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


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7439
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7439:1
GUID (UUID V4):3139f2e4-a35a-440d-9275-25115422b3eb
Localities for Marcasite in this Region
Colonnata, Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Gioia quarries, Colonnata, Colonnata quarrying basin, Carrara, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
October 2013 Lead-antimony sulfosalts from Tuscany (Italy). XIV. Disulfodadsonite, Pb11Sb13S30(S2)0.5...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding author, e-mail: biagioni@dst.unipi...area, near the town of Seravezza, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. It occurs as acicular crystals, up to 3–4...Seravezza, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. 1. Introduction about 20 km southwest of Carrara. The marble quarries...particularly the famous quarries near the town of Carrara. Marble from Apuan Alps has been quarried for more
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
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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...Minerals from the upper Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy (by M. Corazza, G. Pratesi & R. Braga) 25:293-299
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation and geothermal fluids in southern Tuscany (central Italy): an isotope (C, O, H, S) and Rare Earth...figures and 4 tables Abstract: Southern Tuscany (central Italy) is a mining district with epithermal stibnite...(gold and cinnabar) mineralisation in Southern Tuscany on the basis of chemical and stable isotope (C...deposited the stibnite mineralisation of southern Tuscany in a temperature range from 120 to 300 °C and the...stibnite, Tuscany. Introduction The interest in the historical mining district of southern Tuscany (central
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrrhotite (Ti- and V-rich), ferroan alabandite, marcasite (Ti- and V-rich), wurtzite-2H (Mn- and Fe-rich)...goyazite, “apatite”, siderite, quartz, calcite, marcasite, pyrrhotite and pyrite. General appearance: Anhedral...ungarettiite. Name: After Roberta Oberti (b. 1951), Pavia, Italy, for her contributions to the understanding of the...quarry, Colonnata valley, Carrara basin, Apuan Alps, northern Tuscany, Italy. Occurrence: In cavities...cavities in calcite veins in the famous Carrara marble. Associated minerals are: hydrozincite and fraipontite
Journal (issue)
CREDITO LOMBARDO, AG ENCY E. ACCO UNf 6908/4, MILANO, ITALY. -Please send COPY of your remittance document whit...nel Media Evo come testimoniato dall'esistenza a Massa Marittima, capoluogo dell a zona mineraria, del...a circa il Km. 30,800 e quindi la S.S. 441 per Massa Marittima Risalendo, al primo bivio, verso il paese...riscaldamento per compressione adiabatica, questa enorme massa d'aria non esufficiente nella stagione calda a raffreddare...contrariamente agli altri g iacimenti di pirite dell'area di Massa Marittima-Boccheggiano in cui ii contenuto di questi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Borgofranco mines, Borgofranco d’Ivrea (Piedmont, Italy) YVES MOËLO1,*, ROBERT PECORINI2, MARCO E. CIRIOTTI3...Italiana - via San Pietro, 55, I-10073 Devesi-Cirié, Italy 4 Musée de géologie & Institut des sciences de...Pisa, Italy 6 Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana - via Roma, 26, I-13812 Campiglia Cervo, Italy 7 Associazione...Italiana - strada Regione Croce, 30–I-13900 Chiavazza, Italy Abstract: Tubulite,  Ag2Pb22Sb20S53, is a new...Borgofranco mines, Borgofranco d’Ivrea (Piedmont, Italy). As indicated by the name, it forms very thin perfect
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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 (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 (article/letter/editorial)
of galena, yellow calcite, pink dolomite, and marcasite; traditionally productive localities, as suggested...15 cm in diameter and coated with crystallized marcasite and galena are reported from the Marsden prospect...Pont-Pean, France; Bottino, Tuscany, and the marble quarries near Carrara (small though exceptionally...exceptionally well developed gemmy crystals), Italy; alpine cleft occurrences such as those of the Grimsel region
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");
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chalcocite, chalcopyrite, lollingite, pyrrhotite, marcasite, molybdenite, pentlandite, pyrites, realgar, proustite...(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
mica, gypsum, augite, (aragonite, antimonite, marcasite, barytes, topaz) (4) tetragonal (chalcopyrite...two different minerals of identical (pyrite and marcasite), or com- pletely different, chemical composition...commonly found in active volcanic regions, e.g. in Italy, Iceland, Mexico, Indonesia. Extrusive rocks may...important minerals are argentite, arsenopyrite, marcasite and fluorite, apart from a whole series of valuable...sphalerite, galena and pyrite, and, in places, marcasite and chalcopyrite; the occurrence of argentite
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wolframite) (3) orthorhombic (aragonite, antimonite, marcasite, barytes, topaz) (4) tetragonal (chalcopyrite...two different minerals of identical (pyrite and marcasite), or completely different, chemical composition...commonly found in active volcanic regions, e.g. in Italy, Iceland, Mexico, Indonesia. Extrusive rocks may...important minerals are argentite, arsenopyrite, marcasite and fluorite, apart from a whole series of valuable...sphalerite, galena and pyrite, and, in places, marcasite and chalcopyrite; the occurrence of argentite
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wolframite) (3) orthorhombic (aragonite, antimonite, marcasite, barytes, topaz) (4) tetragonal (chalcopyrite...two different minerals of identical (pyrite and marcasite), or completely different, chemical composition...commonly found in active volcanic regions, e.g. in Italy, Iceland, Mexico, Indonesia. Extrusive rocks may...important minerals are argentite, arsenopyrite, marcasite and fluorite·, apart from a whole series of valuable...sphalerite, galena and pyrite, and, in places, marcasite and chalcopyrite; the occurrence of argentite
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wolframite) (3) orthorhombic (aragonite, antimonite, marcasite, barytes, topaz) (4) tetragonal (chalcopyrite...two different minerals of identical (pyrite and marcasite), or completely different, chemical composition...commonly found in active volcanic regions, e.g. in Italy, Iceland, Mexico, Indonesia. Extrusive rocks may...important minerals are argentite, arsenopyrite, marcasite and fluorite, apart from a whole series of valuable...sphalerite, galena and pyrite, and, in places, marcasite and chalcopyrite; the occurrence of argentite
Catalog/List
lxl 1/-, lx2 2/-, 2x2 4/-, 2x3 6/-, 3x4 12/6d. MARCASITE Folkestone, Kent. Sharply defined spear-shaped...Metamorphic Rocks MARBLE Carrara, Italy. Fine grained. Pure. Carrara, Italy. Cut and polished slabs.
Journal (issue)
rapher’s Guide, Library Guide $8 v.1 8 /# 4 Carrara Marble (Italy), Marburg Museum (Germany) v.1 8 /# 5 ...Mezica deposits occur in the Alpine Metallogenic Province, along several horizons in Triassic carbonate...main ore minerals, accompanied by minor pyrite, marcasite, rare arsenopyrite and typical secondary min­...fluorescence under ultraviolet light. Marcasite FeS2 Marcasite is present throughout the mine, in large...Hedleyite* Ingodite* Joseite-A* Joseite-B* Lollingite Marcasite Molybdenite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Sphalerite Stibnite
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(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Romania Grube Georg, Horhausen, FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5...5 6 Tsumeb, Namibia Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Rheinbreitbach, Bonn, FRG Wurlitz, Fichtelgebirge, FRG Niedermendig...Northumberland, Great Britain 7 Caltanisetta, Sicily, Italy 9 Li..ineburg, Niedersachsen, FRG 8 Mansfeld, Thuringia
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...the Terek DAim Tuscany, Italy by Pier Bruno Scortecci Via Erbosa, 15 52100 Arezzo, Italy and Mauro Tazzini
Journal (issue)
nature took to create the Apuan Alps from which Carrara marble comes. Larson also believes it would be...the beach floor that holds the marcasite and pyrite nodules. Marcasite crystallises in the orthorhombic...beautiful 11 / / diameter sphere of radiating Marcasite spears. Nor was it surprising that Gary Woodall...morning - I'm not sure he looked for marcasite after that! ! Marcasite stellate fivelings ~---~ / · J...everyone collected good representative specimens of marcasite encased in chalk; the mineral is best liberated
hardness and a different colour from gold). 5-6 Marcasite (white iron pyrites). FeS2. Orthorhombic. Crystals...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eocene–Oligocene of the Tuscan Domain, Adria Microplate (Italy) Alessandro Ielpi a,⁎, Gianluca Cornamusini a,b...University of Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy Centre for Geotechnologies, University of Siena...Via Vetri Vecchi 34, 52027 San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...exposed in the axial zone of the Chianti Mountains, Italy, and compose a regionally continue stratigraphic...Formation in the Chianti Mountains, Northern Apennines, Italy (Figs. 1, 2). Since the 1960s, pioneering studies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that given by Brandl. H. B. Minerals Found near Massa in the Apuanian Alps. By-A. (Juhrb. f. &Fin.,1882...16:48:55. D'ARCHIARDI valley, near Massa, not far from the celebrated Carrara marble quarries, a lode comes...composition has now been observed by Chaper in Tuscany. It occurs there in small, white, finely fibrous...analysis, the formula 3Ca0,Fe203,3Si02is deduced. Marcasite, quartz, galena, cerussite, malachite, and iron...= 100.33 = 99.87 = 99-93 H. W. Prehnite from Tuscany, &c. By A. CORSIand E. BECHI (Jahrh. f.Min., 1882
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hardness and a different colour from gold). 5-6 Marcasite (white iron pyrites) . FeS 2 . Orthorhombic. Crystals...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
 
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