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Spinel from
Traversella Mine, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spinel
Formula:MgAl2O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spinel data
Locality Data:Click here to view Traversella Mine, Traversella, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:83653
Long-form Identifier:1:3:83653:9
GUID (UUID V4):651aef33-cc0b-423c-a5e8-d41ce135a231
Nearest other occurrences of Spinel
2.2km (1.3 miles) ⓘAjello 3 gallery, Vico Canavese, Valchiusa, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
3.1km (1.9 miles) ⓘVico Quarries, Vico Canavese, Valchiusa, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
31.0km (19.3 miles) ⓘPoggio San Vittore asbestos mine, Balangero, Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont, Italy
31.3km (19.4 miles) ⓘMisĂ©rĂšgne slag locality, ClavalitĂ© Valley, FĂ©nis, Aosta Valley, Italy
38.0km (23.6 miles) ⓘLevaz, Torgnon, Aosta Valley, Italy
46.0km (28.6 miles) ⓘCroso della Gavala plumasite outcrop, Vocca, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
49.7km (30.9 miles) ⓘValmaggia, Cravagliana, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy
70.5km (43.8 miles) ⓘMigiandone Mine (Miggiandone), Ornavasso, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
72.4km (45.0 miles) ⓘMont'Orfano (Montorfano), Mergozzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
72.9km (45.3 miles) ⓘCuzzago Mine (Freva Mine; Buùr Mine; Cuzzago & Nibbio Mine), Premosello-Chiovenda, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the iron skarn deposit of Traversella (Western Alps, Italy) P. NIMIS1,*, L. DALLA COSTA2 1 2...Padua, Italy Amici Museo "G. Zannato", Piazza Marconi, 15, 36075 Montecchio Maggiore (VI), Italy Museo...Università di Padova, via Giotto 1, 35121 Padua, Italy [Received 18 April 2013; Accepted November 2013;...mineralization from the iron skarns of the Traversella magnetite mine (Western Alps, Italy) was studied by reïŹ‚ected-light...found in carbonate-chlorite-rich rocks at the margins of the main magnetite masses, where it forms disseminations
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COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection...hold. In this photographic showcase we display some of the mineral specimens that best reflect our individual...proposal for this publication was circulated by a group of four collectors (listed below) who volunteered to
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Occurrence of Contrasting skarn formations in dolomites of the Traversella Deposit (Ivrea, Italy) Received:...marbles in the thermal aureole of the Traversella monzodiorite (Ivrea, Italy) differ by their mineralogy...zone contains clinopyroxene. The last zone is made of wollastonite (A 1), andradite-rich garnet (A2) or...grossular-rich garnet (A3). In group B, tremolite instead of forsterite occurs in the first two zones. In group...and chemical data demonstrate that the occurrence of contrasted mineral zonations in the same protolith
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Reviews—Geology of Traversella. THE IGNEOUS ROCKS, PYROMETAMORPHISM AND ORE DEPOSITION AT TRAVERSELLA, PIEDMONT...PIEDMONT, ITALY. By W. Q. Kennedy. Bull. Suisse de Mineral, et Petrogr. = Schweiz. Mineralog. u. Petrogr...interesting study of the petrography of the well-*- known mineral locality of Traversella, whence many fine...Sesia Lanzo zone of Alpine tectonics, which is considered to represent the roots of the Dent Blanche...have been invaded by an igneous mass, of post-Alpine age, mainly of quartz-dioritic character, belonging
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late-collisional plutons: constraints on the exhumation of western Alpine continental HP units a b Davide...Spalla & Guido Gosso b a Department of Geology , University of New Brunswick , Fredericton, NB, Canada...Desio’ and CNR IDPA , Università di Milano , Milano, Italy Published online: 02 Jun 2010. To cite this article:...late-collisional plutons: constraints on the exhumation of western Alpine continental HP units, International...Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in
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On {Ill} as both twin and composition plane, the spinel law, as contact twins, flattened, lamellar . ....series, with jacobsite, and with magnesioferrite. Spinel group. Occurrence: A common accessory mineral...the Zillertal, Tirol, Austria. From Traversella, Piedmont, Italy. In Switzerland, at Binntal and Rimpfischwang...elsewhere. In the Gardiner complex, beyond the head of Kangerdlugssuaq Fjord, Greenland. From Bancroft,...Lake Sanford, Essex Co., and in the Tilly Foster mine, Brewster, Putnam Co., New York; at Magnet Cove
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evidence from the skarn deposit (Fe, W, Cu) of Traversella (Ivrea, Italy) J. Vander Auwera* 1 and L. Andre 2...Abstract. The skarn complex of Traversella was formed at the expense of various rock types (calcic hornfels...contact aureole of the dioritic intrusion of Traversella (30 _+5 Ma). Application of phase equilibria...equilibria has fixed the temperature of the primary stage of skarn formation between 550~ to 625 ~ C. Similar...larger range of temperature (525~ to 300~ C) for the secondary stage. The different types of skarn (primary
Book
THE WORLD OF NATI In full color — an introduction to the reernn reste) beauty and structure of our worlds... THE WORLD MINER’ 2 | Adapted fre” ——__.afian of Vincenz. < Michele In the Earth’s crust lie numerous...easily accessible, some deeply concealed — which are of considerable value to man. They differ in their structure...individual species of mineral, which will be of value and interest to students of the subject, while...the beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy
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Reviews—Geology of Traversella. THE IGNEOUS ROCKS, PYROMETAMORPHISM AND ORE DEPOSITION AT TRAVERSELLA, PIEDMONT...PIEDMONT, ITALY. By W. Q. Kennedy. Bull. Suisse de Mineral, et Petrogr. = Schweiz. Mineralog. u. Petrogr...interesting study of the petrography of the well-*- known mineral locality of Traversella, whence many fine...Sesia Lanzo zone of Alpine tectonics, which is considered to represent the roots of the Dent Blanche...have been invaded by an igneous mass, of post-Alpine age, mainly of quartz-dioritic character, belonging
WORLD OF NATURE | In full colour-an introduction to the composition, beauty and structure of our worlds...easily accessible, some deeply concealed—which are of considerable value to man. They differ in their structure...individual species of mineral, which will be of value and interest to students of the subject, while...the beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, formerly Keeper of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History) and now Director of that museum. As he points out, there are not many
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Department of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences , University of Torino , Turin, Italy b Department...Department of Earth Sciences , University of Siena , Siena, Italy Published online: 08 Feb 2010. To cite this...Francis makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the “Content”) contained in...accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the Content. Any opinions and views expressed in...views of the authors, and are not the views of or endorsed by Taylor & Francis. The accuracy of the Content
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ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn...Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development of mankind...mankind as linked to the increasingly sophisticated use of metals is a theme that has been woven through this...have covered minerals critical to the availability of copper and tin for bronze and those peripherally...as those of gold and silver. Iron, however, is another matter entirely. The development of its use and
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Special Publication No.6 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits --------------------------------...London Paris Tokyo Dr. JEAN BorSSONNAS Commission of the European Communities Directorate-general for...Mineralogia e Petrologia Corso Garibaldi 37 35100 Padova, Italy ISBN 978-3-642-51860-7 ISBN 978-3-642-51858-4 (eBook)...(eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-51858-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in· Publication Data. Mineral deposits...the European Community. (Special publication no. 6 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Tectono-Metamorphic Evolution of Serpentinites from Lanzo Valleys Subduction Complex...UniversitĂĄ degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy; matteo.assanelli@studenti.unimi.it (M.A.); pietro... UniversitĂĄ degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy; gisella.rebay@unipv.it Correspondence: manuel.roda@unimi...gneisses are deformed by four ductile superposed groups of structures, associated with different mineral assemblages...assemblages point to re-equilibration at T of 450 ± 50 ◩ C and P of 0.8 ± 0.3 GPa, under blueschist/epidote
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selected to disperse the very fine collection of Mr. John Parnau of Stockton, California. Mr. Parnau has been...has amassed one of the finest system atic collections in the West. The major part of the collection is... editor & publisher affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy John S. White, Jr. Division o f M ineralogy...atural H istory) Hydroboracite from the Thompson Mine, Death Valley... 21 James W. M inette David P. W...welcomed, but accep­ tance is subject to the approval of the editorial board. They should be mailed to the
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ColorTreasury of CRYSTALS Digitized bv the Internet Archive 1t CRYSTALS SYMMETRY IN THE MINERAL...The meaning of What 7 8 is 'crystal' a crystal? Symmetry and symbolism The shapes of crystals 10...Triclinic system Development of crystals Twinning 15 Aggregates Regular growth of crystals All photographs...by Carlo Bevilacqua Translated from the Italian of Vincenzo De Michele © Orbis Publishing Limited...1967 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara 1972 by Crown Publishers Inc Translation Library of Congress Catalog
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principles of the subject and enables the reader to grasp some of the fundamental concepts of the structure...structure of crystals: Bravais lattices, Miller indices, symmetry, and _ . the brilliant theories of the...‘father of crystallography’, Rene-Just Hauy. The introductory text is a curtain-raiser for one of the finest...finest collections of crystal colour photographs ever assembled. SBN: 0 85613 108 3 CRYSTALS SYMMETRY...15 The meaning of ‘crystal’ What is a crystal? Symmetry and symbolism The shapes of crystals Crystallographic
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reserved. Articles About mineral collecting—Part 5 of 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, from the Machacamarca mine (Viboras Vein), near Colavi, Potosí Department,...the thorny concept of “fairness” in the pricing of mineral specimens. This is one of those interesting...deep questions in collecting that causes all sorts of reactions in readers, depending upon their personal...First of all, one needs to decide whether “fairness” should be an issue at all. The concept of fairness
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the author of specimens in his collection T he epidote group consists of twenty minerals, of which epidote...allanite series are best known to collectors. Many of these minerals form well-crystallized specimens,...decorator pieces. Allanites are of particular interest to collectors of radioactive species and rare-earth...rare-earth minerals. Zoisite, the orthorhombic polymorph of clinozoisite, is an important gem mineral for faceting...longer a member of the group according to recently approved nomenclature. Taxonomy of the Epidote Group
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easily accessible, some deeply concealed-which are of considerable value to man. They differ in their structure...individual species of mineral, which will be uf value and interest to students of the subject, while...the beauty of the mineral kingdom. The foreword is by Dr G. F. Claringbull, for:merly Keeper of Mineralogy...British Museum (Natural History) and now Director of that museum. As h'e points out, there are not many...provides an opportunity to study at leisure some of the best specimens, which few people have the opportunity
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