Cassagna Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

short orange crystals of tiragalloite up to 0.49 mm Photo Matteo Chinellato Collection Domenico Preite

© Matteo Chinellato

Bronze wallkilldellite rosette on jasper. Sony Alpha 7R ii/Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 20 / Achromatic doublet retro/"Stone Master Stack Unit" Linear-actor & Control/ Aperture. Photo & Collection: Christophe Boutry.

© Christophe Boutry

Colorless bladed manganonewberyite with cream-colored niahite and blue sampleite from the Cassagna Mine in Liguria, Italy. This is a photo of the holotype specimen (LANHM #65733) taken by Tony Kampf and uploaded with his kind permission. Keywords: manganese, phosphate, hydrous, type locality, secondary.

© Tony Kampf

Brown, fibrous pumpellyite-(Mn2+) from the Cassagna Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy, collected by Gianluca Odicino in 2018. FOV 3.27 mm.

Foliaceous crystals of ranciéite like a crown over nsutite (visual ID; this paragenesis is common and well-known at the locality). Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Turquoise tabular crystals in spherical aggregates. (size group 1 mm) Collection G. Odicino. Photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Cassagnaite, bright yellow V-shaped crystal group on drusy quartz. Specimen collected circa 1996. Field of view 1.3 mm. Collection and photo R. Bracco.

© Roberto Bracco

Volborthite microcrystalline crusts on matrix - Ruler in cm - Former collection Nedo Garzetti Sept 2004

© Dott. Geol. Marco Barsanti - geoman1@tin.it

Light brown radiating aggregates, with conichalcite. Field size 7 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Blue sprays of connellite with mossy green volborthite. Field size 4 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino

© G. Armellino

Green-turquoise chalcophyllite crystal on volborthite, with light blue unknown. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Prismatic, yellow cassagnaite crystals on drusy quartz with piemontite(-Sr?). Specimen collected circa 1996. Field of view 1.6 mm. Collection and photo R. Bracco.

© Roberto Bracco

Crystals size 1 cm. Photo and collection Giovanni Fraccaro.

© Giovanni Fraccaro

Green spheres of cornwallite with volborthite. Field size 5 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Light green acicular zálesíite crystals with globules of cornwallite. Field size 4 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Scattered 0,1 mm yellow crystals of Cassagnaite (IMA 2006-019a) from the type locality with red piemontite and small crystals of quartz. Field of view: 1,5 mm. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

© Knut Eldjarn

Green spheres of cornubite with volborthite. Field size 4 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Green tabular crystals, (xls size 0,2 mm about) with red cuprite and yellow volborthite. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Green prismatic crystals of conichalcite with Mn-oxides. Field size 7 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Yellow micro-crystals of pharmacosiderite. Field size 3 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Yellow crystalline crust of manganberzeliite with radiating turquoise tyrolite. Field size 4 mm. Collection and photo G. Armellino.

© G. Armellino

Crystals size 1,3 cm. Photo and collection Giovanni Fraccaro.

© Giovanni Fraccaro

SIZE 3 x 7,5 cm, whith crystal of quartz till 4 mm about Photo and coll. Christian Mariotti

© Mariotti Christian

Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

dimension area mm. 2 x 2 little orange crystals photo G. Fretti collection Luigi Chiappino

Laminar, rarely radiated pistachio green crystal clusters of a pair of millimeters on matrix. 8x6 mm the field in photo. 7x5x2 cm the specimen. In my personal Italia suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

Botryoidal, pink to orange, on the typic rich in Mn matrix. 3 cm the field in photo. In my personal italian suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

dimension crystal mm 0,2

Green crystals of conichalcite on braunite matrix. Image width 10 mm. Photo and collection Giovanni Fraccaro.

© Giovanni Fraccaro

short green crystals of conichalcite area size 3.2 mm Photo Enrico Bonacina, Collection Domenico Preite

© Enrico Bonacina

Base 3 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Yellow carpholite with small red palenzonaite's crystals. Base 3,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgo Bortolozzi.

Historiated with crystal faces Crystal 3 mm long Collection and photo by Enrico Bonacina

© Enrico Bonacina

Base 3,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Light green, analyzed Conichalcite in compact Braunite matrix, rare in distinct crystals. 2 cm the field in photo. In my personal Italia suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

Specimen dimension mm 25 x mm 20 the area of the micro photo : mm 2 x mm 1 Magnification : 25 x Photo and collection Giovanni Scapin

© Scapin Giovanni

Base 3,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi. (XRD analysis)

Base 2,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Base 3,5 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Base 3 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi. (XRD analysis)

Analysed at Genova University. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Base 3 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Laminar, rarely radiated pistachio green crystal clusters of a pair of millimeters on matrix. 8x6 mm the field in photo. 7x5x2 cm the specimen. In my personal Italia suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

orange needles of Cassagnaite dimension area mm. 1,0 x 1,0 photo Germano Fretti collection Luigi Chiappino

Dark red crystals of palenzonaite with yellow carpholite. Base 1,8 mm. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Laminar, rarely radiated pistachio green crystal clusters of a pair of millimeters on matrix. 8x6 mm the field in photo. 7x5x2 cm the specimen. In my personal Italia suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

Analysed at Genova University. Collection and photo Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Olympus OM-10 + Rodagon 80 mm Big cluster of fasciculated crystals (PHOTO FROM SLIDE) The average crystal length is approximately 1 mm Specimen of Marco Ciuffardi Photo by Enrico Bonacina

© Enrico Bonacina

Laminar, rarely radiated pistachio green crystal clusters of a pair of millimeters on matrix. 7x5x2 cm the specimen. In my personal Italia suite. Photo Simone Citon.

© Simone Citon

This image is in the catalog of the 'Fiori della Terra' Florence mineral show, Sistema museale, Università degli studi di Firenze, 2023.

© Gianandrea Ghirri

Tinzenite crystals Field is 3,15mm large Zeiss Luminar 25mm on bellows + Nikon D5100 - Combine Z Photo & collection Chollet Pascal (# 2835)

© Chollet Pascal

Crust of micro crystalline on matrix Basic photo 4,5 mm Collection and photo by Enrico Bonacina

© Enrico Bonacina

Dendritic copper and dark red cuprite crystals on matrix. Approximate specimen size: 11.5 x 6 cm Andrea Morino collection Specimen displayed in the special exhibition titled “La Liguria e i suoi minerali" at the Bologna Mineral Show, March 10–12, 2017. Photo: Paolo Bosio, 2017.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Small darkbrown Wallkilldellite crystals with green Conichalcite crystals on matrix

Micro Crystal of Cornwallite Green Coll and Photo Bruno Marello

Field full of prismatic crystals Basic photo 4 mm Collection and photo by Enrico Bonacina

© Enrico Bonacina

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Specimen and Photo By Bruno Marello

Fan-shaped lamellar crystals of pyrophanite laid on a Jasper matrix. Analyzed sample found by Fabrizio Castellaro in 2018. Sony Alpha 7R IV A /Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 5 / Achromatic doublet retro/"Stone Master Stack Unit" linear-actor & Control/ Aperture. Photo & Collection: Christophe Boutry.

© Christophe Boutry

Collection ad photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection ad photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Group of many very good, light orange-tan Tinzenite crystals forming rosettes, associated with minor Quartz crystals, on a small amount of matrix. Personal collection of Sharon Cisneros.

© Eugene & Sharon Cisneros

Rich, dark red crystalline piemontite-(Sr) in quartz matrix. Purchased when the mineral was newly-described, in 1991.

© Andrew Hodgson

Green balls of pseudomalachite. Coll. and Photo: Bruno Marello. Ex Fabrizio Castellaro.

Collection Giuseppe Siccardi Photo Bruno Marello

© Marello Minerali

Spheres made up of tabular, monoclinic crystals of turquoise-colored gibbsite. Gianfranco Ciccolini collection, author of the photo. Nikon D850, bellow, Luminar 25 mm.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Collection and photo: Giorgio Bortolozzi.

Fan-shaped lamellar crystals of pyrophanite laid on a Jasper matrix. Analyzed sample found by Fabrizio Castellaro in 2018. Sony Alpha 7R IV A /Mitutoyo Plan Apo X 5 / Achromatic doublet retro/"Stone Master Stack Unit" linear-actor & Control/ Aperture. Photo & Collection Christophe Boutry/ July 2024

© Christophe Boutry

peter neschen collection (I-0176-05) Nikon D7000 + Sigma 150mm Apo Macro + Helicon Focus Methode B