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Hematite from
Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Hematite
Formula:Fe2O3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Aegirineⓘ4 photos of Hematite associated with Aegirine at this locality.
Brewsterite-Baⓘ2 photos of Hematite associated with Brewsterite-Ba at this locality.
Pectoliteⓘ2 photos of Hematite associated with Pectolite at this locality.
Baryteⓘ2 photos of Hematite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Hematite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (15 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160259
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160259:3
GUID (UUID V4):2c387433-c493-46c0-9320-c044d4cc3ab7
Nearest other occurrences of Hematite
6.7km (4.1 miles) ⓘMonte Nero Mine, Rocchetta di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
19.4km (12.0 miles) ⓘMonte Alpe Mine, Mt. Alpe, Maissana, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
21.1km (13.1 miles) ⓘBargone, Casarza Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
21.3km (13.2 miles) ⓘCosta di Bargone, Bargone, Casarza Ligure, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
22.3km (13.9 miles) ⓘMt. Scogliera, Lagorara Valley, Maissana, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
23.8km (14.8 miles) ⓘLibiola Mine, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
24.0km (14.9 miles) ⓘCassagna Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
25.7km (15.9 miles) ⓘMolinello Mine, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
27.2km (16.9 miles) ⓘGambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
28.1km (17.5 miles) ⓘPunta Bianca, Ameglia, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy. 2.595 (100), 3.016 (70)...07 1.14 [5.07] 98.03 (1) Cerchiara mine, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy; average of 10 electron microprobe...62O15.47(OH)9.31Cl2.22. (2) Cerchiara mine, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy; average of 8 electron microprobe...(variety schefferite), hematite, K-feldspar, norrishite, quartz (Cerchiara mine); bazirite, diopside,...Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, Borghetto Vara, Vara Valley, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy and at the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cerchiaraite-(Al), two new barium cyclosilicate chlorides from Italy and California, USA A. R. KAMPF1,*, A. C. ROBERTS2...DISTAV, Università degli Studi di Genova, Corso Europa 26 - 16132 Genova, Italy 773 Durshire Way, Sunnyvale...localities for cerchiaraite-(Fe) are the Cerchiara mine, Liguria, Italy and the Esquire No. 7 and No. 8 claims...No. 7 and No. 8 claims noted above. At the Cerchiara mine, cerchiaraite-(Fe) occurs in small fractures...00 Si 5.62 O 15.47 (OH) 9.31 Cl 2.22 (Cerchiara 3+ 2+ 2+ mine) to Ba4.00(Al3+ Fe Mg Fe Mn ) 0.15 2.40
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and Martin 2017). The Mont Saint-Hilaire pluton, La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality...of the Monteregian Hills alkaline igneous rock province of Cretaceous age. The Poudrette quarry (now CarriÚre...minerals. The Shkatulka pegmatite in the Umbozero mine (now flooded), Alluaiv Mountain, has produced the...In the Sirenevaya pegmatite, also in the Umbozero mine, serandite occurs as clusters of semiparallel yellowish-pink...the Kedykverpakhk Mountain area of the Karnasurt mine, a remarkable assemblage of rare minerals has been
Report (issue)
Diffraction Pattern: Cerchiara mine, eastern Liguria, La Spezia province, Italy. 2.731 (100), 2.671 (74)...30.92 9.27 100.00 (1) Cerchiara mine, eastern Liguria, La Spezia province, Italy; average electron microprobe...interlayered braunite-bearing metasediments and hematite-rich cherts formed as sedimentary-diagenetic deposits...Distribution: At the Cerchiara mine, eastern Liguria, La Spezia province, Italy. Name: Honors Leandro...localities of Liguria. Type Material: Museum of the Earth Sciences Department, University of Milan, Italy (MCMGPGH2018-004
Report (issue)
Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Val di Vara, Eastern Liguria, Italy. 10.06 (100), 3.359 (60)...0.15 [4.14] 101.24 (1) Cerchiara mine, Val di Vara, Eastern Liguria, Italy; average electron microprobe...analysis, (OH) confirmed by Raman spectroscopy, Li by LA-ICP-MS, H2O estimated, Mn3+ confirmed by electron...Calcite, hematite, braunite. Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, Val di Vara, Eastern Liguria, Italy. Name:...University of Florence, Italy (3164/I). References: (1) Lepore, G.O., L. Bindi, F. Di Benedetto, E. Mugnaioli
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
celadonite family from Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy G. O. LEPORE1,*, L. BINDI1, F. DI BENEDETTO1, E...5 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Via G. La Pira 4, I-50121...Firenze, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università di Siena, Via...I-53100, Siena, Italy Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Piazza...Silvestro 12, 56127, Pisa, Italy CNR, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Università di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1
Catalog/List
Braunite 3x2.5cm ÂŁ60 Scerscen Glacier, Sondrio Province Italy Mn2+,i.As5+ShO 12(OH 3 TIRAGALLOITE orange...another smaller area. Scerscen Glacier Sondrio province Italy . Mn2+,i.As5+SbO12(OH) ÂŁ30 4 TIRAGALLOITE sample...sample B) area on 1.5cm ÂŁ18 about 8x8mm orange 5 HEMATITE single black "rose" crystal about 7mm across on...feldspar with micro chlorite coating (also on the hematite) 2cm overall size. Classic alpine specimen, Cherbadung...section. The largest crystal is 1.5cm high Telirio Mine, Linopolis Minas Gerais Brazil with previous dealers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Balestra4 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Ferrata...Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 2 Centro Grandi Strumenti, Università degli Studi di Pavia, via Bassi 21, I-27100...I-27100 Pavia, Italy 3 Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via San Pietro 55, I-10073 Devesi-Ciriù...Devesi-Ciriù, Italy 4 Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana, via Delfino 74, I-17017 Millesimo, Italy 1 Abstract...mineral found at the Monte Nero Mine (Rocchetta Vara, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) having the simplified formula
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, UniversitĂ  di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy 2 Istituto...Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR, UOS di Pavia, Via Ferrata 1, I-27100 Pavia, Italy 3 Associazione...Italiana, via San Pietro 55, I-10073 Devesi-CiriĂš, Italy 4 Institut fĂŒr Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik...sequences at the Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria (Italy), in association with hematite, quartz, and calcite...the boundary between carbonate-bearing veins and hematite bands. The new mineral and name were approved
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Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5+O4)(OH)6, a new ardennite-group mineral from Italy 1 2 3 4 PrePub Article ANTHONY R. KAMPF1,*, CRISTINA...the ardennite group from the Monte Alpe mine, Liguria, Italy. It crystallized from V- and Mn-rich hydrothermal...Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell'Ambiente e della Vita (DISTAV), UniversitĂ  degli Studi di Genova...Genova, Corso Europa 26, 16132 Genova, Italy 3 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt...Palmanova 67, 20132 Milano, Italy 5 via XXV Aprile 28, 16046 Mezzanego, Italy Key-words: alpeite; new mineral;
Report (issue)
40(2)° Z = 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy. 4.51 (100), 2.592 (70), 2.574...24 7.20 21.15 58.46 98.05 (1) Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy; average electron microprobe analysis...Association: Hematite, quartz, calcite. Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy. Name:...Type Material: Natural History Museum, Florence, Italy (3133/I). References: (1) Lepore, G.O., L. Bindi
Journal (issue)
Articles The Val Graveglia m anganese district, Liguria, I t a ly .......................................Donato, Italy macco.marchesini@agip.it Renato Pagano Casella Postale 37 1-20092 Cinisello, Italy renpagan@tin...Genoa Province, Northern Italy. 1— Cassagna mine 2—Gambatesa mine 3— Molana quarry 4— Molinello mine 5—...Bianco copper mine 7— Monte Bossea mine 8— Monte Coppello-Reppia prospect 9— Monte Porcile mine 10— Nascio...Nascio 11—Scrava mine 12— Pontori Prospect h CD ^ .L IG iU R IA f \ ( I A X , X. LA SPE^IA [ / ,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cerchiaraite-(Al), two new barium cyclosilicate chlorides from Italy and California, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 77(1)...cerchiaraite-(Fe) type localities are the Cerchiara mine, Liguria, Italy and the Esquire No. 7 and No. 8 claims...No. 7 and No. 8 claims noted above. At the Cerchiara mine, cerchiaraite-(Fe) occurs as tan to brown thin...calcite, Mn-bearing diopside (variety schefferite), hematite, K-feldspar, norrishite and quartz. The origin...transparent with a colorless to tan streak (Cerchiara mine) or pale green-blue streak (Esquire No. 1,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
W here of M ineral N ames GAMAGARITE Gloucester Mine Gamagara Hills Postmasburg Manganese and Iron-Ore...& MINERALS Figure 1. Map showing the Gloucester mine and Gamagara Hills in South Africa, prepared by...Valgraveglia, Cerchiara, and Valletta mines in Italy and the Shiromaru (Hakumaru) mine in Japan. Although...gamagarite crystals, field of view 5.2 cm, Gloucester mine. and partners formed the Union MangaCouncil for...vanadate (de Villiers 1943b) that The Gloucester mine is the type locality for gamagarite, is known at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Apennine metacherts (Italy) R. Cabella, L. Gaggero and G. Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra...delle Scienze, Corso Europa 26, 1-16132 Genova. Italy (Received May 22, 1991; revised and accepted September...assemblages from Northern Apennine metacherts (Italy). Lithos, 27: 149-154. Johannsenite coexisting with...braunite (+ quartz_+hematite) deposits within metacherts at Gambatesa Mine, Val Graveglia, Italy. Primary sedimentary...were found in Val Graveglia (Gambatesa mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy). In the braunite + quartz ores, interbedded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
abiding interest in the mineralogy of the Grenville Province of New York, Ontario, and Quebec. Wayne Holt was...amounts of albite, andradite, epidote, goethite, hematite, microcline, and tremolite. The eastern contact...central metasedimentary belt of the Grenville Province in New York and Canada. Graphite, C. Although...occurrence at the Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona, La Spezia, eastern Liguria, Italy, was reported (Cabella...quartz are the same amphibole needles coated with hematite. Cafcite, CaCO,. Blocky tan calcite crystals up
Journal (issue)
area along US-6 between Spanish Fork and Price, UT. Mine dumps can be seen from the highway on the north...the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters mine (famous for an explosion on May I", 1900, that killed...mineral species from the Middle Buttes/Cactus Gold Mine. Scorodite from the Shumake deposit was described...During the summers of 1987 and 1988 1worked at the mine as a summer student intern while working on my master's...deposits consisted of kaolinite, alunite, and hematite (advanced argillic type), which was different
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Russia Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra “Ardito Desio”, Universitá di degli Studi di Milano, Via Mangiagalli...Mangiagalli, 34, 20133 Milano, Italy 2 In this issue This New Mineral Names has entries for 8 new minerals...Saima Town, ~60 km NNE of Fengcheng City, Liaoning Province, China. In the Saima agpaitic rocks, it occurs...Nikolaevich Plesin (b. 1963), a mine surveyor at the Oktyabr’sky mine and an amateur mineralogist who...the Oktyabr’skoe Cu-Ni-Pd-Pt deposit (Oktyabr’sky mine), Talnakh, Norilsk district, Siberia, Russia. It
Catalog/List
Phosphorescent s.w. lx 1.2 cm El.BO 047 BASTNAESITE Ce La C0/3 F Rich distribution of browngrains in grey YTTROFLUORITE...Bohemia,CSSR) œXœ EJ.SO 1 Xœ f5.00 072 BISHUTHINITE Di/2 S/3 2 to 3mmsilvery fibre in QuartzHagnetite-Chlorite...Ari,alteration of Brucite lMt Ramazzo,. Genova;Italy) lxl n. 50 107 CAFARSITE Ca (Ti Fe Hn ) \rseni te...orange red micro crystals in slag. (Cetine mine, Sienna Italy) 061 BRITHOLIT8 Ce. Ce ca Si0/4 P0/4 red...pure greenish Scorodite (Fe Arsenate) (Gold Hill Mine,TooeleCountyUtah) œ" size El.SO lxl f4 lx2 ED 231
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Graveglia (Northern Apennines, Italy) R. Basso, G. Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze delia Terra dell'Universita...Corso Europa, 26, 1-16132 Genova, Italy and A. Palenzona Istituto di Chimica Fisica dell'Universita, Received:...Received: November Corso Europa, 26, 1-16132 Genova, Italy 12. 1990 Gravegliaite f New mineralf Sulfite f...occurring in manganese ores at the Gambatesa Mine (Val Graveglia, Italy), associated with tephroite, bementite...bementite, braunite, hausmannite and hematite. Gravegliaite, appearing mainly as few radial aggregates of prismatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Graveglia (Northern Apennines, Italy) R. Basso, G. Lucchetti Dipartimento di Scienze delia Terra dell'Universita...Corso Europa, 26, 1-16132 Genova, Italy and A. Palenzona Istituto di Chimica Fisica dell'Universita, Received:...Received: November Corso Europa, 26, 1-16132 Genova, Italy 12. 1990 Gravegliaite f New mineralf Sulfite f...occurring in manganese ores at the Gambatesa Mine (Val Graveglia, Italy), associated with tephroite, bementite...bementite, braunite, hausmannite and hematite. Gravegliaite, appearing mainly as few radial aggregates of prismatic
Journal (issue)
then Mr. Brown took the opportunity to explain the di !Terence between a rock and a mineral. He also told...pit and saw the ore car and track but no mine. To me a mine was an underground digging but as I I ater...minerals to look for such as fluorite crystals. hematite and goethite. He a I so explained to me that there...(Continues on next page) Mineral News 8 The amethyst mine is located about six miles west of Red feather lakes...the xis are coated with a very resistant coat of hematite that requires a good soaking in a strong acid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ferrihollandite, BaMn4ĂŸ6Fe3ĂŸ2O16, from Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy: description and crystal structure CRISTIAN BIAGIONI*...Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy *Corresponding...hydrothermal ores from Vagli, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy, on the basis of chemical and X-ray diffraction...oxides, crystal structure, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. describe a phase having Ba2ĂŸ as dominant tunnel...braunite-bearing layers within hematite-rich cherts, belonging to the ‘‘Diaspri di Monte Alpe’’ Formation (Cabella
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manganese silicate rocks from the Hoskins mine and Woods mine, New South Wales, Australia Y. KAWACHI Geology...greenschist facies (Hoskins mine) and hornblende hornfels facies (Woods mine). Coexisting minerals are...Woods mine sugilite is colour-zoned with pale mauve cores and colourless rims, whereas Hoskins mine sugilite...mineral. Geologic setting Hoskins mine. The abandoned Hoskins mine is 3 km west of Grenfell in central-western...rocks that sugilite has been found. Woods mine. Woods mine, 30 km N N E of Tamworth, New South Wales
 
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