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


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Siderite
Formula:FeCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite4 photos of Siderite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Siderite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Mica Group2 photos of Siderite associated with Mica Group at this locality.
Ankerite1 photo of Siderite associated with Ankerite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Siderite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Siderite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:60274
Long-form Identifier:1:3:60274:7
GUID (UUID V4):8b6f2781-6e1c-4732-ab82-437fc86a6ab6
Localities for Siderite 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
Bonomi Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Nearest other occurrences of Siderite
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
1.2km (0.7 miles) Bonomi Quarry, Cuasso al Piano, Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
5.9km (3.7 miles) Valvassera mine, Valganna, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
30.4km (18.9 miles) Motto Piombino Mine, Gignese, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
31.5km (19.6 miles) Monte Falò, Coiromonte, Armeno, Novara Province, Piedmont, Italy
32.3km (20.1 miles) Ordecchia, Coiromonte, Armeno, Novara Province, Piedmont, Italy
36.6km (22.7 miles) Agueglio Alp, Esino Lario, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy
38.6km (24.0 miles) Iron mines (Crotto Mine; Tegano Mine), Dongo, Como Province, Lombardy, Italy
41.0km (25.5 miles) Sassi Rossi mine, Cortabbio, Primaluna, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy
References
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Department of Geoscience Via Gradenigo 6 35131 Padova, Italy alessandro.guastoni@unipd.it A Comparison of Amethyst...Amethyst From the Pink Granites of Cuasso al Monte (Southern Alps, Italy) And from Brandberg (Namibia) Figure...Figure 2. Group of amethyst scepters from Cuasso al Monte associated with laminar yellow baryte, 10 ×...the quarries of pink miarolitic granite of Cuasso al Monte in the Southern Alps have produced nice specimens...locality in northern Italy and is like an ikon among mineral collectors in the Lombardy region. During
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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
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&r. (;-!IP'· Mo J/.,t,ln',,,,,.. .'f AlcAl«·a. ireJI r{I ,IFdd� L" l,«i�Jr.rf,-1,11 Q fluarr...alcune di queste opere e un sostanziale ade­ guamento al gusto istintivo dei collezionisti << a/la moda >>...canto avvicinano il lettore in maniera cosi viva al vero da Jargli pre-vivere o rivivere la ricerca di...Val d'Aosta . .... . Cap. XXXI - 11 gruppo del Monte Rosa . . . .... ........ . Cap. XXXII - L'Ossola...caratteristiche. melafiro, roccia nera tenacissima, simile al basalto, ma piu antica di questo. metamorfismo,
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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...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...Val Cavallizza Pb–Zn–(Ag) mine, Cuasso al Monte, Varese province, Italy. European Journal of Mineralogy
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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
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minerals Review Lithium Occurrence in Italy—An Overview Andrea Dini 1 , Pierfranco Lattanzi 2 , Giovanni...Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, 56124 Pisa, Italy; andrea.dini@igg.cnr.it (A.D.); eugenio.trumpy@igg...Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, 50121 Florence, Italy; pierfrancolattanzi@gmail.com Correspondence: giovanni...giovanni.ruggieri@igg.cnr.it Abstract: Italy has no record of Li production, even though it is well known...associated with Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks. In Italy, such rocks occur extensively in Sardinia and Calabria
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first described from Hinggan, Julin Province, China (Ding et al. 1984). Depending on the predominance...(Anthony et al. 1995). The crystal structure of hingganite-(Y) is given by Miyawaki et al. (2007). According...According to Pezzotta et al. (1999) hingganite group minerals are typical of alkaline and Nb-Y-F-rich pegmatites...the Cadomian granodiorites of the Lusatia (Lange et al. 2004), and due to cross-cutting relationships of...Granodiorite Complex is 539 ± 6 Ma old (Linnemann et al. 2010), and according to Förster and Romer (2010)
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hydrothermal) based on differences in their Mg/Fe and Al/Si ratios. In marine environments, berthierine is...1979), brackish cold-water sediments (Rohrlich et al., 1969), and coal measures (Iijima and Matsumoto...rocks (Ruotsala et al., 1964), volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits (Slack et al., 1992), sedimentary...sedimentary exhalative siderite iron formations (Damyanov and Vassileva, 2001), as well as in granites and granitic...an alteration product of cordierite (Povondra et al., 1984; Abad-Ortega and Mieto, 1995; Jobin-Bevans
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Val d'Aosta .. . . . . Cap. XXXI - 11 gruppo del Monte Rosa ................ Cap. XXXII - L'Ossola .. ...puro. melafiro, roccia nera tenacissima, simile al basalto, dimorfo, una sostanza e dimorfa se da origine...pag. 152). porfido, roccia simile per composizione al granite, ma di origine vulcanica molto antica. ...facilmente in piani paralleli. sienite, roccia simile al granite, ma piu povera od granodiorite, roccia granitoide...che ii dott. Ratto non ha lasciato notizie scritte al riguardo: in questo caso si t\ dovuto procedere in
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basal pinacoid brucite calcite magnesite C- siderite smithsonite rhombohedron DITRIGONAL PYRAMIDAL...facilitating their classification. Magnesite, MgCCh, and siderite, 2+ FeCCh, are two isotypous minerals, and Mg...site of the 4+ 3+ structure (e.g., Si instead of Al ). This is the case for a very common mineral series...sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...(magnesite), or concentrated and cold (dolomite) or hot (siderite), and finally in nitric acid and in aqua regia
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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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Università di Roma, P.le A. Moro, 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy Abstract As Richard H. Jahns used to say, granitic...Republic, a well-characterized example, Černý et al. (1984) found the plagioclase at both borders of...strength of the (Al,Si)–O bonds in the tetrahedra, and the necessary involvement of Al and Si in any exsolution...from the wall zone. Falster (1994) and Sirbescu et al. (2009) documented rapid, disequilibrium crystallization...like El Muerto, in Oaxaca, Mexico (Prol-Ledesma et al. 2012), the border zone contains strikingly elongate
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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...antimonite Sb 2 S 3 , cinnabar HgS, fluorite CaF 2 , siderite FeCo 3 , baritine BaSO 4 , quartz SiO 2 . Some
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as for instance ··Mn-siderite •• in tead of the correct ..manganoan siderite... 0 n the other hand,...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
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(Cortial et al., 1990; Cuney and Mathieu, 2000; Gauthier-Lafaye, 2006; GauthierLafaye et al., 1989, 1996;...1989; Hidaka and Gauthier-Lafaye, 2000; Mathieu et al., 2000, 2001), while few investigations have been...reserved. et al., 1990; Gauthier-Lafaye and Weber, 1989; Mathieu et al., 2000; Ossa Ossa et al., 2013), the...and Weber, 1989; Pambo et al., 2006; Préat et al., 2011; Thiéblemont et al., 2009; Weber, 1968). A better...fluid inclusion studies of quartz cement, Openshaw et al. (1978, reviewed by Gauthier-Lafaye and Weber, 1989)
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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... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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...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
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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...“Black Rock district, near Hotazel, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.” We will endeavor to obtain more...situated about 10 km from Rosia, in the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. The mine has been closed for many...sulfur. P. B. Scortecci Via Erbosa, 15 52100 Arezze, Italy Figure 1. Acicular white onoratoite sprays with
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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
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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...carbonate groups, anorthite (Na,Ca)(Al0,)x (Si0.)y siderite smithsonite The aragonite group is characterized...stibnite, and cinnabar, as well as fluorite, barite, siderite, quartz, etc. SEDIMENTARY minerals in this environment
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has added many teams working in such countries as Italy, the Neiherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Bclgium...Scienze Geologiche, Via Zamboni 67, 1-40127 Bologna (Italy) Vai G. B. & Venturini C. 1997. — Moscovian and...comni.), Roberts et al, (1995) and Irom actempts at the besr fit with Harland et al. (1990) and Odin(1994)...Southern Alps, the Pontebba Supergroup (Venturini et al. 1982) represents u superb exposure of à pose 1 lercynian... Venturini 1990, 1991; and espccially Massari et al. 1991), although cyclic sédimenta¬ tion was ako stressed
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Kubelka-Munk function (Kubelka and Munk 1931; Boroumand et al. 1992) to a diffuse reflectance spectrum produces...to a, b and c (drawn using data from Hiraishi et al. 1979) 1384 cm−1 indicates the presence of NO3−...The picture is drawn using data from Goriletsky et al. (2001) As noted by Chalmers (2006), “to many readers...chlorothionite, CuK2(SO4)Br2 is formed (Fernández et al. 1993). Reduction of potassium ferricyanide to ferrocyanide... 180, 200, 225 °C) have been tested by Kendix et al. (2009). According to their data, at 180 °C and
 
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