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Laumontite from
Gneiss quarries, Arvigo, Calanca, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Laumontite
Formula:CaAl2Si4O12 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Prehnite2 photos of Laumontite associated with Prehnite at this locality.
Epidote1 photo of Laumontite associated with Epidote at this locality.
Feldspar Group1 photo of Laumontite associated with Feldspar Group at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Laumontite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Laumontite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gneiss quarries, Arvigo, Calanca, Moesa Region, Grisons, Switzerland
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:43544
Long-form Identifier:1:3:43544:6
GUID (UUID V4):6e85bd26-153e-40bf-9cb7-037ba44698b9
Nearest other occurrences of Laumontite
16.9km (10.5 miles) Borgo peridotite outcrop, Livo, Como Province, Lombardy, Italy
22.5km (14.0 miles) Unnamed pegmatite, Chiavenna, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
25.4km (15.8 miles) Schiesone Creek, Rifugio Il Biondo, Schiesone Valley, Prata Camportaccio, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
29.1km (18.1 miles) San Giorgio, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
30.4km (18.9 miles) Camperio, Santa Maria Valley, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
31.6km (19.6 miles) Piana Valley, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
32.3km (20.1 miles) Codera streambed, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
32.7km (20.3 miles) Brasca Refuge landslide, Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
34.3km (21.3 miles) Averta Valley (Northern Glacial Cirque), Codera Valley, Novate Mezzola, Sondrio Province, Lombardy, Italy
34.5km (21.4 miles) Acquacalda, Santa Maria Valley, Blenio Valley, Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystals are found filling seams in schist and gneiss. Many apophyllite-(KF) specimens have been recovered...long in the pegmatites that cut the schist and gneiss. The locality at 190th Street and Amsterdam Avenue...where both minerals coated fractured plates of gneiss. Many of these specimens exceed 50 cm across. A...identifying the exact tourmaline species from this region. Dumortierite, Al7(BO3)(SiO4)3O3: The 1881 discovery...and blue cubic fluorite crystals 6 mm across on gneiss from rock blasted during the excavation at Hell’s
Book
02'34"}65)--Quartz-plagioclasemicrocline.bioti te gneiss. Acc>essory minerals: clinozoisi te, garnet, zircon... magnetite, muscovite, hornolende. 'Actinolite Gneiss >and Cpondrodite Limestone (76(locality uncertain}ltl)--westward...pyrite, Plrrhotite, ahd calcite in hornDlendle gneiss. Eaat of Center Pend, oa fara ot M.J. ~lder.an...p.150,195)--.erpentine mar'le found in a bed in gneiss on the river in Becket. Mattetite (75(see L.e)374...titan te i8 r.lative~1 large SJl.sunts. Grgit. Quarries (76(42 15'58",73000'43tt)~ 2 16'11",73 01'U tt
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontenac Quarries Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melochville quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . St-Marc -des -Carrieres quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riviere -a-Pierre quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Fluorite crystals from the People's...crust is called a magma chamber. The cooling of in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue...summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism, known as...1500, the area of Baveno in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, was famous throughout Europe for the
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Tetrahedrite and realgar from the Binn Valley, Switzerland Pages 70-71: Ruorite crystals from the People's...metamorphic rocks. Above: corundum crystal contained in gneiss formed in a metamorphic environment at high temperature...the Passo del Rombo in the Trentino-Alto Adige region of Italy, or the splendid crystals of azure-blue...summit of Pizzo Forno in the Ticino Canton of Switzerland. A particular type of metamorphism, known as...1500, the area of Baveno in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, was famous throughout Europe for the
Report (volume)
........................ The Maryland Piedmont region....................................... Distribution............................. 51 Descriptions of quarries................................... 51 Baltimore............................. 54 Descriptions of quarries................................... 54 Woodstock............................. 56 Descriptions of quarries .................................. 57 Port Deposit...Jones Falls quarries .......................................... 67 Gwynns Falls quarries............
Book (volume)
..377 North Carolina – Spruce Pine – Little Switzerland Area Map .....................379 North Carolina.........................511 Virginia – Leesburg quarries Site Map .......................................407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of
Book (volume)
407 ft. Cheaha Mt. This crystalline or mineral region is composed primarily of metamorphosed Paleozoic...counties. In this contorted, structurally complicated region of slates, phyllites, marbles, quartzites, and...above sea level. From this predominantly farming region the widespreading Tuscaloosa formation disgorges...⎯gemmy minerals, petrified wood; d area limestone quarries⎯Calcite, Celestite, marble; e SIXMILE (hamlet...Magnetite, Pyrite, etc.; f limestone and dolomite quarries⎯Barite and Calcite. ANGEL STATION (NW part of
Report (issue)
Granites of tlu Atlantic Border, or Appalacltian Region, of the United States 32-39 Connecticut Delaware...Quarry 74 Flat Shoals . . • . • • . . . 76 Granite-Gneiss . • . , • . . . • 77 Mrs. M. J. Hill's Property...So The H. W. Hill Property. So Other Outcrops of Gneiss . 8I The T. B. Tigner Quarry • . 82 Coweta County...Quarry . • • • • . 9r Foliated Granite (Granite-Gneiss) • 94-96 Pike County . . . . . . . . . • . . •...• III-143 Stone Mountain and Its Quarries . . II3-II9 The Quarries of the Adjacent Lowland Belt . .
Report (volume)
uranium and vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier...vol. 1, 1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept...County, extensive quarries near Birmingham and Bessemer; Talladega County, several quarries. Used for road...Corundum (emery). Found in various places in gold region, including Coosa County, near Mount Olive and Hanover;... Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls, in Elmore County. Galena
Book
because of the immense heat developed; it is in this region of contact metamorphism where many great mines...Igneous intrusives Dark minerals, Limestone quarries Calcite, celestite, dolomite, fluorite, galena...their “civilized” appurtenances. Not only is the region of the Old West much more was eighty years ago...oxidation or sulphurization. In the southwestern desert region natural tarnish may become like a crust, known...sericite, chlorite, muscovite, biotite varieties), gneiss, hornfels, marble, serpentine, breccias, silica
 
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