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Montmorillonite from
Calabona Mine, Alghero, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Montmorillonite
Formula:(Na,Ca)0.33(Al,Mg)2(Si4O10)(OH)2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Montmorillonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Calabona Mine, Alghero, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:620928
Long-form Identifier:1:3:620928:5
GUID (UUID V4):68295597-2e03-4f33-84b9-898b3a827007
Nearest other occurrences of Montmorillonite
28.0km (17.4 miles) Castello di Bonvei kaolin mine, Mara, Sassari Province, Sardinia, Italy
99.9km (62.1 miles) Laconi kaolin mines, Laconi, Oristano Province, Sardinia, Italy
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 425-436 THE CALABONAINTRUSIVE COMPLEX (SARDINIA,ITALY): EVIDENCE FOR A PORPHYRY COPPER SYSTEM...Scienze dellaTerra,via delleCerchia3, 53100Siena,Italy Introduction Europeanplate,whichstartedin the Late...Calabonasubvolcanic complex.Theseinvestiga- In western Sardinia,sparseore mineral occurwith thesemid-Tertiarymagtionshaveled...distributedstockworkveins crosscuttingthe northwesternSardinia(Italy), approximately3 km volcanicformations(Cocozzaet...ofAlghero(Fig.1). Sincethepre-EtruscanandSpampanoni, The Calabona complex representsa distinct and age,the Cala
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lattanzi Epithermal precious metal deposits of Italy±an overview Received: 13 October 1998 / Accepted:...view of Italy. It was only in the late 1980s that two districts were recognized, in Sardinia and southern...UniversitaÁ di Cagliari, via Trentino 51, Cagliari, Italy alent). The onset of (presumably meteoric) hydrothermal...records and/or exploration potential are in Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Ukraina...in Italy was neglected until the late 1980s, when two main districts were recognized in Sardinia and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dataof the FurteiHigh-Sulfidation GoldDeposit,Sardinia, Italy GIOVANNI lqUGGIERI, InstitutoInternazionale...Ricerche Geotermiche, CNR,PiazzaSolferino 2, 56100Pisa,Italy PIERFRANCO LATTANZI, Dipartimento di Scienze dellaTerra...09127Caglian', Italy SILVANA S. LUXORO, ROBERTODESSi, Progemisa, Via Contivecchi 7, 09122Cagliari,Italy MARCO...50121Firenze,Italy Abstract Theepithermal high-sulfidation golddeposit at Furtei(Sardinia, Italy)contains...intoargillicalteration (markedbythe presence of montmorillonite), whichpasses to a districtwide propylitic
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to try to list all of the mining geologists and mine managers who made these visits possible and who...Netherlands-Extreme Western Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. Volume V (or Volume III, Part III) will take up...current electoral and administrative departments. In Italy the deposits are listed alphabetically, except for...east of Coimbra (N40°12 N, 8 ° 2 5 W ) in the province off Beira f Baixa and some 25 km slightly NofW...crude ore averages about 0.3 per cent of WO3. The mine can produce 2000 to 2500 tons per day of tungsten
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Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy by P. Zuffardi European part of the U.S.S.R. by...Southwest Europe embraces France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Each volume has an introductory chapter of the...Cordillera Pyreneo-Proven!yal chain Corsica and Sardinia . Mineralization in relation to tectonic evolution...Elisa and Dorinda Barruecopardo Golpejas or Bellita mine Morille-Martinamor El Cubito El Trasqui16n. Santa...Baixo Tejo and Sado Basins Silica sand deposits Italy by P. Zuffardi Introduction Geological setting Stratigraphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
acid-pillared layered double hydroxide and montmorillonite. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry...intercalated layered double hydroxide and montmorillonite. Inorganic Chemistry, 38, 4653 4658. Ingram...et al. Manasse, E. (1919) Enargite from Calabona (Sardinia). Attitude Society Toscana Science Nation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kaolinite are the dominant clay minerals, although montmorillonite, illite and chlorite are also present. Locally...by clay minerals (halloysite ‡ kaolinite ‡ montmorillonite), while sul®des have been replaced by oxides...Ghezzo C, Stefanini B (1992) The Calabona intrusive complex (Sardinia, Italy): evidence for a porphyry copper
Book (edition)
sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...small deposits are found near Pisa and Florence (Italy). Uses Native copper rarely occurs in large enough... lb) was mined. How- been from the Guanajuato mine (Mexico), about 500 billion kilos (460,000,000 tons)...day. Found in southern Europe on the island of Sardinia. Uses An excellent ore of the metal silver, but
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Prof.Dr. Juraj Majzlan Germany Dr. Mario Berra Italy Prof.Dr. Terje Malvik Norway Dr. Arjan Ciftja...aggregates in mortars: examples from Lombardy (Northern Italy) Bugini, R, and Folli, L 85 13 Assessment of...and chlorite-talc mineralisations in Central Sardinia, Italy Fadda, S, Fiori, M, Grillo, SM, and Prochaska...The discovery of a new metallogenic province in Sardinia (Italy): Au–Ag mineralisations of Tertiary age...M 229 The Roman bridge of Sant’Antioco (Sardinia, Italy): the analysis of masonries and characterization
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times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...octahedron. Elba, Italy. Below center Combined octahedral and pyritohedral faces. Elba, Italy. Below right...largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan (Premier mine, 1905), of 3,106 et., or 621.2 grams; from it were...time. Very few pipes are worth working. The Premier mine produces 1 million carats a year. Alluvial deposits:...Hematite, iridescent tarnished crystals. Elba, Italy. Ct11ter left Botryoidal, massive to finely fibrous
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and Iron Mineralization in Pegmatite at the Bemco Mine Prospect, Cranberry Lake, New Jersey. A.H. Vassiliou...Dolostones Adjacent to Mineralized Breccias (Coy Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City District) and Non-Mineralized...been instrumental in discovering the Heath Steel Mine, and we discussed our favorite professor many times...copper-uranium mine. Upon his recommendation and that of his former student, Phil Merritt, the mine was reopened...discovery to an ore deposit . The Lee Creek phosphate mine, which has been producing phosphate rock and phosphate
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Right: This silver specimen from Seed. Sarrabus. Sardinia, is called filiform from its threadlike appearance...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....appraisal. Many Right: Native mercury from Lucca. Italy. This form is extremely rare as mercury is normally...States, in California and Texas; and in Spain and Italy. Treatment. Occurs naturally in such small drops...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange
Journal (issue)
miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...crystals set in an asbestos base from Sondrio in Italy. Actinolite has high mechanical sensitivity - this...(matrix) from Balzano, Italy. Below: Note the blackness of these crystals from Novara, Italy. ~ Actinolite forms...British Columbia (Canada), in the Alpine regions of Italy, in New Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska...particularly in the Ojuela result of some chemical Mine in Durango State. reaction that has occurred Significant
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems
Book (edition)
illustrations for SELLAITE, Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores...Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utal1; in Inyo, San Bernardino,...Simon mine, Mineral AENIGMATITE County , Nevada. Magnificent specimens occur at the Ojuela mine, Mapimi
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Short Hills, New Jersey. Renato Pagano: Milan, Italy. Ole V. Petersen: Geologisk Museum, Copenhagen,...British Columbia NF Labrador (part of Newfoundland Province) MB Manitoba NB New Brunswick NF Newfoundland...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver...Lake Co., Breckenridge(*), Summit Co., Ground Hog mine(*), Gilman Co., Silverton and Telluride, San Juan...Ledge mine, Nevada Co., Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., Colorado quartz mine, Mariposa Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity
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mineral or gem society in almost every state and province, attend regular meetings, and go on conducted...by his discovery of the world’s largest diamond mine. Nevertheless, the amateur will surely find many...have come from the Calabona mine at Al- ghero on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. Similar specimens...rocks. Such an occurrence is the one at the Sullivan mine, Kimberley, B. C. 57 STIBNITE KEYS: Metallic...Johannesburg. The ranking gold mine of the Western Hemisphere is the Homestake mine at Lead, S.D. 62 COPPER
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paradamite, which was first identified at the Ojuela Mine in Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, and confirmed as a...deposits. Main Sources: ¢ Brazil ¢ England ¢ Germany ¢ Italy @ Arizona, California, Colorado, Massachusetts,...they make a new material. lite, after Torniella, Italy, where it was first discovered. eee 1O ALUMINITE...¢ England ¢ France Germany ¢ Hungary ¢ India @ Italy @ Russia Spain @ Colorado, Missouri, and Utah, United...sodium and phosphorus. Main Sources: @ Australia ¢ Italy ¢ Spain Ukraine Alunite has a wide range of industrial
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet ...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely
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Congress Catalog Card Number: 76-1419 Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara 77-04773 Content* Introduction...In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...uses are in the 20 Above: Pink dolomite from Sardinia. Dolomite is a major component of limestone in...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable
Journal (volume)
Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be found in...rose quartz can also be found in parts of Germany, Italy, Ireland and Scotland. History Many ancient examples...native gold panned from the River Orba in Piedmont !Italy>. Bismuth After mercury, bismuth is the poorest...&. A leaf-like aggregate of native copper from Italy. -· < rt- CD CD CD 3 CD ::::::s rtu, ome...iron. _.. Filaments of silver from Cagliari, Sardinia <Italy>. The 92 naturally occurring elements The
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double...MODE OF OCCURRENCE: Found in waste piles in a coal mine in the L'vov-Volynskii basin, USSR. It is found
Report (volume)
an eae eer 213 Mineralizations at the Rozalia Mine, HodruSa WU cia ORK oderay UPrcicn oa Saly, and...Stiavnica stratovolcano central zone and Rozalia Mine 18.30-19.30 Dinner 19.30-22.00 Optional visit to...groups: 7.00 - 11.30 Underground visit of the Rozalia mine; disseminated base metal mineralization, base metal...30 Underground visit of the All Saints Medieval Mine - precious metal LS epithermal veins 15.30-17.30...of the famous Tokaji Aszu vine. 220.5 Kaolinite mine of Bodrogszegi to the left. Hydrothermal and redeposited
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film. 7 GLOSSARY Collecting minerals on old mine spoil heaps, North Yorkshire, UK Glossary AEOLIAN:...and around volcanic craters. The specimen is from Italy. (L) Andesite from Mauna Kea, Hawaii This specimen...grains. Marble in thin section from Carrara in Italy shows an interlocking mass of calcite developed...very small particles of clay minerals like montmorillonite, and when wet it swells in size. When examined...radio-activity. Mineral Formation and Occurrence Carrock mine, Cumbna, UK Mineral colour and habit 52 Mineral
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one species only, or even specimens only from one mine. Whatever limits the collector imposes on himself...in quartz. A 7” rock crystal from the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California...before two slender pink crystals from the Himalaya Mine, San Diego County, California. Ordinary light is...because special pains are taken to discover and mine the deposits in which they are concentrated. Thus...from Colorado, from Baveno on Lake Maggiore, Italy, the Mourne Mountains of Ireland, Cairngorm Mountains
 
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