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Sphalerite from
Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Molybdenite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Molybdenite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Arsenopyrite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Arsenopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (13 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:60252
Long-form Identifier:1:3:60252:5
GUID (UUID V4):877d45f9-7f66-4ae4-8521-c1846563329f
Localities for Sphalerite in this Region
Puricelli Quarry, Cavagnano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Subalpina Quarry (Mantegazza Quarry; Gebel Quarry; Bianchi Quarry), Cavagnano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Val Cavallizza mine, Cavagnano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Bonomi Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Del Prete Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Puricelli Quarry, Cavagnano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
0.9km (0.6 miles) Subalpina Quarry (Mantegazza Quarry; Gebel Quarry; Bianchi Quarry), Cavagnano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
0.9km (0.6 miles) Del Prete Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
1.2km (0.7 miles) Bonomi Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
3.6km (2.3 miles) Boarezzo Mine (Pradisci prospect; Rio Carpane prospect), Boarezzo, Valganna, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
5.5km (3.4 miles) Madonna d'Ongero, Carona, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
11.3km (7.0 miles) Ponte Aranno, Novaggio, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
12.0km (7.4 miles) La Monda Mine, Aranno, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
21.3km (13.2 miles) Cannero Riviera ore body, Trarego Viggiona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
27.3km (17.0 miles) La Selva prospect, San Nazzaro Val Cavargna, Como Province, Lombardy, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Pattern: Val Cavallizza mine, Cuasso al Monte, Varese province, Italy. 9.665 (100), 5.921 (31), 1.915...11.61 100.00 (1) Val Cavallizza mine, Varese province, Italy; average of 5 electron microprobe analyses...galena, sphalerite. Distribution: From the Val Cavallizza Pb-Zn-Ag mine, Cuasso al Monte, Varese province...province, Italy. Name: For the Ca-dominant species of the chukhrovite mineral group. Type Material: Museum...Museum of Natural History, Milan, Italy (M37901) and the Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Liège, Belgium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Val Cavallizza Pb–Zn–(Ag) mine, Cuasso al Monte, Varese province, Italy PIETRO VIGNOLA1, FRÉDÉRIC HATERT2...Processi Ambientali, via Mario Bianco 9, 20131 Milano, Italy Laboratoire de Minéralogie, Départment de Géologie...di Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 7/a, 43124 Parma, Italy 4 Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie...Milano-Bicocca, Piazzale della Scienza 4, 20126 Milano, Italy 5 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università...Studi di Milano, via Botticelli 23, Milano 20133, Italy 2 Abstract: Chukhrovite-(Ca), Ca4.5Al2(SO4)F1312H2O
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of miarolitic cavities in the Cuasso al Monte granophyre (Varese, Italy) Giancarlo Capitani1,*, Enrico...Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 4, Milan 20126 Italy 2 Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto...Tecnologia, Piazza San Silvestro 12, Pisa 56127 Italy Abstract In this paper, we describe a unique occurrence...miarolitic cavities in a granophyre from Cuasso al Monte (Italy). The results suggest that temperatures...crystal at all temperatures and pressures (Smith et al. 2009) and, not surprisingly, the recurrent TiO2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
di Torino, Via Valperga Caluso, 35-10125 Torino, Italy 2 Department of Geological Sciences, University...from the Alcaparrosa mine, Cerritos Bayos, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile. Alcaparrosaite was formed...Chovanite crystallized at the third, quartz-ankerite-sphalerite stage of 5 stages of hydrothermal activity and...0488 assuming that Cr, Al, all Fe, and Ti of the M sites fixed in the M(2) sites, Al of the T sites fixed...classification scheme of amphibole group (Hawthorne et al. 2012, American Mineralogist, 97, 2031–2048) published
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Demartin et al., 1993; Demartin and Minaglia, 2001; Miyawaki et al., 2007; Pezzotta et al., 1999). They...Peninsula (Voloshin and Pakhomovsky, 1986; Voloshin et al., 2002). Recently gadolinite(Y) has been found in...alkali granites of the Kola Peninsula (Voloshin et al., 2004). Silexites, peg matites in the inner and...the time of pegmatite crystallization (Lyalina et al., 2012) and coincides within uncertainty limits with...Ma) (Mitrofanov, 2000; Bayanova, 2004, Zozulya et al., 2005). Thus, there is no measurable break between
Journal (issue)
rare-element class pegmatites in the Borborema Province in NE-Brazil?...................................miarolitic granite of Cuasso al Monte, Varese province, (Southern Apls, Italy)…………………………………………………………………………………41...The Tertiary pegmatite filed of the Central Alps (Italy and Switzerland)……………………………….44 HANSON, S.L., ZITO...pegmatitic granite dykes in the central Grenville Province……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...pegmatite of Malga Garbella, Val di Rabbi, Trento province, Italy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………165
Book (edition)
symmetry: Examples of striations on anoctahedral sphalerite crystal and on a cubic pyrite crystal. various... various other properties. For example, in a sphalerite octahedron we find four lustrous faces and four striated...cube gyroid HEXTETRAHEDRAL 43m 3A2-4A3 P .6P sphalerite tetrahedhte hextetrahedron deltoid dodecahedron...obtained a diffraction spectrum by x-raying a sphalerite crystal. The periodicity of the atoms in the...chemical formula changes (C = diamond versus ZnS = sphalerite). Two substances are called isostructural when
Book
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technology, Department of Economic and Mining Geology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland Martin ONDREJKA..., Graeser & Schwander 1987, Anthony et al. 2000, Masau et al. 2002). In addition to common Ca, Th and...(Kukharenko et al. 1961, 1965, Chakhmouradian & Mitchell 1998, 1999, Krenn & Finger 2004, Ondrejka et al. 2007...2007, Krenn et al. 2008). The gadolinite group of minerals are relatively rare (Y,REE),Be-bearing silicate...occurrences (e.g., Ding et al. 1981, Pezzotta et al. 1999, Miyawaki et al. 1987, 2007). Some gadolinite–hingganite
Thesis/Dissertation
Andersen et al. 2010) and as a complexing agent promoting element mobility (e.g. Alderton et al. 1980; Salvi...was discovered approximately 15 years ago (Hurum et al., 1998), but limited work has been done since its...associated with the Sorgenfrei-Tornquist Zone (Neuman et al., 2004). The graben system consists of three main...Permian rift tectonics and not magmatism (Larsen et al. 2008). The Oslo Rift has been studied for almost...succession of events (Larsen et al., 2008; Ramberg & Larsen, 1978; Neumann et al., 2004): 1 Figure 1 - Simplified
Book
Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy: Mondadori, 2003. (256} p. : col. phptos. ; cm....Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8- 9: 13eryl 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 TOTHE READER The 288 mineralogical species
Journal (issue)
789-5809102-81 Nederland : girorekening (NL) 51 91 10. Al deze rekeningen staan op naam van M.K.A. v.z.w.,...vergadering omdat het een unieke gelegenheid is om al onze instrumenten in gebruik te zien. Geonieuws... Hij was al ingeschreven voor het jaarlijkse Rochester Mineralogical Symposium, waar men al bezig was...activiteit uitstappen is een groot succes en zorgde al snel voor 2 artikels voor Geonieuws. Dat er in Beez...determinatie Tijdens Minerant verzorgde de werkgroep, zoals al vele jaren, een identificatiestand voor edelstenen
Journal (issue)
789-5809102-81 Nederland : girorekening (NL) 51 91 10. Al deze rekeningen staan op naam van M.K.A. v.z.w.,...taakverdeling tijdens Minerant wat te stroomlijnen maken we al enkele jaren vooraf een duidelijke planning op. Als...potential biomarker 1384-1392 Compositional zoning in sphalerite crystals 1402-1412 Makarochkinite, a new beryllosilicate...silicates from the Baveno and Cuasso al Monte NYF granites, Southern Alps (Italy) * ELEMENTS 1(5), 12.05...of death 293-297 The link between large igneous province eruptions and mass extinctions 57e HAAGSE MINERALENEN
Book (edition)
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
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... J. F. Cooper, Jr. & J. S. White, Jr.) 6:180-183 AL YES, JEANETE --with J. P. Cassedanne: Apatite and...Caimcross: Gold in South Africa 23:209-225. 23:228 Al 'JAJ\ABO~OINA The Anjanabonoina pegmatite. Madagascar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
account for the origin of A-type granites (Collins et al. 1982; more about that theme later). In systems undergoing...Himalayan continent–continent collision zone (Deniel et al. 1987, Le Fort 1988) attest to rapid collection of...Himalayan environment of continental collision (Laurs et al. 1998). A particularly interesting case of granitic...volcanogenic origin, and contains galena and sphalerite, among other sulfides. The quartzofeldspathic...regional scale (850°C, 5–7 kbar, according to Frost et al. 2005). Anatexis involved not only the breakdown
Book
Filrnset by Kcyspools Ltd, Golbornc, Lanes Printed in Italy 3 6 8 8 9 10 l1 11 23 30 33 36 45 205 209 2I...Element 0 46.6% Silicon Si 2 7.7% Aluminium Al Iron Symbol Perce(l/age Beryllium Be 0.0007'%...granodiorite, gneiss; it is here that one can find quartz, al bite, adularia and often even some marvellous calcite...such as pyroxene, amphibole, biotite. Later on come al bite, anortite, orthoclase and quartz. Also appearing...discovered annually all over the world. Recent finds in Italy alone, for instance, include roggianite, canavasite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granite-syenite complex (named as Keivy alkaline province) is an essential part of the Keivy block (Figure...granite pegmatite Silicates beryl Keivy alkaline province/AR 1. pegmatite of peralkaline granite 2. quartz-epidote...perakaline granites and syenites of the Keivy alkaline province (11), spodumene pegmatites of Kolmozero-Voronja... Voronja. Comparing to type locality (Baveno, Italy) and other occurrences [51–53], bavenite from Kolmozero-Voronja...Comparing to pegmatites type locality (Baveno, Italy) and otherhigh occurrences [51–53], 2 O andbavenite
Book (edition)
supergroup (Armbmster et al., EJM 18, 551-567, 2006), sapphirine supergroup (Grew et al., MM 72, 839-876, 2008)...sulfosalts (Moelo et al., EJM 20, 7-46, 2008), alunite supergroup (Bayliss et al., MM 74, 919-927, 2010)...supergroup (Pasero et al., EJM 22, 163-179, 2010), pyrochlore supergroup (Atencio et al., CM 48, 673-698,...supergroup (Henry et al., AM 96, 895-913, 2011), amphibole supergroup (Hawthorne et al., AM 97, 2031-2048...heteropolymolybdates (Kampf et al., MM 76, 1175-1207, 2012), hydrotalcite supergroup (Mills et al., MM 76, 12891336
Journal (issue)
Elliot (O ceanside, Calif.) Alfredo Ferri (Milan, Italy) Richard V. Gaines (Pottstown, Penn.) David Garske...Binntal lies almost completely in the region of the Monte Leone nappe, one of the lowest of the Pennidic nappes...syngenetic origin consisting mainly of galena (PbS), sphalerite (ZnS), pyrite (FeS2), barite (BaS04), etc. which...MoS2 orpiment A s2S3 pyrite FeS 2 realgar A s4S4 sphalerite ZnS wurtzite ZnS b) complex sulfides (sulfosalts)...History) Figure 16. (right) Sphalerite crystal on realgar. Though sphalerite in Lengenbach is usually honey-yellow
Book
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...southeast of Aosta in the extreme northwest part of Italy. 1 EQUIPMENT AND PREPARATION FOR THE HUNT It...Serra. Trentlno. the rock surface, a dark patch Italy. is against the lighter background. This bedded
Book
Maria Gramaccioli, Matteo Boscardin published 1n Italy In 1973 by Fratell1 Fabbri Ed1ton New material has...published with its superb color illustrations In Italy In the language of that country, 11 proved to be...mineral collecting has become widespread here In Italy as well as In the rest of Europe and America Whether...southeast of Aosta in the extreme northwest part of Italy. EQUIPMENT AND PREPARATION FOR THE HUNT tt is...7 - (Left) Quarry 1n Val di Serra, Trenhno, Italy. On the front of the rock surface, a dark patch
Journal (issue)
Federico Pezzotta, Natural History Museum of Milan, Italy; Jeffrey E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington...hardness of antigorite (2½–4, rarely up to 6; Gaines et al., 1997). The samples were inert to long- and short-...Mauro Pantò (The Beauty in the Rocks, Sassari, Italy). Pantò cut approximately 10 stones from a single...instrument identified them as clinochlore. Gaines et al. (1997) reported that axinite-(Fe) may rarely be...associated with orange clinohumite (e.g. Huong et al., 2012). This marble-hosted deposit is located ~3
Book
triboluminescence. This quality is exhibited by fluorite, sphalerite, and lepidolite, among others. Some minerals...tute the silicon ion, Si**, with the aluminum ion, Al’*. This exchange destroys the charge balance of...ture, producing one excess negative charge for each Al>*. The excess charge is d known ones. But a large...the formulas, x and y indicate that the amounts of Al and Si change with the variation in the ratio between...hydrothermal stage: many sulfides including galena, sphalerite, pyrite, stibnite, and cinnabar, as well as fluorite
Journal (volume)
primary minerals were galena, chalcopyrite and sphalerite in a quartz/carbonate gangue. Oxidation of the...Roughton Gill workings namely of Silver Gill (Green et al., 2005), which can be considered as Part 1 of the...Roughton Gill South Vein on Balliway Rigg (Green et al., 2008), this latter working also being commonly...Society (2011) considered fraudulent (Ryback et al., 1998; 2001 and Tindle, 2008). Even in modern times...smaller Red Gill Mine, a view supported by Bridges et al. (2008). This review is based as carefully as possible
 
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