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Chamosite from
Bottino Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chamosite
Formula:(Fe2+)5Al(Si,Al)4O10(OH,O)8
Comments:Often coatinng other minerals or included in quartz xls.
Habit:earthy masses; powdery aggregates
Colour:dark-green
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Chamosite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chamosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bottino Mine, Stazzema, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:83439
Long-form Identifier:1:3:83439:1
GUID (UUID V4):a2d4f814-5094-4ce2-b123-39fbd34bb9db
Nearest other occurrences of Chamosite
49.6km (30.8 miles) Cerchiara Mine, Borghetto di Vara, La Spezia Province, Liguria, Italy
52.6km (32.7 miles) Via della Sambuca U-V occurrence, Valle Benedetta, Livorno, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy
70.8km (44.0 miles) Fosso Bandita (Rio Bandita), Monte Cavalloro, Riola, Vergato, Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
76.4km (47.5 miles) Gambatesa Mine, Reppia, Ne, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
88.7km (55.1 miles) Internal Ligurian Units, Genoa, Liguria, Italy
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous through Tertiary in age (Fullagar and Bottino 1969; Tso et al. 2003) and represent the youngest...containing high concentrations of rare-earth elements. Chamosite, (Fe,Al,Mg)6(AlSi3)O10(OH)8, occurs as platy crystals...to greenish-gray to bluishgray. SEM photos of chamosite rosettes (chlorite group) are shown in figures...indicate a composition of Fe > Al > Mg; thus, it is chamosite rather than clinochlore. It is very common. Fluorite...Pseudohexagonal plates of synchysite-(Ce) with chamosite; SEM SE photo. Figure 38 (above center). Thin
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Silurian is now accurately known (FULLAOER and BOTTINO, 1968), the Upper Silurian result provides an estimate...percent relative to the results of FULLA~ER and BOTTINO (1968). RADIOMETRIC AGIES OF THE UPPER AND LOWER...Silurian ages elsewhere FULLAGER and BOTTINO (1968) and BOTTINO and FULLAGER (1966) have measured whole-rock...Chlorite, which bears a strong resemblance to chamosite, is common to all samples but variable in amount
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Högbomite yes Azurite Barite Yukonite yes Chamosite dark grey; 7 isotropic Taenite dark grey;... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample as above:
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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)...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the
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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
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mineralization in the North Range (Coleman Mine) and the South Range (Creighton Mine). The Sudbury Breccia is widely...unlike the Archean Superior Province and Paleoproterozoic Southern Province, which experienced pre-impact...Chieflakian orogeny. In the South Range at the Creighton Mine, the Sudbury Breccia hosting the Creighton Deep...unlike the Archean Superior Province and Paleoproterozoic Southern Province, which underwent earlier alteration...location of the Sudbury Igneous Complex, Superior Province and Huronian footwall units, and post-impact Whitewater
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Rocks and Minerals is in itself a veritable gold mine. Readers learn about the inside of minerals — the...is an example of a poly- tites. been found in Italy (Sicily and Romagna), Diamond is found in South...Australia, Morocco, Zambia, the Balkan countries, Italy, etc. converted into beta-sulfur (monoclinic for...France. fi? A Sulfur (ca. x 1), Belisio, Pesaro, Italy. Octahedral diamond crystal > : (ca. x 0.5) Kimberley...sublimation craters. Germany, Hungary, Japan, and Italy. of sea water. Deep deposits, due to their ASSOCIATED
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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
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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...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...provinces Polymetamorphic Caledonian-Hercynian-Alpidic province Northern Alpine chain Southern Alpine chain C
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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...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains
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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.... Filaments of silver from Cagliari, Sardinia <Italy>. The 92 naturally occurring elements The 20 elements
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...[the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE
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between the Archean Superior Province and the Proterozoic Southern Province of the Canadian Shield (Dietz...Neoarchean granitic and gneissic rocks of the Superior province (~2640–2700 Ma). In the south, it is underlain...and by granitic rocks (~2477 Ma) of the Southern Province (Fig. 1). In the Sudbury Structure, the metamorphic...base of the SIC consist mainly of actinolite–chamosite–epidote–albite– quartz ± scapolite ± magnetite...2.3.4. Basement Granitic rocks of the Superior province north of Sudbury yielded a Rb–Sr age of 2698 ±
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1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil...including amateur col- lectors, company executives, mine owners, and vari- in the appropriate position.
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and chlorites; oolitic aggregates, typical of chamosite; concretions are egg-shaped, sometimes with a...Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and...(USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual crystals have...in association with aragonite; Girgenti (Sicily, Italy) 32 Sulphur H 0- 2 * >t,;: ..,. '"' ' ...Moschellandsberg (FRG), Almaden (Spain), Monte Amiata (Italy), Juan Cavelica (Peru), (USA) • Application : chemistry
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illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...and chlorites; oolitic aggregates, typical of chamosite; concretions are egg-shaped, sometimes with a...Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, !ndonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and...(USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual crystals have...in association with aragonite; Girgenti (Sicily, Italy) 32 Native element © Graphite (Plumbago, Black
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ferrugineous minerals (glaueonite, hematite, chamosite, pyrite, etc.) were deposited as granules, pellets...Angaben von u.a. AFANASYEW U. Mitarb. (1963), BOTTINO • FULLAGAlt (1966), LAMBENT& REX (1966), C~IAUDHURI&
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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)...Formerly mined in a small district near Monte Rosa (Italy). The main source of the commercial metal, used
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are: Russia (46), United States of America (34), Italy (19), Canada (16), People's Republic of China (11)...Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece India Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moon Nu111ber of Species...uranium-mercury-molybdenum deposit, Kaiyang, Guizhou Province, People's Republic of China. Occurrence: In uranium-bearing...(trigonal) HBaAl 3 (AsOJ 2 (0H) 6 Locality: The Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, in the middle Black Forest, Germany...)(CO 3 )s(OH) 2 ·1.SH2 O Locality: T he Kamoto East mine, District ofKolwezi, southern Shaba, Zafre (Lat
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2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
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is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey ...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metallic;...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)
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is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey ...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metall...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)
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and Texas; 19261929 in England, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Holland, THE Geological ’ PROFESSIONAL RECORD:...intervening narrow valleys (the “Valley and Ridge Province’’) resulting from the differential erosion of...under various local names. The greater Appalachian province, however, is broader and more comprehensive than...to the Paleozoic strata of the Valley and Ridge Province. Colton’s paper reviews the general stratigraphic...Ridge Province. McIver deals with the turbidite facies found in the central Appalachian province. Three
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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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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...Bologna, 1873-75. Born (1773). Briefe von Wdlschland (Italy), by Ignatius von Born. 8vo, Prague, 1773. (1772-75)...pegmatite minerals together with scheelite (Natas mine, South- West Africa); in contact metamorphic deposits
 
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