by Vallardi lndustrie Grafiche, Milan CONTENTS...metamorphic rock, marble. Opposite: The Carrara marble quarry in Italy produces superb marble for sculpture...and malachite; three sulphides, chalcopyrite, bornite and chalcosine; • and the oxide cuprite. The richest...oocurs m contact metamorphic rocks. Bornite Cu 5 FeS 4 Bornite· is also called peacock ore because,...iridescent. The streak is pale grey to black. Bornite belongs to the cubic crystal system. Crystals are
Journal (issue)
C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy .............................................Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ..................................27 by.................................... 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...Minerals Andorite Arsenopyrite Bismuth Bismuthinite Bornite Chalcopyrite Clausthalite Cosalite Enargite Famatinite
Catalog/List
AERINITE Calcium magnesium iron aluminum silicate ~ Province of Huesca, Estopinian Blue massive in an_cient...beautiful opalescence ................... PERICLINE Italy, Austria 1 SWitzerland Aleine areas Fine large white...... ALLOPHANE Hydrous aluminum silicate Seain Province of Barcelona, Station Creu Elorde Waxy yellow-green...aluminum silicate Reeublic of South Africa Cape Province, Penge mine Grayish-green long-fibered mass, considered...calcium magnesium iron titanium alumina-silicate Italy Island of Linosa --Lustrous black rectangular crystal
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Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8-9: Beryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42-43: Silver...Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech...crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TO THE READER The 288 mineralogical species
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expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems... Actinolite - byssolite, 50 mm, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, G short-columnar crystals, usually in granular
Journal (issue)
COVER: CINNABAR with dolomite and quartz, Guizhou Province, China. The cinnabar crystals measure up to 1...stereocameras, stereophotography became largely the province of amateur photographers. During the middle of...calcite with malachite and kolwezite, from Shaba Province. Other Minerals The Millers also have a case devoted...chrysocolla and chalcopyrite. Minor amounts of bornite and chalcocite were noted in the deeper ores from...found in the oxidized ore. 416 Bornite C u5FeS4 Small amounts o f bornite were reported by Schrader (1931)
 
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