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Fluorapatite from
Mt Calvario, Biancavilla, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Fluorapatite
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorapatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mt Calvario, Biancavilla, Metropolitan City of Catania, Sicily, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:436395
Long-form Identifier:1:3:436395:8
GUID (UUID V4):b27c6315-2d36-4470-bc99-38d70a56638d
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorapatite
61.0km (37.9 miles) Grotta Scrivilleri, Priolo Gargallo, Syracuse Province, Sicily, Italy
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Halogen-dominant mineralization at Mt. Calvario dome (Mt. Etna) as a response of volatile flushing into the magma...exceptional occurrence of fluorine-rich mineral phases in the benmoreitic lava dome of Mt. Calvario (south-western...(south-western flank of Mt. Etna) has given the opportunity to understand the genetic process allowing their crystallization...namely: plagioclase, clinopyroxene, olivine, fluorapatite and iron oxides as primary assemblage, whereas...particularly fluorine and chlorine concentrations of the whole rock are significantly higher than other
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
10.3749/canmin.1400039 As-RICH APATITE FROM MT. CALVARIO: CHARACTERIZATION BY MICRO-RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY...investigate content and localization of arsenic in natural fluorapatite, a micro-Raman spectroscopic study...on As-rich fluorapatite crystals from the volcanic region of Mt. Calvario (Mount Etna, Italy). The crystals...rocks, show a pure fluorapatite composition in the core, but an arsenic content of up to 15 wt.% As2O5...As2O5 in the rim of the crystals from the altered lavas. [AsO4]3− ⇔ [PO4]3− substitutions are proposed on
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Fluorophlogopite from Piano delle Concazze (Mt. Etna, Italy): Crystal chemistry and implications for the...Bari, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Catania, Corso...Corso Italia 57, I-95129 Catania, Italy 3 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra-Sapienza Università di Roma...Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Roma, Italy 2 Abstract Fluorine is an important proxy for magmatic...processes in the shallow parts of volcanic plumbing systems. Fluorphlogopite is one of the more important fluorine
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HAURI2, J.A. VAN ORMAN3 1 AND M.J. RUTHERFORD Dept. of Geol. Sc., Brown University, RI, 02912, USA (*correspondence:...edu) 2 DTM, Carnegie Institute of Washington, DC, 20015, USA 3 Dept. of Geol. Sc., Case Western Reserve...understanding the evolution of planetary bodies. Here we present the isotopic composition of hydrogen dissolved...olivine-hosted melt inclusions to establish the source of the lunar magmatic water. These volcanic glasses...by the Apollo 15 and 17 missions, represent some of the best-studied and most primitive magmas generated
 
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