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Quartz from
Gypsum quarry, Sassalbo, Fivizzano, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:Colorless xls, up to 2-3 mm, associated with calcite, dolomite and fluorite, are present in the fractures of dark limestones, in the abandoned quarry. Black xls, strongly fractured, up to 8 mm long, included in microxxne gypsum, are present in an evaporites outcrop along Acquatorbida stream.
Habit:prismatic xls
Colour:colorless, black
Quality for species:Poor for species, only of interest for locality collectors. (#)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Calcite
Dolomite
Fluorite
Gypsum
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gypsum quarry, Sassalbo, Fivizzano, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:394639
Long-form Identifier:1:3:394639:8
GUID (UUID V4):d5f79a4e-fe5b-493b-9a7c-d3b85e0fb686
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
13.0km (8.0 miles) Camporanda, Sillano, Garfagnana, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
13.4km (8.3 miles) Piana del Sale, Ligonchio, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
15.8km (9.8 miles) San Giorgio vein (San Giorgio; Aiola; Ajola), Fivizzano, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
15.9km (9.9 miles) Talada, Secchia Valley, Busana, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
19.0km (11.8 miles) Monte Rosso, Castelnovo ne' Monti, Reggio Emilia Province, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
19.0km (11.8 miles) Orto di Donna, Minucciano, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
19.6km (12.1 miles) Burano Formation, Secchia Valley, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
19.7km (12.2 miles) Scortico-Ravazzone mine, Fivizzano, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
20.1km (12.5 miles) Sagro marble quarries, Fivizzano, Massa-Carrara Province, Tuscany, Italy
20.6km (12.8 miles) Sassorosso, Villa Collemandina, Garfagnana, Lucca Province, Tuscany, Italy
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Summer Field Meeting in Italy 16-29 September 1954 Report by the Excursion Secretary: D. V. AGER Director:...transgressive Upper Triassic (Noric) sea. A basal quartz grit rests unconformably on the Palaeozoic rocks...the surface the anhydrite has been hydrated to gypsum. which has been dissolved nearly everywhere. with...throughout the Mesozoic SUMMER FIELD MEETING IN ITALY 331 of this region until the end of the Oligocene...have been metamorphosed to give the famous white Carrara marble. Nearly everywhere the Middle and Upper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Black Quartz from the Burano Formation (Val Secchia, Italy): An Unusual Gem Franca...27100 Pavia, Italy A.M.I. (Associazione Micromineralogica Italiana), 80100 Naples, Italy Correspondence:...Val Secchia in the province of Reggio Emilia is rich in black or very dark quartz. The crystals are often...by collectors. Micro-Raman analyses showed the quartz contains abundant inclusions of anhydrite and graphite...chromophore elements. Black quartz formed in the original evaporite deposits of gypsum, which, due to diagenesis
Report (chapter)
materials of the historical architecture of Tuscany, Italy F. FRATINI & S. RESCIC* CNR – Institute for...Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy *Corresponding author (e-mail: s.rescic@icvbc.cnr...in the historical architecture of Tuscany, a region of central Italy characterized by a great variety...while the towns and villages of central-southern Tuscany are generally more heterogeneous, with an abundant...most common durability problems. Tuscany is a region of central Italy characterized by a great variety
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.........259 b y U. Burchard Minerals of the Carrara M arble.......................................... Elba, Italy Kongsberg, Norway Friedrichssegen, Bad Ems, FRG Taouz, Morocco Good Rose quartz Brazil...4 cm, on matrix, from San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. Photo by Rainer Bode. 260 The M in eralogical...Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy Giovanni Bracci Via dei Mulinacci, 8 57100 Livorno, Italy Domenico Dalena Viale...41 57100 Livorno, Italy F W twothousand years, the marble quarries near Carrara have yielded superb
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PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of
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MOUNTAIN GEOLOGY ’ PARTS NORTHERN 1 AND [ITALY II AND TUSCANY BY C. S. DU RICHE PRELLER, M.A., Ph.D...MOUNTAIN PaRts NORTHERN I anp ITALY GEOLOGY. II. AND TUSCANY. OTHER GEOLOGICAL SAME PUBLICATIONS...Filol. Florence.” 1881. The Central Apennines from Tuscany to the Adriatic: ‘“‘ Journ. Ital. Alpine Club,...Lake Basins of Northern Italy. The Piedmontese Alps, Ligurian Apennines, Carrara Mountains, Subapennines...idem. The Ancient Sea and Lake Basins of Central Italy : idem. Italian Mountain Geology, Part II]. Wheldon
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mines near Pinarcik in the Ilbir Mountains, Mŭgla Province, Turkey .............................. 541 by...& M. Countiss Sphalerite and wurtzite from the Carrara Marble ................................. 571 by...DIASPORE twin, 1.3 cm, from near Pinarcik, Mŭgla Province, Turkey. See the article beginning on page 541...com ItalianMinerals.com Quality Minerals from Italy & Worldwide www.ItalianMinerals.com e-mail: italianminerals@libero... was born Gabriella Katherine Loewi in Venice, Italy, on April 23, 1920, the daughter of Jewish art dealers
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stones harder than gypsum, and indeed, in popular parlance the massive form of gypsum known as alabaster...those found in the A p u a n Alps around Carrara in Tuscany, Italy. T h e purest white marble from this locality...that the first cargo of these marbles came from Italy when Napoleonic rule prevailed a n d export of Italian...Sagro near Carrara, Serravezza. dotted about the twenty-five west coast of Northern Italy. are mainly...mainly in the valleys of and also around Massa a n d T h e limestones which have suffered metamorphism may
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10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...[the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310...ALBERTINI, CLAUDIO Famous mineral localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario:...8:287-293 Minerals of the Alpine rodingites of Italy (by C. M. Gramaccioli) 10:85-89 Micromounting in...on the cause of smoky and amethystine color in quartz (by A. J. Cohen) 20:365-367 Amethyst occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Apennines and the Calabrian Arc (northern Calabria, Italy) A. IANNACE1*, F. J. GARCIA-TORTOSA2 and S.VITALE1...Scienze della Terra, Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy 2 Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Jaen...structural framework, with the metamorphic units of Tuscany and Liguria. Copyright # 2005 John Wiley & Sons...Lineament; Triassic; San Donato Unit; Verbicaro Unit; Tuscany; Betic Cordillera; stratigraphy; palaeogeography...Federico II, Largo San Marcellino 10, 80138 Napoli, Italy. E-mail: aleianna@unina.it Copyright # 2005 John
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Upper Triassic, Northern Apennines), clues from gypsum±anhydrite transitions and carbonate metasomatism...Reggio Emilia, Largo S. Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy Received 23 April 1999 Abstract The Burano Evaporite...composed of meter-to decameter-scale interbeds of gypsum±anhydrite and dolostones with minor halite. The...Homogenization temperatures of ¯uid inclusions in authigenic quartz incorporated into sulfate rocks range from 260...to 3058C (Emilia) and from 230 to 3158C (Tuscany). The gypsum rocks are composed of xenotopic irregular
Report (chapter)
Scientifico Localit& Crocicchia, 61029 Urbino, Italy (e-mail: perrone@uniurb.it.) 2Departamento de Estratigraf{a...Calabria, Via P. Bucci, 87030 Arcavacata di Rende, Italy 4Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Universitgt...dell'Universitgt di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy 5Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra dell'Universitb...Napoli, Largo San Marcellino 10, 80138 Napoli, Italy 6Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio...dell'Universitgt di Messina, Salita Sperone 31, 98166 Messina, Italy 8Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche dell'Universit&
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medieval buildings in Pisa and Lucca (western Tuscany, Italy). 3 – Green and white-pink quartzites from...degli Studi di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56100 Pisa, Italy e-mail: Franzini@dst.unipi.it Abstract: In the...Ages in the cities of Pisa and Lucca (western Tuscany), the chemical, mineralogical, petrographical and...white-pink quartzite samples from Mt. Pisano (Tuscany, Italy) were determined. Data was collected on unweathered...constituents. The white-pink quartzites have a quartz average content (71.60 %) somewhat higher than
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mineralisation and geothermal fluids in southern Tuscany (central Italy): an isotope (C, O, H, S) and Rare Earth...figures and 4 tables Abstract: Southern Tuscany (central Italy) is a mining district with epithermal stibnite...(gold and cinnabar) mineralisation in Southern Tuscany on the basis of chemical and stable isotope (C...showing the paragenesis stibnite, calcite, fluorite, gypsum and of geothermal fluids tapped by the geothermal...REE distribution pattern of calcite, fluorite and gypsum are produced by a thermochemical reduction of Eu3+
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
buildings in Pisa and Lucca provinces (western Tuscany, Italy). 1 - The Monte Pisano marble MARCO FRANZINI*...degli Studi di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy Abstract: During the Middle Ages, the marble from...Table 1. Sampled quarries and observed varieties. Quarry Level n. Locality Varieties Q1-LU Q2-LU Q3-LU...hundreds of metres locally. The lower levels (Q8 quarry, Table 1) are characterized by an alternation of...the prized “Calacatta” marble from the renowned Carrara quarries. The ordinary MPM varieties show a distinctly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
{110} and {100}; flattened on {001}. Twinning: gypsum-like possibly with twin plane {110}. X-ray powder-diffraction...consisting of galena, tetrahedrite and tennantite in a quartz vein. Other associated minerals are: cerussite...KLEIMENOV, D.A., CHUKANOV, N.V., YAKUBOVICH, O.V., MASSA, W., BELAKOVSKIY, D.I. & PAUTOV, L.A. (2002): Bushmakinite...Locality: Tre Croce, near Vetralla, Viterbo province, Latium, Italy. Occurrence: In miarolitic cavities in...Natural History, at the Università di Firenze, Italy. Comments: IMA No. 2000–021. DELLA VENTURA, G.,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
249–268 Gypsum–anhydrite transformations in Messinian evaporites of central Tuscany (Italy) G. Testa...degli Studi di Pisa, via S. Maria 53, 56126 Pisa, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università...Studi di Modena, Largo S. Eufemia 19, 41100 Modena, Italy Received 31 July 1998; accepted 15 October 1999...1999 Abstract The Messinian succession of Tuscany (central Italy) contains three evaporitic units. Among...exposed evaporitic lithofacies, only selenitic gypsum precipitated directly from evaporating brines.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
although minor SiO2 (which is probably included quartz) and phosphate, occurring as a minor replacement...sized bright green scales along with tyrolite on quartz and phyllite host rock (Jenkins 1981), and the...been described from the Corocoro mine in Pacajes Province, La Paz Department, Figure 3. The remains of the...only from the Chuquicamata mine at Calama, El Loa Province. At the El Teniente mine far to the south, impressive...minerals include cornubite, connellite, goethite, gypsum, olivenite, and tenorite, often on partially corroded
Report (issue)
A local marble from Pennsylvania and Carrara marble from Italy were used in original construction. A...pilaster capitals are made of marble imported from Carrara, Italy. Marble from Georgia that has a mottled appearance...deterioration of the original Pennsylvania and Carrara marbles. Both of these marbles show dramatic deterioration...blue to white within one quarry, contains disseminated inclusions of quartz, feldspar, phlogopite, graphite...pyrite, and siderite, and it may have calcite and quartz veins (Bascom et al, 1909). Marble from Montgomery
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CREDITO LOMBARDO, AG ENCY E. ACCO UNf 6908/4, MILANO, ITALY. -Please send COPY of your remittance document whit...nel Media Evo come testimoniato dall'esistenza a Massa Marittima, capoluogo dell a zona mineraria, del...a circa il Km. 30,800 e quindi la S.S. 441 per Massa Marittima Risalendo, al primo bivio, verso il paese...riscaldamento per compressione adiabatica, questa enorme massa d'aria non esufficiente nella stagione calda a raffreddare...contrariamente agli altri g iacimenti di pirite dell'area di Massa Marittima-Boccheggiano in cui ii contenuto di questi
Book
(Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Mineralogical Museum, University of Bonn. 22 Quartz (Rock crystal), of Dauphine habit, from the classic...contain minerals and rocks from the famous pegmatite quarry at Hagendorf, Oberpfalz, Bavaria. A further 600...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...Romania Grube Georg, Horhausen, FRG Brosso, Piemonte, Italy Piz Aul, Wallis, Switzerland 1 Room 1 0a 2 3 5
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Bulgaria, G SphaJerite. xx 12 mm, Morococha, Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5...very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...ability of an opaque mineral to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho-...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)
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CCM CM DANR EJM JMPS MM MP NJMA ZRMO Republic province prefecture county departement departamento ...Green fluorescence under LW UV light. Found with gypsum, schoepite, cejkaite, etc., at Jachymov, Bohemia...the La Fossa crater, Vulcano Is., Lipari Islands, Italy. Anthropogenic on burning coal dumps of the Anna...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...the La Fossa crater, Vulcano Is., Lipari Islands, Italy. < 3. D(calc.) = 3.81. Ne,o = 1.710, 1.777, (+)
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Johnson M inerals o f th e S eravezza M arble, Tuscany, I ta ly ........................................hardy minerals as amethyst, sm oky o r colorless quartz, and pyrite. W h en refining your collection by...special interests (e.g. Pseudom orphs, epitaxy, quartz, or A rizona localities, to m ention ju st four)...agnificent example o f sector zoning is found in the gypsum crystals from the C hain Lakes, Alberta, Canada...$1. Current Special: P.T. black car­ bon phantom quartz crystals, 3A to 1", $25/ pound (about 300 xls)
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University of Bologna, Via Zamboni, 67, 40126 Bologna, Italy. RI (3) Sediment & Isotope Geology, Institute...(Iglesiente-Sulcis mining district, SW Sardinia, Italy) during the past 600 ka by determining the ages...temperature and 18Ow in Mount San Giovanni (SW Sardinia, Italy) during the Late Quaternary (<600 ka to 82 ka)....located in the Iglesiente region (SW Sardinia, Italy), a PbZn mining district active since pre-Roman...which intercepted at least eight important caves. Massa Riccardo cave is located in its upper portion and
 
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