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Pyrolusite from
Rio Mine, Rio Marina, Rio, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrolusite
Formula:Mn4+O2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrolusite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rio Mine, Rio Marina, Rio, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:235932
Long-form Identifier:1:3:235932:8
GUID (UUID V4):8589c851-2804-414b-ab1e-60d1d248189b
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrolusite
2.8km (1.7 miles) Fornacelle and Rio Albano Mines, Cavo, Rio Marina, Rio, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
3.3km (2.1 miles) Cape Pero, Cavo, Rio Marina, Rio, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
6.2km (3.8 miles) Cape Bianco Mine, Porto Azzurro, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
28.5km (17.7 miles) Monte Valerio, Campiglia Marittima, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
63.1km (39.2 miles) Campese, Giglio Island, Isola del Giglio, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
70.0km (43.5 miles) Poggio Peloso, Civitella Paganico, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
78.1km (48.5 miles) Poggio Mortaio (Poggio Mortaio Mine; Monte Argentario Mine; Poggio delle Polveriere; Terra Rossa; Il Passo), Monte Argentario, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
78.8km (49.0 miles) Via della Sambuca U-V occurrence, Valle Benedetta, Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
85.3km (53.0 miles) I Poggi, La Befa, Murlo, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
cm high fi-om the Vallone workings in the Rio Marina mine Collection Walter Giannini Photo Franco Valoti...Pezzotta Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milan, Italy with Contributions by Christina Denison, Andrea...high Grotta d'Oggi, San Piero in Campo, Elba, Tuscany, Italy Collection Dave Eidahl; photo Erica and Harold...history on Elba is, in the words of long-time iron mine director Giulio Pulle,"lost in the obscurity of...Etruria called Aethalia where there is a copper mine from which they had obtained the copper employed
Catalog/List
1-3:" in length, 1:1.5Op. 2. ALGoDoNITE. Mowhawk Mine, Keweenaw Pen., Michigan, U.S.A. Very rich bronz6...2~1-f.-", £7 .00. B. ARSENoPVRITE. New Rosewarne Mine, Gwinear, Cornwall. Large tarnished sharp crystals...specimen. 2x1~1", 1:24.00 11. BARVTOCALCITE. 81agill Mine, Alston Moor, Cumberland. Sharp clear tm creamy...matrix. 2x1b<1*", 1:2.5Op. 12. BAVLDoNITE. Brandygill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland. Rich light green coatings... 3x~211,1:4.5Op 2 13. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, st. Cleer,· Cornwall. Ricr solid attractively metallic
Catalog/List
J 3. APATITE variety FRA~CoLITE. Fowey Consols Mine, Tywardreath, Cornwall. Select, sharp, lustrous...association. l-txltxl". £2.75. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Nr. Callington, Cornwall. Very rich, light green...mineral. 4x2xli". £4,50. 5. 6. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Select, turquoise coloured...attractive specillBn. 3x2xlt". £4.75. 7. AUTUNITE. Mine La Faye, Grury, Saone-at-Loire, France. Rich, crust...3-txltxl-t". £4.50. J -28. AZURITE. Henderson Mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, U.S.A. Specimen A
Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by |GDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...pyrargyrite 17 pyrite 15, 15, 16 pyroaurite 51 pyrolusite 34 pyromorphite 68, 68 pyrope 76 pyrophyllite...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States...Filiform silver: Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) endritic copper rmation. Houghton fichigan) ...covered with calcite. Casteltermini, Agrigento (Italy) look more different. Theirs is the most notable
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with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...natron 50 negro’s head 95, 96 pyroaurite 51 pyrolusite 34 pyrope 76 pyrophyllite 102, 103 pyroxene...Idrija (Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822. It...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite
Catalog/List
Nice. 75x50x31 010 ALUMINOCOPIAPITE - Champion Mine, California, USA. A pure yellow botryodal mass....OLD-TIME ANGLESITE XX-GROUPS FROM MONTEPONI, SARDINIA, ITALY. 014 Large terminated platy partial transparant...matrix. 6lx47xl8 22,00 017 APACHEITE - Christmas Mine, Gila Co., USA. Pale blue patches in matrix. Moderately...xl 13xl0x8 8,00 )!. .. 022 AXINITE xx - Obira Mine, Japan. A large terminated xl, 47x27, forming the...BRUSHITE - CALCIOFERRITE - ARAGONITE - Rocabruna Mine, Brugues Gaba, Barcelona, Spain. Very rich whitish
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Translation © Orbis Publishing Limited 1972 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara SBN O 85613 0001 For many years...pyrargyrite 17 pyrite 15, 15, 16 pyroaurite 51 pyrolusite 34 pyromorphite 68, 68 pyrope 76 pyrophyllite...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...(Yugoslavia), son1e n1ines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almaden (Spain). In the United States
Report (issue)
Belgium • • • France • • • Germany ••• Greece ••• Italy ••• ••• • •• ••• ••• ••• . .. Russia and Georgia...minerals of corr1mercial impo-r ta.nce include :-(1) pyrolusite (MnO2 ), containing ,~Then pure 63·2 per qent...to witl1stand excessive disintegration betwee,n mine and destination, a11d should arrive in coherent...d manganese dioxide present in pyrolusite. and psilomelane : Pyrolusite. ,,,. - - ..-- ' • Psilomelane...be 60, 70, 80, or even 90 per cent. TuinO2 , pyrolusite is ob,riously the best ore, psilomela,ne may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
i n c l u d e d i n t h i s i n d e x . Acari, Rio Grande do Notre, Brazil, Bismutotantalite, 785. Adularia...Bearpaw Mtns., Montana, pseudoleucite, 596. Benallt mine, Rhiw, Caernarvonshire, celsian, 508. Berek compensator...edn, Vol. 2, 554; Vol. 3, 1022. Boqueirdo mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, leucophosphite,...Brazilianite, Brazil, d.t.a., 427. Brejui mine, Currais Novos, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, bismuth, bismutite... Capo di Bavo, Rome, leucite, 596. Cariboo gold mine, Wells, British Columbia, scheelite, 995. CARN~mO
Catalog/List
- 2txltxl". £3. )0. 4. AF,SENOPYhITE. Kassandra Mine, Stradouiki, Greece. Bright, metallic, silvery twinned...Limonite. 2x2". £).)0. 8. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Brigh e , deep green, botryoidal...BARYTO~LCITE. Admiralty Flats, Nentsberry Hag6s Mine, Nr.Alston, Cumberland. Unusual, whitish, intergrown...Jasper. 2tx2". £5.50. N.TIVE BISMUTH. Bow Creek Mine, Deepwater, N.S. Wales, .u~tralia. Superb, ~oarsely...little Quartz. 3JC2tx2". £11. BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, L3nreath, Cornwall. Small, bright, silvery grey
Catalog/List
half an inch thick, illustrated left. Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte Brazil. £90 AFGHANITE good display...mass of red-brown Piedmontite. (Praboma Mine, St Marcel, Aosta Italy) display surface 3x3 inches £36 4. ...crystals over 3x4 inch matrix Osa Quarry. near Rome Italy 7. CHLORARGYRITE relatively rich grey exposed...Also smaller areas on the side, £30 ( Bell creek Mine, Timmins, Ontario Canada ) 13 . STILBITE, rich mass...crystals ~ 2x2.5 Cookeite small crystal plates. . lpe Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil coating
Book (volume)
Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the... Huelva-Sevilla district Aznalc6llar . Sotiel . Rio Tinto mines. San Telma . Lomero-Poyatos. Maria Luisa...Elisa and Dorinda Barruecopardo Golpejas or Bellita mine Morille-Martinamor El Cubito El Trasqui16n. Santa...Alquife. Titanium • • Ores of aluminium Pyrite . Rio Tinto Tharsis and La Zarza Las Herrerias . Manganese
Book (edition)
orangebrown distinctive brown to blue grey Mineral Pyrolusite Rasvumite Rickardite light yellow, brown, brilliant... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample as above:
Book
interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...of Specimen AMMONIUM CHLORIDE NH,Cl Vesuvius, Italy nodular, compact, earthy, scaly in clays, marls...ore veins, vitreous, pearly transluc. alunite Italy fibrous, acicular, capillary crystals, & agg. ...HYDROZINCITE Zn[(OH)3COs;]. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia eliminated from soda lakes, in...(SO4)2] (Alum Stone) La Tolfa near Civitavecchia, Italy WAVELLITE Al; [(OH)3(PO,4)»} . 5H.O Cerhovice
Catalog/List
MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...grey. 55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing...40x40x35mm. £1500. 11) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. Four jet
Catalog/List
MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...grey. 55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing...40x40x35mm. £1500. 11) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. Four jet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Carajás Region (Brazil) and the Hamersley Province, Western Australia. The age versus depth distributions...where Archean granite–gneiss basement units and the Rio das 80 C.A. Spier et al. / Chemical Geology 234...profile from the Serra da Moeda (MO) to the Sapecado mine (SAP) at the Serra do Itabirito. iron-formations...drainage divide separating the Rio Doce, Rio São Francisco, and the Rio Paraná basins, suggests that erosion...granitic–gneissic basement, Archean greenstone belt sequences (Rio das Velhas Supergroup), the Paleoproterozoic Minas
Report (volume)
Desdichada..................................... Rio Seco-Lagarto district................................................................... Rio Piedra Amarilla-Rio Guajiniquil district,........ El' Pital.................... Other properties in Rio Piedra Amarilla-Rio Guajiniquil district.....................Peninsxila, Costa Rica...... Geologic map of El Curiol mine............... Sketch map of Los Bolillos workings...Sesteo workings............. Sketch map of El Licor mine workings......... Sketch map of El Cacao workings
Report (issue)
Austria-Hungary; Belgium; Bulgaria; France; Germany; Greece; Italy; Portugal; Russia; Spain; Sweden ; Turkey . 69...mentioned: Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain; West Africa (Gold Coast), Egypt (Sinai Peninsula);...insignificant domestic demand for the high-grade pyrolusite, of which the known deposits largely consist...Iron-Ore. United States. a Ocmuwy.1,s Grecce.s Italy. Manganilerous Mangrutlferou s 75,937 79,264 85...Mineral Industry, excepting those for Greece and Italy, wltich are as in Ree. Geol. S11r11. Ind., 46 (1915)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
goethitic alteration and pervasive hematitisation. Pyrolusite and a Mn–Ba oxide, possibly 1 romanèchite,...br) is at Rua Coelho Neto 32/apt 704, 22231-110 Rio de Janeiro–RJ, Brazil. Orlando Garcia Rocha Filho...Iron ore reserves (March 2003) of the Gongo Soco mine Ore type Soft hematite Pulverulent hematite* Friable...Soco The Quadrilátero Ferrífero, a major iron province with important gold mines and subordinate manganese...(Minas Supergroup), an Archaean greenstone belt (Rio das Velhas 2 Supergroup) and granite-gneiss domes
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interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...volcanoes AMMON II M CHLORIDE Nil ,CI Vesuvius, Italy nodular, compact, earthy, scaly monoclinic in...ALUNOGEN AI.JSOJ,. 18H.O .Kcramohalitc) Bolzano, Italy good watersoluble fibrous, acicular, capillary...HYDRO­ ZINCITE ZnKOHhCOj. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia colourless, white, yellowish...HYDROM AGNESI TE Mg» lOHfCO,)-],. 4H.O Vesuvius, Italy short- to longcolumnar, tabular crystals, compact
Catalog/List
Cl quite rich fawn masses in matrix (Alto DoGiz, Rio Grandedel !lorte Brazil) 5mm n * E4.00 407 TADZHIKITZ...plate on Sandine (arro~ed).(le Tre Croci Vetralla Italy) lxlins E4.50 498 ZEKANNITE (Zn Fe) (Te 0) Ha minute...Attractive blue masses in and on pink BÅRYTES.(BlairLogie Mine, n~ar Stirling, Scotland) lxl El. 50 202 COPPER...other Cu minerals on matrix. (30'level Gold Hill Mine Utah USA) lem E4 309 PLANCHEITE Cu/8 Si/8 0/22 pure...spheres on matrix. (16 Level, SimmsLode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall) l, x H El.50 l x l, El 530 BAYLDONITE
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Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...CAPTIONS Page 1: Cuprite crystals from the Ray mine, Arizona Pages 2-3: Liroconite from PERFECT CLEAVAGE...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Frankfurt), Centro de Tecnologia Mineral - - CETEM (Rio de Janeiro), O. H. LEONhRDOS and D. H. G. WALBE (University...powder diagrams. In addition to eryptomelane, the pyrolusite is a minor constituent of the manganese ore....existence of pyrolusite and the absence of ramsdellite. Cryptomelane is replaced by pyrolusite particularly...a higher content of pyrolusite. Quite often the eryptomelane and the pyrolusite are irregularly mixed...1,0 mm. Fig. 7. Manganese ore of Mato Grosso. Pyrolusite (white) replaces cryptomelane (gray). The black
Catalog/List
matrix hl !3 5 AGARDITE (Ce) r ...fe green micro's Mine, Wolf;_n, West Germany) 'h ins f.3. 60 6 ALBITE...fi1icaeousscales on matrix a (St M~rcel, Val d'Aosta Italy) W 1J:1 7Cp 1x2 f 1. 30 2x2 :t3. 00 brc~n ~~ss...yellow pea size masses &crusts on Quartz (les Anglais Mine, Massiac,Brouse France) lxl 60p 1x2 fl.10 56 BIOTITE...61 BORNITE rich purple mass in matrix.(Gortdrum Mine, Tipperary S.Ireland) location closed. lxl 50p 1x2...BOULANGERITE grey masses in and on matrix.(Melba Mine, N.E.Dundas Tasmania) lxl !1.90 1x2 !4.00 64 BOULANGERITE
 
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