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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Pyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:160266
Long-form Identifier:1:3:160266:1
GUID (UUID V4):b7a6fdaf-9e84-4681-88b9-c75458a22fbb
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
8.5km (5.3 miles) Quaratica, Riccò del Golfo (Seramaì), La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
8.7km (5.4 miles) Rossola Mine, Bonassola, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
10.7km (6.6 miles) Prae Quarry, Framura, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
12.6km (7.9 miles) Piazza Mine, Deiva Marina, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
13.5km (8.4 miles) Airola, Sesta Godano, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
16.4km (10.2 miles) Missano, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
17.9km (11.1 miles) Fiume, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
19.1km (11.9 miles) Monte Pu, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
19.4km (12.0 miles) Monte Alpe Mine, Mt. Alpe, Maissana, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
19.8km (12.3 miles) Campegli Mine (Sant'Elena Mine), Campegli, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
References
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Catalog/List
flat calcite-- attractive piece 6x4. Whitesmith Mine Stontian Scotland £25 7 ElJDIAL YTE rich red masses...all over the top surface 4x3cm Cassagna Mine, Ne Liguria Italy £ 25 14 STRONTIO-ORTHO JOAQU1N1TE one yellow...pinkish micro crystals on Boracite crystals Boulby mine Loftus Yorkshire 3x2cm £18 16 PRICEITE hard white...crystal sections on lx2cm surface Molinello Mine, Val Graveglia Italy £8 18 NATIVE COPPER a cleaned piece 8x5cm...Braunite, Piemontite and quartz Praboma Mine, St Marcel ,Aosta Italy 3.5 x3cm £12 25 RHODIZlTE glass tube
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Belloite Cu(OH)Cl M ONOCLINIC Locality: An abandoned mine about 3 km west southwest of the village of Sierra...Biehlite (Sb,As)2MoO6 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia (probably from the third oxidation...OH)2 M ONOCLINIC Locality: The abandoned manganese mine near Falotta, Graubünden, Switzerland. Occurrence:...ETRAGONAL Locality: The Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona village, val di Vara, La Spezia, northern Apennines...Apennines, eastern Liguria, Italy. Occurrence: Filling microfractures and veins (from 0.1 to some millimeters
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Braunite 3x2.5cm £60 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) £30 4 TIRAGALLOITE sample...section. The largest crystal is 1.5cm high Telirio Mine, Linopolis Minas Gerais Brazil with previous dealers...It's about 1mm thick Cassagna Mine, Ne ,Graveglia Valley, Liguria Italy, I collected it in 2019 . £18...reverse side. overall size 11x 8cm Star of the Congo mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga DR Congo £80 13 VANADINITE
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I .0I 7(30,666,10.2.2). The mineral occurs with pyrite, sphalerite,galena,ferThe mineral occursin late...Maykain (northeasternKazakhstan), yang, Guizhou Province, China. The new name alludes Tsumeb (Namibia)...less commonly in tennantite, sphalerite, barite, pyrite, galena,chalcocite,luzonite, stromeyerite,stephanGermanocolusite*...(1993) Mozartite, a new mineral speciesfrom Cerchiara, La Spezia. Revista Mineral. reous luster, nonfluorescent...a new mineral speciesfrom the Cerchiara mine, northern Appenines, Italy. Can. X : c. Single-crystalX-ray
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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
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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 [ / ,
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minerals Review Lithium Occurrence in Italy—An Overview Andrea Dini 1 , Pierfranco Lattanzi 2 , Giovanni...Headquarters, CNR, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, 56124 Pisa, Italy; andrea.dini@igg.cnr.it (A.D...Territorial Unit, CNR, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, 50121 Florence, Italy; pierfrancolattanzi@gmail...Correspondence: giovanni.ruggieri@igg.cnr.it Abstract: Italy has no record of Li production, even though it is...associated with Late Paleozoic magmatic rocks. In Italy, such rocks occur extensively in Sardinia and Calabria
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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
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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...transparent with a colorless to tan streak (Cerchiara mine) or pale green-blue streak (Esquire No. 1,...analyses of the cerchiaraite-(Fe) from the Cerchiara mine is [wt% (range)]: Na2O 0.05 (0.00–0.13), BaO
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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) ½X½ EJ.SO 1 X½ 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) ½" size El.SO lxl f4 lx2 ED 231
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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...Burnett, J. L., and Brady, J, 1990, Cactus Gold Mine, Kem County, California, California Geology, April
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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...deposits within metacherts at Gambatesa Mine, Val Graveglia, Italy. Primary sedimentary Mn-oxide and hydroxide...were found in Val Graveglia (Gambatesa mine, Eastern Liguria, Italy). In the braunite + quartz ores, interbedded
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humor was evident when he salted our hole with pyrite to see if we would spot it. (Continues on page...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...(Continues on next page) Mineral News 8 The amethyst mine is located about six miles west of Red feather lakes...11po~;11m.s .uul t~ollecting nips ro q11.111·ies,mine clumps, .u1d mines .,cross the co,mr')·. FM lus
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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...in the ophiolitic sequences from the Eastern Liguria (Italy) are well known for the abundance of mineral
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...in the ophiolitic sequences from the Eastern Liguria (Italy) are well known for the abundance of mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
direct association with cerchiaraite-(Fe), diopside, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite, and witherite. Itsiite occurs...and cerchiaraite-(Al) from the the Cerchiara mine, Liguria, Italy [cerchiaraite-(Fe)] and the Esquire...(Kampf et al. 2013), diopside, gillespite, pellyite, pyrite, quartz, sanbornite, sphalerite, taramellite, and...direct association with cerchiaraite-(Fe), diopside, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite, and witherite. Crystals of...cerchiaraite-(Al), two new barium cyclosilicate chlorides from Italy and California, USA. Mineralogical Magazine 77,
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2) are isomorphic. Nambulite from the Funakozawa mine, Iwate, Japan, was first defined as a new species...crystal structure of nambulite from the Funakozawa mine and emphasized its close relation to that of babingtonite...discovered as an independent mineral from the Tanohata mine, Iwate, Japan (Matsubara et al. 1985). Mukhopadhyay...the Kombat mine, Namibia (von Knorring et al. 1978; Dunn 1991), from the Cerchiara mine, Italy (Balestra... nambulite was discovered from the Fianel Fe-Mn mine, Val Ferrera, Graubünden, Switzerland (Nagashima
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Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...Ca2B4O4(OH)7Cl·7H2O Locality: Salar de Carcote deposit, El Loa province, Antofagasta, Chile. Description: Colourless crystal...borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta province, Argentina (type locality). Description: Colourless...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:...District, Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar. Description: Grey grains from the
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MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...CCM CM DANR EJM JMPS MM MP NJMA ZRMO Republic province prefecture county departement departamento
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Cabezo Agudo, Spanje . Uit de reeks "Las minas de La Union Portman" . Tekening Dioni . geonieuws 79(4).... 9-18/11-17 h . Beurs (M) . VERONA (VR) . Fiera di Verana . COURNON ❑ 'AUVERGNE (63) . Salie polyvalente...Wij hopen ermee klaar te zijn tegen het einde van di t jaa r in het najaar zal er ook een determinatie...171-180 Update on the mineralogy of the Matub a Hill Mine . Pershing County . US A 185 . 202 Minerals of the...133 . 152 Le miniere di zinca della Val Bremban a (1) 153-156 Nuovi itinerari di ricerca nell'Appennin
Catalog/List
of matrix. Possible Augite (Near Laghetto, Rome Province I t a l y lx1 £1.25 1 x 2 £2.50 004 AERINITE...black masses i n green A c t i n o l i t e (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan Sweden) lx1 £1.10 010ALMANDINE F...Muscovite red micaeous masses on matrix (Praborna Mine,St Marcel, Val d ' Aosta I t a l y ) lx1 70p 1 x...i c h fawn massive. Xrayed material. (Sjogruvan Mine, Grythyttan , Sweden) lx1 £1.50 1 x 2 £3 2 x 2 £6...masses on Hidalgoite rich matrix. (Gold H i l l Mine,Tooele County, Utah, USA) lx1 £2.50 1 x 2 £5 223ARSENIC
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crednerite, an unknown REE mineral, powellite, pyrite, barite and galena, in decreasing abundance. Trace...Sc Ba Be Co Cs Ga Hf Nb Rb Sn Sr Ta Th U V W Zr Y La Ce Pr Nd Sm Eu Gd Tb Dy Ho Er Tm Yb Lu Mo Cu Pb Zn...crednerite, powellite, an unknown REE mineral, barite, pyrite and galena represent the minor to accessory minerals...the timok magmatic complex. Annales Geologiques da la Peninsule Balkanique 71:13–22 Basso R, Lucchetti...macfallite: new occurrence at the cerchiara mine (eastern Liguria, Italy). Neues Jahrb Mineral Monatsh 455-460
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Articles Large barite crystals from the Elandsrand gold mine, South A fr ic a .................................F. S. N ordrum & P. Lyckberg Prehnite from La Combe de la Selle, Saint Christophe-en-Oisans, Isere, France...Rock & Mineral Club Jayne Johnson Michael & Delores La Beau Lynn & Francis Mason Jan & Bob Mehney John Pierce...Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch Collection $10 v.9/#5 Turkish...(Chile) $10 v.9/#6 Libethenite (Zambia), Quartz & Pyrite (WA), Hydroboracite (CA) $10 v v .10/#5 Thomas
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Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands), L.J. Cabri (Canada)...M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo Delia Ventura (Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA)....(Canada). L.A. Groat (Canada). Alessandro Guastoni (Italy), William A. Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth...(ltaly). Igor Pekov (Russia), atale Perchiazzi (Italy). Ole V. Petersen (Denmark). Fedcrico Pezzotta (ltaly)...Potassium Praseodymium Radium Radon H In I Ir Fe Kr La Pb Li Lu Mg Mn Hg Mo Nd Ne Ni Nb N Os 0 Pd p Pt
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Jianghshan, Guangdong Province. I have seen others listed as coming from Hebei Province. Regardless of where...4 Fig. 1. Apophyllite, Jianghshan, Guangdong Province, China, photo by Dan Weinrich. neat piece. To...hall that was not quite so large. The theme was pyrite, and there were some spectacular displays with...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites
 
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