Maniglia Mt. Mine, Bellino, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy

Orange-brown akatoreite. FOV: 4.5 mm x 3.0 mm Photo with Canon Eos 600 D + Bellows * Rodenstock Rodagon 35 mm 1:4.0 reversed processed by Helicon Focus and Filter Photo and collection: Giovanni Scapin

Sony Alpha 7R ii, bellows, Mitutoyo 20x, aperture, Raynox DCR-250 retro, Stack-Master linear actor, stack shot control. A dark brown manganiakasakaite-La aggregate. ID confirmed by Roberto Bracco. Collection and photo: Stephan Wolfsried.

© Stephan Wolfsried 12/2017

Red brown crystal of manganiakasakaite-(La) in pyroxmangite. Part of the holotype rock. Acquired from New Brand Minerals. Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.

© Brent Thorne 2018

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 photo and collection Luigi Chiappino

Pale brown mass (arrow) with an undetermined darker reddish specie Collection and photo Roberto Bosi

© Roberto Bosi

Orange to reddish brown crystalline masses of akatoreite. Collection and photo by Gianfranco Ciccolini. Nikon D750, bellows, Luminar 45 mm.

Tamaite crystals to 5 mm on matrix. Specimen and photo: Mintreasure.

© Knut Eldjarn

Coarse crystal aggregate of axinite-(Mn). Museo Civico Archeologico e di Scienze Naturali "Federico Eusebio", Alba (Cuneo). Photo by Gian Carlo Piccoli, published in Piccoli, G.C., Maletto, G., Bosio, P., and Lombardo, B. (2007) Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta. Associazione Amici del Museo "F. Eusebio" di Alba, L'Artigiana Srl - ...

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© Andrew Hodgson

Orange-brown Akatoreite crystals in/on unidentified matrix Received from Stefano Del Magro on 25 July 2019 Specimen deacquisitioned

Tiny, black, vitreous, crude crystals of manganiakasakaite-(La) embedded in fine-grained pyroxmangite. Author's material, purchased from Roberto Bracco in 2018. Stack of 36 images.

© Andrew Hodgson

1.5-cm-wide aggregate of black neotocite balls. Museo Civico Archeologico e di Scienze Naturali "Federico Eusebio", Alba (Cuneo). Photo by Gian Carlo Piccoli, published in Piccoli, G.C., Maletto, G., Bosio, P., and Lombardo, B. (2007) Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta. Associazione Amici del Museo "F. Eusebio" di Alba, L'Artigiana ...

Greyish-black hollandite crystals, often segmented, in white compact calcite. Private collection. Photo by Gian Carlo Piccoli, published in Piccoli, G.C., Maletto, G., Bosio, P., and Lombardo, B. (2007) Minerali del Piemonte e della Valle d'Aosta. Associazione Amici del Museo "F. Eusebio" di Alba, L'Artigiana Srl - Azienda Grafica, Alba ...

Specimen and Photo By Bruno Marello

Black prismatic hollandite in white calcite. Photo with Canon Eos 600 D + Bellows + Rodenstock Rodagon 50 mm 1:4.0 reversed. Photo and collection Giovanni Scapin.

© 2021 Giovanni Scapin

Rare, orange akatoreite from the Maniglia Mine, Bellino, Cuneo Province, Piedmont, Italy, collected by Gianluca Odicino in 2016. My catalog number 10366. FOV 3.62 mm.

Vivid orange, elongated, intergrown crystals of akatoreite with beetroot-red piemontite in metamanganolite.

© Łukasz Kruszewski 2022

View of Maniglia Mt. (3177 m), on the watershed between the Varaita and Maira valleys, from Grange dell’Autaret. Here, the Permian quartzites of the so-called “Bande de Roure” (Internal Briançonnais) are overlaid with the basal part of the Mesozoic sedimentary sequence, which hosts the manganese mineralization. Photo: Paolo Bosio, August ...

© Paolo Bosio

August 2017 Maniglia Mt. landscape from Basse di Terrarossa ( 2832 mt. ) Photo by Giovanni and Laura Fraccaro.