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Almandine from
Miage Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy


Locality type:Glacier
Classification
Species:Almandine
Formula:Fe32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Almandine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Miage Glacier, Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:430923
Long-form Identifier:1:3:430923:9
GUID (UUID V4):40bc7cb4-9615-4711-8e63-279620ffb1c1
Nearest other occurrences of Almandine
46.4km (28.9 miles) Servette-Chuc mining complex, Saint-Marcel, Aosta Valley, Italy
46.6km (29.0 miles) Comba de la Sassa (Comba della Sassa; Sassa Valley), Bionaz, Aosta Valley, Italy
48.1km (29.9 miles) Varenche Mine, Saint-Barthélemy, Nus, Aosta Valley, Italy
65.1km (40.5 miles) Ladant, Voragno, Ceres, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
68.6km (42.6 miles) Brusson Mine, Brusson, Aosta Valley, Italy
69.2km (43.0 miles) Alpe Mecio outcrop, Corio, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
69.3km (43.0 miles) Palon di Resy, Champoluc, Ayas, Aosta Valley, Italy
71.9km (44.7 miles) Grand-Praz Mine, Ayer, Anniviers, Sierre, Valais, Switzerland
74.2km (46.1 miles) Poggio San Vittore asbestos mine, Balangero, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
78.1km (48.5 miles) Le Colme, Brosso, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Minerals of the Miage Glacier, $1. Blanc.--In the moraine of the " Glacie_r_de Miage," crystals of quartz...following accessory minerals were found :(1.) Garnet. Almandine, combinations mO, 202 of 15-20 mm. diameter. The
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of Muzo, occupies both slopes of a funnel-shaped valley above the little Itoco River, at elevations ranging...at 2300 meters above sea level, overlooking the valley of the Gauvi6 River, itself at 700 meters above...approximately 840 and 500 meters, respectively, above the valley of the Minero River, are the official guardians...Colombian emeralds. After penetrating the Guacheta Valley and receiving nine green stones as gifts from the...photo. occurrences in the Swat Valley, Pakistan and the Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan. The technique which
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acicular crystals of rutile (Weerth, 2004). Tonniq Valley, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan [Northern Areas]...region of Alpine-type clefts along the Torrniq Valley produced small numbers of ilmenite specimens reminiscent...The thin-tabular ilmenite crystals of the Torrniq Valley also form spherical aggregates ("closed roses")...several centimeters diameter. However, many Torrniq Valley specimens labeled "ilmenite" prove upon testing...onalcommunication, 2007). 4 ITALY Rio Marina area, Island of Elba, Tuscany. Elba (Latin:
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Maria Gramaccioli. Matteo Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material...with its superb color States, illustrations in Italy in the lan- proved to be so well related to the...mineral collecting has become widespread here in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe and America. Whether...(Val d'Aosta). southeast of Aosta in the extreme northwest part of Italy. 1 EQUIPMENT AND PREPARATION...Serra. Trentlno. the rock surface, a dark patch Italy. is against the lighter background. This bedded
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byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31... Actinolite - byssolite, 50 mm, Valle d'Aosta, Italy, G short-columnar crystals, usually in granular...overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy. Actinolite asbestos...Mont Blanc, as well as in Val Malenco, Lombardy, Italy. A component of some skarns and eclogites. With...western Sayan Mts., white at Burumskoye, Vitim River Valley, all Siberia, Russia. In many localities in New
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Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ................................................................................... 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...quartsite and 1,770+ Devonian a Silurian Hidden Valley dolomite—light-gray, massive dolomite 1 000 Ordovician...Terek DAim Tuscany, Italy by Pier Bruno Scortecci Via Erbosa, 15 52100 Arezzo, Italy and Mauro Tazzini
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which he had heard on his travels concerning a “valley of serpents” which was littered with diamonds but...Hunters would throw chunks of raw meat into the valley, vultures would snatch the meat away from the snakes...had adhered to the meat. This resembles another “valley of diamonds” story also repeated by Marco Polo...the tale should actually be rubies and that the valley should be imagined as near “Capelan,” the original...throwing raw meat into an inaccessible, gem-littered valley, then killing the birds of prey which took out
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Zealand), helsinkite (Helsinki, Finland), halite (Italy), missourite (Missouri River), monzonite (Monzoni...(Tingua Mountains, Brazil), vesuvite (Mt. Vesuvius, Italy), wyomingite, and yosemitite (Yosemite, California)...southern Crimea), vulsinite (Vulsinii, Etruscan tribe, Italy). Bibliography American Federation of Mineralogical...an orthoclase-bearing tonalite. [Monte Adamello, Italy] (Cathrein in 1890) adder stone sed., meta. = serpent...albanite ig. extru. — leucitite. [Albano Hills, Italy] (Washington in 1920) albanite sed. Black bituminous
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[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...Wilson) 19:75 ARNO RNER VALLEY Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza, G
 
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