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Spessartine from
Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy


Locality type:Commune
Classification
Species:Spessartine
Formula:Mn32+Al2(SiO4)3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Spessartine data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cuasso al Monte, Varese Province, Lombardy, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1017060
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1017060:9
GUID (UUID V4):55e6b2c1-06cb-4a20-bf44-047ab2318542
Nearest other occurrences of Spessartine
36.9km (22.9 miles) Ornavasso pegmatite, Ornavasso, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
37.0km (23.0 miles) Costa di Faedo (Cangei), Villette, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
40.5km (25.2 miles) Piona Peninsula, Colico, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy
42.9km (26.6 miles) Sommafiume pegmatitic dyke (Alpe Sommafiume; Marategno Mine), Dorio, Lecco Province, Lombardy, Italy
42.9km (26.7 miles) Val di Crana pegmatites, Val di Crana, Toceno, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
43.1km (26.8 miles) Pizzo Marcio South dyke, Pizzo Marcio, Trontano, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
43.1km (26.8 miles) Pizzo Marcio North dyke, Pizzo Marcio, Trontano, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
46.1km (28.6 miles) Rio Margologio, Trontano, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
46.3km (28.8 miles) Piani di Verdabbio, Verdabbio, Grono, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland
47.1km (29.2 miles) Ravinella di Sotto Mine, Forno, Valstrona, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CESIAN BAZZITE AND THORTVEITITE FROM CUASSO AL MONTE, VARESE, ITALY: A COMPARISON WITH THE MATERIAL FROM...Studi di Milano, Via Botticelli 23, I-20133 Milano, Italy VALERIA DIELLA Centro CNR per la Geodinamica alpina...quaternaria, Via Botticelli 23, I-20133 Milano, Italy FRANCESCO DEMARTIN Dipartimento di Chimica Strutturale...Studi di Milano, Via Venezian 21, I-20133 Milano, Italy PAOLO ORLANDI Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria, 53, I-56100 Pisa, Italy ITALO CAMPOSTRINI Dipartimento di Scienze della
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minerals. He currently works in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, as a development geophysicist for Chevron...zircon, allanite, anatase, scepter quartz Roberts et al. (2009); Greenwood (1964); Barker and Reed (2010)...related pegmatites, Belen Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina El Portezeulo and Altohuasi Granites...bazzite, monazite Eidam and Gotze (1991); Thomas et al. (2009); Lange, Tischendorf, and Krause (2004) 15...Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, and Cuasso Al Monte, western side of Lugano Lake, Varese Province, Piedmont region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Milano, via Mario Bianco 9, I–20131 Milano, Italy Valeria DIELLA CNR – Istituto per la dinamica dei...Unit of Milano, via Botticelli 23, I–20133 Milano, Italy Paolo OPPIZZI Parco delle Gole della Breggia, Casella...Operative Unit of Pavia, via Ferrata, 1, I–27100 Pavia, Italy Stefan WEISS LAPIS magazine, Orleansstr. 69, DE–81667...the intermediate and core-margin zones (Simmons et al. 2003). The first descriptions of these phosphates...Cavalli (1984) and Meisser & Vanini (1997). Weiss et al. (2004) produced a review of the phosphate mineralogy
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Pavia, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, I-00146 Roma, Italy 2...holocrystalline ejectum near the Vico lake (Latium, Italy). Gadolinite-(Y) occurs as poly-twinned crystals...[Ca4B5Si3O15(OH)5, Perchiazzi et al. 2004] and homilite [Ca2B2FeSi2O8O2, Miyawaki et al. 1985]. Gadolinite-group...space group (Miyawaki et al. 1984, 1985; Anthony et al. 1995; Rastsvetaeva et al. 1996), whereas datolites...usually described in the P21/c space group (Foit et al. 1973). To compare the relevant available data and
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Superior Province, in southeastern Manitoba. It occurs as microscopic inclusions in spessartine and as...lac Greer, d’âge archéen, Sous-province de Bird River de la Province du Supérieur, dans le secteur sud-est...cristaux se présentent en inclusions dans la spessartine et en cristaux distincts, tous inclus dans des...individual HREEs, such as those in xenotime(Yb) (Buck et al. 1999), are exceptional, although moderate enrichment...occasionally noticed (Vlasov 1966, Sahama et al. 1973, § Franz et al. 1996). Here we report on the occurrence
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rare-element class pegmatites in the Borborema Province in NE-Brazil?...................................miarolitic granite of Cuasso al Monte, Varese province, (Southern Apls, Italy)…………………………………………………………………………………41...The Tertiary pegmatite filed of the Central Alps (Italy and Switzerland)……………………………….44 HANSON, S.L., ZITO...pegmatitic granite dykes in the central Grenville Province……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...pegmatite of Malga Garbella, Val di Rabbi, Trento province, Italy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………165
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(Bernhard et al. 1998, MoeHoet al. 2002) - the Sc-analogue of xenotime; juonniite (Liferovich et al 1997) -...robertsite; scandiobabingtonite (Orlandi et al. 1998, Gramaccioli et al. 1998, Raade & Erambert 1999) - the Sc-analogue...(Ferraris et al. 2001, Nespolo et al. 2001, Nespolo 2004, Nespolo & Ferraris 2004, Ferraris et al. 2004, Raade...Raade et al. 2002); the scandium-dominant analogue of milarite named ofte da lite ( Cooper et al. 2005,...analogue of synthetic monoclinic ScTa04 (Kolitsch et al. 2009); the three latter from the type locality at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archean Bird River Subprovince of the Superior Province, in southeastern Manitoba. It occurs as tabular...intrusif du lac Greer, dans la sous-province de Bird River de la Province du Supérieur, dans l’Archéen du...their preference for the monazite structure (Ni et al. 1995). Monazite-(Ce) is by far the most widespread...from only three localities (Gaines et al. 1997, Anthony et al. 2000). Here we report on a new monazite-group...Subprovince of the western part of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield; the geographic location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Review Lithium Occurrence in Italy—An Overview Andrea Dini 1 , Pierfranco Lattanzi 2 , Giovanni...Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, 56124 Pisa, Italy; andrea.dini@igg.cnr.it (A.D.); eugenio.trumpy@igg...Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, 50121 Florence, Italy; pierfrancolattanzi@gmail.com Correspondence: giovanni...giovanni.ruggieri@igg.cnr.it Abstract: Italy has no record of Li production, even though it is well known...associated with Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks. In Italy, such rocks occur extensively in Sardinia and Calabria
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and photo. (b) Beryl variety aquamarine with spessartine on albite and muscovite, 11.5 × 11.0 × 7.0 cm...albite, 26 × 17 × 13 cm, Kunar Valley, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan; Joe Budd photo, courtesy of The...photo. (h) Etched beryl variety aquamarine, with spessartine, muscovite, and feldspar, 9.9 × 5.5 × 5.1 cm...millet-sized vesicles in granite found at Cuasso al Monte and Baveno, Italy. Usage of miarolitic has expanded...which the 2+ X cation is Be, and the Y3+ cation is Al in beryl. Bazzite, Be3Sc2Si6O18, in which scandium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
R+ = Na, Cs, K, Rb; R2+ = Mg, Fe2+, Mn, Ca; R3+ = Al, Sc, Fe3+, and (2) CH□ 2OR3+ = CHCa 2OR2+ [or modified...R+ = Na, Cs, K, Rb; R2+ = Mg, Fe2+, Mn, Ca; R3+ = Al, Sc, Fe3+, et (2) CH□ 2OR3+ = CHCa 2OR2+ [ou bien...written as: CH(Na,Cs,Rb,K,H2O,He,Ar) T(2)(Be,Li)3 O(Al,Fe3+,Sc,Cr,V,Fe2+,Mg,Mn) T(1)[Si O ] (Franz & 2 6...Be3Sc3+2Si6O18; e.g., Armbruster et al. 1995, Gramaccioli et al. 2000, Raade et al. 2004; stoppaniite: Be3Fe3+2Si6O18;...Be3Fe3+2Si6O18; e.g., Ferraris et al. 1998, Della Ventura et al. 2000), (ii) so-called “T-beryl”, with dominant
Book
Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy : Mondadori, 2003. [256] p. : col. photos. ; cm...Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8-9: Beryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42-43: Silver...Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech...crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TO THE READER The 288 mineralogical species
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hydrothermal) based on differences in their Mg/Fe and Al/Si ratios. In marine environments, berthierine is...1979), brackish cold-water sediments (Rohrlich et al., 1969), and coal measures (Iijima and Matsumoto...rocks (Ruotsala et al., 1964), volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits (Slack et al., 1992), sedimentary...an alteration product of cordierite (Povondra et al., 1984; Abad-Ortega and Mieto, 1995; Jobin-Bevans...Jobin-Bevans and Černý, 1998) and sekaninaite (Guastoni et al., 2004). Wise and Černý (1990) reported intermixed
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ET AL. TABLE 1. Minerals of the gadolinite supergroup and their structural formulae (Bačík et al., 2017)...The newly-defined gadolinite supergroup (Bačík et al., 2017) includes silicates, phosphates and arsenates... Mn2+, Zn, Cu, Al; Q: Be, B > Li; T: Si > P, As, B, Be, S; j: O, OH > F (Bačík et al., 2017). Based on...1965; Vorma et al., 1966; Nilssen, 1973; Bergstøl and Juve, 1988; Smeds, 1990; Kjellman et al., 1999; Pezzotta...Pezzotta et al., 1999; Miyawaki et al., 2007; Škoda et al., 2012, 2015; Pieczka et al., 2015), alkaline
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have the general formula A2MQ2T2O8u2 (Bačı́k et al. 2017) where A ¼ Ca, REE (Y þ lanthanides), actinoids...Pb, Mn2þ, Bi; M ¼ Fe, A (vacancy), Mg, Mn, Zn, Cu, Al; Q ¼ B, Be, Li; T ¼ Si, P, As, B, Be, S; u ¼ O, OH...and by Be2þ in the gadolinite subgroup (Bačı́k et al. 2017). Minasgeraisite-(Y), endmember formula Y2CaBe2...members of the group (e.g., Demartin et al. 2001, Bačı́k et al. 2014). The orientation of the unit cell...has fluctuated in the past: the review by Bačı́k et al. (2014) used the P21/a setting, and the original
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2, 2015 Accepted: March 12, 2016 1242 GYSI ET AL. Geologic Setting and Lithology The Strange Lake...~6-km-wide, mid-Proterozoic (1240 Ma; Pillet et al., 1989; Miller et al., 1997) peralkaline granitic pluton 6240000...1981; Linnen and Keppler, 2002; Thomas et al., 2012; Bartels et al., 2013). Minerals that host the REE and...nepheline-aegirine syenite at Nechalacho (Sheard et al., 2012), both in Canada. Even though these igneous...thickness and are mineralogically zoned 1244 GYSI ET AL. (A) LREO Pegmatite outlines NE BZ10078 BZ11109
Book
Guastoni; Roberto Appiani. Originally published: Italy: Mondadori, 2003. (256} p. : col. phptos. ; cm....Valley, Piedmont, Italy Pages 8- 9: 13eryl from the Codera Valley, Lombardy, Italy Pages 42- 43: Silver...Mount Bregaceto, Liguria, Italy Pages 104-105: Azurite crystals from Sardinia, Italy Pages 118-119: Boracite...160-161: Elbaite crystals from the island of Elba, Italy Pages 244-245: Whewellite crystals from the Czech...crystals on quartz from Brusson, Valle d'Aosta, Italy NOTE TOTHE READER The 288 mineralogical species
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with minor and accessory muscovite, apatite, spessartine, beryl, and tantalite; (4) coarse-grained quartz-spodumene...10 cm) muscovite, beryl, tantalite, apatite, spessartine, lithiophilite; (5) quartz-muscovite lenses of...granite-syenite complex (named as Keivy alkaline province) is an essential part of the Keivy block (Figure...granite pegmatite Silicates beryl Keivy alkaline province/AR 1. pegmatite of peralkaline granite 2. quartz-epidote...perakaline granites and syenites of the Keivy alkaline province (11), spodumene pegmatites of Kolmozero-Voronja
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account for the origin of A-type granites (Collins et al. 1982; more about that theme later). In systems undergoing...Himalayan continent–continent collision zone (Deniel et al. 1987, Le Fort 1988) attest to rapid collection of...Himalayan environment of continental collision (Laurs et al. 1998). A particularly interesting case of granitic...regional scale (850°C, 5–7 kbar, according to Frost et al. 2005). Anatexis involved not only the breakdown...molten while the silicate melt was present. Frost et al. (2005) have estimated that the sulfide melt may
Journal (issue)
with the exception of one sample from Baveno, Italy, a lower Yb2O3 content. Other REEs are below the...agreement with those reported by Brethau-Raynal et al. (1979) for a pulverized single crystal of pure synthetic...crystals; this was demonstrated by Brethau-Raynal et al. (1979) on orientated crystals of Figure 7: Raman...earlier studies as discussed by Brethau-Raynal et al. (1979). The Raman spectrum reported in the Renishaw...Benfanamo? 5 Montana 6 Kola 7 Baveno 8 Cuasso al Monte 9 SiO2 37.59 40.44 41.29 41.9 44.63
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[the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...8:287-293 Minerals of the Alpine rodingites of Italy (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 10:85-89 Micromounting in... J. F. Cooper, Jr. & J. S. White, Jr.) 6:180-183 AL YES, JEANETE --with J. P. Cassedanne: Apatite and...Caimcross: Gold in South Africa 23:209-225. 23:228 Al 'JAJ\ABO~OINA The Anjanabonoina pegmatite. Madagascar
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Cs, Mg, Fe, Sc in beryl I and II; Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, Al in bazzite III; REE in milarite-agakhanovite-(Y)...in Fe/Mn in helvite-danalite and high variation of Al in bohseite-bavenite series. Replacement reactions...early tourmaline crystallization affected activity of Al in the parental medium and thus may have controlled...primary Be-minerals (beryl – higher Al, helvite-danalite – lower Al) which crystallized later. Secondary...Ca in fluids. Variations in chemical composition (Al contents) of bohseite-bavenite series were controlled
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supergroup (Armbmster et al., EJM 18, 551-567, 2006), sapphirine supergroup (Grew et al., MM 72, 839-876, 2008)...sulfosalts (Moelo et al., EJM 20, 7-46, 2008), alunite supergroup (Bayliss et al., MM 74, 919-927, 2010)...supergroup (Pasero et al., EJM 22, 163-179, 2010), pyrochlore supergroup (Atencio et al., CM 48, 673-698,...supergroup (Henry et al., AM 96, 895-913, 2011), amphibole supergroup (Hawthorne et al., AM 97, 2031-2048...heteropolymolybdates (Kampf et al., MM 76, 1175-1207, 2012), hydrotalcite supergroup (Mills et al., MM 76, 12891336
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Major reservoirs in the continental crust include Al-rich sedimentary rocks (pelites) and their metamorphic...Grew 2002; London and Evensen 2002; Raimbault et al. 1995). Felsic magmatic rocks are commonly characterised...Beus 1966; Burt et al. 1982; Engell et al. 1971; London and Evensen 2002; Ludwig et al. 1980; Markl 2001;...2001; Rao et al. 2011; Voncken et al. 1986; Yarmolyuk et al. 2011) or hydrothermal origin, or a mixture... Burt and Sheridan 1987; Lindsey 1977; Ludwig et al. 1980; Wood 1992). Beryllium metasomatism in metamorphic
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(Heftetjern = bulk mean 53 ppm Sc; Rosing-Schow et al., 2020) define both rocks as Sc-enriched compared...Heftetjern pegmatite (4.1 wt.% K2O; Rosing-Schow et al., 2020) compared to the high K2O content of the Sc-poor...Sc-poor Kleppe quarry (7.4.wt% K2O; Rosing-Schow et al., 2020) indicate that the Heftetjern pegmatite melt...15%) compared to the Kleppe quarry (<5%) (Kushiro et al., 1996). This suggests that the Sc enrichment in... REE and Mo (Černý, 1991b; Simmons et al., 2003; Glover et al., 2012). Because of the elevated abundances
 
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