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


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Habit:microcrystalline veins
Colour:lead-gray
Quality for species:Rock forming mineral/non-crystalline/little interest for collectors.(##)
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Malachite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:3367
Long-form Identifier:1:3:3367:1
GUID (UUID V4):aa9494df-1cc7-4a90-b484-19447ac568e2
Localities for Chalcocite 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
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Report (issue)
Sn2.38 Sb0.77 Fe0.24 )Σ=6.53 S32.00 . (3) Lorano, Italy; by electron microprobe, corresponds to Cu25.93...goldfieldite, germanite, reniérite, bornite, chalcocite, covellite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena...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)
mines near Pinarcik in the Ilbir Mountains, Mŭgla Province, Turkey .............................. 541 by...& M. Countiss Sphalerite and wurtzite from the Carrara Marble ................................. 571 by...DIASPORE twin, 1.3 cm, from near Pinarcik, Mŭgla Province, Turkey. See the article beginning on page 541...com ItalianMinerals.com Quality Minerals from Italy & Worldwide www.ItalianMinerals.com e-mail: italianminerals@libero... was born Gabriella Katherine Loewi in Venice, Italy, on April 23, 1920, the daughter of Jewish art dealers
Report (issue)
primary sulfide. Association: Chalcopyrite, chalcocite, digenite, covellite, chrysocolla, malachite...Tsumeb, Namibia. From Kipushi, Katanga Province, Congo (Shaba Province, Zaire). At the Oyu Tolgoi porphyry...Russia. From the Ceragiola quarry, near Carrara, Tuscany, Italy. At Bor, Serbia. In the Assarel and Medet
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exposed to near-surface weathering environments: chalcocite and the somewhat less abundant covellite. Both...mine makes them briefly available to collectors. Chalcocite has been featured in this column (Cook 1995)...chalcopyrite, chalcocite, enargite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and bornite. Excellent chalcocite pseudomorphs...description of the fundamental chemistry of covellite, chalcocite, and related secondary copper minerals and of...sulfide minerals or intimately associated with chalcocite in a somewhat sooty, fracture-filling mixture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been described from the Corocoro mine in Pacajes Province, La Paz Department, Figure 3. The remains of the...only from the Chuquicamata mine at Calama, El Loa Province. At the El Teniente mine far to the south, impressive...to 1.2 mm across associated with arsenopyrite, chalcocite, chrysocolla, pharmacosiderite, and scorodite...copper mines of Chessy-les-Mines in Rhône-Alpes Province (Favreau, Legris, and Dardillac 1996). In the...Rotem in the Limburg Province and from Sclaigneaux in the Andenne area of Namur Province. Perhaps the most
Journal (issue)
Johnson M inerals o f th e S eravezza M arble, Tuscany, I ta ly ........................................Tel: (501) 767-4800> 34 Carrara 1 9/20 Via P ie di M arm o R om e, Italy H ours: 10-1 a n d 5 -7 M...Tel: 39-50-501587 Lungarno Gambacorti 39 P isa , Italy Hours: by Appointment Specialty: Italian and Worldwide...(612) 297-6709 C.so Venezia 55, 20121 M ilano, Italy The Mineralogical Record, volume 2 7 , January-February...1-56100 Pisa, Italy L oren zo D e l C hiaro Via Virgilio, 80 1-55049 Viareggio, Italy R en a to P agano
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
Catalog/List
lxl 1/-, lx2 2/-, 2x2 4/-, 2x3 6/-, 3x4 12/6d. CHALCOCITE Habberley, Shropshire. Grey massive in barytes...Metamorphic Rocks MARBLE Carrara, Italy. Fine grained. Pure. Carrara, Italy. Cut and polished slabs.
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...fairly rich zones dominated by chalcopyrite, chalcocite, bornite and “blaubleibender covellite” (i.e...Ligurian Brianc‚ onnais Domain, Maritime Alps, Italy. Can. Mineral., 37, 961972. Fischer, R.X. & Tillmanns
Book
bournonite, covellite, tetrahedrite, cobaltite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, lollingite, pyrrhotite, marcasite...(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)
sections of aikinite from the Outlaw mine. Chalcocite Cu2S Chalcocite was observed by Shannon (1925) and also...sulfosalts), quartz, chalco­ pyrite, covellite and chalcocite, with a considerable but unknown time gap between...two sequences. He considered both covellite and chalcocite to be products of downward secondary enrichment...Pb3(Ag,Cu)5Bi7S16 Berryite Bismuthinite Bi2S3 Cu2S Chalcocite CuFeS2 Chalcopyrite HgTe Coloradoite CuS Covellite...M P % Scuola Via Monterosa 56, 1-10154, Torino, Italy. GOLDSCHM IDT'S MINEK INDEX A cross-index by locality
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Universitd di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy Su WlNc* Department of Geology, Arizona State University...Sn-poor colusite from the Lorano marble quarry, Italy, revealed that the crystals are isometric and belong...for colusite from marbles in the Carrara area (Lorano and Calagio), Italy, and single-crystalstructural...from Lorano and one from Calagio (also in the Carrara area), were analyzed by electron microprobe. The...synthetic AsrTe, (Te), Sn metal (Sn), synthetic chalcocite (Cu and S), synthetic stibnite (Sb), synthetic
Report (issue)
Age and correlation.________________________ Carrara Formation____________________________ Nopah Fo... View of Bonanza King and Nopah Formations in Carrara Canyon, Bare Mountain.__ ____________-__--_-----_2...found in the underlying Daylight and overlying Carrara Formations. Thus, the quartzite itself must be...the Daylight Formation. CABBABA FOBMATTON The Carrara Formation crops out only in the southwest and northeast...clayey or silty. The age of the lower part of the Carrara Formation has been well established in the Bare
Journal (issue)
deposit of copper species. This Flambeau mine chalcocite specimen (3.4 cm high) has an attractive metallic-blue...enargite, chalcocite, linarite, olivenite, caledonite, plancheite and boleite. Chalcocite, covellite...aurichalcite has yet to be reported. CHALCOCITE AND BORNITE Chalcocite, a copper sulfide, and bornite, a...nearby sites produced wonderful crystallized chalcocite and bornite as far back as the 17th century....their mother’s side. Bristol produced marvelous chalcocite and bornite specimens. The bornite crystals were
Catalog/List
Natrolite_________________________ CHALCOPYRITE- CHALCOCITE a mix Gcevor Mine Comwell of these three_____________...CHABAZITE Zeolite CHABAZITE Zeolite CHALCOCITE CuS________________ CHALCOCITE CuS_______________ CHA LCON ATRONITE...ins £3 La Cetine Mine. Near Rosia, Sienna, Tuscany. Italy Quirang, Skye, Scotland 'A x A £4 Ramsley...crystal inwhite Albite Alpe Rosso, Vai Vigezzo Italy about half ins size Ixl" £4 Near Elizabeth Lake...Cordoba with short wave due to possible U minerals Province, Argentina__________ Pure white masses Ivigtut
and concentrated in basic plutonic rocks. 10 Chalcocite (copper glance). CuzS. Hexagonal. In thick-tabular...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
Book (edition)
g gold). ductile (e.g. copper). sectile (e.g. chalcocite). elastic Optical co11sta11ts ill reflected light...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
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...and chalcopyrite. Minor amounts of bornite and chalcocite were noted in the deeper ores from Banner Hill...by leaching and reprecipitation. Chalcocite Cu2S Massive chalcocite was reported in the copper-rich ores
Book
and concentrated in basic plutonic rocks. 10 Chalcocite (copper glance). Cu 2 S. Hexagonal. In thick-tabular...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 (issue)
whi~e, bleached Triassic sandstone; a quantity of chalcocite was disseminated through this rock, accompanied...sulphide ore, including bomite. Carrara Captured by JapAmericans Carrara, a world-famous marble quarrying...quarrying center, located in northwestern Italy, about 5 miles from the west coast, was captured from the Nazis...commanded by Lieut. Gen. Lucien K. Truscott. In Carrara are the celebrated quarries of fine-grained white...for 2,000 years or more. Another Copper Mine The Carrara quarries are noted also for This mine may be found
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...Wollastonite 12 Sulfide Zone Minerals Acanthite Chalcocite Oxide Zone Minerals Anglesite Anhydrite Antlerite
 
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