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Aragonite from
Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Autonomous Region
Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sulphurā“˜428 photos of Aragonite associated with Sulphur at this locality.
Celestineā“˜35 photos of Aragonite associated with Celestine at this locality.
Calciteā“˜24 photos of Aragonite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Bitumen19 photos of Aragonite associated with Bitumen at this locality.
Melanophlogite5 photos of Aragonite associated with Melanophlogite at this locality.
Gypsumā“˜4 photos of Aragonite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Aragonite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Limestone3 photos of Aragonite associated with Limestone at this locality.
Thomsonite Subgroup1 photo of Aragonite associated with Thomsonite Subgroup at this locality.
Thaumasite1 photo of Aragonite associated with Thaumasite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sicily, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:972596
Long-form Identifier:1:3:972596:6
GUID (UUID V4):0ce61dae-fcc7-4392-99f6-6f71f57390d3
Localities for Aragonite in this Region
Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Agrigento (Girgenti), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Cozzo Disi Mine (Cozzodisi Mine), Casteltermini, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Cattolica sulphur mines, Cattolica Eraclea (Cattolica), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Cianciana, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Cianciana sulphur mines, Cianciana, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Falconera mines (Faconera Grotticelli group), Cianciana sulphur mines, Cianciana, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Savarini Mine, Cianciana sulphur mines, Cianciana, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Comitini, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Stretto Cuvello Mine, Comitini, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Favara, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Lucia Mine, Favara, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Baia dei conigli, Lampedusa (Lampedusa Island), Pelagie Islands (Pelagian Islands), Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Racalmuto sulphur mines, Racalmuto, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Trabonella Mine, Caltanissetta, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
Cozzo Tondo Mine (Cozzotondo Mine), Milena, Caltanissetta Province, Sicily, Italy
Giumentaro Mine, Capodarso, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Floristella Mine, Enna, Enna Province, Sicily, Italy
Aci Trezza (Acitrezza), Aci Castello, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Cyclopean Islands (Cyclopean Isles), Aci Trezza (Acitrezza), Aci Castello, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Rupe di Aci Castello, Aci Castello, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Acireale (Aci Reale), Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Palagonia, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Mount Caliella, Palagonia, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Stromboli Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy
La Fossa crater, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy
Faraglioni di Levante, Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy
Faraglione Nico, Faraglioni di Levante, Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy
Grotta dell'Allume, Faraglione Nico, Faraglioni di Levante, Porto Levante, Vulcano Island, Lipari, Eolie Islands (Aeolian Islands), Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy
San Carlo Mine, Contrada Montagne, Fiumedinisi, Metropolitan City of Messina, Sicily, Italy
Belmonte Mezzagno Caves, Belmonte Mezzagno, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Rocca Grande, Caccamo, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Poggio Balate, Termini Imerese, Metropolitan City of Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Agnone Bagni, Augusta, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy
Valle Guffari, Buscemi, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manuscript Sr-rich aragonite veins in Hyblean serpentinized peridotite xenoliths (Sicily, Italy): Evidence for...Carbone , Sr-rich aragonite veins in Hyblean serpentinized peridotite xenoliths (Sicily, Italy): Evidence for...MANUSCRIPT Sr-rich aragonite veins in Hyblean serpentinized peridotite xenoliths (Sicily, Italy): Evidence for...Studi di Catania, Corso Italia 57, I-95129 Catania, Italy b Dipartimento di Scienze, UniversitĆ  di Roma Tre...Tre, Largo S. Leonardo Murialdo 1, I-00146 Rome, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Via
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
authigenic carbonates from the Malta Plateau, Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean): Relationships with mud/ļ¬‚uid...UniversitĆ  di Palermo, Via Archiraļ¬ 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy University of Brighton, School of Environment and...Casaccia PROTCHIM, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Roma, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...carbonate Methane oxidation Stable isotopes Strait of Sicily a b s t r a c t A mud volcano ļ¬eld was recently...discovered within the Malta Plateau in the Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean Sea). Box-core sediments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UniversitaƁ di Palermo, Via ArchiraĀ® 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy b Dipartimento di Geologia e Geodesia, UniversitaƁ...UniversitaƁ di Palermo, Corso Tukory 131, 90134 Palermo, Italy c CNRS-ESA 7073, Laboratoire de GeƂologie, MuseƂum...consisting of either calcite, dolomite, and/or aragonite; (3) the appearance of shallow water deposits...The Messinian basin of Caltanissetta, in central Sicily, displays the most complete sedimentary successions...exhibits a great variability in mineralogy (calcite, aragonite, dolomite) and origins of the various components
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been successfully used as a palaeoclimate proxy in Italy. To test whether Ī“18O from P. turbinatus shells...studies of modern P. turbinatus populations from NW Sicily, Tuscany and the Italian Peninsula found strong...foraging strategies from archaeological sites in Italy (Mannino et al., 2008; Colonese et al., 2009). Less...around 20 cm. The Maltese islands, situated between Sicily (90 km north) and Tunisia (350 km south), are in...crossroads of oceanic circulation systems in the Sicily Strait, which forms the boundary between the western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu AR AGONI TE PART 1: ARAGONITE FROM WESTERN EUROPE T here are many collecting...of classic localities is aragonite, this columnā€™s featured mineral. Aragonite is an orthorhombic mineral...mineral with point group 2/m 2/m 2/m. Aragonite occurring as untwinned crystals is rare; its normal occurrence...stalactitic. As mentioned, twinned crystals of aragonite are common. Repeated twinning on {110} yields...examples are the most familiar to collectors. Aragonite may display polysynthetic lamellae and striations
Catalog/List
Powder River, Wyoming Aragonite, Bisbee, Arizona Aragonite, Bisbee, Arizona Aragonite, Bisbee, Arizona Chrysocolla...Stank Mine, Cumberland, Eng. Sulphur, Girgenti, Italy Calcite, Joplin, Mo. Calcile Stank Mine, Lancashire...Girgenti, Sicily. Celestite on Sulphur, Girgenti, Sicily. Sulphur and Celestite, Girgenti, Sicily. Pryite...SwitzĀ­ erland Celestite and Sulphur, Girgenti, Sicily. Amianthus ( Byssolite) , Switzerland Section of...Carnet. Agate. Celestite and Sulphur, Girgenti. Sicily. Epidote with Albite and Calcite, Sulbach. Tyrol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alkaline lake Specchio di Venere (Pantelleria Island, Italy) and the possible role of microbial mats Marianna...90146 Palermo, Italy  degli Studi di Palermo, via Archiraļ¬ 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy Dipartimento di...nearly 10fold supersaturated with regard to aragonite and seasonally reaches hydromagnesite supersaturation...di Palermo, via Ugo La Malfa 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy. E-mail address: mariannacangemi@gmail.com (M. Cangemi)...emerged part of a volcanic structure, located in the Sicily Channel (Fig. 1). Highedensity maļ¬c volcanic products
Journal (issue)
PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Messinian (Late Miocene) events in Monferrato (NW Italy) F. Dela Pierre a,b,*, P. Clari a,b, S. Cavagna...Terra-Via Accademia delle Scienze, 5-10123 Turin, Italy CNR-c.s. geodinamica delle catene collisionali-Via...collisionali-Via Accademia delle Scienze, 5-10123 Turin, Italy Accepted 20 December 2001 Abstract The Parona chaotic...chaotic complex (PCC) from Monferrato (NW Italy) is a meĢlange composed of carbonate-cemented blocks floating...delle Scienze, UniversitaĢ Torino, 5-10123 Turin, Italy. Tel.: +39-11-5621179; fax: +39-11-541755. E-mail
Journal (issue)
collection. Chrome Diopside, Enstatite, Pearl Aragonite, Molybdenite DISCOVERY Organic Substances About...research into the volcanic geology of Mount Etna in Sicily, and assisting fieldwork study for the Open University...throughout the series, as they are needed. Prin!ed in Italy TREASURES OF THE EARTH ,s pubhshcd by 0rbos Pubhsh...worldwide: Austria; Brazil; Canada; Finland; India; Italy; Madagascar; Myanmar (Burma); Pakistan; Russia;...rocks on the slopes of the volcanic Mount Etna in Sicily (ltaly). z m Enstatite is a member of the silicate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
della Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy (Received 7 June 2013; accepted 12 February 2014;...traces of kaolinite), carbonate minerals (calcite, aragonite and dolomite), quartz and traces of feldspars...Messinian Salinity Crisis and it crops out mainly in Sicily and Calabria. Its genesis and spatio-temporal distribution...for each step) at the UniversitĆ  della Calabria (Italy). Semiquantitative mineralogical analysis of the...plagioclase); Dol ā€“ dolomite; Calc ā€“ calcite; Arag ā€“ aragonite; Gyp ā€“ gypsum; Celest ā€“ celestine; tr ā€“ trace
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
N A F O R M A T I O N , G E L A OIL FIELD, SICILY (ITALY) L. MATTAVELLI 1, G. V. CHILINGARIAN z AND D...Direzione Mineraria, Servizio Geochimico, Milan (Italy) 2 University of Southern California, Los Angeles...Formation (the reservoir rock of the Gela Oil Field, Sicily) consists of a thick dolomite sequence of Middle...features similar to the Dolomia Principale of northern Italy, is believed to represent a carbonate shelf environment...compose the reservoir rock in the Gela Oil Field (Sicily). On the basis of petrographic data, the writers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Serpentinized Peridotite Xenolith (Hyblean Area, Sicily) Alessandra Correale 1 , Vittorio Scribano 2, *...Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa, 153, 90146 Palermo, Italy; alessandra.correale@ingv.it (A.C.); antonio.paonita@ingv...UniversitĆ  di Catania, Corso Italia 55, 95129 Catania, Italy Correspondence: scribano@unict.it Received: 17...Valle Guffari nephelinite diatreme (Hyblean area, Sicily). The glass vein postdates a number of serpentine...tephrostratigraphic investigations [4] on Mount Etna volcano (Sicily, central Mediterranean area) have led to the surprising
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Late Miocene Velona Basin (central Apennines, Italy) provide evidence of unusual non-marine Messinian...degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina, 8, 53100 Siena, Italy c Dip. Scienze Geologiche, UniversitaĢ€ degli Studi...Tre, Largo S. Leonardo Murialdo 1, 00146 Rome, Italy d C.S. Quaternario ed Evoluzione Ambientale, C.N...studi ā€˜ā€˜La Sapienzaā€™ā€™, P. le A. Moro, 5, Rome, Italy Received 12 January 2001; accepted 8 March 2002...sequence in the Velona Basin (central Apennines, Italy) were used to calculate the Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca of waters
Report (chapter)
Earth history: a cooler-water phenomenon during aragonite-sea times? ANDREA C. K N O E R I C H & MARIA...(marine, marine burial and meteoric), whereas for aragonite sea shallow-water heterozoan carbonates generally...central Mediterranean area (Maltese Islands and Sicily) show that also in heterozoan shallow-water carbonates...aragonitic components as an early cement source in aragonite-sea time non-tropical/heterozoan carbonates and...contrast, from the Upper Palaeogene until today (aragonite-sea time) the abundant occurrence of echinoderms
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
- - etch pits on basal cleavage faces of, 559 Aragonite, studied using transmission electron microscopy... H. and SALVADORI, M., skarn mineralisation in Italy, 279 BOWELL, R. J., FOSTER, R. P. and STANLEY C... fluid inclusions in ultramafic xenoliths from Sicily, 183 COENRAADS,R. R., SUTHERLAND,F. L. and KINNY...A. and SCRIBANO,W., CO 2 fluid inclusions from Italy, 183 Dehydration, effect of chemical substitution...terrain in Greece, 159; in ultramafic xenoliths from Sicily, 183; in the evolution of a metamorphic fluid,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Modena, Italy 2 Dipartimento di Geoscienze, UniversitĆ  degli Studi di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy 3 CIRCe...Padova, Italy 4 CNR Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Via Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padova, Italy 5 Dipartimento...Geofisica, UniversitĆ  di Ferrara, I-44100 Ferrarra, Italy 1 Abstract A study of a representative number of...(CA) samples removed from different localities in Italy has been accomplished with a combination of analytical...produced worldwide. According to recent estimates for Italy, one of the European countries where ACMs were extensively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Lake Specchio di Venere, Pantelleria Island, Italy Marianna Cangemi a, Adriana Bellanca a,āŽ, Sara Borin...Studi di Palermo, Via Archiraļ¬ 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy Department of Food Science and Microbiology, Consorzio...UniversitĆ  degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy School of Environment and Technology, University...Venere, on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, Italy, in a setting characterized by very shallow cold...Venere, on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, Italy (Fig. 1), in a setting characterized by very shallow
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palermo, Italy ACS PROT-CHIM, ENEA C.R. Casaccia, S.P. Anguillarese 301, 00123 Roma, Italy c CNR-IAMC...per lā€™Ambiente Marino Costiero, U.T. di Messina, Italy b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...collected seawards of the Augusta industrial area (SE Sicily). In more coastal sediments, upcore increasing...background concentration estimated for the Strait of Sicily, indicate Hg contamination over time due to the...in offshore sediments from the Augusta area (SE Sicily) have been investigated. New total Hg data for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2005) 173 ā€“ 194 www.elsevier.com/locate/sedgeo Aragonite dissolution, sedimentation rates and carbon isotopes...(Livinallongo Formation, Middle Triassic, northern Italy) Nereo Preto a,*, Christoph SpoĢˆtl b, Paolo Mietto...University of Padova, Via Giotto 1, 35137 Padova, Italy b Institut fuĢˆr Geologie und Paleontologie, UniversitaĢˆt...sez. di Padova, Via Garibaldi 37, 35137 Padova, Italy d Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University...Ferrara, Corso Ercole dā€™Este 32, 44100 Ferrara, Italy Received 13 June 2005; accepted 3 August 2005 Abstract
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonates Messinian Sicily a b s t r a c t The Messinian sequence of evaporitic deposits in Italy includes authigenic...limestone (Calcare Solļ¬fero) from two locations in Sicily and bedded lime13 stone from the northern Apennines...and Evans, 1976), and the ā€˜Calcare Solļ¬feroā€™ in Sicily (āˆ’52ā€°; Dessau et al., 1962; Decima et al., 1988;...for their biomarker content. The 13 secondary aragonite (Ī“ C = āˆ’10ā€°), which formed in recent times, was...syngenetic carbonates of the ā€˜Calcare Solļ¬feroā€™ from Sicily to a biomarker study in order to investigate the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calabria, Via Bucci, Cubo 15B, I-87036 Rende, Cosenza, Italy; francorusso44@gmail.com (F.R.); miriello@unical...and Alpe di Specie erratic boulders (South Tyrol, Italy) offer a unique example for studying the relationship...matter; bacteria; dolomitization; Carnian; dolomite; Italy 1. Introduction Dolomite forms in many different...formed from a carbonate precursor (calcite or aragonite) through a dolomitization process. Geosciences...of the meta-stable calcium carbonates, such as aragonite and high-Mg calcite. Seawater is the ideal source
Report (volume)
A N N A N T E Universita Federico II di Napoli, Italy 2006 Published by The Geological Society London...Early Miocene of the Sarcidano area (Sardinia, Italy) 35 KERSHAW, S. & GUO, L. Pleistocene calcified...of Naples and Pozzuoli (northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) 85 MASSARI, F. & CHIOCCI, F. Biocalcarenite and...microtidal, Mediterranean Quaternary settings of Sicily REUTER, M., BRACHERT, T.C. & KROEGER, K.F. Shallow-marine...shelves: a case study from the Cilento area, southern Italy 179 HALFAR, J., STRASSER, M., RIEGL, B. t~ GODINEZ-ORTA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Triassic-Jurassic peritidal succession in western Sicily Simona Todaro a,āŽ, Manuel Rigo b,c, Vincenzo Randazzo...of Palermo, Italy Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Italy c IGG ā€“ CNR, Italy d d-INGV Palermo...Palermo, Italy b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 29 January 2018 Received in revised...extinction Carbon isotopes Acidiļ¬cation Western Tethys Sicily a b s t r a c t A new Ī“13Ccarb curve was obtained...from an expanded peritidal succession in western Sicily and was used to investigate the relationships between
Report (chapter)
Publications Coastal elevation changes in eastern Sicily: implications for volcano instability at Mount...17, 2014 Coastal elevation changes in eastern Sicily: implications for volcano instability at Mount...UK Abstract: The eastern flank of Mount Etna, Sicily has been recognized as being unstable, and three...coastline of Sicily as determined from palaeoshoreline data. The south-eastern coastline of Sicily (Portopalo...indicate that both the volcano and northeastern Sicily have been uplifted at a rate exceeding 1.5 mm a
 
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