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Baryte, Italy
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Here will go a good picture of a Baryte from Italy and general remarks about the Baryte from this country. Here are some url's to some of the better Italian Baryte specimens here on Mindat that can be considered for inclusion in the article. These, in most cases are just for temporary use until we can get images of the much better specimens that are almost certainly out there. We should also consider that there are probably localities out there with fine specimens that are not even mentioned on Mindat. Also in some instances there are sometimes pictures on Mindat, of specimens from a locality, but they were so ratty that I did not include them here, but there may also be really good specimens from there that we should talk about in this article.


Baryte
Italy
Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese District, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Silius, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Muscadroxius-Tres Montes Mine, Silius, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Muscadroxius-Tres Montes Mine, Silius, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Barbusi, Carbonia, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Santa Lucia Mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Su Zurfuru Mine, Fluminimaggiore, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Barega Mine, Gonnesa, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Gonnesa quarry, Gonnesa, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Onixeddu Mt., Gonnesa, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Campo Pisano Mine, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
San Giovanni Mine, Punta della Torre, Iglesias, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Villamassargia, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Monte Mesu, Villamassargia, Carbonia-Iglesias Province, Sardinia, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Vignola Mine, Vignola-Falesina, Valsugana, Trento Province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Niccioleta Mine, Massa Marittima, Grosseto Province, Tuscany, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Argentiera di Sant'Anna Mines, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
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Baryte
Italy
Argentiera di Sant'Anna Mines, Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Ital
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Baryte
Italy
Monte di Malo Quarry, Vanzi, Monte di Malo, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy
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Here are a few notes about Italian Baryte that whoever writes this article may find useful.


Italy
Sardinia, Cagliara, Silius. “Among the new items Herb Obodda had more than a hundred specimens of yellowish-white barite from Silius, near Cagliara…The crystals were lustrous, well formed, commonly on matrix and sometimes containing phantoms. The specimens were mostly small cabinet size and carried crystals to 8 cm.”
1. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 9, 1978, p.192.
Ask Herb how many of the specimens were collected and what kind of mine they came from and if there was a mine name.

Sardinia, Iglesias, Barega Mine. “The Barega mine, not far from Iglesias, is a famous for large, yellow barite crystals. Smaller barite crystals have been found in many outcrops on a small hill near Villamassargia.”1
1. Mineralogical Record, Gianni Porcellini, Vol. 15, 1984, p.372.
The address of Gianni Porcellini is given as via Giarabub, 6, 47047 Rimini, Italy. See if you can find out how big the crystals and specimens get and what the production of this kind of specimen was.

Sardinia, Iglesias, Villa Margarosa Cave. “Golden, transparent, zoned tabular xls to 2 cm in group. Common.”1
1 Bill Dameron, personal communication, 2003, description of a specimen in his collection.
See if you can find out more about this locality.

Sardinia, Iglesias, Mount Onixedou. “Clear prismatic xls to 3 cm matrix, 4.5x7cm. Scarce?”1
1 Bill Dameron, personal communication, 2003, description of a specimen in his collection.

Sardinia. “Kristalle imported some very find specimens of blue barite crystals to several inches on large pieces of matrix from Sardinia. The crystals are moderately thin and stand up handsomely on the matrix. No small specimens were available but the cabinet pieces were superb.”1
1. Mineralogical Record, Vol. 8, 1977, p.282.
Ask Donna what the locality was and the dimensions, cost etc. How many specimens, what was the locality etc.

Italy
Sardinia “Perhaps the one big hit at Altdorf was a fine collection of yellow barite from the island of Sardinia, Italy, offered by (naturally) an Italian dealer. The attractive, well formed transparent to translucent, bladed crystals were up to 1 cm in thickness and from 3 to 10 cm in length. A few were on a rather clear fluorite matrix and in general all were showy spei8cmens. Now that I think about it I believe this barite has been the best new material to appear on the European scene so far this fall. Unfortunately only a limited quantity has been available and they are expensive even by European standards.”1 No other locality name was given by Bob Sullivan in this note which was not unusual for Bob’s reporting of show news. See the note about Bob under barites from Cavnic Roumania.
1 Mineralogical Record, Vol. 10, 1979, p 122.



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Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2012 08:52PM by Rock Currier.

Mt. Cengio, Zuccanti Valley, Mercanti Valley, Torrebelvicino, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

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Magrè Mt., Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy

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Cuasso al Monte, Ceresio Valley, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy

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Brosso Mine, Cálea, Léssolo, Canavese District, Torino Province, Piedmont, Italy

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Schio-Valdagno tunnel, Vicenza province, Veneto, Italy

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Dialer Bohlen, Ortisei (St Ulrich), Siusi Alp (Seis Alp), Gardena Valley (Gröden Valley), Bolzano Province (South Tyrol), Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

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Attrezzatura e tecnica sono solo l'inizio. È il fotografo che conta più di tutto. (John Hedgecoe)

Thanks Matteao,
The person who writes the article gets to pick the pictures and he may use some of the pictures you suggest. I personally am partial to whole specimen pictures rather than close up pictures where you can only see part of the specimen.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.

yes but some localitys not have biggest specimens

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Attrezzatura e tecnica sono solo l'inizio. È il fotografo che conta più di tutto. (John Hedgecoe)

Matteo,
Yes, many localities do not have big baryte crystals or fluorite or calcite or quartz crystals. We cant list them or or show pictures of them all, There are just too many. If a good reason can be given to include such barytes with small crystals they will be included. In the list of baryte images above I have included a number of pictures with very small baryites.

Rock Currier
Crystals not pistols.