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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Orientite4 photos of Quartz associated with Orientite at this locality.
Cerchiaraite-(Mn)3 photos of Quartz associated with Cerchiaraite-(Mn) at this locality.
Namansilite3 photos of Quartz associated with Namansilite at this locality.
Aluminoceladonite2 photos of Quartz associated with Aluminoceladonite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Quartz associated with Calcite at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Pectolite1 photo of Quartz associated with Pectolite at this locality.
Hausmannite1 photo of Quartz associated with Hausmannite at this locality.
Balestraite1 photo of Quartz associated with Balestraite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:20048
Long-form Identifier:1:3:20048:8
GUID (UUID V4):797a4a3f-5439-417c-9ee8-ddbd593f14d4
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
6.7km (4.1 miles) Monte Nero Mine, Rocchetta di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
6.8km (4.3 miles) Sovrana Mt., Rocchetta di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
10.5km (6.5 miles) Scogna, Sesta Godano, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
10.7km (6.6 miles) Prae Quarry, Framura, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
10.8km (6.7 miles) Mt. Dragnone, Zignago, 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
18.8km (11.7 miles) Mt. Loreto mine, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
19.0km (11.8 miles) Ligurian Sea to the SW of Portovenere Promontory, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
19.1km (11.9 miles) I Casali mine, Castiglione Chiavarese, Genoa, 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...schefferite), hematite, K-feldspar, norrishite, quartz (Cerchiara mine); bazirite, diopside, muirite, pyrrhotite...Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, Borghetto Vara, Vara Valley, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy and at the
Report (issue)
Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy. 3.011 (VS), 3.319 (S), 2...93 0.89 [4.81] 100.00 (1) Cerchiara mine, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy; average of 42 electron microprobe...Association: Quartz, pectolite, orientite, calcite. Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona...Faggiona village, Borghetto Vara, Vara Valley, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy. Name: For the analog of...Territory and its Resources, University of Genoa, Italy. References: (1) Basso, R., G. Lucchetti, L. Zefiro
Report (issue)
Diffraction Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Faggiona, Borghetto Vara-Pignone, Liguria, Italy. 4.32 (100), 3.18...59 99.52 (1) Cerchiara mine, Faggiona, Borghetto Vara-Pignone, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy; average electron...Association: Quartz, K-feldspar. Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, Faggiona, Borghetto Vara-Pignone,... La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. Name: The prefix identifies the Al-analogue of sugilite, which honors Ken-ichi...an Al analogue of sugilite, from the Cerchiara mine, Liguria, Italy. Eur. J. Mineral., 32(1), 57-66. Mineralogical
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...No. 7 and No. 8 claims occur in parallel-bedded quartz-sanbornite vein assemblages which formed as a result
Report (issue)
= 8.690(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Italy. 2.584 (VS), 5.558 (S), 3.070 (S), 2.687...00] (1) Cerchiara mine, Italy; by electron microprobe, average of 16 analyses, H2 O by di®erence; corresponds...calcite, quartz. Distribution: In the Cerchiara manganese mine, near Faggiona, Val di Vara, Liguria, Italy... Large crystals from the Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. Name: death. For Wolfgang...his Type Material: University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. References: (1) Palenzona, A. and A. Pozzi (1993)
Catalog/List
flat calcite-- attractive piece 6x4. Whitesmith Mine Stontian Scotland £25 7 ElJDIAL YTE rich red masses...Mexico £40 9 MONAZITE one good fawn micro crystal on quartz, the monazite is thin hexagonal platy. Croft Gothal...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
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...orthoclase, quartz. Distribution: At the Cerchiara mine, eastern Liguria, La Spezia province, Italy. Name:...localities of Liguria. Type Material: Museum of the Earth Sciences Department, University of Milan, Italy (MCMGPGH2018-004
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Belloite Cu(OH)Cl M ONOCLINIC Locality: An abandoned mine about 3 km west southwest of the village of Sierra...Antofagasta, 2nd region, northern Chile. Occurrence: In a quartz – feldspar – tourmaline rock. Other associated...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:...piemontite in radiolarites. Associated minerals are: quartz, sursassite, “adularia”, kutnohorite, tilasite
Report (issue)
: (2) Faggiona, Italy; by electron microprobe, average of eight analyses, H2 O by di®erence. Occurrence:...low-temperature metamorphic conditions (Faggiona, Italy). Association: Manganite, braunite, orientite, pyrolusite...Michigan, USA); braunite, quartz, manganoan richterite, carbonates (Faggiona, Italy). Distribution: From near...Co., Michigan, USA. In Italy, in the Cerchiara mine, Faggiona, La Spezia, Liguria. Name: For Russell P...macfallite: new occurrence at the Cerchiara mine (eastern Liguria, Italy). Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh
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-Ciriè...Devesi-Ciriè, 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
Report (issue)
434(1) α = 76.54(1)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Italy. 5.52 (vs), 2.834 (s), 7.92 (m), 5.26 (m)...30.79 29.67 Total [99.24] 100.00 (1) Cerchiara mine, Italy; by electron microprobe, average of five...Association: Quartz, barite, manganese oxides. Distribution: From the Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona...Faggiona, Val di Vara, Liguria, Italy. Name: An acronym with two meanings, for the essential chemical components...mineralogy. Type Material: University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy. References: (1) Basso, R., G. Lucchetti, L. Zefiro
Catalog/List
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...ANTIMONY rich silvery cleavages about 80% pure with quartz Kalliosola Seinajoki Finland 3xl. 5cm £25 B) smaller...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
Report (issue)
615 c = 5.353{5.356 X-ray Powder Pattern: Woods mine, Australia. 2.925 (100), 2.883 (100), 6.29 (66)...(Si 1:99 Al0:01 Ti 0:01 )§= 2:01 O 6 : (2) Woods mine, Australia; by electron microprobe, average of ¯ve...braunite, quartz (Cerchiara mine, Italy); quartz, s¶erandite, aegirine, k^o zulite (Woods mine, Australia)...Territory, Russia. In the Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona, Val di Vara, Liguria, Italy. From Australia, in the...the Hoskins mine, near Grenfell, and the Woods mine, 30 km north-northeast of Tamworth, New South Wales
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ac.za SUGILITE Wessels Mine, Kalahari Manganese Field Northern Cape Province, South Africa P urple...field in South Africa and in one mine in particular, the Wessels mine (Dixon 1985). If it were not for...Natural History in Washington, D.C. The Wessels mine sugilite in South Africa sets the benchmark for...sugilite specimens from a unique find at the Wessels mine, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa. Desmond...account of the discovery and marketing of Wessels mine sugilite since the early 1980s. Almost all of the
Report (issue)
00 [97.63] (3) 19.84 6.37 100.00 (1) Oriente Province, Cuba; recalculated for total Mn as Mn2 O 3 :...andesite tu®s, agglomerates, and limestones (Oriente Province, Cuba); replacing calcite in ¯ssures and lenses...manganite, pyrolusite, neotocite, barite, quartz, calcite (Oriente Province, Cuba); braunite, manganite, calcite...Michigan, USA). Distribution: In Cuba, in Oriente Province, about 10 km south of Bueycito; and near Banes...Wessels mine, near Kuruman, Cape Province, South Africa. In the Cerchiara mine, near Faggiona, La Spezia
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GaMn(OHlSiO{A NEWMINERALSPECIES THEGERCHIARA MINE,NORTHERN APENNINES,ITALY RICCARDO BASSO, GABRIELLA LUCCHETTI...LUCCHETTI.qND LIVIO AFIRO Dipartinmw di ScienaedellnTenadell'Universitd, CorsoEuropa26, I-16132 GenovqItaI!... ANDREAPALENZONA Istituto di Chimica Fisicadell'Universitd, CorsoEuropa26, I-16132, Gewvu lta$ ABSTRACT...Mozartiteoccursat theCerchiaramine,Val di Vara,northernApennines,Italy. Associatedmineralsarepectolite,calcite...Cerchiaramine, Italy. Sol"rMerns Nous avonsd6couvertIa mozartite,nouvelleespbcemindralq d la mine Cerchiaradansla
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università 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-Ciriè, Italy 4 Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik...sequences at the Cerchiara mine, Eastern Liguria (Italy), in association with hematite, quartz, and calcite...Balestraite, new mineral, Li-mica, V-mica, Cerchiara mine, pentavalent vanadium Introduction Preliminary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maykain (northeasternKazakhstan), yang, Guizhou Province, China. The new name alludes Tsumeb (Namibia)...(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...838(l),b : 7.224(l),c : 8.690(l)A. Sfongestlinesof quartz and barite vein, Transvaal, South Africa. The new...Dequan Zhang, Wuyi Wang chiara mine near Faggiona, La Spezia, eastern Liguria, ( I 993) The first discovery
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), Università 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)
= 2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Cerchiara mine, Liguria, northern Apennines, Italy. 10.216 (100), 2.6155 (35)...15 1.32 3.17 100.00 (1) Cerchiara mine, Liguria, northern Apennines, Italy; average of 7 electron microprobe...supplemented by Raman spectroscopy, Na2O and Li2O by LA-ICP-MS, H2O calculated for charge balance; corresponds...metacherts within ophiolite. Association: Calcite, quartz, norrishite, “schefferite” (Mn-bearing variety...Distribution: From the Cerchiara manganese mine, Liguria, northern Apennines, Italy. Name: Honors Robert
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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: Honors...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 [ / ,
 
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